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Who among us has never missed a 2 foot putt? I’ve certainly misfired on more than a few in my career, as has every player I’ve ever known. That distance, 2 feet, is microscopic when compared to the distance traveled to get to that point, and yet it is one of the strange attributes of the game of golf that the traversing of that final 2 feet is valued exactly the same as the 280 yard drive that opened the journey to the cup. Continue reading →

The idea behind this clinic is to give you a complete picture of the best way to walk onto a putting green and make the putt you are facing. If it is the first hole, it will be the first time you have rolled the ball on the actual course putting surface. What exactly should be going on in your mind, and what preparations should you have already made to ensure that you will make your best effort to knock in that putt and save yourself one, two, or three strokes off of your eventual 18 hole score. Continue reading →