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Geoffrey
Carlyle Mangum
B.A., M.A., J.D.
518 Woodlawn
Ave
Greensboro NC USA 27401
(336) 790-8176 home
(336) 340-9079 cell
Hi,
I'm Geoff Mangum and I teach putting, write on golf, and live with my
family in Greensboro, North Carolina, just a short drive west of Pinehurst,
the golf capital of America. The climate is moderate so I get to play
year-round!
Over fifteen years ago, I set out to learn all I could about putting.
Since then I've spent innumerable hours researching, reading, observing,
experimenting, analyzing, and practicing putting. During this research,
I compiled a searchable electronic database of over 11,000 references
and resources for putting, and today this powerful collection is available
free to anyone who wants it. (See the Resources
link) Still learning, too!
Throughout this time, I learned the critical role the brain plays in
all human targeting and movement, and concentrated study on the neuroscience
of perception and motor control. Rigorously applying this science, along
with the physics of golf and over 100 years of putting lore, I spend
my time pushing the envelope on putting performance and developing and
refining physical routines and procedures for optimizing targeting and
stroke control in putting.
This study has already received favorable notice from the Human
Kinetics Institute in Champaign, Illinois -- the premier sports
science publishers in the US -- and from the World
Scientific Congress on Golf in St. Andrews, Scotland -- the top
golf science organization in the world supported by the Royal and Ancient
Society of Golf. Presently I am completing my book on putting, The
PuttingZone: Science, the Brain, and the Black Art of Putting, and
expect to have it available soon.
In addition to teaching and playing, I enjoy helping people with putting
problems and just discussing putting with anyone. I publish putting
tips regularly in LCS
Golf's PlayGolfNow newsletter (500,000 golfers each week),
EuroGolfnet.com,
IndyGolf.com,
and NBC Sports' Golf.com, as well as in England
and a number of other sites. I correspond daily with golfers around
the world and I'll be glad to try to help anyone via email, if I can.
I have a special interest in International golf, especially Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India, and Asia.
Some of the things I do: I play, learn, write,
and teach. I conduct private and group lessons, on-site and on-course
clinics, corporate outings and resort clinics, lectures to sports classes,
and free presentations and one-on-one work with junior golfers and collegiate
team golfers. I recently began appearing on radio golf talk programs,
starting with WJOX in Birmingham, Alabama ("ain't no 'ham like
Birmingham") on Mark Friedman's Golfing Alabama, and then
Sacramento's Golf Talk Radio Show, and Bob Adams' Golf Pinehurst Morning
Show. I travel around and give free live presentations to any golf
teaching pro, on-course pro, or golf media representative. And I'm available
for retail store sessions for groups. And of course I help any touring
pro make more money! Lots more! So let me hear from you!
Some Credentials
- 20
years daily working out putting with well
over 3.5 million thoughtful putts, reading
everything there is to read about putting,
and studying the neurophysiology of perceptual
and movement processes strictly for the purposes
of putting
- 100+
articles in the past 5 years in print and
electronic media
- Putting expert
for NBC Sports' Golf.com and many others, including Florida
Golf Magazine, Carolina Fairways, Eurogolfnet.com
- Top
website in the world for putting instruction
with 100,000+ visits monthly and over 2,250,000
visits to date
- Member of
the World Scientific Congress on Golf, St Andrews, Scotland
- Most extensive
putting research in history, written up by the Human Kinetics
Institute and used by the World Scientific Congress on Golf
- First scratch
amateur student fired course-record personal best 63 within
two months; first mini-tour pro student shot personal best
course-record, Tour record 62 the next morning and won going
away; first PGA Tour student won a Major (PGA Championship)
