For
Immediate Release:
January 8, 2008
Geoff MangumÕs PuttingZoneª Debuts the New Book
Optimal PuttingÊand Schedules Putting Clinics
that Earn PGA Members $500 to $1,800 Each.
2008
PGA Merchandise Show --ÊBOOTH 1894Ê-- January
17-19, 2008 -- OCCC Orlando FL Greensboro, NC,
USA Ð
Geoff
MangumÕs PuttingZoneª announced today he will
beÊ exhibiting at the international golf industry's
premier marketplace, the 2008 PGA Merchandise
Show, January 17-19, 2008, at the Orange County
Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.Ê Geoff
MangumÕs PuttingZone will be located in the Instruction
/ Training section of the Show floor, in booth
#1894.ÊHe will be signing copies of his new book
on instinctive putting and will be scheduling
clinics that earn PGA pros from $500 to $1,800
each.
Entitled
ÒOptimal Putting: Brain Science, Instincts,
and the Four Skills of Putting,ÓÊMangum's
revolutionary work on putting offers a new paradigm
for 21st century performance. Hailed by advance
readers as an instant classic in golf literature,
the work represents twenty years of scientific
research, study, observation, and testing of golf
history, top players and their secrets, and the
brain and body processes involved in putting's
fundamental skills.
Hardcover,
271 pp + front matter, full color Axess Books,
ISBN 978-0-615-18482-1, $34.95 Special Show price:
$30.00.
Mangum
reports: ÒIÕve just completed my first full book
on putting and will debut the limited first edition
hardcover at the 2008 PGA Merchandise Show. ThisÊbook
is a how-to for instinctive putting filled with
explanations, examples, and drills for golfers
to learn the full range of putting skills -- not
just a style for the stroke. I don't waste a lot
of ink talking "about" putting, and instead concentrate
on how to perform in an optimal manner according
to "what works best and why". This project represents
a new paradigm for teaching and performing putting
at the highest level. If youÕre serious about
golf, IÕve written this book for you.Ó
In
addition, Mangum will be meeting with PGA course
pros and course owners interested in scheduling
one of his highly touted all-day clinics for members,
area players, other PGA pros, and course staff.
These clinics are routinely praised as ÒamazingÓ
and Òvery innovative and informativeÓ by veteran
teachers. And the sponsoring PGA pro receives
a minimum of $500 up to $1,800 for helping arrange
the clinic!Ê PGA members are encouraged to drop
by Booth 1894 for a brief chat. All PGA members
stopping to discuss the clinics receive a CD-ROM
with the full book Optimal Putting ($20 value),
and those tentatively agreeing to schedule a clinic
later in the year will receive a complimentary
copy of the hardback ($35 value).
The
booth will also showcase the advanced-technologyÊArgon
Laser PutterÊfrom 3L Golf, with the training putter
available at a Show Special price of $139.
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Geoff
Mangum is widely regarded as the most knowledgeable
putting coach in the world and has spent 15 years
studying and coaching putting to amateurs and
professionals right up to major winners. Last
year, after his lecture at the European PGA Coaching
Conference, Mangum held a series of clinics for
teaching professionals in Europe and received
rave reviews. He returned this year to hold further
sessions at locations in England and Germany,
teaching over 70 PGA pros and elite golfers.
Shaun
Micheel worked with Mangum in May 2003 and went
from winless on Tour and a low-ranking putter
to winning a major with his putter after a single
lesson. Winner of the 2003 USPGA in July, Micheel
improved his US Tour putting stats from 133rd
to 16th within two months of working on putting
with Geoff Mangum, and said: "Everyone remembers
my [last] seven iron, but my putter won me the
PGA Championship." Golf Magazine 2004. Micheel
recently finished runner-up to Tiger Woods in
the 2006 PGA Championship after the same caliber
putting performance. Other standout PuttingZone
students include Chris Hanson on the EuroPro Tour
and Ben Parker, who won the Orange Bowl Junior
Invitational in Miami (December 2005) over a world-class
field with an opening round 63 that left the field
6 strokes behind. He followed that with an opening
62 at the Tasmanian Open, which he also won, a
month later. For testimonials from veteran teachers,
click here.
Mangum's
approach is to combine the best of existing putting
lore with application of the neuroscience for
human perception and movement in putting, targeting
and stroke control. This "Mechanics of Instincts"
approach teaches the teachers how the instincts
actually work on the green and enables golfers
to use body postures and movements in a structured
putting routine that enhances rather than conflicts
with these basic human processes for instinctive
behaviour. The result is a permanent and dramatic
increase in putting competence and the added confidence
that comes with real skill.
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