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PuttingZone - Aiming: Target in 3 Stages + Fingertip Aiming
Geoff Mangum explains and demonstrates the three stages you do for aiming.

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PuttingZone - Aiming: Mount Fuji
Geoff Mangum explains Mt Fuji and how it helps his aim for putting.

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PuttingZone - Aiming: Stem of T
Geoff Mangum explains how to find the end spot and the correct T on the ground.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts at Hole with Break
Geoff Mangum quickly hits a few balls at the hole.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts Flat but Tilted + Fall-Line
Geoff Mangum explains the two ways to find the straight, uphill line.

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PuttingZone - Reading: The Fall-Line + Clockface Pattern
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how the patterns of breaks look.

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PuttingZone - Reading: The Clockface Pattern
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to use the patterns of breaks.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts Commit to Target & Touch
Geoff Mangum and Lucky Kusuma Chandra demonstrate committing to target and touch.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Swing Bar
Geoff Mangum explains swingset and swing bar while Lucky Kusuma Chandra practices his putting.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts with Touch, Putting Breaking Putts with Same Touch
Geoff Mangum explains visualizing speed and using it in your putt.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Fall-Line with Touch to Find Target Spot
Geoff Mangum explains how to read your green and your putt.

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PuttingZone - Reading: What You Need to Know to Use Your Touch
Geoff Mangum explains how once you find the uphill line you are halfway to reading the putt.

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PuttingZone - Reading: All the Breaks
Geoff Mangum goes through all types of breaks on the green, and how to forget the tilt.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts from Ball with Touch In, Back Out, Straight to Fall-Line
Geoff Mangum explains to Lucky Kusuma Chandra how to see the ball go in the hole.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts All the Same Target
Geoff Mangum explains that all around the hole are the same targets.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts Fine Tuning to Surface Oddities
Geoff Mangum explains how to read the target without a flat surface.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts Taking Break Out 2 vs 3 Feet
Geoff Mangum demonstrates putting two versus three feet.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts Taking Break Out
Geoff Mangum discusses taking the break out.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Drop Hands Down Handle
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to hold the club for the stroke.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: String Line 4 of 5
Geoff Mangum demonstrates his stroke on the string line

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PuttingZone - Stroke: String Line Putter Neck Hands Shoulder
Using the string line, Geoff Mangum demonstrates more of his stroke technique.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: String Line Putter Neck Hands Shoulder 2
Lucky Kusuma Chandra and Geoff Mangum continue using the string line to practice the stroke.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Setting Neck Sets Shoulder Alignment
Geoff Mangum explains alignment to Lucky Kusuma Chandra.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Neck Stays at Same Elevation
Geoff Mangum explains neck and hands position.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Putt the Bottom Line not Early Not Late
Geoff Mangum shows the beginning line and demonstrates perfect timing.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Neck Stays Back, Shoulder Goes Up, Arms/Hands Don't Twist
Geoff Mangum explains alignment and form.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Putter Flat Then Rising in Forward Stroke + Ball Position
Geoff Mangum explains ball position.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Too Fast Toe Opens or Shoulder Pulls Back Inside
Geoff Mangum explains the importance of using the correct speed.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Ride Handle to Let Putter Move Shoulders Up
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to let the handle control the movement.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Short Japanese + Drunk Russian
Geoff Mangum demonstrates short strokes.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Grip in Hand-Forearm
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how best to hold the putter.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: More Grip in Hand-Forearm
Geoff Mangum continues to demonstrate how best to hold the putter and overall alignment for stroke.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Thumb Oval
Geoff Mangum explains how to use your thumb for your stroke.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Intact Triangle
Geoff Mangum explains how to keep the triangle intact.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Neck / Pivot as Swing Bar
Geoff Mangum explains how to align your neck and body properly for your stroke.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Putter, Neck, Hands, Shoulders
Geoff Mangum couches how to use your putter, neck, hands and shoulders.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Putter Flat Aircraft Takeoff
Geoff Mangum explains how your putter should come off the surface.

