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Aug 4
50m 54s

Mark Sweeney (AimPoint) on How to Read G...

PGA TOUR
About this episode

Mark Sweeney is a Golf Digest Top 50 Golf Instructor and a teacher to many leading PGA TOUR golfers incl. Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Tommy Fleetwood, Padraig Harrington, Adam Scott, Justin Rose and Nelly Korda.

Sweeney is a putting expert and the founder of the AimPoint Green Reading System.  He joins #OntheMark to talk about AimPoint, Green-reading and Better Putting.

He discusses Aimpoint and Elaborates on the Mechanics and the How-To's of AimPoint:

  • AimPoint Express vs the original AimPoint Charts Systems
  • Under-reading vs Over-reading Putts and the Scientific Data supporting which is better
  • AimPoint and Pace of Play and How AimPoint actually Speeds up Play
  • How to Use Aimpoint Express and the Mechanics of how it Works
  • Feeling break in the Body as a way of sensing Slope and Reading Greens
  • Learning and Practicing the Feel of Different Percentages of Slopes,
  • What Elements influence the Break of Putts including: Slope, Speed, Grain, and Wind, and
  • The Time it takes Putts to Get to the Hole from Different Distances and How that can Improve Distance Control.

Here is the #OntheMark guarantee - you will lower your scores if you make more putts.   So download and share this podcast, or watch it on YouTube - search and subcribe to Mark Immelman.

 

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