How to be a good putter. We have been doing things wrong for years and that’s why!
You've heard of ancient golf wisdom a million times.
“Never get up, never come in.”
This is not very common agreement, as your first putter should always end the hole.
But, according to Scott Fawcett, the brain behind the 10-year curriculum management system, the old old logic has exceeded its selling price.
Fawcett is a great college golfer in the United States, but in the second and third levels of professional games, it's nothing more than a tourer.
But he turned his pain to this side and created it for ten years.
It savvyly studied shooting allocation patterns and PGA Tour data to create revolutionary ideas about how the game is played.
He believes there is a lot to teach the average golfer.
“This is one of the areas where golf is the most inadequate and misunderstood,” he wrote.
“A common misconception is that all putters should cross the hole.
“This is wrong.”
This sounds like nothing else told us is totally dissatisfied.
It’s good to be short!
But the ten-year data suggests: “As we get farther and farther away from the hole, our dispersion needs to start surrounding the hole.
This means it is correct to leave one of our push rods in the hole.
“The reason for this is that, as we emphasized in the decade, speed is king.
“The only goal for most of our putts is to avoid three.
“The best way to do this is to increase the distance of our first game.”
Ten years looking at Aaron Baddeley, Australia, who ranked 3rd in 2025. Of the 414 holes, he only 3 times (0.72%).
He has 61 putters over 30 feet, and 55% of them are out of holes.
But, Fawcett wrote: “His agile speed control produces a lot of tap dance and by maximizing the capture rate of holes, some accidents arise.
“Developing this type of speed control is an area where I think almost all players practice.
“This is the guaranteed way to reduce stress and score lower in your rounds.
“I challenge you to start tracking your first putter performance. You may be much worse when it comes to lagging putters than you realize!”
You can learn more about the decade here.
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