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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: My Putting Bible
Putting Overview
Chapter 1 What Is Putting?
1.1 Putting Is a Different Game
1.2 All Golfers Can Putt
1.3 Putting Combines Science and Art
1.4 Putting Results Are Uncertain
1.5 Putting Looks Simple
1.6 Great Putters Are Made, Not Born
Chapter 2 Problems on the Greens
2.1 No Net Luck in Putting
2.2 Easily Seeable Hazards
2.3 Measurable (Although Difficult to See), and Therefore Knowable, Factors
2.4 Unseeable and Unknowable Factors
2.5 A Multiplicity of Options
2.6 Misunderstanding
2.7 Poor Learning Environment
2.8 How Well Can You Putt?
2.9 Stop Three-Putting
2.10 Learn to Lag Putt
Chapter 3 Methods of Putting
3.1 Simpler Is Better
3.2 The Easiest Way to Putt
3.3 It Gets More Difficult
3.4 The USGA Way
3.5 More Methods That Work
3.6 The Simplest Okay Way
The Fifteen Building Blocks of Putting
Chapter 4 The Seven Building Blocks of Stroke Mechanics
4.1 First, Some Definitions
4.2 Stroke Definitions
4.3 Defining Speed
4.4 Aim
4.5 Power Source
4.6 Putter Path Is a Small Factor
4.7 A Pure-In-Line Stroke Keeps the Putterface Square
4.8 The Importance of Putterface Angle
4.9 The Very Important Impact Point
4.10 Ball Position, Posture, and Flow-Lines
4.11 Putter Fitting
4.12 The Mind’s Role in Putting Stroke Mechanics
4.13 The Best Way to Putt
Chapter 5 Five Nonphysical Building Blocks: Touch, Feel, Attitude, Routine, and Ritual
5.1 Controlling the Ball
5.2 Touch and Feel Are in the Mind’s Eye
5.3 Realities of Touch and Feel
5.4 The Dead-Hands Stroke
5.5 Putt in Your Personal Rhythm
5.6 Two Types of Muscle Memory
5.7 Attitude
5.8 The Preview Stroke
5.9 Preparation: The Routine
5.10 The Ritual
5.11 Creating the Best Feel for Touch
Chapter 6 Stability and Rhythm: Two Artistic Fundamentals
6.1 Where Science Meets Art
6.2 Stability Is the Real Fundamental
6.3 Perfy Has Rhythm
6.4 Rhythm Has Benefits
6.5 Find Your Body Rhythm
6.6 Learn from Perfy
6.7 All Good Putters Have Good Rhythm
Chapter 7 Green-Reading, the 15th Building Block
7.1 Houston—We Have a Problem
7.2 Golfers Don’t See the True Break
7.3 The Subconscious Knows Better
7.4 The In-Stroke Correction
7.5 It’s Hard to Believe
7.6 There Are Three Problems
7.7 Visible (and Invisible) Break
7.8 Gut-Feel Putting
7.9 Facts About Break
7.10 What about the Grain?
7.11 Plumb Bobs Don’t Work
7.12 The Mind’s Role in Green-Reading
Additional Influences in Putting
Chapter 8 Speed Is More Important Than Line
8.1 Speed Kills (and Speed Saves)
8.2 Line Is Instinctive
8.3 Green Speed Affects Ball Tracks
8.4 The “Optimum” Putting Speed
8.5 The Lumpy Donut
8.6 17 Inches Past Is Key
8.7 The Mind’s Roll in Speed
Chapter 9 Wind, Lopsided Balls, Dimples, Rain, Sleet, and Snow
9.1 Are You a Real Golfer?
9.2 Does Wind Affect Putting?
9.3 Scoring Indicates Yes
9.4 Simple Experiments Say Perhaps Yes
9.5 Detailed Experiments Prove It
9.6 What Wind Means to You
9.7 Use Your Wind Stroke
9.8 Balance Matters in a Putted Ball
9.9 Measure and Mark Your Balance Line
9.10 Golf Balls Have Weird Feet
9.11 Rain, Sleet, and Snow: Are We Having Fun Yet?
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PUTTING
Chapter 10 The Improvement Process
10.1 First Comes Understanding
10.2 Second Comes Measurement
10.3 Third is Analysis
10.4 Fourth, Find Your Prescription for Improvement
10.5 Fifth: Do It!
Chapter 11 Establish Your Practice Framework
11.1 Set Your Ground Rules for Practice
11.2 Build Your Routine
11.3 Find Your Rhythm—Measure Your Cadence
11.4 Create and Commit to Your Ritual
11.5 Flow-Lines
11.6 Fit Your Putter
11.7 Learn to Aim
Chapter 12 Improve Your Stroke Mechanics
12.1 Refine Your Path
12.2 Create Stability
12.3 Groove Your Impact Point
12.4 Fix Your Face Angle
12.5 Retrain Your Power Source
Chapter 13 Develop Your Artistic Senses (Feel, Touch, Green‑Reading)
13.1 Touch and Feel Are Different
13.2 Sharpen Your Touch
13.3 Refine Your Feel
13.4 Develop Your Green-Reading Ability
Chapter 14 Face Your Special Problems
14.1 Nobody’s Perfect
14.2 Too Many Three-Putts
14.3 Putting from Off the Green
14.4 Putting on Slopes
14.5 Killer Downhillers
14.6 Cheat on Breaking Putts
14.7 You Lost It
14.8 Your Preferred Break
14.9 Yipping the Short Putts
Chapter 15 Wrap-Up
15.1 Overview Concepts
15.2 The Putting Game
15.3 The Learning Environment
15.4 Practice Makes Permanent
15.5 Watch Your Progress
15.6 Get Your Arms Around It
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