Atlantic Coast Golf Tour and PuttingZone Hook Up!

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April 16, 2005
Greensboro, NC

Mark Hopkins, PGA professional and Director of Golf at Southwick Golf Club, Burlington, NC, announces that his developmental tour, the Atlantic Coast Golf Tour, is partnering with Geoff Mangum and the PuttingZone to offer Tour members putting coaching services to assist players to advance to the next level. Hopkins says:

"The Atlantic Coast Golf Tour was created as a developmental tour to help good players to become better scorers. Although we have been able to provide the competitive proving ground, the members of the ACGT have not had qualified instructor to answer questions about lowering scores and more specific, PUTTING. Now with the alliance of putting coach, Geoff Mangum, players who are already proficient ball strikers can take their total game to the next level. In my 25 years of experience as a PGA Professional, Golf Coach and Tour Director, I have not met anyone that surpasses Geoff's knowledge in regard to putting. I can, without reservation, recommend Geoff Mangum to any aspiring golfer. If you want to lower your score, Geoff is the putting authority."

Mangum will be available at ACGT venues for free on-site coaching, and to provide training aids and tips for interested Tour members. In addition, he is making available his one-on-one coaching services and his PuttingZone Studio at the Country Club of Whispering Pines for half his usual rate to players.

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 75,000 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.