Lesson #19 PUTTING

Here's the one stroke in golf that everyone of us should be good at, but we are not
so. Perhaps that's why Par golf allows us two putts to the green when absolutely
perfect putting would sink them all in one, for if we could figure out just what the
roll tian be, just how fast or how slow the surface - having figured it out could
stroke it perfectly we could sink every single putt, and we would have founded a
science more exacting than the Einstein Theory.

But since we realize that one putt is perfection shouldn't we be just a bit
ashamed to take a three and be just three hundred percent wrong. So let's try to
train ourselves to use enough care on the sreens to avoid those three putts always.

Putting is a combination of concentration, confidence, and touch. It's not
so much stroke for any putting stroke that finds you feeling free and relaxed and
allows your hands to smoothly stroke the ball along the line is a good stroke. So
if you have adopted a stroke that meets with the anproval of your Pro and doesn't
cause you to jab the ball you can start your lesson on concentration.

The fine putter frees his mind of everything but the task at hand. You'll see
him carefully scan the entire line looking over the grain of the , vecause he
lmows that he must allow for this. You'll see him stoop and look for hidden rolls
that might have been impercentible standing erect. But what you won't see is the
way he analyses that putt when it fails to go down. He's training his mind and
his touch to keep from making that same error twice, and that's how concentration
and touch are acquired. By thinking before anc after we wutt about that putt and
nothing else in the world - and then practicing it as often as we can. For putting
is truly an exact science, and perfect one stroke putting is possible if not

probable.

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