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Bulls, that's probably Geoff Mangum. He runs the Putting Zone webpage.

He does look like a crazy ol' kook, but the man knows his putting. I have never putted as well as I have since reading his book -- and I've only had time to really read half of it. It goes into a lot more stuff than the average person is probably looking for -- including discussions on how the brain interprets the visual inputs it gets about the the ground from eyes, and how the brain interprets the feel in the muscles. If you want to skip all that, you can go right to what Geoff considers the Optimal stroke, but I personally like to know why he considers it the best, so I read all the neurological stuff at the beginning of the book. That's probably why I haven't finished the book yet!

But, I can still say, having only read half of it to date, it is without the only putting book of it's kind on the market today. Pelz likes the bombard you with lots of charts and graphs, and his idea basically comes down to "now practice this putting stroke 100,000 until you get it". Lots of other putting books are the author telling you about their personal method -- which they of course think is best -- but they rarely talk about why it is the best, and even more rarely intelligently why.

That's where Mangum's book is different. He tells you why he thinks his method is the best, and can actually cite a bunch of science to back up his claims. He also isn't anywhere nearly as regimental as someone like Pelz is. Mangum wants us all to rely on our instincts, which if you have lived on Earth for more than 6 months, you have. We all have because he all know how gravity works, at least on an intuitive level.