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Home: Putting … A Better Way to Putt.
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Aiming Your Putterface - Is Your Putter Pointing in the Right Direction?
Books on Putting - Thousands of Words on Putting Know-How with More to Follow
Book Store - Books in my Library and available from Amazon
Choosing a Putter - What You Absolutely Must Understand Before You Buy
Contact Me: I’d appreciate any comments or questions.
Distance Control - How to Roll Your Golf Ball the Correct Distance
External Resources - Other Web Sites that may Help You to Better Your Putting
Ezines - Short Articles on Putting, Rules/Etiquette, Golf, and Golf History
Putting
17 Inch Rule - Is this Good Advice or Subject to Question?
A Mismatched Putting Stroke - Is it Detrimental to Your Putting?
Ability to See – Why Your Ability to See can Harm Your Putting
Aiming Method X - How to Use the Fall Line to Find Your Aimpoint in Putting
Aiming Method Y - Better Your Aim by Picking an Aimpoint to the Side of the Hole
Aiming Method Z - Putting Through the Hoop at the Apex (Break Point) of the Putt
Aiming Preference - Do You Pick Out a Spot or Trust Your Instincts when You Aim?
Alignment Aids - Circles, Dots, Lines and Odd Shapes and Still You Miss the Putt
Anatomy - Why Your Anatomy Makes Putting a Difficult Challenge
Angle of Contact - Why Your Ball Position is Important for Consistent Putting
Arched Wrists - Should You Consider This Tip to Improve Your Putting Stroke?
Arm Putting - Allowing Your Arms to Swing the Putter rather than Your Shoulders
Balance - An Essential Requirement in All Forms of Sport
Balanced Ball - Does the Balance of Your Ball Really Matter When You Putt?
Ball Speed - Unlocking the Mysteries of Breaking Putts on Fast and Slow Greens
Belly Putter - Stabilising Force or a Crutch for Golfers with Putting Problems?
Better Lag Putting - An Important Technique for Lowering Your Golf Score
Better Putting - Can You Hope to Improve on the Green without Regular Practice?
Big Grip - Fitting a Big Grip to Your Putter is a Big Plus to Improving Your Putting
Bladed Wedge - A Smart Choice When Your Ball is Against the Collar
Body Height - Down Low, Up Tall, or Somewhere in Between in Your Putting Setup?
Body Motion - It's Not Sexy to be a Mover and a Shaker When You Putt
Breaking Putts - What Changes, if any, Should You Make in Your Putting Setup?
Breathing - Two Important Things You Must Know to Improve Your Putting
Chip Putting - Different Interpretations, but Similar Techniques in Execution
Choosing a Grip - The Way You Arrange Your Hands on Your Putter Matters
Clock Drill - How It can Help You Read the Break of a Putt
Continuous Putting - A Way to Speed Up Play or Undermine Your Confidence?
Cut Stroke - Why Using Your Shoulders in Putting can Create a Potential Problem
Depth Perception - How Well does Your Perception Match Reality on the Green?
Downhill Putts - Some Facts, Some Tips, to Lower Your Score on the Green
Emotional Putting - An Unhelpful Habit of Labelling Your Putts
Empty Mind - What Do You Think About When You are Faced with a Pressure Putt?
Excellent Putting - You Must Strive for Excellence, but Never Expect Perfection
Eye Deception - If You Can't Aim, You Can't Putt Successfully. It's that Simple
Eyes Down - Where Should You Look When You Putt?
Fast Greens - The Need for Speed Can Ruin Your Putting and Your Game
Flatsticks - Is Over-choice Muddying the Water and Taking Your Eye Off the Ball?
Follow Through - Why Holding Your Post Impact Position Improves Your Putting
Forward Press - A Good or Bad Technique in Putting?
Grading Your Putting - Four Important Components to Success on the Greens
Golf Ball - Any Golf Ball is Not the Best Ball for You
Holographic Putting - 3 Static Positions Decide Your Success Rate on the Green
Judging Distance - Pace Off Your Lag Putts, Don't just Rely on Your Eyes
Laughter - Why Laughter can Improve Your Golf and Become Your 15th Club
Left Hand - Why You should Set It on the Putter First
Left Elbow - Where Should It Point in Your Putting Stroke?
