One Putt: The ultimate guide to perfect putting

by Ken Brown

Overview

Achieve perfect putting with golf's best-loved analyst and commentator


"As well as being a great tool for instruction, it's also a fascinating insight into one of the world's best putters." Tommy Fleetwood


REVISED AND UPDATED!


Climb the ladder to achieve one-putts by choosing the right putter, achieving an immaculate set up, reading the greens, acquiring touch and feel and honing your skills through drills with One Putt.


This book also includes some stunning photography from Getty's No.1 golf photographer as well as many shots of today's leading Pros shot especially for the book.


With one of TV's best-loved golf analysts, Ken Brown's own analysis and stories from a wealth of experience, this heavily illustrated, easy-to-follow book will make honing this golfing skill easy and entertaining.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780600636441
Publisher:	Octopus Books
Publication date:	05/25/2021
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,058,696
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ken Brown is BBC's golf analyst. His 'Ken on the course' features at the Masters and Open have become must-see viewing for golf fans worldwide. As well as the BBC, he also commentates for the Golf Channel whose reach includes 82 million homes in the US as part of NBC's sports output and the feed is taken by dozens of TV networks across the globe.


Ken was a successful golf professional in his own right, winning four times on the European Tour and once on the PGA Tour. He's represented Europe in five Ryder Cups between 1977 and 1988 and played for Scotland in four World Cups.

One Putt is Ken's labour of love. It combines his endless enthusiasm for the game with a wealth of knowledge and anecdotes on some of golf's greatest stars.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Introduction 8

The putting ladder

The putting pie

1 Choosing a Putter 14

A crucial choice

Length

Lie

Loft

Weight

The sweet spot

Moment of inertia

Insets, grooves and sounds off the face

Balance

Putter face depth

Shaft flex

Grips and grip alignment

Try before you buy

Looking after your putter

Putters and their features

2 The Basic Set-up 50

Grip fundamentals

Taking your grip

Address

The set-ups of six pros

3 Reading Greens 72

Approaching the green

Mending the pitch mark

Let the reading begin

If you are unsure …

Yardage books

The cut lines

Can you keep a secret?

4 The Set-up Routine 90

Rehearse your routine

5 The Stroke 96

The final frontier

Fitting it together

A couple of useful tips

6 Touch and Feel 110

Cause and effect

Two-putt drill

One-handed putting

Find the feel

Cuff in hands drill

Round the clock

Try bowling

Stimpmeter

Putting aids

Looking after your hands

7 Tips and Drills 126

Planning your practice

The 'Ken on the Course' one putt improver

Back to school

Resting your head drill

Edge of green drill

Palms together drill

Coin tip

Bladed wedge drill

Tick tock tip

Combatting the wind

The Texas wedge

Keep a score

Putting warm-up

The importance of stretching

The ultimate fix

8 One Putting! 148

Learn from six of the best

Positive thinking

9 Putting Rules 164

Putting rules

Index 170

Testaments 174

Acknowledgements 175