PuttingZone Video Released

PuttingZone Video with Steve Elkington Released

The PuttingZone's premiere video is now OUT! Entitled "The Reality of Putting -- Geoff Mangum with Steve Elkington", is an hour-long presentation of the main teachings developed over the past 20 years in the PuttingZone for brain-based instinctive putting skills of reading, aiming, stroking, and controlling distance and speed. Combining the best of golf lore from a comprehensive 100-year survey with modern physics, anatomy, biomechanics, motor learning science, measurement and training technologies, PLUS the NEW neuroscience of brain-body processes for perception and movement in the relevant tasks of putting skills, the PuttingZone program is far and away the ONLY complete and integrated system for putting skills ever developed.

Filmed at the historic Champions Golf Club owned and operated by Masters legend Jackie Burke Jr., the video is offered as an immediate download from the independent website TheRealityofPutting.com. The purchase price of $35 (payable online) gives access to the video in either a 668 MB Quick-Time .mp4 file or a larger 1.3 GB Windows Media Player .wmv file, along with an introductory PDF that gives a 10-page rundown of the skills content and reproduces the video figures and photos.

Don't miss out on the most advanced and effective putting instruction available. Recent successes by players trained in the PuttingZone techniques include the British Amateur, the US Amateur (and 3 of the 4 semifinalists), a sweep of all top three positions in the World Amateur Ranking, both number-1 ranked Division I male and female players, the Western Open, Porters Cup, North and South, and others. This is different.

Download your copy of the best putting instruction in the history of golf and take your game to the next level. Visit TheRealityofPutting.com for details and ordering.

And it makes a great gift for the holidays if you know a friend who could use the help!

Cheers!

The PuttingZone Team and Geoff Mangum

Putting Coach and Theorist

Elkington Putts Lights Out

In his second round at TPC River Hills in Cromwell, Connecticut, Steve Elkington putted LIGHTS OUT!! What a round with the flatstick!

While his score of 3-under with five birdies and 2 bogeys was darn good, it was really about how much his putting got out of his ballstriking that day.

Here are the putts for each hole:

Hole Par Yds GIR? Putt Distance(s) Totals

1pbi=1-putt birdie (5)
2pp=2-putt par (7)
1pudp=1-putt up and down par (4)
2pudbo=2-putt up and down bogey (2)

1 4 434 MGIR 26 yds to 5'8 p41pudp

2 4 341 GIR 69 yds to 27'11 p41pbi

3 4 431 GIR 126 yds to 9'6 p41pbi

4 4 481 MGIR 16 yds to 3'10 1'4 p42pudbo

5 3 223 MGIR 14 yds to 10'4 p31pudp

6 5 574 GIR 27 yds to 11'0 p51pbi

7 4 443 GIR 147 yds to 28'10 2'3 p42pp

8 3 202 GIR 203 yds to 30'9 12'3 p32pp

9 4 406 GIR 140 yds to 22'8 3'10 p42pp

10 4 462 MGIR 14 yds to 3'10 p41pudp

11 3 158 GIR 160 yds to 31'2 0'7 p32pp

12 4 411 MGIR 13 yds to 0'10 p41pudp

13 5 523 GIR 22 yds to 4'10 p51pbi

14 4 421 GIR 152 yds to 28'8 p41pbi

15 4 296 MGIR 12 yds to 9'0 0'4 p42pudbo

16 3 171 GIR 159 yds to 33'9 1'1 p32pp

17 4 420 GIR 166 yds to 19'8 0'2 p42pp

18 4 444 GIR 169 yds to 26'7 2'9 p42pp

There are 9 1-putts and 1 long par putt (12'3). Of the 9, 5 are birdies and 4 are par-save putts.

The birdie putts came from distances of 27'11", 9'6", 11'0", 4'10", and 28'8". That is fantastic in itself, as these 5 birdie sinks total 81'11" (983") and average 16.4'. That's sinking a 16.4' birdie putt five times! Rockin' great putting.

