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The last word on putting from one of the greatest golfers--and putters--ever

Jack Nicklaus is considered the greatest player of all time by countless golf fans around the world. His astounding tournament achievements (including a record eighteen professional major championship victories, among them six Masters), along with the powerful legacy he has built as a golf-course designer and golf book author, give him both an unrivaled grasp and multifaceted understanding of the game.

Nicklaus's classic Golf My Way-the sport's all-time worldwide instructional bestseller-has helped millions of players improve their all-around game. In Putting My Way, Nicklaus presents his clear and cohesive approach every element of the craft of superb putting, from finding the right putter to the mechanics of stroking the ball, to the strategies involved in the most neglected part of golf by amateurs, despite it representing at least 45 per cent of their play.

Whether you're new to golf or have been playing for years, Putting My Way will help you take charge of your putting technique, practice, and execution and see results that lift your game.

• Explains every mental and physical element of putting, from equipment through greens-reading and stroking techniques to productive practice and foolproof strategizing
• Reveals Nicklaus's own lifelong putting "musts," along with highly successful practice systems
Includes 29 b/w illustrations and eight color paintings to help you understand Jack's concepts and better apply them personally

Packed with inside pointers and "how-to's" from one of the greatest putters ever to play the game, this book is the one you'll turn to again and again for the advice you need on how to become a permanently lower-scoring golfer through vastly improved greens work.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 octobre 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781620459003
Langue	English

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PUTTING MY WAY
PUTTING MY WAY