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PuttingZone - Stroke: Broomstick Exercise
Geoff Mangum demonstrates his broomstick exercise.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Gravity and Five Factors
Geoff Mangum demonstrates the 5 factors in controlling distance.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Five Factors + Uphill / Downhill
Geoff Mangum explains the 5 factors for controlling the speed of the ball and distance.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Ride Putter
Geoff Mangum explains riding the putter.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Example
An example of putting.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Timing Not Feel + Bobwhite Whistle
Geoff Mangum explains why whistling gets your timing right.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Relax Downstroke to Let Swing
Geoff Mangum and Lucky Kusuma Chandra practice relaxing for the downstroke.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Full One-Potato Backstroke
Geoff Mangum explains that timing is everything.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Don't Go Long by Not Speeding Downstroke
Geoff Mangum shows what you have to do to never go long.

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PuttingZone - Touch: Don't Go Long
Geoff Mangum demonstrates not going long.

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PuttingZone - Tour Tempo
Geoff Mangum explains how to use the determine the correct speed and tempo with the Tour Tempo training aid.

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PuttingZone - Tour Tempo - Timing
Geoff Mangum demonstrates various training aids for timing.

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PuttingZone - Tour Tempo - Target
Geoff Mangum demonstrates various training aids for target.

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PuttingZone - Ladder Drill
Geoff Mangum demonstrates the ladder drill.

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PuttingZone - Stacking Back Drill
Geoff Mangum demonstrates the Stacking Back drill.

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PuttingZone - Putt the Putter Head's T
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to use what you already have available as a training aid.

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PuttingZone - Elevated String Line
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to use a nail and string as an effective training aid.

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PuttingZone - More with the Elevated String Line
Geoff Mangum demonstrates and discusses more about the elevated string training aid.

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PuttingZone - Stroke Plane
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how the Stroke Plane training aid is ineffectual.

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PuttingZone - Dr Chaluppa's
Geoff Mangum uses a training aid for perfecting a straight stroke.

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PuttingZone - Putt Master
Geoff Mangum uses another training aid to work on putting.

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PuttingZone - Knight's Square Impact Laser
Geoff Mangum uses a training laser to practice square impact.

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PuttingZone - Trigger Golf Band: Student Test
Geoff Mangum has a student test out the trigger golf band.

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PuttingZone - Trigger Golf Band: Mangum Demonstration
Geoff Mangum demonstrates the Trigger Golf Band training aid.

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PuttingZone - Trigger Golf Band
Geoff Mangum explains the Trigger Golf Band training aid.

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PuttingZone - Kirk Currie's The Cure
Geoff Mangum explains Kirk Currie's training aid, The Cure.

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PuttingZone - Kirk Currie's The Cure: Demonstration
Geoff Mangum has his student test out Kirk Currie's The Cure.

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PuttingZone - Henri Reis' PathFinder
Geoff Mangum demonstrates Henri Reis' training aid, PathFinder.

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PuttingZone - Factors for Touch: Introduction
Geoff Mangum discusses the four factor of touch.

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PuttingZone - Factors for Touch: Ball & the Putter
Geoff Mangum discusses the ball and the putter and how they relate to the four factor of touch.

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PuttingZone - Factors for Touch: Tempo
Geoff Mangum discusses tempo and how it relates to the four factor of touch.

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PuttingZone - Factors for Touch: Green Speed
Geoff Mangum discusses the speed of the green and how it relates to the four factor of touch.

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PuttingZone - Factors for Touch & Distance Control
Geoff Mangum wraps up his discussion and demonstration on the four factors of touch.

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PuttingZone - One Speed One Read: Ball Capture Physics
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how the ball interacts with the hole to indicate what a good choice is for touch.

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PuttingZone - One Speed One Read: Center Cut Putt
Geoff Mangum talks about the other slower possibilities with ball capture physics.

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PuttingZone - One Speed One Read: Delivery Speed
Geoff Mangum explains the considerations to take into account when choosing your delivery speed.

