A little video my Dad (jj2me) whipped up for me for US History last year.

Golfers share many things in common and one of these is an often fanatical love for the game. For these types, nothing can take the place of heading to the nearest golf course, but Golf Digest comes very close. This magazine contains over 200 pages each month, dedicated exclusively to the sport of golf. Each issue usually contains a variety of articles and/or features with respect to golf instruction. Unlike many other magazines, Golf Digest offers sound practical advice from accomplished professionals. In fact, Golf Digest enlists a number of PGA pros as playing editors including pretty every big name in golf (yes, that does include Tiger. You can usually count on Tiger's face gracing at least a dozen pages of each issue, believe it or not). One of my favorite things that Golf Digest does is break down pro player's swings frame by frame (whether it be Duval, Garcia, Lehman, or whoever) to catch their positions at each point in the swing. It's extremely helpful (although often depressing) to see where the pros are at different points in their swing and compare it to your own swing.

The things that set Golf Digest apart from the competition are the numerous articles about learning and improving your game and the personal stories and interviews. Other golfing publications attempt to help you learn, but they often get too mechanical. Golf Digest shows you how to improve your game with tips from professionals, including some of the star- studded members of the golfing elite like Tiger Woods. Besides all the tips and tricks, Golf Digest also shows the personal side of the sport with interviews and more intimate stories about the many colorful personalities in the game. This personal dimension adds greatly to the magazine's overall appeal, providing great reading material to complement the more instructional side of the magazine.

Advertisements cover about 55 percent of the pages in each issue of Golf Digest. Besides the obvious, like golf clubs, golf balls, and golf apparel, the advertising focuses on other things that people who play golf like to purchase and indulge in, like liquor, cars, credit cards, brokerage firms, and travel services. The ads are found throughout the magazine, but they don't interfere with the enjoyment of each issue like they do in some magazines.

Golfing Digest may not be as great as a day spent on your favorite golf course, but it comes close. I consider it the best publication of its kind and I recommend it to anyone with an interest in the game. Golf Digest is indeed a magazine for any golfer out there, ranging from the die-hard weekender to the driving range fiend. At a reasonable price of subscription when compared to other sports magazines, Golf Digest simply offers a combination of great articles, pictures, and features for golfers handicapped scratch to infinity.

Cool As Ice

Just change your attitude.

All of the successful golfer who are very keen on putting are always believe that they can be the putting expert. On the other hand, many of golfers who are normally fail to develop their putting always believe that they can not develop their skill, only they can remember is about bad putting experience, but never remember about their success putts.

Apart from what I have mentioned above, successful golfers will always enjoy what they do during the putt and strongly believe that they will definitely be able to make it on every single putt they perform, so what I am trying to say is even though, in reality, you may not be able to do the excellent putts like many experts do, but you definitely be able to think like them.

1. Change your attitude

To have positive attitude about your putt is compulsory. You have to think that you can become a putting expert like others do. Be confident with your putting method and what you have done and believe in your sense of success rather than stick too much in correcting the putting principle. Successful golfers always enjoy their putts and they will never worry about putting result. That means, you will never success in putting if you think you will never put the ball into the whole. So try your best to have positive attitude about your putt, and see whether you eventually improvements.

2. Believe that you can make it

You will never success if you "just" putt and pray for luck to push the ball into the whole. Successful golfers are confident in what they think and believe in what they have done and they are highly expects the excellent result of their putts. Once you have decided on what you are going to do, then stick with it even though you have failed from the previous shots.

3. Be concentrate

One the target is the whole in front of you, so you must concentrate to the target as well as the methods that you are going use. I can say that you have to concentrate on everything that relevant to the putt, start from getting to know the green, choose the line for putting, approaching, targeting, take the shot as well as try to use your sense to help you make decision. If you can do this, you are likely to be successful in putting.

4. confident in your sense and feeling

Ben Crenshaw, one of the most renowned pro golf said that "if you want to good at putting, you have to have a very good mood when you are on the green" Good golfer believe in their sense and feeling rather than principle of putting mechanism. They use their feeling and instinct to decide what to be done rather than using "how to" theories.

5. Use your imagination

Putting also requires your ability to use eyes and vision, so imagination is really important in order to study the green's "look and feel" about in which direction that you are going to play and enable you to consider about the path of the ball. The more you know about the green, the more opportunity to get a success in putting.

