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 Glenn: I just watched you hit a variety of shots. At your age, what is your golfing strength and what is your weakness? Lee: I’m still hitting it very solid off of the tee. I know a lot of young guys who would take my drives. I’m pretty good from 125, 135 yards in. I’m as deadly as ever. I have two parts of my game that are more weak than before. First, my long irons. The body doesn’t work like it used to. Second, the putting. It is just not there anymore. Eyesight has a lot to do with it. When I played well, my eyes saw the distance and then instincts told me how much power I needed. I could stand up to a 60-footer and clearly see the line almost as if someone had drawn it. Now I can’t see the line, so I can’t feel how hard to hit it. When I was playing my best golf, I’d read the putt as I was walking up onto the green from 50 yards out. I get amused when I see a guy looking at a putt from six different directions. If you look at the green as you’re walking up from 50 yards or even as far back as 100 yards, you can see the break. Glenn: If the amateur player would practice a lot of lag putts, wouldn’t that help so they could better read greens? Lee: Definitely, because many times you don’t putt to the cup. You’ve got to putt to a spot away from the hole. The best tip I can give anyone is every putt that you hit is straight. Even if the putt breaks 6 feet to the left, you have to hit it straight to a point, then it can take the break by itself. Learn how to spot that point by practicing many, many lag putts. Glenn Monday is a Los Angeles-based teaching professional and author of “Know Your Swing.” He can be reached at (310) 322-8924. |
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