![]() ![]() If I take the time to list out all the factors of what a putt actually needs to do to go in, you would be amazed that we ever make anything outside of 10 feet.” This is bred from a lack of knowledge about what it takes to hole a putt. It’s easy to move a putter back and through. “They’re like, I don’t have to hit it 300 yards. “The mindset is that putting is easy,” Angelotti said. While many golfers are open to learning more about the full swing, a putting lesson just never enters the equation. Most players – myself included before my trip to Sea Island – never take putting lessons. The only thing sometimes missing, especially in the case of recreational golfers, is the player’s willingness to try. The stroke is wobbly? How wobbly, and how does that interact with the improper aim and start point? It’s all measured, and Angelotti said such knowledge leads to feasible solutions. If the aim at address is bad, the coach can measure by how many degrees. No aspect of a player’s putting is missed. The lessons aren’t cheap – Sea Island charges $470 for the initial 2-hour assessment for resort guests, but that’s not much more than the price of one more fancy putter that might not help a player hole more attempts. Working under Phil Kenyon, the director of putting instruction at Sea Island, Angelotti has at his disposal all the latest gear to help the resort’s stable of tour players as well as amateurs. Other key pieces of technology include lasers that show precisely where the putter is aimed, overhead projectors that illustrate the correct break onto an indoor green and other motion systems such as Capto. The information provided can be as simple or complex as the coach chooses, based on the player’s ability to handle the data. The SAM PuttLab, which uses ultrasound to track a player’s stroke as its core function, has allowed coaches to obtain a huge array of data points. ![]() Before a teaching revolution began nearly 20 years ago with a focus on measuring every aspect of a player’s putting, coaches largely had to rely on their eyes and intuition. ![]() “Every single person who walks through that door is a puzzle that I’m trying to piece together, with them, to help them putt better,” Angelotti said. Using several pieces of technology with a reliance on the SAM PuttLab created by German sports technology company Science and Motion, Angelotti was able to break down my broken putting. He’s used to helping players who don’t know why they miss so many putts, but apparently most are not so brutal in their self-assessment.Īngelotti quickly set out to determine the sources of my woes: bad initial aim that pointed the putter more than 5 degrees right of square, a pull stroke that was an attempt to get the ball back online, poor speed control, frequent bad reads. I told him I play to a scratch handicap index but admitted that I’m probably a 20-handicap putter. If he had seen the lowlights from my past 20 years on the greens, he might not have been so perplexed. “Most people don’t say that about themselves,” said senior putting instructor David Angelotti, sounding a bit surprised to hear a student so down on himself. I started my first-ever professional putting lesson, at Sea Island’s Golf Performance Center, with that confession. My putting is frequently bad, sometimes awful.
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