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PuttingZone - Reading Putts
Geoff Mangum discusses reading putts untuitively.

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PuttingZone - Reading Putts: Fall Lines Through the Hole
Geoff Mangum demonstrates putting straight through the fall lines with the clock diagram.

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PuttingZone - Reading Putts: 3 Ways to See the Same Break
Geoff Mangum looks at three different ways to see the same break.

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PuttingZone - Reading Putts: 1 Speed 1 Read
Geoff Mangum explains and demonstrates his phrase, "One speed, one read."

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PuttingZone - Reading Putts Less Technically
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to less technically read putts.

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PuttingZone - Reading Putts: Long Putts
Geoff Mangum demonstrates where to leave long putts and putts on the clock diagram.

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PuttingZone - Handling Steep Tiers: Downhill
Geoff Mangum explains intuitively adding your putts.

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Barcelona Lecture - How Geoff Got to #1
Geoff Mangum explains how he knows more about putting than anyone in the history of golf.

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Barcelona Lecture - Library Time
Geoff Mangum explains how he read about golf to come about his unique putting theories.

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Barcelona Lecture - The Brain & the Body
Geoff Mangum explains how he studied outside of golf to bring a unique perspective to his golf theories.

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Barcelona Lecture - The Human Animal
Geoff Mangum explains his theory on the human animal.

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Barcelona Lecture - Instincts & Timing
Geoff Mangum explains how timing is instinctual and how this relates to his putting theories.

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Barcelona Lecture - The Brain's 5 Factors
Geoff Mangum explains how to brain understand the stroke instinctually.

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Barcelona Lecture - Things the Brain Knows
Geoff Mangum explains the brain's understanding of timing and other factors.

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Barcelona Lecture - How Does the Instinct Pick the Factors?
Geoff Mangum explains how a good golfer acts on instinct.

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Barcelona Lecture - Understanding Timing & Touch
Geoff Mangum explains how uncommon it is to understand timing and touch.

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Barcelona Lecture - Golf Is Movement
Geoff Mangum explains why the human brain understands timing instintually.

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Barcelona Lecture - Good & Bad Timing
Geoff Mangum explains the issues of good and bad timing.

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Barcelona Lecture - All Strokes Are the Same Time
Geoff Mangum describes his timing technique and how each stroke is the same time.

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Barcelona Lecture - Green Speed
Geoff Mangum explains how the speed of the green is always changing.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - The Skills Involved in Putting
Geoff Mangum explains the fours skills involved in putting and his system to locate your target.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - Timing & Distance Control
Geoff Mangum explains objective timing.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - Instincts & What They're For
Geoff Mangum explains the human animal's instincts.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - How Perception is Used by the Brain
Geoff Mangum discusses perception and movement.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - Instincts Know Reality
Geoff Mangum explains all what things your instincts already know, and why this is essential.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - What Instincts Actually Know
Geoff Mangum gives examples of things the instincts know that you don't realize.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - The World's Timing
Geoff Mangum explains how the world expresses it natural timing to your body and stroke.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - More on the World's Timing
Geoff Mangum explains how this is a "one potato" world.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - How to Move
Geoff Mangum talks about the action of the body.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - Discussion with the Audience
Geoff Mangum answers some questions from the audience.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - The Human Body
Geoff Mangum explains how the human body is elastic.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - Examples with the Putter
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to properly use the putter.

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St Paul Pros Lecture - Ready for Practice
Geoff Mangum wraps up his lecture and prepares his audience for their chance to try out his theories.

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Optimal Putting: Brain Science, Instincts, and The Four Skills of Putting
The complete unabridged Geoff Mangum book on putting.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum
Geoff Mangum is an internationally-recognized putting expert, and hosts this Medicus production of "Putt Like a Pro".

