Most golfers on tour these days use their caddies for everything. Yardage to the bunker in the middle of the fairway, front side green yardage, green layout with new pin placement, and who can forget one of the hardest things to do in golf, reading their putts. If you watch or follow any of the pro tours, PGA, LPGA, Nationwide, Champions, you’ll see almost every single player crouched over their ball on the green with their caddie stooping right behind them.
Reading a putt is hard and having an extra set of eyes to gauge your putt, from all angles, can give a player a tremendous advantage over a player who goes it alone. Take for example Tiger Woods, who is by far and away the worlds best golfer and one of the most amazing putters the game has ever seen. If you watch him on the green struggling to read a putt, you’ll see him pull in his Caddie, Steve Williams, to give him his opinion.
Yes, even the best golfer in the world isn’t about to take a putt without first getting a second opinion. If its there, why not use it.
Well, for those of you who have been following Michelle Wie, you’ll see that she seldom chooses to take advice on her putting. Some say it’s hurting her but she has a different opinion.
Most have noticed that Michelle Wie has been struggling with her putting as of late. When you compare her LPGA Championship putts of 12 more than winner Se Ri Pak you can see that it’s been a battle for her. She would have easily taken the title had she hit even half of those putts.
Michelle Wie’s take on her putting is that she feels as though “she can trust herself better” and she doesn’t want to rely on her caddie. She wants to build her game and putting is whats going to win her titles. A recent article in the Honolulu Advertiser has her mentioning that she doesn’t feel pressure to win at such a young age and that she needs to build her confidence around the greens to compete.
She also says that if she can’t tell what the putt will do she won’t hesitate to bring in her caddie for a second opinion but wants to rely more on herself and feel comfortable around the greens.
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[...] Wie played great the whole day with 15 pars, one notable mistake, and finished the round with a 15 foot birdie. Looks like reading her own puts might be paying off. She looks to contend for this years US Women’s Open to make it her first win of her career. [...]
m wie has hands of stone.
tiger NEVER asks stevie what he thinks. Watch. Tiger is looking at the putt. stevie is talking to a blonde in the gallery.