You CAN over prepare...when it comes to putting

So you don't think individual pace and overall tempo of an player is important?

Well, just recall the putting clinic put on at the Ryder Cup Saturday and Sunday by Team U.S.A.

It got to a point, for me, that I was timing the players for both teams and I found that TW, Phil and Stricker were taking 30% more time over putts than normal, (this is some of the stuff we teachers do-what can I tell ya?).  Anyway, Graham, Westwood, Kymer and MacIlroy, on the other hand, appeared to be 'normal' in their overall approach to their putting. 

Sure the Ryder Cup is important....but come on, to a degree, you have to play your own game and that includes your own pace on the green.....

The Rush Limbaugh of the golf world, Johnny Miller,commented on both Saturday and Sunday that he felt the Americans were taking too much time with their putts....

For me, it was like watching grass grow waiting for them to stroke their putts, (Cinck's head games at one point notwithstanding).  It really seemed out of the ordinary for most all of them.  Most golfers know that when you are in a routine, your pace and timing and tempo will be virtually the same....all the way round the lot.  And I have to say that we were 'off time' when it came to our pace out on the putting surface and it cost us.  It's not too late, but the guys have gotta get back into their routine's!

O.K.  the first couple days were right up the alley for the European Team.  Now let's hope the individual matches can get Team U.S.'s blood flowing again......GO U.S.A.  We  can do it...!