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
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
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
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...
Monday, 24 June 2019
Five key messages from the Lost Art of Putting TG Top 50 teachers Gary Nicol and Karl Morris Gary and Karl have years of experience coaching everyone from beginners to Major winners. Karl's company, The Mind Factor, works closely with TPEGS Ultimate Golf Experiences, run by Gary and Andrew Coltart at Archerfield Links. Written by two TG Top 50 coaches, this 2018...
Monday, 24 June 2019
The key to holing putts is a pure roll: Here are two drills will help you achieve that Putters are built with two or three degrees of loft to help get the ball up and out of the little depression it creates through its weight. It does though mean that even the purest putt has an initial period of skid before...
Monday, 24 June 2019
Jason Day: The PGA Tour's star putter last year reveals his set-up secrets Jason Day might have lost some of the form which took him to world No.1 in 2016, but hasn't lost his touch on the greens. On the PGA Tour last year he finished second in Strokes Gained: Putting, and made over 90% of putts from inside 10 feet using...
Written by Simon Daddow on Monday, 24 June 2019
Understanding the importance of impact and how it affects your putt There is no one perfect way to hit a putt – just like drivers and irons, every golfer has their own unique way of presenting the putter face to the ball at impact. Impact though takes a fraction of a second and because 75% of where the ball rolls to...
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
Looking for a new golf grip? Consider one of these... FLAT CAT - £29.95 www.flatcatgolf.com Favoured by Justin Rose, Flat Cat comes in five sizes. The brand say the wide, at surfaces of the grip (which can be positioned either square or at 90o to the face) puts the putter face in the palm of your hand. They say it gives a...
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
Drills for Pure Putting: Five go-to exercises that have stood the test of time If you want some simple but effective drills to help you with your stroke, alignment and accuracy, then look no further. These five drills all help with a different part of your putting, and are aimed to help you cut down the number of putts per round. 1. Belly...
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
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...
Written by Jamie Donaldson on Monday, 24 June 2019
AimApoint: The system that takes the mystery out of green-reading (Jump to drill: Four steps to a better read with Aimpoint) A couple of things we already know. Putts break towards water or the sea or into a valley. They break more at the than they do at the beginning and no matter how experienced you might be, there is always an...
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, 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...