Here's the next best thing to being on the course with a PGA pro! Leading professionals including Lee Janzen, Jim Furyk, Dave Stockton, and Rocco Mediate demonstrate every detail of the putting game, shown in 500 illuminating photographs. The pages burst with drills and real-world tips, from understanding how pace and speed affect ball movement to the correct form to use for difficult lies, from thoughts on equipment to ideas for getting the most out of practice time.Customer Review: Putting like the professionals
Admiring Florida resident, Jim Furyk for his tenacity and success of putting, I figured this book was worth reading. The book's title is a bit misleading "Success on the Green: PGA Tour Secrets for Putting Your Best". It should be titled "Tour Secrets for Putting THEIR Best". The book profiles 4 of the current PGA professionals, Jim Furyk, Rocco Mediate, Lee Janzen and Dave Stockton and their 'respective' putting technique. It's value is in putting specific to their style: Mediate's belly putter, Furyk's Bullseye blade putter, and Stockton/Janzen's Perimeter weighted blade putters. They cover the specifics of each golfer's stroke: Address, Takeaway, Backstroke, Preimpact, Impact and Followthrough. Various drills are interspersed between chapters. A section correcting various problems in putting is outlined: alignment, grip, ball position, weighting, wrists, angle of attack, followthrough, etc. Another section includes choosing the proper putter, finding the line, accuracy and grooving a stroke. Pre-putt routines, the mystical plumb bobbing technique and determining putting speed are also covered. The book is well illustrated and covers various angles of the swing. Bullet style tips are provided and the text is written clearly. Overall, when all of the wonderful photographs and words are boiled down to essentials, we find a book with limited applications for the average golfer to improve to his or her potential. It does cover more specifics on the belly putter than I have ever seen in any other instructional book - which is for some the last stand against the Yips. This book is more in the style of the major golf magazines written today. A lot of flash with little true substance (i.e. understanding how to really read a break). I noticed a major inconsistency. Look at the putter used by Jim Furyk on the cover and the putter that he says is going to stay in the back, for a while (Odyssey 2 Ball on the cover versus the Bullseye putter). I say it's worth reading but this will not be a 'golf classic'. It is an average book hyped up with great photos and 4 superstars of the game. I give it 3 stars - Average for interest. VERDICT: If you are interested in a breakdown of 4 different (non-inclusive methods) of the putting stroke, (especially with the less taught belly putter), then this book is worth a look.
