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22 Academies & 109 Coaches in 19 Countries Worldwide
Putting has FOUR skills, not just the stroke as usually taught, and these four skills must be integrated with instinctive touch and stroke timing -- Read, Aim, Stroke, and Touch. In the PuttingZone, you will find the most comprehensive and lethally effective putting techniques in golf history -- combining the best from golf since the 1800s with advanced physics, anatomy, biomechanics, motor science, and especially the NEW neuroscience of perceptual and movement processes in the brain and body for intinctive reading, aiming, stroking and controlling distance and pace. Putting is nearly half of all strokes every round and the putter is used 2-3 times more often than the driver or the wedge. If you want to play to your highest potential, you really have no choice. Get into the PuttingZone and work on your SKILLS. You'll find a very warm welcome awaits and lots of improvement in playing and enjoying the great game of golf. You're either in the PuttingZone, or not. Get started here with the best putting instruction in the game: OverviewReadAimStrokeTouch. If you would like a copy of the many developments in the PuttingZone, click here and type "update" in the subject line.
Welcome Ricky Dandy, Bethesda MD and Hollywood FL, as the 109th PuttingZone Coach!
New PuttingZone Program --Support a Young Pro!
Help a young golfer transition into professional play either with an occasional supporting gift or with a purchase of the PuttingZone ebook or 3+GB Download. All sales until further notice will be donated 100% to help a young pro, in the immediate case Megan McChrystal. If you would like to make a direct contribution to help this YP, please visit Megan's Partners page on her website by clicking this link or use the PayPal button below.
Welcome Megan McChrystal, who now joins the PuttingZone as the 105th Certified Coach, as she will combine occasional teaching and coaching with her professional playing career.
Welcome Chad Clark, Assistant Pro, Tot Hill Farm GC, Asheboro NC, as the 108th Certified Coach in the PuttingZone!
A BIG Salamat Datang to Michael Shelton, the 107th PuttingZone Coach, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Welcome Allen Terrell, Head Golf Coach at Coastal Carolina University, Conway SC, at TPC Myrtle Beach, as the 106th PuttingZone Certified Coach!
Recent Student Successes
Congratulations, Shawn Hodge, Macon GA
-- one PZ lesson, one 64 on the card! Great job, Shawn!
Congratulations Jimmy Lytle on 2nd in Stage II PGA Tour Q-School, rounds of 68 72 64 and 73 with 26 28 22 28 putts; round 3 hit 12 greens and made 9 birdies!! Coached by PZ Academy Steve Bourbon out of Hawk Pointe GC, Washington NJ.
Congratulations Megan McChrystal, 2nd in SunCoast LPGA Legends event, after roaring back in final round from 4 shots back with 5-under back nine for 68, missing the win by 1 stroke!
Congratulations Ken Duke for winning the Nationwide Tour Championship and for earning the PGA Tour card, and to Steve Bourbon, PZ Coach, who has been working with Ken.
Nice shootin' Jamie Bartol, who took a lesson on putting with me Sunday and then on Monday shot 6-under 66 with ZERO bogeys!! Rigthteous golfing, Jamie!
Congratulations Jimmy Lytle, T-14 in the PGA Tour Q-School Stage I today in Port St Lucie FL! On to Stage II -- Coached by Steve Bourbon, PZ Academy, Hawk Pointe GC, Washington NJ.
Congratulations Macarena Silva and Jessica Carafiello on surviving Stage II of the LPGA Q-School!! Best wishes in Stage III.
Congratulations Brad Adamonis on the course-record -9 62 at Southpointe GC, Canonsburg PA, in the Nationwide Mylan Classic 23 putts, 1.462 putts per GIR, 8 birdies, 1 eagle and only 1 bogey!
Congratulations, Megan McChrystal, on acing the 11th hole in round 2 of the Futures Tour, at Richmond CC, and on shooting 69 with four birdies and only one bogey -- nice finish!
Stepping it up!! PuttingZone Player Jimmy Lytle, coached by PZ Academy coach Steve Bourbon, Hawk Pointe GC, Washington NJ, just fired a course-record 63 in the Nationwide Monday-qualifier. Way to go Jimmy -- let's see some real fireworks!
Congratulations to these PuttingZone-trained players!
