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"It's not how, but how many!"
~Sam Snead
Why was this legendary professional able to not only overcome the yips and, while at it,
go on win a record 82 PGA Tour events and about 70 others worldwide...?
... the record that still stands today.
His simple solution has recently returned with a vengeance and produces remarkable results for anyone as soon as they try it.
~SAM SNEAD QUOTE ON THE GOLF CHANNEL (2001):
"Why do you guys still insist on making this putting thing so difficult?"
Sam Snead Bio
DAVE PELZ: Golf Channel's putting & short game guru
PROFILE
INTERVIEW with:
THR: There are people still croquet putting. I played with one out in Portland, an elderly man who had one of Bob Duden's old putters and learned golf from him. If croquet putting were still allowed, which of course it's not, how many top players would you think, would be using it?
Pelz: Jim, I honestly believe every one of them would. I've done a lot of testing on that and it is an easier way to putt. When you stand on the line and you're looking right on the line, and you're hitting the ball from between your legs like a croquet mallet except if you did it with a nice putter with a vertical shaft, there's no wrist break involved. There's no rotation of the forearms. You see the line that the ball starts on. In present day golf, when you stand on the side of the line, that's one of the things that makes the game difficult and preserves the challenge. You don't see what line the ball starts on. When you look up, you don't see the ball until it's about six feet away from you so you don't know exactly what line you started on. You just have to assume. When you croquet putt you can see it.
In a way, I felt very sorry when they did outlaw Bobby Shave and Bob Duden and the players who were really good at croquet putting because they ruined their golf careers in terms of being able to make money and win. It [banning] did preserve the style of the game that we play. It kept the challenge in there. You know we don't want to go around and putt balls in slingshots and shoot them like bows and arrows. That would be too easy.
How many top players would croquet putt, if they could? Every one of them.
Looks like Pelz missed on this one since (legal) "sidesaddle" has proven to be even better than croquet but most pros have chosen either to ignore or dismiss it. Actually, Pelz now encourages (legal) "sidesaddle" as the simplest and easiest putting technique in his extensive book "the Putting Bible".
~the Putt Guru
And, so who am I?
I'm 72 with bone-on-bone arthritic knees and the upper body of a 12 year old girl. Can barely hit a tee ball 200 yds. A really lazy green reader with no discipline for putting routines. Never practice putting except for a couple of putts on the practice green before I tee off. I Play on a course with one of the most difficult set of greens in the Las Vegas area. (Dorango Hills) But my total putts are nearly always in the twenties. (Don't hit many greens but get it up and down often... lots of one putts.) Rarely 3 putt and continue to be one of the best putters of my many playing partners. And now with the new
"AUT-O-SIGHT" it's unreal.
Anyone willing to put in a normal amount of practice and discipline with sidesaddle would elevate their putting to a whole new level... Even quicker with the "AUT-O-SIGHT".
Posted: 6/2/2008
Sidesaddle not as silly as it seems
By JAMES ACHENBACH
Senior Writer
LAS VEGAS — In my role as Putter Detective, I am here to investigate a putting method that doesn’t require manipulation of the blade during the putting stroke. Most of the time it’s called sidesaddle, because that was the name used by its most famous advocate, Sam Snead.
One of golf’s most endearing characters, 72-year-old Las Vegas resident Karl Higham
has been using and teaching the sidesaddle method longer than most golfers have been alive.
Once upon a time, putting may have been a simple art. Today, though, golfers have become like Indiana Jones in their search for the mysterious path of the perfect putting stroke. It may be open-to-closed, closed-to-open or loop-to-loop. The quest continues.
Why has putting become so complicated? Many golfers are so consumed by the path
of the putter head that they forget about putting’s most important element – rhythm.
Listen to any televised golf tournament, and you’re sure to hear at least one broadcaster talk about Bobby Locke or Stan Utley and the art of hooking putts (opening the face on the backswing, then closing it near impact so that the toe appears to turn over in a hook stroke).
Hooking putts? You’ve got to be kidding. I’ll take a hooked tee shot, but putts are something I want to hit straight.
Which brings me back to Higham, who still teaches the same method he has used for more than 50 years. The golfer faces the hole and uses a croquet-style stroke with
the ball to the side of the body.
“Picture yourself rolling a golf ball (with your hand) to the hole,” says Higham, who designs his own putters. “It’s a simple underhanded toss. So your first assignment here is to quit thinking. If I asked you to roll a ball, would you go through all this mental stuff? Of course not.”