Dr.Team

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You can apply some science to your green reading which will help you to make better decisions but I believe that this should be done in a fairly passive mode. That is, put the information that you are faced with on the green into your mind in a systematic approach, called a putting pre-shot routine. Observe the steps to feed the necessary information to your brain and then… GET OUT OF THE WAY. Stop analysing. Stop thinking. If you let your instincts run the show and you allow the art through to do its work of sending the ball to the target, at the correct pace, you will begin to tread the road to great putting.

Pre-shot Putting Routine, feeding information to your instincts.

1. Pay attention and be observant when you are walking up to the green. Take in the lay of the land and get a feel of how the green lays in its surroundings. How does the land slope generally? Is there water near or around the green? Greens will very often have subtle breaks toward water even if they are not obviously apparent.
2. When reading the ball to target line you should read it from both sides and also stand side on to the putt line (from the low side) and get an idea of it travelling across to the hole. Here you are allowing you brain to get a “feel” of how the green lays from 3 different sides which gives your instinct great information. How many times have you looked at a putt from the other side after you’ve missed it and realised you never saw the slope? If you read from three areas you will pick up far more of the subtle variances in the green. Again let me emphasis that this is not so much for you to use and analyse but rather it is information you are just gently allowing in so your instincts can use it. With that in mind don’t stare hard at anything. Try to simply observe gently by running your eyes over the areas where your brain can gather its own information about the upcoming putt.
3. Watch your playing partners putts carefully even if they are not travelling on the same line as yours they are still giving you some feedback around the hole in that last critical 2ft at the hole. Naturally if the putt is on your line then pay special attention to it but observe etiquette and rules so you don’t infringe either when trying to watch the other persons putt.
4. The line that you imagine the putt taking and the break on the line is only as good as the pace. Change the pace of the putt and you change how much it breaks. Always commit to the line AND pace. This is also where the art comes in because I don’t believe that you should be trying to make pace. I believe you imagine what you want, allow the instincts to give you a pace that takes the ball into the hole with reasonable roll rate and then allow it to happen. Look at the target and then let the putt go. Don’t delay and “think” about it.
   The perfect pace is one that takes the ball 12 to 18 inches past the hole if it misses. In fact scientifically it has been shown that 17” is the best pace for holing the greatest amount of putts, but I am happy with the pace anytime I am between 12 and 18 inches past. So imagine your putts rolling at that speed into the hole and then trust your instincts to reproduce that pace for you.
5. Weather conditions play a part especially if the greens are wet either with dew or rain. In addition the wind will have a real effect on the ball and remember it is a combination between wind velocity and speed of green as to how much the break or pace will be affected. The slicker the greens, the more the wind can “push” the ball. Not only can wind affect the line but also speed if you are putting with the wind or against it.
6. Pick precise targets to putt to. If you can see it then putt to a blade of grass as your target. Putt to a slight disfiguration at the back of the cup if you cannot make out a blade of grass. The rule is pick the smallest possible target you can without straining to see it.
7. Always have two or three practice putts next to the ball and stand in the same orientation as the putt stance required. This mimics your desired putt for real and gives your brain a chance to “Feel and Figure” what it needs to do to get the ball into the hole. Also, make sure that you are fully focussed on your target while making these practice putts.

Remember that putting is in my opinion more an art than a science but you can apply some necessary science in an artful way. What do I mean? Follow a pre-shot routine religiously and give your brain all the info it needs by following the steps I have described, but then get out of the way. Don’t over analyse. Go with your first impression and let your gut instincts guide you. They can make better sense of the science and apply it for you. When you have done everything just focus on your target and let the putt go thinking just of your target.

When you are set to go have one last look at the target and then putt. Don’t wait. Try to putt within 2 seconds of your last look at the target.

Finally let me say that great putting comes from instinctive trust and learning but it is not necessarily an overnight change. Sticking to instinctive putting for a period of 6 months will bring great rewards but do it for a week or two and you are wasting your time. Instinctive putting will get stronger with time as your brain builds a bigger and bigger database of information about how to putt so be patient if you are new to the game. The more time you spend practicing and experimenting with instinctive putting the faster your progress will be.

Mark H Wright

Video of the June 15, 2011 lunar eclipse from the hours of 11 AM to 3 PM PDT.