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Intro
Geoff Mangum introduces this Medicus production of "Putt Like a Pro" and explains and demonstrates what makes the Medicus OverSpin Putter so great.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Distance Control
Geoff Mangum explains the importance of distance control by appreciating the speed of the green.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Trust Your Body
Geoff Mangum goes across the green to fringe.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Putting for Success
Geoff Mangum explains putting for success, that the ball must go where the putter aims, and what makes a good stroke

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Teaching the Stroke
Geoff Mangum teaches the stroke.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Improving Your Stroke
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to use a simple training device to work on your stroke.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - The Fall Line
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to determine which way is uphill and understanding the Fall Line.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Reading a Putt
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to read a putt.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - Aim
Geoff Mangum explains how to aim a putter

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - The Hole
Geoff Mangum explains the interaction between the ball and the hole.

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The 4 Skills of Putting
Every golfer needs four skills every putt! This PDF features a fantastic and succinct overview of the 4 Skills of Putting.

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Summary Overview of the 4 Skills of Putting
Geoff Mangum's gives a complete overview of the 4 Skills of Putting (PDF)

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The Aiming Gaze
Geoff Mangum gives his tip, the Aiming Gaze.

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The Core Putt
Geoff Mangum gives his tip for the core putt.

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Perfect Lagging
Geoff Mangum gives his tip, Perfect Lagging.

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The Putter T
Geoff Mangum gives his tip, the Putter T.

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The Secret of Reading Putts
Geoff Mangum gives his tip for the secret of reading putts.

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Setup for Putting Straight
Geoff Mangum gives his tip for setting up for straight putting.

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Reading Putts as Revealed by Going Behind the Hole
If a putt's break seems elusive, try going behind the hole for a read, but be careful that you visualize the ball's roll as coming towards you and as slowing to drop-speed in this final entry section of the putt.

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Bounce the Putter to Locate the Ground
To stabilize your stroke and make sure your putterhead returns to impact in a vertical orientation for a solid roll, set the length of your putting system from pivot to turf by tapping the putterhead lightly at address and keep the pivot stable in your stroke.

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The Core Putt
Here's a tip that helps you tune your touch in to the green speed. I call it the "core" putt because it comes from the center of your manner of relating to the world, and that's what you need to get in touch with to activate your touch on the green.

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Dead-Eye Putting
The purpose of a putting routine is to use effective physical behaviors for gaining putting perceptions that promote your best read and stroke and to use effective postures and movement dynamics to execute your best stroke, and an integrated routine has four keys to effective targeting for optimizing a shoulder stroke from a square setup: eye dominance, eye position, gaze control, and neck-head turn.

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The Mechanics of Instincts and the Four Elements of Putting (Plus 55 Drills for Putting Skills)
All putting practice ought to be geared to one or more of the four basic elements and fundamentals of putting. That is, you need to know why you are practicing in a certain way, and what you are supposed to be learning from that specific practice, so you can see improvement in one of these four areas when you play.

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What the Heck is a Forward Press Good For?
A forward press is a bad trade for a little rhythm in your stroke, and at a minimum requires careful attention to how it is performed to avoid creating problems.

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Gaze Dead Straight for Dead Aim
Setting the eyes "above" the ball is not enough for optimal targeting because a gaze direction angled down the face as if reading (with forehead higher than chin at address) makes the hole appear off to the inside, whereas a gaze straight out of the face requires setting the forehead and chin at the same height above the surface, and this gaze is the only one that allows you to scan along the putt path from ball to target on the real line with optimal sensing of spatial relations in the putt.

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Get Your Head on the Grass for Top Putting
To enhance your sense of the putt, simply looking for the line is not enough, and you have to actually pay attention to the grass blades themselves over key segments of the path in order to get a vivid sense of energy and direction for the roll.

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Get a Grip on Putting: Keep the Pressure Light and Constant
Keep your grip pressure light and constant throughout the stroke to avoid snatching or casting the putter, abrupt transitions in the stroke, or tempo fluctuations, as this promotes a smooth stroke, with good accuracy in the stroke path, and consistently solid contact.

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Hit the Groove through the Curve
To get a more definite sense of the right speed for taking a break without blowing through the break, visualize the final section of the putt curve as a race track banked so that anything faster than the proper speed jumps the track and then deliver the ball with enough speed to keep the ball on the track through the break.