Higham began putting this way while attending high school in Long Beach, Calif. Adjacent to Woodrow Wilson High was Recreation Park, with an 18-hole course. Across the street was a nine-hole layout.
Before he ever played the game, Higham earned spending money as a caddie. One day he saw a man putting between his legs with a putter that looked like a croquet mallet.
“He was making putts from everywhere,” Higham recalls, “so I decided to make myself one of those. I had never even owned a golf club.”
Soon, according to Higham, he made more money on the putting green than he did caddying.
The croquet putter was introduced to the PGA Tour by Bob Duden, who was so fond of the method that he began manufacturing croquet putters named “The Dude.”
Duden and Snead were buddies, so Snead tried it, liked it and won a handful of Tour events using this style. In 1968, the U.S. Golf Association outlawed croquet putting, which drove Duden out of business.
Late in his career, Duden was the best 70-year-old golfer I ever saw. Until he died in 1995 at age 74, he was a threat to break par in money games at Rose City Golf Course in Portland, Ore.
Some Duden loyalists in Oregon still use the putters, voicing an odd desire – that their approach shots stop on the fringe so they can putt between their legs. This style
is legal off the green, but not on the putting surface.
Snead, too, switched to sidesaddle. Nobody on today’s Tour uses the method. It’s their loss.
Higham remains the high priest of the sidesaddle world. His quirky Web site (www.puttmagic.com) is a meandering testament to the history and theory of sidesaddle putting.
The length of sidesaddle putters varies from medium to long. Whatever the length, Higham tells golfers never to bend the elbow of the lower arm. The hand of the lower arm should be placed on the grip in a natural position. To determine this position, point the index finger of your dominant hand toward a target and carefully note the position of all your fingers.
Long putters and sidesaddle putters have the same lie angle, which is mandated by the rules to be a minimum of 10 degrees. No putter can have a shaft that is straight up and down.
I took a long putter from Never Compromise and turned it into a sidesaddle putter simply by changing the position of the lower grip. It’s fun to use.
“It’s an abomination if you putt any other way,” Higham says. “It will even help you get rid of the yips.”
Careful, Karl.
Karl Higham
~the Putt Guru
CONSIDER THIS THE NEXT TIME YOU GO PUTTER SHOPPING:
Putter manufacturers want you to believe that design and technology can solve your putting woes if you're willing to pay enough for it. It actually has had less than 1% effectiveness based on the average golfer's putts per round since 1985... probably due to better green conditions.
You can hold your putter upside-down and make putts if you can release it down the proper line with the right pace...
...But I guess you already knew that if you have more than a couple of putters in your collection.
It's a desperate, but failed, attempt to overcome the real problem of the conventional putting technique requiring difficult skills that are foreign to all of our natural and intuitive instincts.
Here's just one of dozens training aids designed to help keep the entire upper torso, arms & hands together while stroking a putt from a conventional setup. Although good direction is certainly problematic from this position , trying to learn pace with all these body parts in play requires an enormous amount of practice, discipline & skill.
It's all about skill & technique! So if you lack the skill, simply change your technique.
Subjective Reasoning Trap
The only reason people don't putt sidesaddle....
....Other people don't putt sidesaddle!
That goes for everybody... including professionals.
The Saddest Commentary of All
Tens of thousands of "yippers" out there have given the game up out of frustration and may never discover this 100% cure. Plus the ones still playing way below their potential who refuse to switch to the sidesaddle method simply because their misguided egos stand in their way.
"Doing the same thing over and over again with the same negative results is a form of insanity."
~ Albert Einstein
The issue is never whether it works or not,
but will always come down to this...
The Real "Gut Check" Question:
Would you actually be willing to putt in this unusual fashion if you knew absolutely that it improved your results dramatically?
If you can honestly answer yes to that question, you have taken the most important first step to becoming the envy of your peers on the green...a really great putter of the golf ball.
SCIENTIFICALLY DOCUMENTED FACT:
You will NEVER achieve your full potential as a putter of the golf ball while standing at a right angle to your target line.
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FEAR OF A FALSE PERCEPTION: "Many of us suffer from such a fragile self image we look for excuses to continue putting with a more generally accepted but less effective technique." "I've heard them all."
"Over the years, I have found that in reality, most everyone will tell you it really makes sense and respect your resourcefulness... while probably not admitting they don't have the courage as the reason for not following your lead." "The smarter ones don't let that costly fear stand in their way."
