Be Your Stroke's Worst Critic
Golf Magazine|December 2018

If you're not practicing with feedback, you’re wasting your time.

Dave Pelz
Be Your Stroke's Worst Critic

TICK-TOCK, TickTock, Click...Tom Jenkins is practicing his putting stroke in a hotel room. The only two sounds are the consistent rhythmic beat of a metronome and the occasional click of putter on ball. Sweat is beading on his forehead as he tries to complete 100 strokes in a row without his putter touching the sides of a Putting Track, one of my inventions (photo, above). He completes stroke No. 99, steps back and shakes out his arm muscles. He confidently steps back in, addresses the putt and perfectly executes his putting stroke to the ticktock-tick-tock-click rhythm, sending the ball rolling into a pillow.

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