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In Putting, the Knees Hold the Hips, the Hips Hold the Head!
Your visual attention to the putterhead-ball interaction at impact ought to keep your head still in putting by itself, but if you nonetheless have a problem, try "marrying" the sense of stillness in your hips to the pivot point in the center of the base of your neck ("hips and head hold still"), while the arms and shoulders turn back and through on this stable pivot.

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Roll the Hoop for True Putts
Visualize the ball as only a solid disk vertical on its edge in the plane of the putt, with only one dimple on the back equator, one dimple on the front equator, and a central dimple on the top, and roll this hoop or disk to the hole with your solid putting stroke.

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Indoor Putting Exercises
Indoor putting practice and drills need not always be about stroking a ball into a drinkglass, and your putting would be well served to add some exercises that sharpen relevant perceptual skills and specific stroke movements.

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Making Long Putts versus Avoiding Three-putts -- Don't Confuse Apples and Oranges
Substituting a big, fat target as a way to avoid three-jacking is not a good way to get better distance control, which is the real problem, but there is a way to avoid long comebacks while trying to sink monsters by keeping sharp targets for top distance control and supplementing this with some reasonable boundaries.

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The Long and Short of Putter Length and Lie
Don't let the putter wag the putee; figure out a setup that is best for a good stroke, and then fit the putter to your needs, or else you'll get stuck with "average golferitis."

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Light Up the Target with Your Putterface
Visualize the direction straight out of the putterface as a long straight rod whose tip sweeps side to side over the hole or aim spot as you get a fix on precise face orientation to the target.

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Nail Your Putts for Solid, On-Line Impact
Visualizing putterhead-ball impact as similar to hammering a nail into the ball is one of golf's oldest putting tips, and it helps tremendously with your management of the downstroke for solid, consistent rolls.

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Plumb Bobbing is Plumb Crazy ... Mostly
Plumb bobbing only "works" (in a fashion) if you aim the hanging puttershaft down your impression of the startline, so it only confirms what you already sense, and doesn't make you a better reader of the break or make your sensing of the startline any sharper.

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Point and Putt: A Fresh Way to Fill the Hole on Short Putts
For shortish putts, use one of the most fundamental techniques all humans use every day to help locate the target -- point at it!

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Putting Practice Pointers
The difference between swatting balls across a practice green and sharpening your putting skills is mostly working on something specific in your putting, whether it be targeting, reading, setup, routine, stroke mechanics, or something purely psychological.

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The "Report Card" Game for Short Putting Skill
Try the Report Card Game to sharpen up short-putting skills under pressure with readily understandable feedback in a reasonably short, well-defined exercise.

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Setup to the Ball, Then the Putt
To make sure the setup never changes and therefore the stroke dynamics don't alter from putt to putt, set up to the ball itself first, and then to the putt, so that you don't pull the trigger unless the two setups coincide.

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Short Putts are Tough to Sink!
Short putts require extra care in targeting because the closeness of the hole makes it too large a target for good line control, too visible in the periphery so that you are tempted to move your head for a peek, and not far enough off to your side to generate a substantial angle in the neck-head turn as a cue to the location of the hole in relation to your setup positioning -- so be extra careful!

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The Shoulder Move Plus a Stockton Tip for Straight Strokes
Cut strokes, pulls and putterface twists come mostly from the use of hand and arm muscles to start the backstroke, as this casts the backstroke out beyond the line of the putt, and using a simple shoulder push to start the stroke keeps the hands dead while giving you a good start on the backstroke.

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A Slo-Mo Read for Seeing Enough Break
Speed determines break, and optimal speed at the hole determines optimal break; the optimal break is obviouly between the fastest speed that will drop and the slowest speed that will just get the ball to the hole, and is a lot closer to the slowest than the fastest to make more of the hole available for capturing the ball and avoiding long comebacks.

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Stone Cold Putting
Truly amazing distance control on a consistent basis for putts of any length is pretty easy if you understand that targeting and tempo establish the backstroke length automatically, and this is much better than "touch and feel," "muscle memory," or any sort of "trying" to get the "hit" or "pace" of the putt just so.

