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Jordan Spieth is done looking for the perfect putting stroke

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Jordan Spieth is rightfully unhappy with the way he’s putting right now.

First the raw data. Jordan Spieth is presently 40th in strokes gained: putting, picking up .351 strokes on the field average. This is well off his second-best figure on Tour last season: .758.

He was particularly poor with the flatstick at Erin Hills, losing 2.864 strokes to the field average, and he arrives at TPC River Highlands for the Travelers Championship searching for answers.

It doesn’t seem like he’s considering another move away from his trusty Scotty Cameron. A switch to a Scotty Cameron T5W Tour Only putter at the Byron Nelson didn’t pay dividends, and he returned to his prized 009 Prototype the week after.

Rather, he’s focused on improving the consistency of his stroke…by not focusing on perfection, it seems.

Speaking with reporters ahead of the Travelers, Spieth said.

“I’ve been trying to make my stroke perfect with the perfect consistency, and there is really no point,” Spieth said. “If you’re looking at a spot and you set up and you know you’re set up there and you can consistently hit it there, then it doesn’t really matter what the stroke looked like.”

He added that he’s only really been happy with his putting in two events this season (while failing to specify which two). Interestingly, he told reporters that in reviewing tape of his stroke during his superb 2015 campaign, he saw several different strokes, as it were.

“From Tour Championship in ’15 to Masters in ’15, very different strokes. You wouldn’t necessarily look and see by the naked eye, but if you looked at the intricacies of the stroke and the way the putter traveled, they were actually tremendously different,”

“But the one similarity and consistency in it was up at 95 percent or higher. So even with the stroke being off, my face control to that stroke was the same each time, and that’s what I’m trying to get is that consistency level up.”

While Spieth accepts the up-and-down nature of putting from week to week, it sounds like he’s trying to find a repeatable motion each week, rather than striving for a perfect stroke.

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  1. geohogan

    Mar 25, 2020 at 10:44 am

    The compulsion to control the golf swing and putting stroke
    derive from ignorance of the capabilities of the motor cortex.

    eg from top of BS to impact is only enough time(1/4 second)
    for one intent before the DS begins.

    the same applies to putting. ie genetic limitations .

    No one should be able to call themselves, instructors of golf, if they dont understand these human genetic limitations.

    For putting the question becomes:
    What are the genetic limitations that prevent conscious control of certain portions of the complex chain action we call, putting.

  2. Ron

    Jun 23, 2017 at 11:41 am

    Even pro golfers aren’t perfect. Most of their shots are misses. Only the top 10 or so from PGA and LPGA tours hit 75% of the fairways they aim at. Their approach shots only hit the green again around 75% of the time. When on the green only the very best average less than two putts per green.
    Quit trying to be perfect. Once you select the line of your putt make a putting stroke like the pendulum of a grandfather clock – the same distance back and through the ball – with the same tempo. Accelerating the putter through the ball is a variable which is too hard to control. So eliminate it. Pendulum stroke, same tempo. I’ve been teaching and coaching golf for 22 years and this is basic, fundamental, consistent and it works.

    • TR1PTIK

      Jun 23, 2017 at 12:17 pm

      I have to agree with you on putting. I’ve tried the whole accelerating through the ball thing, but it made it much more difficult to control distance. A pendulum stroke should naturally want to accelerate through the ball anyway so there’s no need focus on that.

  3. TR1PTIK

    Jun 21, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    Good advice for any golfer to follow whether it’s on the putting green or the tee box. If you can start it on the line you picked and get the ball close to your target with consistency, who cares what it looks like. The only good reason to drastically change anything or chase perfection, is to alleviate and prevent pain or possibly try to pick up a few yards. We’ve all seen guys on the course with ugly swings and wondered how it was possible for them to shoot a lower score. The answer is simple – play the game you brought with you to the course and don’t try to be a hero.

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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (1/16/24): Cobra Forged One Length irons

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At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a set of Cobra Forged One Length irons.

From the seller: (@adamwittman): “4-PW, GW, lw. Nunchuk shafts. $350 tyd conusa.”

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Cobra Forged One Length irons

This is the most impressive current listing from the GolfWRX BST, and if you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum you can check them out here: GolfWRX BST Rules

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What GolfWRXers are saying about Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons

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In our forums, our members have been discussing Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons which he has in the bag at this week’s CJ Cup. WRXers have been commenting on the switch and the clubs themselves in our forums.

For lots more photos, check out the full thread here.

Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.

  • btyh: “Holy offset.”
  • Glf_LU: “These are interesting. Not going to make a rush to judgement until I see them in person. It does look like a little more offset than I would expect to see in this model.”
  • bcflyguy1: “Kisner is not one to make a lot of equipment changes (see the GBB driver he’s still using), so if these do have staying power in his bag that will be interesting to see. I have to wonder if there’s something different about his set, because like others have mentioned there appears to be more offset on his than I recall seeing in the samples I’ve had in hand.”

Entire Thread: “Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons”

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WATCH: PGA Tour players play hole blindfolded and it’s hilarious/amazing

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As part of a Srixon campaign, four PGA Tour players recently participated in a three-hole challenge, with each hole being a different game; hole No. 1 was blindfolded, hole No. 2 was costumes and distractions, and hole No. 3 was alternate shot with a baseball bat. The teams were Smylie Kaufman and Sam Ryder against Shane Lowry and Grayson Murray.

Watch the full video below, since it is quite entertaining (albeit not the type of golf that Old Tom Morris surely had in mind), but in particular, make sure to check out the first hole where Lowry and Ryder play a full hole completely blind folded. It’s amazing to watch how badly Ryder struggles, and how Lowry nearly makes par.

Cleveland-Srixon’s marketing department has been hard at work crafting these viral-esque ad campaigns; if you remember, former long-drive champion Jamie Sadlowski recently dressed as 80-year-old Grandpa Jamie to fool range-goers. That video has since gathered over 1.2 million views on YouTube.

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