==================================================== Newsletter - Issue 93 Date 04/03/09 ==================================================== ==================================================== Equipment - Books - DVD's - Instruction ==================================================== I just received several products that I ordered from Eyeline Golf, I'll be reviewing them in the next newsletter. I ordered some mirrors and plane rails to work into my putting lessons, as well as for use in the putter fitting operation I'm setting up at BCC. I can already tell that I like the company and the service. I dealt with a rep named Doug Ziegler who was very knowledgeable and helpful, and the order shipped the same day that I placed it. http://www.eyelinegolf.com/ Stay tuned......... ==================================================== TCT Quick Tips - Get a Grip ==================================================== If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. Sam Snead ==================================================== Golf Tip : A Tale of Two Putters ==================================================== Here are actually two tales of putter adjustments. They may seem to be self serving, because I'll be set up for putter fitting at BCC within two weeks.....but so be it. I would tell these stories even if I wasn't setting up shop, so enjoy. Also, pardon the brag about my sons. I have two sons that are excellent golfers when they are playing regularly. My oldest - age 38 - who was the pro at Willowbrook in Lockport NY before he moved on to another profession, lives in Tennessee now and is starting to play more. His ball striking has been excellent, but his putting was not up to his standards. We're still talking scores in the low to mid 70's from the back tees, like I said he's got game. He mentioned to me yesterday in a phone call, that for several months he had been putting with a putter that he loved. However, he was adjusting his stance and stroke to accommodate the putter, instead of adjusting the putter to fit his own tendencies. He was putting OK but not great. When he was putting really well in years past, he carried his hands a little closer to his body than normal. So...he had someone look at his putter and made some adjustments. He flattened the lie angle by a couple degrees to allow him to hold his hands closer to his body and still keep his eyes over the ball, and now his putting matches the rest of his game. He shot a 69 while on vacation at a PGA Q School course from the same tees that they played, and he obviously was really rolling the rock. Here's my own personal experience with putter length. Last Saturday I played at BCC with a putter I picked up off of Ebay this winter. It was a bit long and I was choking down on the club a bit. BTW, I think that somewhere along the line I got the notion that my winter job was to buy interesting looking putters off Ebay, and I did my job well. Anyway...last Saturday I couldn't make a putt to save my life, and my buddy kept telling me to switch to my old faithful putter. I thought about the suggestion as I forked over a few bucks at the end of the round, and decided to give myself a putter fitting as soon as I got home. I didn't want to give up on the putter because I liked it's look and feel. Kind of like keeping an otherwise good dog that just bit the mailman.... I went home and checked the lie, loft, and length of the putter and ended up shortening the 35" putter to just under 32", I put an oversized KJ Choi SuperStroke grip on it (the grip cost as much as the putter), and added some weight to the head to keep the swingweight where I wanted it. On Sunday the dollars came back, I made every putt I looked at. Here's the moral of these stories: for the club that accounts for score more than any other club in your bag, make sure it fits your body and stroke. Enjoy, Tom