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This putting drill WILL get you addicted

A quick but difficult putting drill helps you dial in your 6 foot range This will make a MASSIVE difference to your putting game

How To Do It

1⃣ Set up stations 6 foot from the hole at 4 different locations
2⃣ Have 5 balls ready to use
3⃣ Start at whatever station you want
4⃣ You must make all 5 putts before moving on

This might seem easy but let me tell ya…it isn’t. Once you get this down and becomes automatic, increase distance by a foot or add more balls

LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU

Starting in 2022, the European Tour will be rebranded as the DP World Tour in a deal set to double the total prize money to more than $200 million.

Justin Thomas has not been shy about how he feels about his 2021 season. Aside from a win at The Players, it wasn't what he wanted. Now, he's ready for a breakout year. Plus, Greg Norman's venture needs players, a name you should remember and more.

Aces: Back-to-Back

November 8, 2021

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Faces of the NCGA: Yealimi Noh

By Barry Salberg

NCGA correspondent Barry Salberg recently caught up with Concord native Yealimi Noh, who in addition to a highly successful, busy 2021 season on the LPGA (including a triumphant 2-1-0 showing at the Solheim Cup), just relocated with her family to Dallas.

You’re now in Dallas?

It happened literally a month or so ago, I didn’t even get to go back home and do anything, I just went straight from the European swing to my new home.

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Viktor Hovland closed with a 4-under 67 for a four-shot victory in the World Wide Technology Championship, making him the first repeat winner since Mayakoba began in 2007.

Steven Alker, who had to qualify for his first PGA Tour Champions event three months ago, fired a 68 for a 2-shot win in the TimberTech Championship Sunday in Florida, moving into the top 36 players who advance to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Belgian Thomas Pieters fired a three-under-par 68 in the final round of the Portugal Masters on Sunday to clinch the title by two strokes for his fifth European Tour crown.

Saying that he "fought my way through the round," Tim Petrovic birdied the final two holes for an 11-under 61 and a share of the lead with Jim Furyk Saturday in the TimberTech Championship in Boca Raton, Florida.

Viktor Hovland posted the lowest score of his PGA Tour career at 9-under 62 to take a 2-shot lead in the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba.

Thomas Pieters and Matthieu Pavon will enter the final round of the Portugal Masters sharing a four-shot lead after the pair rose to the top of the leaderboard on Saturday.

Keita Nakajima became the first No. 1 amateur to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, closing with a 3-under 68 and outlasting Taichi Kho on the second hole of a playoff Saturday.

Matthew Wolff bogeyed the 16th and 18th holes on Friday and settled for a two-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler in the World Wide Technology Championship.

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Nino Bertasio saw his lead halved to two shots at the halfway stage of the Portugal Masters, with Thomas Pieters among the players to move into contention.

Keita Nakajima of Japan shot a 4-under 67 on Friday to take a 1-shot lead going into the final round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

Information is great. Actionable information is vastly better. That’s the premise behind Rapsodo’s Insights analysis.

Simply, Insights is an investigative addition to Rapsodo’s MLM (Mobile Launch Monitor) platform. Every personal launch monitor produces, with varying degrees of accuracy, shot data such as ball speed, launch angle and carry distance. Assuming the information is relatively consistent, that’s great. But, what should a golfer do with it?

That’s the million-dollar question.

As with a good bit of personal technology, the device is really a gateway into something much more robust. Consider your smartphone. And now make a list of everything you do with that phone beyond dialing up a restaurant for some take-out. The point is that a product is important. However, perhaps its greatest asset is how it allows for expansion and integration, primarily through software-based applications.

In that vein, Insights is both a short-term value-add for Rapsodo users and perhaps a harbinger of what consumers should expect to see in this space moving forward.

Greg Norman announced the addition of two key executives to his staff at LIV Golf Investments, the group that announced his hiring as CEO last week and that is behind an effort to start a new golf league.