Who Improved on Tour in 2005
If
you're not getting better, you're getting passed.
For Immediate Release, 2 Jan. 2006
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January 2006 GREENSBORO, NC-- Geoff Mangum of the PuttingZone.com
has completed an exhaustive analysis of PGA Tour putting improvement
from 2004 to 2005. With statistics available for 196 players,
the analysis shows that only 7% of the players made major improvements
in their putting, with an additional 18% making modest headway.
Fully 75% of the Tour made either no improvement or went backwards
over their 2004 performance (38% no change; 24% somewhat worse;
13% substantially worse). Apparently, it is a lot easier on Tour
to get worse at putting than it is to get better.
Further
highlights:
1.
Top 5 Improvers in Putts/GIR:
Arjun
Atwal (61st to 1st)
Steve
Stricker (13th to 2nd)
Tim Clark (56th to 5th)
Aaron
Baddely (64th to 7th)
Todd
Fischer (70th to 7th)
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2. Notable
Worseners in Putts/GIR:
Stewart Cink
(1st to 34th)
Carl Petterson (4th to 54th)
John Daly (5th to 115th)
Adam Scott (37th to 131st)
Jay Haas (40th to 158th)
Skip Kendall (64th to 160th)
Stuart Appleby (56th to 165th)
Fred Funk (70th to 168th)
Mike Weir (21st to 173rd)
Chris Riley (61st to 192nd)
Sergio Garcia (129th to 196th)
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3. Top-10
putters include only 2 top-50 ballstrikers, Tiger Woods (5th in
Putts/GIR & 6th in GIRs) and David Toms (10th in Putts/GIR
and T37 in GIRs).
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4. Players
earning over $1 million despite ranking in bottom half in Putts
per GIR (the "If Only" Players for 2005):
Padraig Harrington
(101st, $2.6m)
J.L. Lewis (101st, $1.0m)
Billy
Mayfair (101st, $2.2m)
K.J. Choi (105th, $1.77m)
Tim Petrovic (110th, $1.7m)
Joey Sindelar (110th, $1.0m)
Charles Warren (113th, $1.0m)
John Daly (115th, $1.75m)
Jerry Kelly (115th, $1.35m)
Jeff Brehaut (119th, $1.3m)
Pat Perez (131st, $1.25m)
Kenny Perry (131st, $3.6m)
Adam Scott (131st, $2.6m)
Robert Allenby (140th, $1.2m)
Steve Elkington (140th, $1.4m)
Justin Rose (140th, $1.4m)
Charles Howell III (149th, $2.1m)
Sean O'Hair (149th, $2.5m)
Joey Snyder (149th, $1.0m)
Fred Couples (154th, $1.8m)
Greg Owen (154th, $1.35m)
Tom Lehman (160th, $1.65m)
Stuart Appleby (165th, $2.2m)
Fred Funk (168th, $2.8m)
Calos Franco (173rd, $1.0m)
Mike Weir (173rd, $1.3m)
Ted Purdy (183rd, $2.2m)
Sergio Garcia (196th, $3.2m)
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5. 8 of 11
Top-10 ballstrikers rank in bottom half of Putts per GIR:
Billy Maydair (T10th)
Kenny Perry (3rd)
Robert Allenby (T10th)
J.J. Henry (8th)
Jeff Brehaut (5th)
Roland Thatcher (9th)
Sergio Garcia (1st)
Joe Durant (2nd)
Exceptions:
Vijay Singh
(4th, 60th in Putts/GIR)
Tiger Woods (6th, 5th in Putts/GIR)
Jim
Furyk (7th, 19th in Putts/GIR)
For complete statistics and analysis, visit the PuttingZone.com.
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Geoff
Mangum is widely recognized as the most knowledgeable and effective
putting coach in golf for professional players and elite amateurs.
His popular website, The PuttingZone.com, attracts over 75,000
visits monthly from golf's top players and industry insiders and
is the top-ranked website in the world for putting. His first
PGA Tour student, Shaun Micheel, went from 160th in putting on
Tour to winning the 2003 PGA Championship on the strength of his
putting within two months of working with Mangum. His first developmental
tour pro, Blake Adams, fired a personal-best, course-record, event-record,
tour-record 62 the very next morning after a lesson with Geoff
and won his event running away from the field. Veteran golf instructors
have hailed him as a genius in golf instruction who knows more
about putting than anyone on the planet.
In
the US, Mangum operates his elite putting academy at Country Club
of Whispering Pines in the Pinehurst area and teaches lessons
and clinics in Pinehurst (at Whispering Pines and at Foxfire Resort),
Asheboro (Tot Hill Farm GC), Hickory (Hampton Heights GC), Charlotte
(Renaissance Park GC), Burlington / Graham (The Challenge GC),
Greensboro (Bryan Park), and outside Winston-Salem in Wallburg
(Meadowlands GC). He also travels extensively within the US. His
International PuttingZone Academies are now opening in Europe,
with the first two in Yorkshire, England, and in Hamburg, Germany.
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