‘A Stroke of Genius…’ Article from Play Better Golf Magazine
March 9th, 2006 | Biomechanics Consultancy, PGA European Tour Golfers, Putting BiomechanicsA Stroke of Genius…
Forget grooving your stroke on the practice green or across your living room carpet. An increasing number of top players are visiting sports scientist Dr Paul Hurrion at his laboratory in the West Midlands for a detailed analysis of their putting technique. Steve Muncey reports…
“I’ve got a great assignment for you” the editor said. “It involves plenty of travel, you’re taking a photographer with you and you’ll be having your technique analysed by a top expert in his field.”
“Don’t tell me, it’s a lesson with Leadbetter at some top-notch golf academy in Florida with loads of free golf thrown in.” “Actually…. no.”
“Ok, then, it’s got to be a session with Butch Harmon on location at his new academy in the Bahamas?”
“Erm… not quite.” “How about Bob Torrance at Kingsbarns or Muirfield, then?”
“Even better” he said, “You’re not going to a golf course at all, but to a laboratory.
I’m sending you to Coventry…”
In more ways than one, I mused, as, instead of jetting out of Heathrow to glamorous West Palm Beach, I crawled past it on the M4, en-route to the West Midlands. And if that wasn’t enough to temper my enthusiasm for this particular assignment, I was to have, of all things, my putting stroke analysed, critiqued and, quite possibly torn apart by some white-coated boffin holding a clipboard inside a laboratory bristling with hard drives…
The ironic thing is, as anyone who has had the dubious pleasure of playing golf with me will tell you, my putting is just about the last thing that I need to worry about. Let’s just say that my long game isn’t exactly Faldoesque – “more planes than Heathrow airport”, “Jim Furyk in reverse” and “looks like you’re swinging inside a telephone box” are just a few of the editor’s more favourable descriptions of my golf swing.
The fact that I currently manage to play off an eight handicap is testimony to my prowess on the greens, so if there’s one part of my game that I’m confident in, it’s my putting. Neither was I totally convinced that technology, no matter how advanced, would be able to effectively analyse and improve such a highly individual part of the game.
How would a computer be able to second-guess my feel, touch and ability to read the greens? Then again, even if a detailed analysis of my putting proved to be a complete waste of time, at least I’d discovered a little bit more about the mysterious Quintic Consultancy Ltd, a five-year-old company whose little-known cutting-edge techniques are helping to boost the putting performance of many European PGA Tour Players…
The complete article can be found on the following page: www.quintic.com/quinac/Puttingarticle.htm
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