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Putting Guru Geoff Mangum's Lecture at PGA of Europe's
2005 Teaching Conference Wows Pros

September 29 -- October 1, 2005
Munich, Germany

Putting guru Geoff Mangum of Greensboro NC was a big hit at the European PGA's 2005 Teaching and Coaching Conference in Munich, Germany, last week. The title of his lecture: "Welcome to the 21st Century: The Brain-based Model for Putting and the Retooling of Golf Instruction." The list of speakers at the PGA of Europe's 7th Teaching & Coaching Conference in Munich on September 29 to October 1 2005 was one of the most distinguished ever assembled in Europe. Mangum was joined by golf technical guru Frank Thomas, Tiger Woods' swing coach Hank Haney, Justin Leonard's early coach from Dallas Randy Smith, England's tour coach Scott Cranfield, BBC golf analyst and writer Beverly Lewis (the first female captain of the UK PGA), Nick Faldo's former caddie Fanny Sunneson (now coaching in Sweden), biomechanics guru Dr Ralph Mann, Science and Motion's Dr. Christian Marquardt, and others.

After his lecture, pros from around the world stopped Mangum in the hallway for hours with enthusiastic follow-up questions. His presentation was praised by Hank Haney, Randy Smith, Stefan Quirmbach (President of the PGA of Germany), Beverly Lewis, Dr Ralph Mann, and many others, as both very creative and innovative. Reiner Mundt, the coach for the German National Golf Team, described Mangum's lecture as the most creative and exciting techniques for putting he had encountered.

Hank Haney

Geoff Mangum

Dr Christian Marquardt

Randy Smith

Frank Thomas

Mangum is currently establishing PuttingZone Academies in affiliation with top PGA teachers in Major European cities. The first two schools were established just before the Munich Conference – in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in the UK with John Eyre and in Hamburg, Germany with Andy Taylor. In conjunction with his trip to Munich, Mangum taught the top European junior players at Gut Waldorf GC in Hamburg, the brother-sister pair Ben and Florentyna Parker. Their father Tim Parker, head pro at Gut Waldorf, had experienced Mangum's teaching earlier and brought him back to teach his children. Parker described Mangum's teaching as “Absolutely fantastic stuff – completely different from anything I have ever heard about putting but amazingly simple and effective.” During the Munich Conference, Mangum met with pros from Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Turkey, Ireland, South Africa, and Australia interested in establishing PuttingZone Academies and working exclusively with Mangum for this part of the game. Mangum will be returning to Hamburg at the end of October to train other pros and to conduct exclusive teaching sessions for top European players. Later this year, he will be working with Randy Smith in Dallas and also with Chuck Cook and his staff at Barton Creek GC in Austin, Texas.

Andy Taylor, Head Pro at
Adendorf Golf Resort, Hamburg, Germany

John Eyre, Head Pro at
Crosland Heath GC, Huddersfield, UK

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.

In the US, Mangum operates his elite putting academy at Country Club of Whispering Pines in the Pinehurst area and teaches lessons and clinics in Pinehurst (at Whispering Pines and at Foxfire Resort), Asheboro (Tot Hill Farm GC), Hickory (Hampton Heights GC), Charlotte (Renaissance Park GC), Burlington / Graham (The Challenge GC), Greensboro (Bryan Park), and outside Winston-Salem in Wallburg (Meadowlands GC). He also travels extensively within the US.

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For more information, visit Geoff Mangum's PuttingZone.com, http://puttingzone.com, email him at geoff@puttingzone.com, or call him directly at 336.340.9079.