The year Billy Casper won his first U.S. Open, at Winged Foot Golf Club, in New York, he played a couple of rounds with Ben Hogan. After the second of the rounds, in which Casper missed a lot of greens in regulation but holed numerous putts to save pars and shoot a score that put him in the lead, Hogan said to him, “Son, if you couldn’t putt you’d be selling hot dogs for a living.” Perhaps, but Casper could putt and never ran a hot dog stand.

-Al Barkow, excerpt from Final Word on Putting

The Final Word on Putting is a consensus of all I’ve learned about putting while a collaborating writer on instruction books with acknowledged master putters. They include Billy Casper, Dave Stockton, Phil Rodgers, and the legendary George Low. In the two books I helped Ken Venturi write, there is also insights on the art of putting.

It comes down to putting essentially with the hand you handle a fork or knife with, turn the key in doors, pick coins out of your pocket. In other words, the hand with the most feel for tasks that require accuracy and sensibility. Putting is just that, and in this book I explain how and why you should let your Dominant Hand do 99 percent of the putting. If you are right handed, let your right hand be the boss of your work on the greens. It makes perfect sense.

For a long time I have had a love-hate relationship with putting, a lot of it on the hate side. Now, I can’t wait to the get to the greens and take a run at at any putt I end up with. I think you will feel the same way after reading this book.

The inspiration for this book came after talking with Mike Maves, also known as Sevam1, who is a fine golf teacher and has published an e-book on aspects of Ben Hogan’s swing that you will find very informative and useful in your own game. Mike’s videos appear on YouTube. I thank Mike for inspiring me to put together this book on putting.

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Thank you.

Al Barkow