German Technology Develops the Perfect Golf Stroke

If you are taking golfing lessons to perfect you're putting stroke, watch out. Attempting to develop the ideal putting stroke may hurt your attempts. At least, that is the conclusion of two researchers-a German brain specialist and a Yank golfing instructor. They concluded that while putting fundamentals are significant consistency is more critical to putting well and lowering your golfing handicap.

The motion analyzer they used is the most sophisticated in sports. Originally, Professor Christian Marquardt developed it for pharmaceutical research. Clipping them to a putter shaft enables researchers to measure a putting stroke precisely.

Recording precise Putting Positions
As the golfer makes a stroke, the sensors record the putter's precise position every fifteen milliseconds. The data tells everything there is to know about the putting stroke : aim face angle, putter trail, impact spot, rise angle, and timing. The system's accuracy margin is .1 millimeter.

After conducting the research, Marquardt turned the device into the SAM Putt Lab. He then commenced marketing it to teaching academies, pro shops, and individual golfers, like Padraig Harrington. Steve Elkington and Hank Haney, Tiger's teacher, each purchased one as well . With some assistance from American-based trainer Jim Suttie, Marquardt modified his device into an effective teaching tool. Marquardt met Suttie, PGA Teacher of the Year in 2k, at the 2005 PGA Merchandise Show.

Fascinating Tests, Startling Findings
A few months ago, Suttie and Marquardt tracked recorded the strokes of 150 PGA Tour players and countless top amateurs. In general, better putters make shorter strokes with less face revolution and hit the ball on the upstroke. But this finding isn't absolute. In other words, there's plenty of room for individual style in putting. The data disclosed some other surprising findings.

for example, it revealed that PGA pro Brad Faxon aims 2 degrees to the right at address. Faxon led the tour in putting average 3 times from 1996 to two thousand. It also revealed that Loren Roberts rotates his putterface open against its path. Roberts is also a previous Tour putting leader. In all, the information shows that fifty five percent of PGA pros targeted outside the hole on a straight 12-foot put.

the obvious conclusion from all this is straightforward. While the putting basics you learn in golfing lessons are crucial, they are not more critical than consistency. Executing your stroke in the same way again and again again is far more important. Faxon, as an example, has likely been aiming 2 degrees right for 20 or thirty years. But his consistency enables him to sink more putts than a golfer more technically sound, yet not as consistent.


Marquardt and Suttie's findings do not mean that you must forego golfing instruction sessions altogether. Taking golfing lessons can help your putting. Trying to realize perfection can only lead to disappointment. Actually, there may not be an ideal putting stroke. Instead, concentrate on developing consistency. It will build more confidence in yourself and your putting. More confidence will, in turn, cut strokes from scores and your golfing handicap.

To help, here is a useful exercise to achieve consistency. Called the 5 in a Row Drill, you can make it a six, 7, or perhaps eight in a row drill. Use your pre-shot routine for every putt.

* Take 5 golfing balls from your bag.
* Find a fairly flat hole on a green.
* Drop the balls about 4 feet from the hole
* Prepare yourself and attempt to make all 5 shots
* When you do, back up by one foot and do it again.
* Then move back again another foot and repeat again.

After learning the flat putt, try downhill putts.

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