FEELING PERFECT IMPACT
Regardless of stroke error, the “play ball” will always begin wherever the “The Putt Ruler” is pointed. The “stroke ball” will begin to follow the “play ball” if the stroke was perfect; otherwise the “stroke ball” will immediately veer off to the right or left depending on the stroke error. At the moment of impact the weight of two balls increases feel in the grip, making it much easier to feel “perfect” impact. It doesn’t matter how the putter moves in the back swing or follow through, but the singular moment of impact is all-important to the outcome of a putt. Teaching perfect impact allows each player to find his or her natural stroke that will consistently produce perfect impact. There is no one perfect stroke — perfect impact is perfect stroke.
The ability to take green reading and stroking skills to the golf course is made easy by using a line on the ball in place of what “The Putt Ruler” does in practice — and you can make the transition from practice to play even more comfortable by occasionally taking The Putt Ruler out for some on course practice.
Tom Patri is the President and Founder of TPGOLF. He is a former Met PGA Teacher of the Year as well as a former South Florida PGA Teacher of the Year and a Golf Tips Magazine Top 25 Instructor in America. He teaches at Esplanade in Naples, Florida, November-April and is The Director of Instruction at The Hawthorns Golf and Country Club in Fishers, Indiana, May-October. Reach Tom at tpatri@mindspring.com or (239) 404-7790
Bob Walton is the inventor of The Putt Ruler. He is also a Golf Course Architect who has done over 50 projects world wide including Gray Bear, the first course ever built in Slovakia, and Dead Man Mountain in Aguascalientes, Mexico. In the states his work includes the highly acclaimed Secession Golf Club in Beaufort, South Carolina.
For additional information on The Putt Ruler, visit theputtruler.com, or call Bob Walton at (843) 301 9942.