"It is a constant source of amazement to me how most of the hundreds of playing partners who have watched me constantly out-putt them sidesaddle over the years just can't seem to bring themselves to make this simple change... they just appear to put it out of their minds as a fluke or that I'm just a good putter anyway." "Maybe... but that doesn't account for the dramatic improvement of thousands of lousy putters and "yippers" who have switched to sidesaddle."
"The ones who do make the conversion not only find a dramatic improvement in their confidence and putting stats, they immediately realize their fear of putting differently from most everyone else has been replaced with respect and acceptance."
~the Putt Guru
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No Phony Pseudo-Science Required!
It is impossible to objectively defend ANY other putting technique aginst it... PERIOD!
If you stand at a right angle to your line of putt, you are unnecessarily handicapping yourself mentally, physically and visually.
All you need to do is take 
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Jul 15, 2008 @ 12:00 AM
By DAVID WALSH
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- Gary McCord grabbed the audience's attention Sunday night at the Huntington Classic's pairings party with his renowned humor-based story telling.
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40th PGA Professional National Championship
June 21-24 2007
Sun River Resort, Sun River, Oregon
Butch Sheehan of Rancho Mirage, Calif.
This 57 year old sidesaddler, Champions Tour player and brother of LPGA super star Patty Sheehan, breezed to a tie for 4th and earned a coveted spot in the PGA Championship Aug. 9-12 in Tulsa, Okla.
Good luck Butch...Thousands of us "sidewinders" will be pulling for you.
Thank you for validating the sidesaddle putting technique yet again.
~the Putt Guru
Golf Channel taps SIDESADDLE PUTTER for novel invention reality series: "Fore Inventors Only"
Sidesaddle putter makes first cut and advances to field tests with all three judges giving it a "thumbs up".
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Future of putting?
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The Most Important First Step...
Get a grip on the technique
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ERGONOMICALLY SUPERIOR
TO ANY OTHER PUTTING TECHNIQUE
NOTES: Can we humble amateur golfers really be expected to make better choices than the professionals?
Dave Pelz... the Golf Channel's short game guru... claims it (sidesaddle) to be the most accurate, legal putting method
(Chapter 3 - The Putting Bible)
Golf Digest December 2005:
Forgotten amid the huge variety of putting grips, stances and strokes is the sidesaddle method Sam Snead used in the latter part of his career.
Curtis Strange says he's thinking about using it on the Champions Tour, but frankly I'm surprised no one has put it into play already, because it's a terrific way to putt.
"The sidesaddle method is as close to a perfect pendulum stroke as you can get, a straight-back, straight-through motion that is easy to repeat." "It's hard for the face of the putter to twist away from square, and there is no breaking of the wrists." "And it's the only method where you look down the line of play with your eyes level with the horizon". "With this "triangulated" vision perspective, it's easy to see the line." "One day soon, someone is going to adopt Sam's style, and when that happens, a long line of imitators will surely follow."
~Curtis Strange - PGA Champion's Tour
"What are YOU waiting for Curtis?" ~the Putt Guru
Post by "niblick" on:
05/25/07
This is how I putt. I went to putting sidesaddle about 8 months ago. I use a putter from puttmagic.com. The reverse shafted putter is really awesome.
Bunk? Not for this guy. I've make more long putts now than I ever did before. I've already made 4 birdies this year - last year I didn't make a single one.
For me, it's about the speed of the putt. My problem putting with a traditional stance and my old Titleist putter was judging speed. I was constantly leaving putts six feet short or blowing it six feet past. I'd get over the ball and just have no idea how hard to hit it... pretty miserable. Being able to look at the hole with both eyes has dramatically reduced that problem for me. Now I'm confident standing over 4 footers, and long putts have a chance to go in.
I spent all of last year trying to break 90 and failing. This year 3 of my last 4 rounds have been in the 80s. My ball striking has improved a bit, but I attribute most of my better scoring to an improved short game and my sidesaddle putter. I just love seeing those putts drop.
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Right or Left Eye Dominant?
If you are a right hander with a right dominant eye or a lefty with a left dominant eye, you are at an additional disadvantage to the inherent parallax problem when putting from a conventional setup.... BUT:
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Most FAQ:
Since you have gotten this far, you must have come to one or both of two possible conclusions.
1) I'm convinced sidesaddle is a better way to putt.
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meme(mem) n.
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. As insidious as a virus that becomes so ingrained in our thought process that reason and logic are immune to it.
Most of us... including pros and experts are willing slaves to this copy cat form of imitation even though we may intellectually disagree or at least have doubts about the idea or practice.