A Lifetime s Worth of Tips from Golf s All-Time Greatest
JACK NICKLAUS with KEN BOWDEN
Illustrations by Jim McQueen
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Copyright 2009 by Jack Nicklaus. All rights reserved
Illustrations copyright 2009 by Jim McQueen. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada
Portions of chapter 1 are reprinted with the permission of Simon Schuster, Inc., from My Story by Jack Nicklaus with Ken Bowden. Copyright 1997 by Jack Nicklaus.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Nicklaus, Jack.
Putting my way: a lifetime s worth ot tips from golf s all-time greatest / Jack Nicklaus, with Ken Bowden.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-470-48779-2 (cloth)
1. Putting (Golf) I. Bowden, Ken. II. Title.
GV979.P8N54 2009
796.352 35-dc22
2009006810
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For all of those who would enjoy the greatest game of all so much more if only they could putt better.
Contents
Preface
1 Attitude
First, a Little Philosophy
Positiveness Pays Big-Time
Proper Planning Breeds Confidence
Golf s Most Easily Mastered Skill
Applying Sufficient Attention
Believe in Yourself
Inspiration First, Mechanics Second
Value Knowledgeable Advice
Why Short Putts Are So Pressurized
Accepting Golf s Imperfectibility
2 The Putter
Finding the Right One
Weight Change Requires Caution
Knowing Sweet Spot Critical
Match Lie to Stroking Style
My Best Putter
3 Gripping
How I Hold My Putter
The Master Hand
Top Grip Pressure Goal: Fluidity of Motion
4 Setting Up
Three Absolute Essentials
Ball Position Relative to Feet
Shaft Angling
Stillness-Promoting Stance Adjustments
5 Stroking
My Stroke in Detail
Clubface Alignment Variations
Touch Matters Most, No Matter How
Charge or Die ?
Forward Pressing
Control Distance with Backswing Length
Acceleration through Impact a Must
Unweight but Never Lift Club
Keep Leading Shoulder Low and Still
Controlling and Checking Face Alignment
Look to Your Elbows
Imagine Shaft Is Super Limber
Feel and See Deliberate Follow-Through
Improve Balance to Stop Body Movement
Strike Slightly Up to Beat Bumpy Greens
My Five Key Stroking Thoughts
6 Short Putts
Two Ways to Spot Putt
Fitting Speed to Slope
Don t Choke Down
7 Long Putts
Make Certainty of Read Mandatory
Speed of Roll Always Top Priority
Mastering Monsters
Double-Breaker Strategy
Strengthening Depth Perception
8 Practice
Work on Putts That Matter Most
My Four Practice Systems
Five More Get-Better Pointers
9 Faults and Fixes
Making More Shorties, 1
Making More Shorties, 2
Beating the Yips
Try More Backswing, Not Force
Ensuring Square-Bladed Impact
A Couple of Pulling Cures
10 Strategy
Know the Rules
If in Doubt, Always Check
Club Yourself with Putting in Mind
Chip or Putt from Off the Green?
Get Help When a Problem Becomes Severe
Listen to a Knowledgeable Caddie
Read Every Factor Every Time
But Prioritize Speed Control
My Pre-Stroking Routine
See Distances Incrementally
Four Tips to Tame a Brute
Defanging Downhillers
Spin Ball Sooner on Poor Greens
When Putting Uphill Is Best
Putting from Bunkers
Forget Unnecessary Heroics
But Know When to Go for Broke
Conclusion: My Putting Musts
Preface
Figuring roughly, golf is a game played half through the air and half along the ground. To a greater or lesser degree, recovery from mistakes is always possible within the first half, but less so and eventually never so within the second.
Miss a makeable putt and the hard fact is that it s a stroke gone forever.
That would seem to suggest that the number of books about rolling the ball across greens should at least equal those about flying it to and from fairways. In fact, the reverse is the case. Golf book bibliographies show that a great many more texts have been published about how to swing the clubs that hit shots through the air than about rolling the ball into the hole.
The reason, I assume, is that the tee-to-green game is perceived as golf s more challenging, exciting, and difficult-to-master element. Trouble is, without the other half-the putting part-we simply don t have a game.
Accordingly, when my friend and longtime collaborator, Ken Bowden, suggested that we should round out our literary efforts at a dozen volumes with a book containing pretty much everything I ve learned about putting, the idea intrigued me. And especially in regard to the format he proposed.
All but one of my how-to books include some degree of advice on the gentle art of rolling a 1.68-inch-diameter ball into a 4 -inch-diameter hole. However, their structures are such that for a reader to track down all of that material-even if he or she possessed or could get access to every volume-would require a tedious amount of digging through more than a foot-high stack of volumes.
So how about, suggested Ken, gathering together and organizing the best of all that material into one volume as our final instructional?
When he added that, by a rough count, I had published something like five hundred items on just about every conceivable aspect of putting during my playing career, I became even more interested. Finally, Ken clinched the project with his assurance that the best of that material could be updated and organized for presentation in mostly short and self-contained passages, while covering every element of golf s second act in an appropriate sequence.
In substance, therefore, if rarely the exact same wording, everything herein has been published previously, although never in the coherent order of a single volume. Also, most of that information and advice has been either consolidated or amplified with new material, to provide everything I ve learned about putting in a logical and orderly format.
Approximately half of the items deal with the physical elements of rolling the ball effectively-I hate to use the word mechanical in relation to putting-with the other half focused on the mental and temperamental aspects of getting the ball in the hole in the least number of strokes.
It has always seemed to me that putting is by far and away the most neglected element of golf at the game s recreational levels in every aspect-attitude, strategy, technique, instruction, practice you name it.
Hopefully, Putting My Way will help mitigate that situation.
What I can definitely assure you is that, if you learn how to knock em in more easily and more often, your enjoyment of the game will grow proportionately.
1

ATTITUDE
First, a Little Philosophy
Par allows for two putts per hole, and, as par is mostly 72, that means putting theoretically is half the game. In actuality, it s a little less than that for both tour players and the majority of amateurs, the former because they average less than two putts per hole, and the latter because they take proportionately more strokes reaching greens.
Either way, though, putting has a bigger impact on scoring than most golfers are inclined to admit to themselves. It s an overstatement to say the tours are nothing more than putting contests, but it s equally true that, if you can t get the ball in the hole, you won t be much of a conestant on any of them. And I guess that s true, too, of all those weekend Nassaus. Attitudes toward putting among both golfers and nongolfers are interesting. They range all the way from Ben Hogan s conviction that rolling the ball along the ground was not really golf, to Bobby Locke s assertion that putting is the most critical part of the game. (Possibly those views had something to do with the fact that putting was the weakest element of Ben s play and the strongest part of Bobby s.)

Putting has a bigger impact on scoring than most golfers are inclined to admit to themselves.
I guess the in-between attitude is nicely typified by a high-handicapper friend of mine after following me in a tournament in Florida years ago. That day I hit every fairway and green in regulation or better, and had the ball within a dozen feet of the cup eight or nine t