Monday 24 June 2019
Blades were always used by the best players on Tour. Not anymore though The best putters in the business all used to use blades. Fact. Loren Roberts, Steve Stricker, Brad Faxon and of course Tiger Woods were all great at holing out, they also all used blades too. Today things are not so clear-cut; Justin Rose, DJ, Jason Day, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy...
Monday 17 June 2019
Golf’s biggest stars are queuing up to work with Phil Kenyon, Britain’s foremost putting coach. Phil Kenyon is probably the greatest coach you do not know. Some of that comes down to choice, hence you rarely see him on TV screens, but it doesn’t help that he’s a master in the field of putting, the one part of the game golfers...
Monday 24 June 2019
The X-Factor: These five players had it, and are considered among the best putters of all-time Brad Faxon The man who recently advised Rory on his stroke once had the best putting season ever, averaging 1.704 putts per GIR in 2000. When Faxon putts there are no technical thoughts; he creates a picture in his mind and uses that image to tell his...
Monday 24 June 2019
Why visualising can help with your success on the greens When you give your brain a clear picture of what it is you are trying to achieve, it can get to work on creating the appropriate movements to deliver success. This is why visualising is such a potent weapon on the greens. Here are two ways you can improve your own ability...
Monday 24 June 2019
Understanding your stroke will help you putt better Watch the best golfers in the world and you will quickly see that some favour a straighter stroke, in which the putter tracks up and down the ball- target line, while others prefer more of an arcing motion. Both can be effective, and it is one of those areas of putting that comes down...
Monday 24 June 2019
Hosels: Find out how that shaft-head join affects performance There’s almost as many different hosel designs nowadays as there are putters. Each offers not only a rent look, but alters toe hang and gives varying amounts of off set. Here, we use TaylorMade’s comprehensive line-up of flatsticks to showcase the most common hosel set-ups you’ll find on a putter rack, and...
Monday 24 June 2019
Putter Fitting: Why finding the right length of putter for you is so important This tip comes from Chris Trott, Director of Global Tours, Taylormade Putter fitting has come a very long way in the last few years. Much of the progress can be attributed to the latest crop of high-tech launch monitors and software which enable engineers, scientists and club fitters to...
Monday 24 June 2019
Become a better lag putter to give yourself easy two-putts more often This Tip comes from top 50 Teacher gareth Johnston Calcot Park, Berkshire PGA Professional and Director of Golf at Calcot Park The ability to lag putts dead from distance is far more about learning to trust your senses of sight and feel than gaining any specific technical skill. The drill...
Monday 24 June 2019
Claw Grip… could switching help your putting? This tip comes from Top 50 Teacher Gareth Johnston Calcot Park, Berkshire PGA Professional and Director of Golf at Calcot Park With Claw grippers Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia rolling Europe to victory in last autumn’s Ryder Cup, the hold is becoming increasingly accepted and practised. And no wonder; in reducing the in...
Monday 24 June 2019
The A-Z of Putting: Become a master of the greens with our guide to drills, equipment, mentality and more… • A: Aimpoint • B: Blade vs Mallet • C: Claw Grip • D: Drills for Pure Putting • E: Easy Two Putts • F: Fitting • G: Grips • H: Hosels • I: Impact • J: Jason Day’s Set Up Secrets...
Monday 24 June 2019
Zen Green Stage: The first computer controlled putting green If you’re serious about your putting, you need to get yourself on one of these. Unlike those lightning-quick putting mats in American Golf or the miniature versions from Argos, Zen Green Stage can recreate real-world putts at just the touch of a button. In a matter of seconds, you can tilt the stage...
Monday 24 June 2019
Yip, Yip, Hooray: You don’t have to suffer in silence any more If an attack of the shanks doesn’t get you, the yips just might. In 2016, Ernie Els considered quitting the game when he six-putted the opening hole at Augusta. “I couldn’t get the putter back,” he said. “I can’t explain it.” Not many people can, which is why it largely goes...
Monday 24 June 2019
Warm Up: Arriving early will give you a head start on the greens Sorry to disappoint you but dropping a few balls down five minutes before your tee time isn’t a warm-up. You might as well keep munching on that bacon butty instead, because you’re never going to learn anything about the pace of the greens without a little bit of application...
Monday 24 June 2019
Tempo: Why it matters, and how to groove yours Tempo has been defined as the total time your stroke takes from start to finish. It often gets confused with rhythm, but as this definition shows, tempo is more about the speed you swing the putter – slower, or faster. That said, tempo has a direct impact on rhythm. Good tempo evens out back/through...
Monday 24 June 2019
Why include the Spider X within an A-Z of putting? Well because it, and its predecessor the Spider Tour, are he putters convincing tour pros in their droves to switch from blades to mallets. Ten years ago when TaylorMade launched the first Spider putter, 75 per cent of tour pros used blade putters. A decade later, 60 per cent now use...
Monday 24 June 2019
The importance of green reading: You will never hole putts unless you know how to assess greens properly One of the biggest mistakes club golfers make is under-playing break and missing on the low side (the amateur side). Do that and gravity dictates that the ball never has a chance of catching the edge of the hole and going in. Instead, you...
Monday 24 June 2019
Personalisation with MySpider: It’s never been easier to get a bespoke putter made just for you More and more Tour players are tweaking their clubs so they’re unique to them – and now you can, too. Whether that’s adding alignment lines or taking them off, changing the colour or changing the grip, there are hardly any “standard” putters on Tour anymore. Now...
Monday 24 June 2019
A stimpmeter is used to measure how quick the speed of the green is The speed of greens is a talking point from Tour events to weekend medals. Speeds are measured with a device known as a Stimpmeter, an aluminium bar which is raised to an angle of about 20 degrees so a ball can run down its length and along...
Monday 24 June 2019
Mind coach Karl Morris on how to get over nerves when you’re standing over your putts Think back to the last putt you got really nervous on. If you pull the situation apart, you can begin to see how those nerves were based on a prediction of failure. Effectively, you were anticipating just how unpleasant or problematic a miss would be.
Monday 24 June 2019
Use this quick drill to fix your face angle on short putts Holing short putts is all about face aim, and ensuring the blade is square to your target line at impact. To train this, narrow your target. Set up three balls, each on a high tee peg. From a distance of no more than two feet, try to knock each one...