in two months with his putting, also his first PGA Tour win
- Consultant
in putting to top collegiate teams and coaches, including
Robert Linville of Greensboro College, and Larry Penley of
Clemson
- Greenskeeping
knowledge praised by top agronomists at Penn State, Geulph
Turfgrass Institute, Golfdom Magazine, Georgia GCSAA and others
- Putting specialist
resource for PGA and LPGA teaching pros and top teachers at
Golf Schools, including Leadbetter Academy and Jim McLean
Golf School
- Technique
surveys of all top putters in golf, from Willie Park Jr and
Walter Travis right through Bobby Locke, Paul Runyan, Billy
Casper, Bob Rosburg, Loren Roberts, Ben Crenshaw, George Low,
Dave Stockton, and many others
- Knowledgeable
about every tip or drill ever published in Golf Digest, Golf
Magazine, Golf Tips Magazine, and many other publications
- Respected
by top sports scientists and putter designers worldwide, including
Jim McLean, top world teacher, Jason Carbone, Master Instructor
at Jim McLean Golf School at Doral, Dr Robert Christina, national
expert on golf skills learning and PGA National Coaches &
Teachers lecturer, Dr Patrick Cohn, Peak Performance Sports
- Orlando, Dr Robert Winters, Leadbetter School at ChampionsGate
- Orlando, Art Chou, President of Pixl Golf, Bruce Hutchinson,
National Sales Manager for SeeMore Putters, Alan Strand, President
of Dandy Putters, Tim Sheredy, Leadbetter Academy - Bradenton,
David Whitlam, President of Gauge Design Putters, Ed Opie,
Breeds Confidence Putters, many more...
- A few students:
Travis Lethco, Steven Tate, Cary Schoen, David Chung, Andy
Rouse, Jason Carbone, Ben Parker, Henri Reis, Christian Nilsson,
Henrik Stenson, Damon Lucas, Stuart Dowsett, Nick Rose, Rory
Hie, Josh Koch, Paul Spicer, Craig Miller, Gary Hilson, Noel
Fox, Geoff Dixon, Joakim Thrane, Michelle Grilli, Floretyna
Parker, Tom Milton, Mike Goodes, David Geiger, Marty Sciene,
Kelly Cap, Tommy Langley, Chip Johnson, Rick Murphy, Rich
Moss, Eddie Cox, Bob Montello, Shaun Micheel, Blake Adams,
Hernan Rey, Tim Parker, Michael Long, Pia Mellerstam, Jason
Semelsberger, Josh Smith, Bart Burton, Jared Gusso, Jeff Krumpelman,
David Finholt, Rodney Morrow, Chris Evans, Geo Yang, Rocky
Manning, Robert Linville, Chris Tucker, Jason Moon, Jessica
Vincent, Jayce Strandberg, Bruce Woodall, Ted Sheftic, Mark
Sheftic, Roy Pace, Ben Case, Korky Kemp, Mike Thurston, David
Seigel, Mark Hopkins, Scott Fossum, Eddie Cox, Doug Thompson,
Bob Daugherty, Alan Martini, Sean Murphy, European PGA, Methodist
College, East Carolina University, UNCG, Gary Gilchrist, Greensboro
College, Bobby Giger, Tim Sheredy, Bob Koch, Ben Leong, David
Leadbetter staff at Bradenton, ...
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Working
with PGA Tour player Sean Murphy at the 2002 GGCC, where Sean had consecutive
rounds of 24 putts
(photo courtesy of Douglas Sheppard, PodiumFotos)
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Selected Publications
Cimbica: Sacred Puma of the Baja Peninsula -- A Note
on Canto 45, Paideuma:
The Journal of Ezra Pound Scholarship, Fall 1980
Vague and Overlapping Guidelines: A Study of the North Carolina Death
Penalty Statute, Wake
Forest Law Review, Spring 1981
The Legal History of the Lumbee
Indians, Indian
Law Unit, Lumbee River Legal Services, Pembroke, NC, 1984
Golf
on the Internet, Take That Ltd., Harrogate, England, 1999 (www.amazon.com)
PuttingZone Putting Database (over 10,000 searchable putting references
in Microsoft Works 4.0, Access, Excel, or generic dBase IV format
-- FREE -- See the RESEARCH
Page)
A
Straight Stroke, PlayGolfNow,
Dec. 1999 (www.playgolfnow.com)
The
Core Putt, INCA Golf and TV Golf Digest (UK), Jan. 2000, NBC Sports'
Golf.com May 2000,Florida Golf Magazine (www.incagolf.com,
www.tvgolf.net)
Roll the Hoop for True Putts, NBC Sports' Golf.com, Jan. 2000
Hit
the Groove through the Curve, NBC Sports' Golf.com, Jan. 2000
Pumb
Bobbing - Plumb Crazy?, NBC Sports' Golf.com (www.floridagolfmagazine.com)
Dead-Eye
Putting, Bogeys-to-Birdies Newsletter
Gaze
Dead Straight for Dead Aim, Florida Golf Magazine
My
Greenkeeping Jobs
(What
putting instructors do you know who go this far to learn the craft?)