Left Shoulder - Why It Can Help You to Putt Straighter
Left Wrist - The Importance of Letting It Take The Hit in Your Putting Stroke
Line on Ball - Good Idea or Just an Illusion of Accuracy in Putting?
Making the Putt - Why It is More Important than Holing the Putt
Mental Image - What Do You See When You Study Your Putt?
MOI - Moment of Inertia: What You Need to Know in Choosing Your Putter
New Putter - Why it is the Last Solution When Your Putting is Giving You Grief
One-Handed Putting - Forced to Choose, Which Hand would be Your Preference?
Optimum Ball Position - Does an inch or two make a difference?
Patchy Conditions - 6 Ideas for Better Putting on Bumpy and Hairy Greens
Pendulum Stroke - Is It Still Possible with No Fixed Pivot to Guide Your Swing?
Practice Strokes - Improving Your Chances of Holing the Putt or Just a Habit?
Pure Greens - What You Can Learn about the Importance of Speed in Putting
Putt like the Pros - Pipe Dream or an Attainable Goal?
Putt Straight - A Requirement for Putting Well
Putter Acceleration - The Need for Putter Head Speed in Distance Control
Putter Aim - Using a Set of Numerical Charts to Calculate Your Aimpoint
Putter Butt - Where, if Anywhere, Should It Point during Your Putting Stroke?
Putter Choice - The Dilemma: Which Comes First – Putting Style or Putter Choice?
Putter Designs - Is There Anything Left to Discover to Help You Putt Better?
Putter Headweight - What is Ideal or Is It Just a Matter of Personal Opinion?
Putter Heft - The Feel of the Putter and How Its Balance Affects Its Performance
Putter Hosel - A Feature contributing to the Balance and Performance of a Putter.
Putter Hype - Should You Wait for the Next Breakthrough before You Buy?
Putter Length - A Fork in the Road when Choosing a Putter of a Particular Length
Putter Loft - Bend Your Putter to Change It or Alter Your Setup and Stroke?
Putter Pushback - Engaging the Big Muscles and Eliminating the Small Muscles
Putter Release - Much Ado about Nothing. It's Square Contact that Matters
Putter Shaft - Why Steel Still Remains the Material of Choice in Putter Shafts
Putterface Aiming - Are you Aiming in the Right Direction?
Putterface Alignment - A Different Approach to Using the Line on Your Ball
Putting Anxiety - Knowing The Difference between Trying and Trying Too Hard
Putting Arm-Hang - How to set up at address without tension in your arms
Putting Blind - Lessons You Must Learn to Better Your Putting Stroke and Feel
Putting by Feel - Is This the Total Answer to All Your Putting Problems?
Putting Comfort - Comfortable or Correct. Why Not Both?
Putting Confidence - An Essential Part in Your Ability to Putt Well under Pressure
Putting Commandments - 10 Rules on How to Manage Your Game on the Green
Putting Compensation - Correcting One Error by Creating Another
Putting Contradiction - Achieving Better Results by Working Harder to Try Less
Putting Cross-Over - A Vital Skill You Must Learn if You Want to Putt Better
Putting Decision - The Most Important Factor You Must Decide for Every Putt
Putting Dwell Time - How Long Should You Stand over the Ball before You Putt It?
Putting Equation - A Plus B and Always In This Order to Obtain Success
Putting Error - Very Common, Easy to Spot, but a Difficult Habit to Curb
Putting Excuses - The Number One Reason for Putting Badly is Your Own Inability
Putting Fatigue - Can Tiredness Towards the Final Holes Show Up in Your Score?
Putting Follow-Through - Not just an afterthought, but important in your Stroke
Putting Game - Five Important Points of Difference You Should Know
Putting Gap - Why a Small Putting Gap can Make a Big Difference
Putting Grips - Reversing Your Hands for Different Putts is Not Such a Daft Idea
Putting Guesswork - How to handle the greens of a new course for the first time
Putting in Sync - The Importance of Matching Your Stroke to Your Posture
Putting Know-How - How Much must You Know to Putt Well?
Putting Magic - Can You Trick Yourself into Improving Your Putting?