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One (Slow) Tempo Fits All Putts
For consistent and accurate distance and line control, start with a single slow tempo or timing from start to finish for all putts regardless of length of about two full seconds, a nice easy "one potato, two potato" stroke -- your brain relies upon it!

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Putting Green Tiers are Taller than You Think!
To get all the way up a putting green tier, visualize how far a ball perched on the top edge would roll on level green after it comes off the bottom of the tier, as this is the energy you'll have to add in the putt just to get over the hump itself, regardless of getting to the bottom of the tier or past the top of the tier.

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Reading Break: Zero in on the Zero Break Line
If the green surface for the putt is basically flat although tilted, you can find one aim spot for any putt of the same length by identifying the fallline through the hole (the "zero break line" or ZBL) where all putts up or down are perfectly straight, walk around the hole in a semicircle from your ball to a sideon putt to the hole of the same length that is perpendicular to the ZBL (and hence has no elevation change up or down from there to the hole), and visualize this putt at regul regular speed to imagine how far below the hole such a putt would roll low and cross the ZBL; the aim spot for all putts of the same length is that far above the hole along the ZBL.

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PuttingZone Drills
The PuttingZone is golf's most advanced and comprehensive putting instruction, and this gives detailed explanation of fantastic PuttingZone drills.

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Four Fundamentals of Putting
The four basic fundamentals everyone needs to master for putting.

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PuttingZone Putting Manual
This Manual on putting is really a quick and practical overview of the most important points for putting at your best. I've included some drills in each section that you might want to try on the practice green or at home to get a deeper appreciation of the subtleties of this black art, golf's game within a game. And remember, "a golfer who can putt is a match for anyone." ~ Geoff Mangum

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The "Mechanics of Instinct" in Putting: The Neurophysiological Paradigm for Applied Research
The present study is an examination of the neurophysiology of putting as revealed in recent studies of putting. At this time in the history of putting science, a new paradigm is emerging that focuses upon the human actor in terms of the perceptual and movement processes of brain and body. Early research initiatives lack a thorough grounding in the rapidly advancing field of neuroscience, and such a sound theoretical foundation is essential to efficient and meaningful progress in this promising approach to putting science. The study examines in detail neurophysiologolcal investigations into putting visual processes and putting pressures. The study probes the theoretical limitations of these studies, and proposes future lines of research.

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Geoff Mangum's PuttingZone ZipTips
3 Rules to Sink Breaking Putts -- An intuitive way to approach breaking putts -- so that the chances of sinking the putt are VERY HIGH and the chances of leaving no more than a tiny TAP-IN are virtually certain -- does not require a specific target on the ground. Instead, the golfer simply applies three rules to his breaking putt.

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Geoff PuttingZone ZipTips
More great ZipTips from the PuttingZone's Geoff Mangum

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Putting Score Cards - Instructions for Use of PuttingZone Record Cards
This PDF gives a detailed explanation of how to keep score of your putting practice when using the fantastic PuttingZone putting stat cards.

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Putting Score Cards - Putting Stats Card
Golf's most advanced & effective putting instruction. Sure you can putt? Use this card & find out for sure.

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Putting Student Evaluation - Baselining Distance Skills
This putting student evaluation form is great for self evaluation and putting practice instructions.

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Touch You Can Take to the Bank
Geoff Mangum explains how touch, putting's most important skill, works for all players. (PDF)

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Touch Timing - Putting's Most Important Skill
For the past twenty years, Geoff Mangum has explored how touch in putting works at the level of brain-body instinctive and conscious processes for perception and movement. Of the 4 skills of putting, touch is by far the most important to scoring in golf. The bottom line: Touch is timing not feel. (PDF)

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Touch, Location & Space
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to control the delivery speed of the ball at the hole, and discusses location and space.

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Question #5 - How Do You Judge the Putting Green?
Chuck Evans explains how to judge the putting green.

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