THE FLAT STICK by Noah Liberman

photo credit: Pierre -M-   PGA Tour Pros make 99 percent or more of their putts from two feet or closer, right?  Nope.  They miss at least 6 out of every 100-an astonishing high number.  They make roughly one third of their putts from twenty feet right?  No again; they make no more than one in six.  As if the truth of putting weren’t hard enough, we make things worse by imagining it’s easier for the pros than it is.

Gay Brewer, PGA Tour Pro once said “putting is 90 percent mental.  If you think you you can’t putt, you can’t.”  On another occasion he said “the game of golf is 90 percent mental.  The rest is mental.”

PGA Pro, Frank Beard once said, “I’m having putting troubles, but it’s not the putter, it’s the puttee.”  he was implying that the golfer is controlled by the club, not the other way around.