Putting Mind Games - Four Ways to Help You Block Unwanted Thoughts on the Green
Putting on Plane - The Key to Accuracy is Staying on Plane before Impact
Putting Path - How You Perceive a Task will influence the Success You Attain
Putting Puzzle - A Riddle You Have to Solve Every Time You Putt
Putting Reality - What You See is What You Get. Well Maybe Not
Putting Secret - How to Improve with One Simple Adjustment of Your Hands
Putting Short - Four Possible Causes for Leaving Your Putts Short of the Hole
Putting Smart - There is No Right or Wrong Way to Putt, only Smart and Dumb Ways
Putting Stats - The Only Two Statistics of Value to Improve Your Putting
Putting Target - The ball should NOT be the focus of your visual attention
Putting Technique - How to Train Your Brain and Avoid the Yips
Putting Tempo - Improve Your Putting by Learning How to Putt with an Even Tempo
Putting Tip - Not Every Piece of Advice is Good Advice
Putting Zones - Areas of the Green where the Pin is usually located
Reading the Break - Why All Breaking Putts are Speed Putts
Reference Putt - How to Judge the Green Speed Prior to Your Round
Reverse-Overlap - Under Threat as the Recommended Putting Grip
Right Elbow - A Way to Anchor Your Backstroke in Putting
Right Hand - Master, Servant, or Equal Partner in the Putting Stroke?
Setup at Address - Significant Putting Changes for Better or Worse over Time?
Shoulders - Should You Rotate Them or Rock Them in Your Putting Stroke?
Simple Putting - A Target-based Mindset that has the minimum of fuss to it
Sloping Greens - The Forces that Cause Your Ball to Break a Certain Way
Slow Greens - Outside of Your Comfort Zone perhaps, but Challenging Your Skill
Solid Contact - A Critical Component in Distance Control on the Green
Speed Putting - A Technique to Free Up Your Putting Stroke and Sink More Putts
Split Grip - Can Separating Your Hands on the Shaft Improve Your Putting?
Sticking Your Tongue Out - Why It can Help Your Putting
Straight Putt - Every Putt is a Straight Putt – Myth or Fact?
Straight Putts - How Good are You at Consistently Hitting Your Ball Straight?
Swearing - Can Swearing and Cussing Help to Improve Your Putting?
Switching Putters - – Why You Should Not Follow the Example of Tour Professionals
Three-Foot Circle - The Pros and Cons of Making This Your Target for Long Putts
Toeing the Putt - Is This a Good Way of Handling Downhill and Breaking Putts?
Top Line of Putter - Aim – All to do with the Top Line of Your Putter
True Roll - Marketing Hype or a Possible Achievement?
Unconscious Putting - The Ability to Block Out Stroke Mechanics When Over a Putt
Width of Stance - Is the Width of Stance in Putting Immaterial?
Windy Conditions - How to Avoid a Strong Wind from Derailing Your Putting
Wrist Angles - The Make or Break of Any Putting Stroke
Wrist Rotation - A Certain Way to Send Your Putt Off Line
Ezines - Short Articles on Putting, Rules/Etiquette, Golf, and Golf History
Rules/Etiquette Around Green
Etiquette on Green - Top Three Code Violations in Amateur Golf
Putting Green Damage - Can You Fix It and without any Penalty?
Putting Bad Habits - Not against the Rules, but not advisable
Putting Through Line - Are You Aware of Where You Walk on the Green?
Rule 18 - Ball at Rest Moved
Rules of Golf - Are You Unknowingly Breaking the Rules Around the Putting Green?
Ezines - Short Articles on Putting, Rules/Etiquette, Golf, and Putting History
Putting History
Putter Shapes - You Have Got to Love What You See When You Look Down
Putting Stature - Are the Demands of More Practice Changing the Putting Posture?
