Golf ? Mastering the Putting Game
Statistically the most influential and important part of the Golfers arsenal is his putter and the ability to make it work properly for him or her.
How many times have we seen major championships decided because certain players had problems with their short game?
Amateurs and Professional Golfers alike all suffer every now and then from the dreaded nerves brought by the inability to cope with successfully negotiating three-foot puts.
As I mentioned, punting is probably the greatest leveller in golf. Not everyone can smash a ball 3 – 400 yards down the fairway, not everybody can master the correct technique to dig themselves out of the rough on regular basis.
But, if you cannot master the above techniques to the standard that the other professionals at the moment can the one area of the course that you can very successfully play catch-up is when it gets round to putting.
Putting probably more than any other aspect of golf has seen the strangest techniques and the weirdest collection of clubs. How many times have we seen some of the world’s finest players adopting some of the daftest practices when they walk onto the green. Do we all remember the fashion at one time when it was cool to be seen putting with a club that has an elongated handle and had to be balance using the golfers chin.
Off the top of my head I can think of at least two of Europe’s top golfers who at some point have used this technique, Scotland’s Sam Torrance and Germany’s Bernhardt Langer.
But probably if you were to ask a couple of top golf coaches and sports psychologists will they felt was going wrong with these golfers the moment
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