POPULAR EXCUSE : SENSELESS CONTROVERSY
There are so many top touring pros that think it's unfair and not in the essence of the game, it's obvious the others would be hesitant to offend them. No player wants to beat another using a method that is not generally accepted by most PGA professionals.
Another overlooked factor is since none of the major manufacturers make a sidesaddle putter, most top pros are not willing to the sacrifice lucrative endorsement money to make the switch.
Many "elite" pros even chastise V. J. Singh, Sergio Garcia and others for using belly and long putters.
When some pro with the guts of Sam Snead putts sidesaddle again and has the overall game to win, others will have to follow in order to level the playing field.
There is hope however, look at all the old and new techniques and equipment changes that are being made on tour.. after some other brave (or well paid) pro is willing to try them first, of course!
As the well known golf commentator Peter Kostas remarked on a recent PGA tour broadcast:
"Most professionals are just too embarrassed to try it out."
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PGA PROFESSIONAL
Bob suffered from a chilling case of the "yips" and was the focus of the
ongoing study by the Mayo Clinic.
CLICK ON LOGOS BELOW TO SEE VIDEOS IF YOU'RE NOT TOO SKITTERISH
AND
MAYO CLINIC RECOMMENDATION:
Sidesaddle Grip...
Face the hole with the ball on the right side of your body. Use your left hand to grip the putter near its top. Place your right hand lower down the putter shaft, palm facing the hole. Bend forward, angling the putter to the right, across the front of your body.
A longer putter can help you use more of your arms and shoulders and less of your hands and wrists during your putts.
MESSAGE FROM BOB:
I have been putting sidesaddle since 4/1/05. I cannot believe the difference. My speed control on long putts is very good and I am making way more putts! Today 6/9/05 I had my lowest number of putts ever, 28! I want to thank the Putt Guru for sending me the sidesaddle putter with his reverse shafting.
Bob Jensen
PGA Professional & Long Drive Champion
and now back on the Champion's Tour.
Web site: Bob "No Way" Jensen
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Email 07/28/07
Dear Karl:
Thank you so much for your yips tips. Yes, I have had my golfers find lasting success with this (sidesaddle) also.
Cheers,
Dr. Tom Kubistant
Note: Dr. Tom Kubistant, CSB is the most prolific writer on the mental side of golf having written over 200 articles over the last 15 years. His Mind Links: The Psychology Of Golf, has been widely hailed as one of the most practical guides to the mental game. His new book: Golfing Your Ball & Psychology Of Playing Golf
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BUICK SCRAMBLE
WORLD'S LARGEST AMATEUR TOURNAMENT
Former "yipper" and sidesaddle putter customer Len Shonka
teams up to beat out over 75,000 golfers in
Tiger Woods 2005 Buick Scramble.
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 16 - Buick Scramble Honorary Chairman Tiger Woods personally congratulated the 2005 Buick Scramble National Champions today at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club at Grande Lakes Orlando in Orlando, Fla.
“This is a fantastic event, one that I am proud to be a part of,” said Woods during the awards ceremony. “This is a big day for the participants, and we have some great winners out here today.”
Team members for Alhambra Golf Course include PGA Professional Jerry Wisz and amateurs John Odell, Len Shonka (To Tiger's left), Alex Venneri and Vince Zarian.
Alhambra Golf Course of Alhambra, Calif., needed a birdie on the 18th hole at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club to secure the net division title (Len used his sidesaddle technique from off the green to lag close enough for the one putt win). Alhambra carded a 13-under-par 59 for a four-round total of net 64-under-par 224 and a one stroke victory over Duncan Elks Golf & Country Club of Duncan, Okla.
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TYPICAL.. FIRST TIME OUT
RECEIVED 12/21/06
Hi Karl:
Just thought I'd keep you up to date although you've probably heard it all before.
The Slam Dunk arrived last week and I messed around with it indoors on the carpet trying to get the hang of the new feel.
I was getting pretty good putting at a beer coaster on the carpet and would hit it 9 out of 10 times from about 12 feet.
Then next day off to my first competition round with it. Just like you say, it is a bit difficult introducing a new look to an old mob of golfers. Everyone kidded me about the way I looked putting and I wasn't doing so well on the practice green mostly due to the peer pressure you could sense. Half the people questioned whether it was legal or not.
My regular playing partner said before we hit off, " why don't you just put that thing on Ebay and get rid of it before you look ridiculous."