Fall Line - What You Must Know in order to Sink a Putt
Fall Line Putt Reader - What You Must Know to Read a Putt Accurately
FLPR - The Fall Line Putt Reader is Colour-Coded so You can See the Break Easily
Green Mapping - An Essential Tool for Making More Putts
Green Mapping Steps - How to prepare Your Own Pocket Guide of the Greens
Golf Anecdotes - I’ve Spent My Life Golfing; the Rest I’ve Just Wasted
Golden Stroke - You’ve Got to Love to Putt and Treat Your Putter as Your Lover
Lost Ball - Bad luck or Bad Golf it Matters Not, if Your Ball is Lost
Magic Putter - My kingdom for a Horse. No, Give Me a Dependable Putter Instead
Putter Abuse - Throw the Club Sideways rather than Overhand to Protect the Shaft
Putter Grip - Connecting You to the Instrument of Joy or Misery on the Greens
Putting Misery - Finding a Happy Place where All Your Putting Woes Evaporate
Putting Tantrum - Don’t Lose Your Way by Losing Your Cool on the Greens
Short Putt - The Missed Short Putt is Sometimes Too Hard to Stomach
Superstition - Fear is the Main Source of Superstition in Golfers
Texas Wedge - Rediscovered in the 1950s as a Way to Hit an Approach Shot
Way to Putt - Sam Snead Made It Clear When He said It’s not How, but How Many
Green Reading - Think of the Green as a Crime Scene with You as the Detective
Practice Putting - Sometimes It Pays Not to Practise if You are Doing It Wrongly
Pre-putt Routine - A Case of See it, Feel it, and Do it
Putting Routine on Tour - Preventing Doubt from Creeping In
Pressure Putts - Thinking Your Way to Better Putting by Not Thinking
Putting Performance Goals - Planning for Better Results on the Putting Green
Putting Attitude - A Fine Line between Success and Failure on the Green
Putting Expectations - How Well Should You be Able to Putt?
Putting Visualisation - Mental Images to Guide Your Performance to a Successful Result
Putting Self-talk - How Not to Beat Up on Yourself; Leave that to Others
Putt Reading - The Secret of Sinking More Putts
Putter Fitting - Five Things You Must Know to Get Your Putter Fitted Correctly
Putter Swingweight - Important or just Another Meaningless Bit of Information?
Putting Aids - Do They Really Help or are They Just a Crutch?
Putting Basics - Putt Any Way You Want, Just Be Consistent
Degrees of Freedom - Too Much Freedom is Detrimental to Your Putting Stroke
Putting Image 1 - Main Points concerning Putting Setup from Side-On position
Putting Image 2 - Main Points concerning Putting Setup from Front-On position
Putting Image 3 - Main Points concerning Putting Stroke from Side-On position
Putting Image 4 - Main Points concerning Aiming Your Ball from Front-On position
Putting Image 5 - Main Points concerning Distance Control
Putting Image 6 - Main Points concerning Reading the Green and the Putt
Putting Image 7 - Main Points concerning Pressure Putts
Putting Instruction - Can You Answer these Questions about Your Putting?
Putting Rules - What You Should Know When You Arrive at the Green
Putting Setup - A Precise Setup Creates the Foundation for a Repeatable stroke
Ball Position - Any Old Spot Out in Front of You Just Won’t Do
Grip Pressure - Two Smart Ways to Achieve a Constant Hold on Your Putter
Putting Alignment - Set Up Square and Take It from There is Sound Advice
Putting Grip - Getting a Handle on How to Hold Your Putter with Both Hands
Putting Posture - Cut a Smart Image by Standing to the Ball Athletically
Putting Stance - A Neutral Setup with Your Feet Reduces the Potential for Errors
Putting Triangle - Maintaining Its Shape is Important to Your Putting Stroke
Putting Smarter - Changing your Practice Habits by Abandoning your Old Way
Putting Stroke - Get It in the Hole Any Old Way May Not Always Work
Putter Path - Which is Best for Consistent Putting: Vertical or Arced?
Short Game - This is the Scoring Zone where Poor Skills can Wreck Your Card
Videos
Ball Position - Bobby Eldridge explains the relationship between your shoulders and your ball
Putting Geometry - Mike Sweeney explains the geometry of a breaking putt
Putter Fitting - Todd Sones explains the importance of Putter Fitting to your Setup and Putting Stroke
Putter Loft - Ralph Maltby explains the importance of putter loft to the direction and distance of the golf ball
Putter Swingweight - Ralph Maltby explains what is meant by putter swingweight and its importance in putter fitting
Putting Grip - Mike Shannon explains the three grips most commonly used in putting
Putting Lines - An animated Putting Lines Video showing why a golf ball curves when moving on a sloping green
Web Site - How to Use this Web Site to Your Best Advantage
What's New - Putting Step-by-Step Fundamentals
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