Putting: Everything You Know is WRONG! with PuttingZone's Founder Geoff Mangum
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Josh Karp
4.3 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
After too long of a break, Geoff Mangum, renowned putting instructor, returns to challenge what we know and then tell us that we're wrong! Always thought provoking and always controversial, Geoff discusses the changes in the putting world and the importance of skill development in putting. He also delves into the science behind putting, including brain science, perception, movement, and the physics of putting. Leave it to Geoff to challenge the marketing hype around putter equipment and emphasizes the importance of grip pressure and technique in improving putting performance. Mangum also shares his views on distance control and targeting in golf.
Takeaways
- The putting world has changed, and skill development is crucial for improving putting performance.
- Understanding brain science, perception, movement, and physics is essential for improving putting technique.
- Marketing hype around putter equipment should be approached with caution
- Grip pressure plays a significant role in putting performance.
- Criticism of the USGA's rules and regulations
- The significance of distance control and targeting in golf
- The role of perception and skill in the game
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Bob Ankle. I'm from Rosemont, Minnesota, and I play at the Emerald Grans Golf Course. |
| 0:09.3 | This is Golf Smarter Number 961. |
| 0:12.1 | You need a new golf organization called Real Golf that dispenses with the USDA. |
| 0:24.6 | Solid, simple, stupid little rules, play it as it lays. |
| 0:28.9 | If it goes out of bound, put it back inbound, don't go back to the team. You can grind your club in a hazard, who cares? Those are the rules so that amateurs will actually be able to follow them. |
| 0:34.3 | You've got to have two law degrees than a master in taxes to follow the USDA |
| 0:37.7 | rules. They're stupid. It's like only 12 rules originally. The USDA is all over the map. They don't |
| 0:44.6 | even know what skill is. The yardage books were originally illegal because they're not the |
| 0:50.5 | golfers eye and senses telling him about the conditions of the golf course and how to play |
| 0:56.9 | the shot. |
| 0:57.5 | Anything that's other than that, like a cadd book, a green map, a yard's book are illegal. |
| 1:03.3 | The USDA's obligation is to protect the game of skill from cheating. |
| 1:09.8 | They don't want fake scores. They want a real handicap according to the rules of skill from cheating. They don't want fake scores. They want a real handicap, according to the |
| 1:13.9 | rules of skill. Then they made that goofy exception if it's traditionally accepted. The first case |
| 1:20.1 | that they considered was the yards book, and they said traditionally accepted, we're sorry, |
| 1:23.9 | go ahead. You know what the second one was? Plumb bobbing. They considered the case of plum bobbing. |
| 1:29.5 | They said so many golfers cheat with it, except that wasn't even cheating because plum bobbing doesn't work. |
| 1:40.2 | Everything you know is wrong. |
| 1:43.8 | According to Jeff Mangum of the putting zone. |
| 1:47.0 | This is Golf Smarter. |
| 1:49.6 | Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score |
| 1:55.0 | and raise your golf IQ. |
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