PuttingZone Press Release

March 15, 2005
Village of Whispering Pines, NC

The Manhattan College Jaspers golf team recently completed a visit to the Country Club of Whipsering Pines, where they participated in a 3-hour putting clinic with top putting guru Geoff Mangum at his Golf Academy (GMGA). Mangum presented his array of technique tips on "The Four Fundamentals of Putting," covering putt reading and target selection for line and distance; aiming and square setup; straight stroke; and distance control and touch.

Chris Vieau

Mike Goll

Mike Judge

Tom Camisa

(Not pictured: James Marchewka and Peter Muller)

Jaspers Coach
Walt Olsewski

Knights Coach
Walter Prego

With head coach Walt Olsewski, the Jaspers took part in the inaugural session of the newly established GMGA's indoor putting training studio. Fairleigh Dickinson Knights golf coach Walter Prego also participated. Coach Olsewki said, "The guys really enjoyed the clinic and learned a lot. We look forward to putting these techniques in play."

The GMGA PuttingZone Studio features the state-of-the-art ultrasonic Puttlab system by Science&Motion in Germany along with the LinksPutt surface from Perth, Scotland, and a number of other training and teaching aids. "This putting studio is designed to be the best facility in the world for teaching tour pros and other elite golfers," Mangum says. "Having the Manhattan College team here in the first days of the studio has been a real treat for me, and I hope they can return south again soon."

Mangum's unique approach to golf instruction is the combination of over 100 years of putting lore with an intensive, 15-year study of the neuroscience of human targeting and movement control processes in the brain and body.Using this knowledge-base, Mangum teaches "The Mechanics of Instinct" for putting to allow the golfer to employ and enhance innate targeting and stroke movement processes during the putting routine. His specially designed routines and techniques are the most innovative in golf instruction in decades, and he regularly teaches the teachers, and has worked with select staff at some of golf's top schools, including the Jim McLean Golf School and the David Leadbetter Golf Academy.

Geoff Mangum

Mangum is widely recognized as the most knowledgeable and effective putting coach in golf for professional players and elite amateurs. His popular website, The PuttingZone.com, attracts over 65,000 visits monthly from golf's top players and industry insiders and is the top-ranked website in the world for putting. His first PGA Tour student, Shaun Micheel, went from 160th in putting on Tour to winning the 2003 PGA Championship on the strength of his putting within two months of working with Mangum. His first developmental tour pro, Blake Adams, fired a personal-best, course-record, event-record, tour-record 62 the very next morning after a lesson with Geoff and won his event running away from the field. Veteran golf instructors have hailed him as a genius in golf instruction who knows more about putting than anyone on the planet.