The 7 other birdie opportunities were 28'10", 30'9", 22'8", 31'2", 33'9", 19'8", and 26'7". Elk 2-putted all these for par. The average of these 7 birdie opportunities is 26.2'. Roughly speaking, Elk missed 7 putts from 26.2' and 2-putted all these but sank 5 of his birdie opportunities from 16.4'!!

Facing 6 up-and-down par-save putts, Elk sank 4 and regrettably missed two -- one from 3'10" and one from 9'0". The par-saves he made were from 5'8", 10'4", 3'10", and 0'10". And then there was that 2nd putt of a 2-putt from 12'3", which is basically a par-save more like one in an up-and-down than in a routine 2-putt par.

Ignoring the kick-in from 0'10", that's six par-save putts faced for a total of 44'11" (539") for an average of 7'6". So Elk's par-save putting was 4/6 or 67% from 7'6" -- not bad.

All together, Elk hit 2/3rd of the greens (12 of 18) and saved par on the others 4 of 6 times. Of the 12 greens he reached with birdie opportunities, he converted 5 averaging 16.4' and missed but 2-putted 7 averaging 26.2'.

For the holes Elk reached in regulation, he averaged merely 1.583 putts per GIR holes and had a total of 27 putts.

In comparison to his 4-under 66 in the first round with 6 birdies and 2 bogeys, Elk had crisper and sharper ballstriking that 1st round, but his putting wasn't quite as marvelous as it was in round 2. In round 1 he reached  83% of the greens in regulation (15 of 18) but saved par only once of the 3 greens missed, and the birdie and par-save putts weren't as challenging.

Hole Par Yds GIR? Putt Distance(s) Totals

1pbi=1-putt birdie (6)

2pp=2-putt par (9)

1pudp=1-putt up and down par (1)

2pudbo=2-putt up and down bogey (2)

1 4 434 GIR 158 yds to 22'5 2'11 p42pp

2 4 341 GIR 87 yds to 6'5 p41pbi

3 4 431 GIR 132 yds to 5'2 p41pbi

4 4 481 GIR 190 yds to 22'0 p41pbi

5 3 223 GIR 218 yds to 21'0 2'5 p32pp

6 5 574 GIR 96 yds to 6'8 p51pbi

7 4 443 GIR 160 yds to 27'9 1'1 p42pp

8 3 202 GIR 194 yds to 28'0 2'6 p32pp

9 4 406 MGIR 24 yds to 22'10 1'5 p42pudbo

10 4 462 GIR 145 yds to 34'7 2'1 p42pp

11 3 158 GIR 153 yds to 30'2 2'4 p32pp

12 4 411 GIR 131 yds to 11'11 3'2 p42pp

13 5 523 GIR 68 yds to 5'11 p51pbi

14 4 421 MGIR 6 yds to 1'11 p41pudp

15 4 296 GIR 32 yds to 13'4 1'6 p42pp

16 3 171 MGIR 21 yds to 13'0 2'6 p32pudbo

17 4 420 GIR 155 yds to 0'10 p41pbi

18 4 444 GIR 143 yds to 20'1 0'6 p42pp

The 6 1-putts for birdie came from 6'5", 5'2", 22'0", 6'8", 5'11", and 0'10". The 1-putt up and down par-save came from 1'11". Ignoring the 2 putts inside 2', the 5 birdie 1-putts total 46'2" (554") and average 9'3". There's plenty to write home about in that, to be sure, but it's not as good as making 5 birdies from 16.4' in round 2.

In round 1 Elk had 29 total putts and averaged 1.600 putts on the 15 GIR holes. That's great by any standard -- just not as great as his putting in round 2.

All tolled, Elk's putting in round 1 went along with some some fantastic ballstriking and was pretty spectacular, but his BETTER putting in round 2 got more out of his ballstriking and was simply stunning!

Cheers!

Geoff Mangum

Putting Coach and Theorist

PuttingZone.com