Our first green is undulating and although I hadn't practiced with the putter with shots just short of, the green I thought I'd give it a go. Wasn't a good shot, left it about 20 ft short of the hole much to everyone's delight and laughter. Still a bit nervous I tried to relax and just let the putter do the work. Rolled staight into the hole so we won hole one. Laughter stopped.
Won't bore you with a hole by hole description, but results for the first time use of your putter were excellent. Never had a 3 putt (which is normally my problem) had 4 one putts and the rest were 2 putts with quite a few close misses. And remember this was my first round with the putter.
Won the money and afterwards, had the same critics come up to me and ask if they could have a try. So although it did seem like a baptism of fire when I first brought the club to our course, I now feel ready to practice and improve with it. It only gets better as you get the hang of it.
Another thing I really liked is there is no feeling of the "yips" when using the putter. With each set up you feel ready to putt and accept the consequences without having a nervous breakdown before making the stroke.
Well off to the club now for Friday's 9 hole chook run. Hopefully we'll have a chicken for dinner tonight.
I'll keep you posted on my success.
Bob Thompson & Associates
Bribie Island, AU
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By now you're probably wondering why, if it's so good, more players aren't using it.
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The answer is best illustrated by this astounding and rather sad commentary on the meme syndrome.
Would you want to shop without one of these?
In 1937, a grocery store owner by the name of Silvan Goldman first came up with the idea of the grocery cart after watching his customers struggling with hand held baskets, He had them made and put them in the store but no one would use them... women claiming they were already pushing baby carriages around all day while the men didn't want to look less manly not being able carry around a little basket.
He finally had to actually hire shoppers to go around the store using the carts for months before customers would follow.
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 As part of the TV commercial showing on the Golf Channel and Fox Sports, the Magic Twanger Putter Challenge (NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION) was held to evaluate the difference between conventional putting and sidesaddle.
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They were asked to putt 10 white balls with their regular putter using the conventional method. 5 from 30 feet and 5 from 15 feet. Then they hit 10 more putts from the same distances with yellow balls using the sidedaddle technique. Remember, these golfers had never tried such a radical change in their putting technique before this experiment. They were only given a brief lesson in the proper setup. Your results will be even better with practice.
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NOTE: This is the putter that was used by Dr. Gideon Ariel of Illinois University for the computer study that proved the sidesaddle technique to be 68%+ more accurate than the conventional putting method.
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"SLAM DUNK" PUTTING SURVEY COMPLETED 10/01/06
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Another survey of those who use the sidesaddle technique reveals:
12% are PGA touring or teaching professionals.
81% have college degrees.
48% did or now have single digit handicaps.
17% were or are now scratch or better.
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It's about that silky smooth stroke with gradual acceleration that starts the ball tracking on line and end-over-end that is so difficult to achieve with a conventional stance.
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| Annika Sorenstam's celebrated coaches; Pia Nilson and Lynn Marriot have nailed the conventional putting problem on the nose as follows... |
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| "When you stand behind a putt, you are looking at it straight on, with shoulders square to the hole." "Your head is level and your are sensing the break as it actually is." Compare this body posture to the way you are when you get over the ball to putt it." "You are hunched over, standing sideways to the hole and, to look at the target you have to turn your head and squint cockeyed at it." "Do you honestly think that you are sensing the break of the putt accurately from a position such as this." "Why would you ever trust what you are seeing from this position over what you see when you are standing behind the ball with your eyes and body - and mind! - square to the hole?" |
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| ~Pia Nilson and Lynn Marriot: "Every Shot Must Have a Purpose" Page 116. |
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| "Wouldn't it be great if we could simply putt from the same position we were in when we read the putt?' "It would even be better if we could make the stroke without being hunched over at a right angle to the putting line." "Better still, what if we didn't have to look at the line cockeyed and have to try to keep the putter face square with two hands that want to go in different directions?" "Don't you also get the feeling that you could judge the pace of the putt better looking straight down the line?" |
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| Although it is possible to use a conventional putter for sidesaddle, a model designed for this technique will improve results dramatically. |
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This scientifically proven (and accepted by all who know) as the simplest and most accurate (legal) putting technique ever used is still being overlooked and/or misunderstood by most golfers.
It seems so ugly to many golfers that they are willing to sacrifice career best putting rounds just to avoid what they perceive as looking silly using it.
In reality, it's a more logical & aestheticly pleasing setup than conventional... it only looks different.