Cape
Fear CC, Wilmington NC - a real old, fine Donald Ross course on
the Carolina Coast (Mike Claffey, Super).
Black
Hawk GC, Pflugerville TX - typically Texas, just north of Austin,
armadillos included (Grant Collyns, GM).
Grandover
Resort Golf -- two VERY pricey tracks in Greensboro NC - plus the
Ken Venturi Academy and my bud John King (Kevin Redfern, Super).
Greensboro
CC, Greensboro NC - a 1911 Donald Ross course with a long history,
very nice grounds crew! (Doug Lowe, Super).
See my Greenkeeping
Section - one of the top sites in the world for this stuff.
EMAIL
Let's talk about putting! Give
me a buzz NOW and say hello: geoff@puttingzone.com
 
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COURSES WHERE
I HANG OUT
with all my PALS & TEACHERS:
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Salem
Glen G & CC
Clemmons, NC
Mike Kemry, Paul Spicer,
Ben Thomas, Jon Frank
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Robert
Linville's Precision Golf School
Coach Robert Linville, Chris
the Quaker Haarlow, Mike Parker, Simon McGrael, David Horne, Larry
Weidel
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Tot
Hill Farm GC, Asheboro NC
Eddie Cox, Alan Martini, Joe Bosong,
Ben Morgan, Chad Clark, John Adkins, Dr Bob Medford, Dr Harry
Killian, Dr Sanzenbacher, Carl Reed, Bob Wood, Phil Brower,
Patti Knudsen
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Hale
Irwin's Meadowlands Golf Club, Wallburg / Winston-Salem NC
Travis Lethco, Josh Brownell,
Andy Rouse, Kevin Angle, John McKinnon, Jerry, Joel
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Jamestown
Park, Blair
Park & Bryan
Park GC
Barry "Scratch"
Snyder, Michael Hutcheon, Chip Johnson, Korky Kemp
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Greensboro
CC
Great
Clubhouse Photo from the Bobby Jones & Walter Hagen Era
Juan the Boss Perez, Loco
Manuel, Senor Miguel, Steve the Turk, Big Brian, Doug the Judge
Lowe, Mustang Kevin, Jerry the Cop, Brooks da Bomb, Old Pro, Candyman
Harold, Tiparillo Tim King, Larry Hooker, Gillespie
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Gillespie
Park GC (9-hole Muni), Greensboro NC
Gillespie
Park History
Lots of pals here, but Lord
above please save us from career municipal bureaucrats holding
down golf jobs! They give the PGA such a bad name .... I've taught
myself about putting here daily for 15 years, and I've never seen
the head pro practice or teach on his own putting green.
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Hampton
Heights GC, Hickory NC
Mike Thurston, Wayne Orman, Rodney Teague, David
Guy, Otis, Monihan, Joe Headrick
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Olde
Homeplace GC, Wallburg NC
Mike Crawford, Fred, Jim McCollum, Mike Kemry,
Scott Smoot, Josh
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The
Challenge at Hideaway Farms, Graham NC
Michael Long, Larry, Teri, Bruce Woodall, Jerry
Woodall, Joshua and Zachary Martin
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Rick Murphy, Leo Halloran
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The
Legacy GC, Aberdeen NC
Mike Atkins, Doug Thompson
SwingSyncGolf.com
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Woodlake
Country Club, Vass NC
Bob Montello
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