2x PGA Champ’s Secret To Putting

Legend Dave Stockton shares his secrets to putting that he has learned over years that saw him win 25 professional tournaments and 2 major championships.

Some people there’s fast players uh I’m fast Lanny Watkins was fast there’s slower players like Jack that you know get set Tiger’s in the middle somewhere um but I always felt that if you had an opportunity you would try to go a little bit quicker and Let It Go

Not a fast stroke or anything but just your process if if you’re throwing a dart at a at a at a board you’re looking at the bullseye the bullseye for a putter is the the the whole in the green the where the holes cut I mean you look

At it how many things it’s not it’s not calculus it’s it’s not it’s not that serious it’s not cancer is nothing like that pick your line and let it go and if you expect to make it if you stand behind the ball as you walk into it and

You can see where it’s going to fall in the hole whether it’s coming in at 4:00 or 7 o’clock if it’s breaking right whatever if you see that you got a good chance of making it but most people don’t even see it they try to get it

Over with because they they don’t feel comfortable putting and a lot of times it’s their routine or a lot of times it’s the putter that doesn’t fit them I mean there’s all various things and and Matt the the one thing that you get to

In the end is the fact that our job my job and the boys job as instructors is to look at you and figure out how to make you comfortable speed you up slow you down more practice strokes less practice strokes maybe anuka is a great example anuka had to have a practice

Stroke in finally I got her where she’d take the practice strokes behind the ball looking down the line at the hole and she took how many of her practice strokes she wanted but when she walked into it it was a flowing motion she let the putter go and she well the two years

Prior us working she’d won twice in the 18 months after we worked she’d won 10 uh what she win she won like 18 times I mean she was unbelievable uh all because of a little setup change so you never know I I mean you go into all sorts of people Weiss

Scoff when he came out and played the Legends tournament with me and Johnny Miller up in Minnesota and he first time he played and he was all excited and everything and he asked me what did I tell people when I explained putting and tried to teach I said well it’s all

Different Tom because we we tell every we don’t have a set method and and I said by the way are you talking about other people you talking about yourself and it was comical look at me and he goes me and I said okay I’ve wanted to

Tell you this for 40 years when you put you put your second finger of your left hand down covering all your right hand because you want this left hand to go in reality that creates tension and you can’t there’s no way you’re going to go through you’re just going to stop your

Left hand finger down or not and so I just told him I just overlap the one finger so I get feel there’s no tension and I had him putt first because I didn’t want him to watch Johnny’s pract you know Johnny putts and his his stroke

Is not not the world’s greatest one of the ball best ball Strikers I ever played with but not necessarily putting and Weiss Scot puted first he made 11 birdies and he finished the round he said he said why didn’t you tell me this 40 years ago and I said well why in the

Heck didn’t you help me with my golf swing before and we and we had a good laugh together because you know if somebody asked me something I was going I want them to play the best they could play I didn’t care who they were but I you know

And many times during around when I shouldn’t have I should have been penalized I’d say we get through I want to help you with something well within a hole they’re going to say well now what are you going to tell me after the round and so here I am in the middle of

Competition telling somebody something that’s going to help him or hurt him but at least for the holes I watched him I’ll know by the end of the round whether it did help and so will he so uh it’s it’s been a neat journey I mean I’ve I’ve enjoyed the competition

Immensely I’m a very competitive person obviously but uh The Knack and the way my dad taught me uh and I didn’t know that Alex Morrison was the one that taught him in the 30s until know 27 years after dad died and Matt Rudy and I wrote The Putting book together in

2010 and when I read this book that was written in 1940 it was still viable in 2010 the long game portion of it the 120 of 140 Pages wasn’t but the putting was still 95% because nobody’s figured it out yet they figured out the long game

As you watch the guys play now but still you see the difficulty on the putting greens and it is it’s a lot of what you said it’s all this taking and taking time and trying