Ever heard the putting advice, \u201cAccelerate through the ball\u201d? Yeah\u2026 that was another lie. Of course, I\u2019m giving generations of instructors credit for being intelligent enough to know the truth but sell a deceptive phrase. Otherwise, everyone is stupid. And I, for one, don\u2019t believe that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? Is the same why it\u2019s always been – to propagate an industry. Telling credulous people partial truths in selective language is the best way to break what once we understood simply by observation. \u201cAccelerate through the ball\u201d has predicated the dissolution of putting fundamentals for decades upon decades under the auspices of helpful insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any time you see a terrible putting stroke, ask them what they are trying to do. You can be certain to hear them say, \u201cI want to accelerate through the ball.\u201d And they really think they do! But our eyes don\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I could go back sixty years and introduce one correction into the instructional lexicon, it would be the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dAccelerate Into The Back of The Ball\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n