INSIDE SCORING
The News From Pelz Golf
CONTENTS:
Dave Pelz to Sign ‘Dave Pelz’s Damage Control’ in Denver
‘The Better Your Align Your Putter, the Better You Will Putt’
- A Dave Pelz Article
Interact With Dave Pelz on twitter.com/dave_pelz
Dave Pelz Scoring Game School:
Prepare to Make 2010 Your Best Year in Golf
What Shots Do You Fear The Most? Answer the Survey
Featured Pelz Learning Aid - The LazrAimer
Catching Up With Dave Pelz
Dave Pelz Schedules Book Signing in Denver
Meet Dave at The Tattered Cover - LoDo location, Dec. 10
Dave Pelz is hitting the road to promote his new
book, Dave Pelz’s Damage Control . His first
book signing will be held at The Tattered Cover
(LoDo location) on December 10, from 7:30 to
8:30 pm.
If you’re in the Denver area, swing by and meet
Dave and pick up your copy of Damage Control .
The Tattered Cover (LoDo location) is located at
1628 16th St, Denver, CO 80202. Log on to
www.tatteredcover.com or call 303-322-1965 for
more details on this event.
More on “Damage Control”:
Through Pelz Golf Institute research projects,
Pelz and his staff found these groundbreaking
points:
1) Golfers play two to fives strokes better than
their handicaps for most of each round they play.
2) They also have disaster holes mixed in, bringing their total scores back up to their
handicap level.
In Dave Pelz’s Damage Control , Pelz explains how you can improve your scores by
intelligently and methodically handling trouble situations on the course.
This is a revised edition of the self-published book of the same title that was released
exlcusively through Pelz Golf in 2006. This 2009 Gotham Books edition of
Dave Pelz’s Damage Control features a new cover, several revised chapters, and is
available in bookstores everywhere.
Order your copy today!
Are you following Dave Pelz on twitter.com?
Enjoy Access to the Scoring Game Guru
If you’re not following
Dave Pelz on twitter.com
on your computer or
mobile device, you’re
missing a great chance
to interact with him and
keep up with his regular
thoughts and musings.
In recent posts, the for-
mer NASA scientist has
answered followers’
questions, given tips on
a solid mental approach
the game and even
advised followers on
astronomical events
worth stargazing over.
Here’s a sampling of
some of Pelz’s recent tweets:
Almost 85% of amateurs’ shots which hit greens are hit with wedges. Grooves in
wedges are most important grooves to your scoring game.
Bummer: up at 3:30 AM, but cloud cover hid all meteor visibility (earth passing thru old
Halley's comet debris)-next 2 nights might see a few
Read the putt, commit to internal vision of seeing perfect putt go in, make a great
stroke. That plan will hunt!
Stew @stewartcink As you putt this week remember: nothing rolls like a ball ... let lots of
them go down! See them go before you roll!
Or, create an account yourself and send Dave your thoughts and opinions.
Pelz tips and news from Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools and our partner resorts
and companies.
Check Out Dave’s Latest GOLF Magazine article
“Raise Your Hand If You Want More Spin”
For the past several months,
Dave Pelz has been keeping
golfers aware of the USGA
Ruling on wedge grooves and
how they can prepare for
Jan. 1, 2010, when the ruling
goes into effect.
In his November 2009 GOLF
Magazine article, Pelz reveals
that 84% of the golfers he has
polled will continue to play box-
groove wedges with maximum
spin characteristics, while only
11% indicated they prefer to play what the pros will be playing, v-grooves with nearly
half the spin. For that 11%, Pelz cautions “It’s critical that you realize how dramatically
the groove change will affect your short game if you adhere to the rule. If you’re going
to switch to new low-spin-groove wedges, practice with them before you try to stop
important shots.”
Pick up a copy of the November GOLF Magazine, or click on golf.com for the full article.
An online article from Dave Pelz
The Better You Align Your Putter …
The Better You Will Putt
You may have already seen a number of my
articles in GOLF Magazine, or test results
reported from a Pelz Golf Institute project, which
deal with how golfers align their putters. But I
can't say it often enough, or loud enough, or
impress on you strongly enough, how dramatically
putter alignment affects a golfer's ability to putt.
Sometime during every school almost every one
of my students asks me for help in aligning their
putters. That's good advice to seek, because
improving your aim is one of the key elements in making more putts. We've been test-
ing the correlation between a golfers’ ability to aim their putters vs. their putting results
for years at the Pelz Golf Institute. And it never fails to impress. Look at these results:
1) In test after test, we found that simply by improving the relationship between putter
alignment and the intended starting line of a putt, a golfer’s putting results will be
improved. In other words the better you aim your putter, the better you will putt. This
surely has to do with the fact that the better you aim initially, the less you have to
compensate in your stroke to pull or push putts online. Fewer compensations leads to
better contact, less inconsistency, and more putts falling downward at the end of their
roll.
2) By carefully aligning two converging red lines on top of and perpendicular too the
putter face, golfers tended to "see" their putter face alignment more accurately. Red
lines seem to help golfers more than black lines, and converging lines helped more
than straight parallel lines. Also, the longer the red lines, the better the putting
performance.
3) Although we tried converging red lines on the tops
of many different models of putters, golfers aimed
two and three ball putters with converging red lines
measurably better than any other style of putter.
The basis of this improvement is not well under-
stood, but it may have to do with the actual ball
being putted adding to the sight line as perceived in
the golfer's minds-eye.
Based on these test results, here's what I suggest:
either try to make your own, or borrow from a friend
or from your local golf professionals’ putting rack, or from the Pro Shop of pelzgolf.com
and try these alignment aids to see if they help your putting. It would be silly for you to
not take advantage of converging red lines, if they would really help you to putt better.
If you mark your own golf balls and putters, be sure to get the lines on accurately -
exactly perpendicular to the putter face (we don't want to influence you to aim in the
wrong direction). If you want to rent or buy these putting aids from us, you can do so in
the products section of this web site. In any case, practice for several good sessions
on the practice green before you try them on the golf course. If they help you make
more putts, that's good because you're allowed to play with them, they conform to
USGA rules of golf.
It's important to keep working on your aim even after you see initial improvement.
Some of the best putters I know … Tiger, Phil and Justin Leonard among them …
continually check their putting alignment to make sure they are not falling into bad
habits. If you will do this, improve your putting alignment somehow or in some way,
I'm sure you will enjoy holing more putts.
Good luck and good putting to you,
Schools and Clinics
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What Shots Do You Fear the Most?
Answer Dave Pelz’s Latest Online Survey
Dave Pelz invites you to take part in
a survey, revealing the shots you fear
most in golf.
The survey is part of the research that
will provide data for an instructional
initiative Pelz intends to use in future
articles and books, helping golfers
turn their most feared shots into
the ones they have the most
confidence hitting.
You can take part in the online survey by
clicking here and answering the brief set
of questions. Go to
information.
Improve Your Putter Aim With The Pelz LazrAimer
Aim is the first fundamental of good putting. If
you’re aiming your putter face correctly, you’ve
taken the first step to consistently holing putts.
The Pelz LazrAimer helps you square your putter
face for accurate aim so you can confidently set
up to the ball and have a reliable putting stroke.
The voice activated Pelz LazrAimer provides you
immediate visual feedback of your putter face aim
at address and helps you adjust it to perfect your
putter set-up.
Learn to correct aim problems, improve your
set-up and roll putts truer. Re-check your aim
using you LazrAimer periodically before practicing other areas of putting. If you’re
starting out with good alignment you have a better chance on maintaining throughout
your putting stroke.