2003 PGA Champ
2006 PGA Runner-up
2010 PGA T5
2009 US Amateur Champ
2010 US Amateur Champ
2010 US Amateur 3 of 4 semifinalists
2010 British Amateur Champ
2010 British Open T14 as amateur
World Amateur Ranking 1-3 sweep
NCAA Men's Div-I #1 Player
NCAA Women's Div-I #1 Player ...
Get in the PuttingZone!
Congrats to Megan McChrystal at LSU for medalist honors in the NCAA Div I Central Regional at Notre Dame!
Welcome Terry Rowles, newly certified PuttingZone Academy, former head of instruction for David Leadbetter Academies and top California teacher, SF Golf Performance Center, San Francisco CA.
Welcome Dr Tom Purtzer of Medford OR as the 89th certified PuttingZone Coach -- a fantastic 4 days in southern Oregon at Eagle Point Golf Club, with Patrick Orapallo!
Welcome University of Houston Cougars Head Coach Jonathan Dismuke (L) and Assistant Coach Chris Hill as the two newest PuttingZone Certified Coaches! Two great teachers now part of the PZ community.
Jon Dismuke
Chris Hill
Elk!
Coming now to a Theater near You! From Secret in the Dirt:Geoff and Elk -- The PuttingZone Video!
Steve Elkington, 1995 PGA Champion
Celebrating birdie on 17th in Round 3 2010 PGA
BEFORE PZ:
2009 thu Nov.
AFTER PZ:
2010 thru Aug.
$243K (183rd)
$938K (72nd)
3.9 times improved
Stroke 70.69 (85th)
Stroke 69.82 (3rd)
-3.5 strokes/event saved
GIRs 67.5% (33rd)
GIRs 68.9% (29th)
Putting 1.785 (122nd)
(64% down from top)
Putting 1.762 (44th)
(23% down from top)
2+ times improved
Scrambling 58.1% (99th)
Scrambling 63.3% (15th)
+32.5% improved
Results 11/23 cuts (48%)
3 top-25s
Results: 14/19 cuts (74% )
3 top-10s 9 top-25s
"Check out the video that Geoff Mangum put up on delivery speed.....I found Geoff on the internet, got him to come to Houston in the off season and help me with my putting......1st time I've ever been in the top 10 in putting on tour in 25 years."-- Elk
The physics of Ball-Hole Interaction determine smart "delivery speed" for touch -- it's not personal.
Get The Reality of Putting video download now, Steve Elkington with Geoff Mangum, the best 45-minute explanation of putting skill in the history of the game, and a cool piece of work! CLICK HERE for all the info.
Click for Contents "The best putting instruction book
in golf history." -- Bob Toski
282-page full color ebook -- only $9.95
All sales proceeds are donated to help sponsor Megan McChrystal in pro events! (Please note this donation does not qualify for federal tax deduction 501(c)3 or otherwise; it's a straight old-fashioned matter of helping without any incentive to do so other than kindness.)
Special Offer:
Buy the $19.95 PuttingZone Collection download (3.5+ Gigabytes of video, podcasts, images, texts, music, research and more -- 5 CDs full of data -- details here) and receive the ebook Optimal Putting included for FREE.
More PuttingZone Coaches!
Welcome, Martin Stecher, Nienburg Germany, as the 104th PuttingZone Coach!!
Welcome Eva Steinberger, Eva Steinberger Golf, GC Murtal, Spielberg Austria, PuttingZone's 94th Certified Coach! LET Playing professional and teacher, certified at Golf Club Sant Cugat, Barcelona Spain.
Interested in becoming a Certified PuttingZone Coach with a special expertise in teaching putting -- at no cost to you? Sponsor a PZ Clinic for your players and receive two days of 1-on-1 training with Geoff Mangum at your course for free and join the PuttingZone team. 22 Academies and 109 Certified Coaches in 19 Countries Worldwide -- golf's most advanced, comprehensive and effective putting instruction.
Contact Geoff today for details and scheduling: (336) 340-9079 mobile or email geoff.mangum@gmail.com.
Here comes Megan! Stepping out of LSU collegiate golf into the pro ranks -- lowest career stroke average in LSU history by 2 strokes over next best, 7 top-5s in 10 starts in Senior season including 2 wins and 2 runner-up finishes, lowest round in NCAA Championship history in 2010 (64 with 9 birdies and 1 bogey); five career wins ... one great golfer now in the hunt!
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