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Direct Hit Putting - “Make every hit, a direct hit!”

Introducing the “Direct Hit Putting” system that top professionals have been secretly training with since 2005. Torpedo Golf is now making the “Direct Hit” system available to the general golfing public.

Now anyone, on virtually any budget, with a desire to make real and lasting improvements to their putting game, can reap the same benefits as top golfers paying premium rates to top consultants. After only a few minutes with the “Direct Hit Putting” feedback system, players of all skill levels are immediately and intuitively shown what is wrong with their stroke (if anything) and more importantly, how to fix it.

Do not be fooled, however, by the deceptive simplicity of “Direct Hit.” Typical first impressions, even among savvy pros, are those of disbelief. “What, no lasers, high-speed video, Doppler radar, 3D analysis, etc., etc?” they moan. Once they hit their first putt however, no further reassurance is necessary.

The name “Direct Hit” grew out of a need to provide all the meaningful data, real time, typically associated with the often excessively complex, expensive and time-consuming analytical tools associated with traditional sports “vector” analysis. “Direct Hit” also has a double meaning insofar as it highlights the necessity of all putt impacts to be “direct” (90 degrees in relation to the intended target line) and in the right “direction” that is to say; is the intended target line the actual target line? Stated differently, did the ball travel along the intended path?

Despite the high-tech facade characterizing so-called “vector” analyses, there are still widespread misconceptions about the critical elements that comprise a repeatable putting stroke and as a result, the wrong tools are often brought to bear and end up measuring the wrong things in the wrong way (often at great expense).

Practically, there are only two vectors that any golfer needs to be concerned with while putting, and they are:

1. Is my putter face striking the ball squarely (not a glancing blow) at impact, and

2. Is the putter face perpendicular to the intended target line at impact?

This sounds, on face value, overly simplistic, but it isn’t. Again, the only two variables a golfer needs to control in putting are impact angles (putter face square in relation to aim) and aim (putter face at 90 degrees in relation to the intended target line during impact). If these two prerequisites are not addressed, then the speed, or distance, or aim of the putt cannot be reliably judged.

The problem with conventional putting (hitting a real golf ball on a green or carpet) is that the naked eye cannot reliably detect the sidespin resulting from glancing blows because the forward roll and speed of the ball conspire to conceal it. There is only one thing worse than not knowing the cause of mistakes in golf, and that one thing is not knowing the cause of good shots! This uncertainty of face angle, or aim, or both, at impact, creates an impossible dilemma for the golfer. Even is he technically putts the ball on line (ball going toward the hole) there is no way of determining if this “on line” put was struck squarely. When putts are struck with glancing blows, no golfer is skilled enough to reliably control putt length. It would be as absurd as calculating fuel economy part way through a trip without knowing the precise volume of fuel when the trip began. The information necessary to make an accurate calculation is invisible to those who need it. One could never go back and calculate mileage based on a fuel guess. Millions of golfers every day around the world engage in the equivalent activity of “spin guessing.” This is why they hit putts with glancing blows that fall short, fooling themselves into thinking that the putt was not hit hard enough.

Now imagine a golfer facing a putt that is struck, unbeknownst to him, with a glancing blow, falling short of the cup; at the next hole facing a similar putt, he might now logically be tempted to hit it a fraction harder; now imagine he actually does hit it harder the second time, and by sheer (bad) luck, strikes it squarely, sending it 5 feet past the hole. At this point, he’s thoroughly confused and simultaneously desperately seeking a logical explanation, but with objectively verifiable facts in short supply, faulty logic isn’t far behind. Like the primitive tribesman ready and willing to blame poor crop yields on evil spirits, witches, demons, etc., etc., the modern golfer, with all the accoutrements of “modern” golf's analytical tools and theory at his disposal, at this point typically begins ranting against inconsistent green speeds instead of the real culprit, inconsistent face angle position at impact.

Add to this a breaking putt, and now life gets unmanageably complex. Because he never knows which variable is contributing what or how much to his inconsistency, the number of unknown, and hence, unmanageable variables, might as well be infinite. Rather than go into the almost limitless variety of pitfalls, I’ll just give one concrete example (it’s unsettling enough) and then let the reader imagine all the other possible combinations! Imagine a right-handed golfer who occasionally “slices” his putts (strikes them with an outside/in glancing blow [across his body]) faced with a left to right breaking putt. If he “slices” the left to right breaking putt, there will be side (left to right [clockwise]) rotation as well as forward roll. This will result in the ball breaking more to the right than a squarely struck putt by taking the path of least resistance (turning more to the right). At this very moment some of you might be thinking; “ As long as he slices the same amount all the time, he should learn to compensate for this.” The problem is, no golfer possesses the skill to reliably control the degree of “slice or hook” in putts. It would be akin to a pool shark striking the cue ball anywhere but on the center. It’s much easier to make square (center) contact with the cue ball and strike the other balls at angles than visa versa! The tell tale sound of what those familiar with billiards call “squirt” (the mark of a rank amateur), is the result of the cue ball anemically “squirting” to either side of the cue when struck off center.

Imagine the impossibility of trying to play competitive billiards using a “squirt” technique!

The Direct Hit Putting Trainer Price: $49.95 Please contact us   The Direct Hit Putting Trainer will be included free, with your first purchase of a Torpedo Putter.

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