Just hand a kid a putter who has never putted before and watch how he holds it without instruction. If you let him alone he would out putt you by Tuesday.
Even the most critical observer must admit that it not only looks like it would be easier, more accurate and natural... IT IS... and it has been proven and documented over and over for more than 150 years.
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"All (you) really (need) is an unfair advantage."
~W.C. Fields
According to the
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We’re still pretty lousy golfers
The average 18-hole score on a full-size course is 97 for men and 114 for women. It's an even 100 for all golfers. The average golf score has changed very little over the last 50 years, despite all the significant advances in equipment technology. Only a very small elite break 80 on a consistent basis.
One fundamental reason is that most golf teachers have complicated the swing beyond measure.
Natural instinct for the full swing is all but forgotten.
The conventional putting technique is an inefficient dogma steeped in century old tradition.
But there is one way you can lower your scores right now and save a lot of time and money at the same time.
You can do it quickly, easily and dramatically by simply using a little common sense.
You may never posses all of the other skills necessary to win the club championship without a lot of practice, but I can show you how to consistantly win putting tournaments with little or no practice at all.
I have spent over 50 years examining and testing putting techniques from croquet to one-handed.
Over all those years, the superiority of this technique has never been challenged for simplicity and accuracy.
Both the science and the simplicity of implementation are indisputable...
...if not self evident.
INSTANTLY Switch to the Purest Putting Stroke the Human Body is Capable of Making...
...combined with the body and head position that is the easiest from which to determine pace and direction...
...and you already know how to do it!
It's easy to liberate yourself from the awkward and difficult constraints imposed by conventional techniques. Make putting the best and most enjoyable part of your game. All you need to do is...
...JUST CHOOSE TO DO IT!
"Anyone who putts well is a match for any opponent."
~Harvey Penick
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Since I first published this site nearly 12 years ago... just for fun, I have received a flood of e-mail informing me of amazing accomplishments by amateurs around the world using this technique. They range from major tournament wins to setting course records to hundreds of personal best putting rounds.
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Expert putting is all about how to
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How many more putts would you be able to "HOLE"
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The "Claw" grip, split grip, left hand low, putting left handed, long putters, belly putters, etc., etc., are Band-Aid efforts to correct inconsistent putting strokes instead of taking advantage of the problems source.
Most, if not all putting stroke problems stem from the right hand wanting to take over combined with the "hit reflex" that makes it nearly impossible to release the putter head properly.
Maybe, just maybe your eyes, mind and body are telling you the right hand should be taking over... it's only natural after all!
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With over FIFTEEN top 10's and countless top 20's, the hammy putter made a huge impression at golf's highest levels.
And when tour Professionals used the hammy they had their best finishes of the year.
Another 45% open and while turning the left hand over will improve on this idea more than 100%.
"I wonder how much better these results would have been if these competitors had been using a full sidesaddle technique." ~the Putt Guru
HAMMY style if you prefer that method to SIDESADDLE.
Everything you need is right here.
REINVENTING THE CONVENTIONAL PUTTING TECHNIQUE
for
REPEATABLE, LASER-LIKE ACCURACY
and
EFFORTLESS CONSISTENCY...
...even under pressure while
using your own putter
Documented 68% improvement in putting accuracy regardless of present skill level!
The tour to the main page begins at the link at the bottom.
Please take the tour if this is your first visit.
Go slow... there is much to gain and learn before you get there.
YOU ARE ABOUT TO LEARN THE MOST COMPELLING ARGUMENT EVER PRESENTED FOR CHANGING A TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE USED IN ANY SPORT.
You may be too timid or THINK you are already the best putter you can be and don't want to make the change right away. (Or any other reasons that are dealt with here) But there will most certainly come a time when you will want to reconsider as you see it in practice more and more.
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There are a number of inherently inefficient things about conventional putting methods (Listed on the tour.) that you can completely eliminate from your technique right now by taking a few minutes at this site!
If you want to be "the best putter you can be",
you'll have to change your technique.
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."
~ Albert Einstein ~
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I wish to thank all of the visitors (OVER 400,OOO now and the hit counts are increasing daily.) and especially those who have contacted me with their help, suggestions, success stories, encouragement and support.
The most rewarding for me is how much fun you are all having on the greens.
A special thanks to the growing list of touring and teaching professionals who have begun using and including this technique in their lessons. In less than a year, it has helped make this the most interesting and talked about golf sites on the web. You have really jump started me to my goal of making putting the easiest, best and most fun part of every golfers game. Thanks again, Karl
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