The PGA of America was founded in 1916 and has more than 28,000 members. Its website, www.pga.com, is used to foster communications throughout the membership and to promote the game to millions of golfers around the globe.
Each week, the PGA.com website features a major instructional article in its new series A Lesson Learned. The Series is designed to highlight lessons to be learned from the previous week's PGA TOUR event. Each article is penned by a PGA member and appears on the front page of the PGA website directly beneath the photo of the tournament winner.
This week's winner was Charles Howell, Champion of the Nissan Open.
This week's author?
None other than our own Ted Fort.
Ol' Ted is getting to be a not-so-well-kept secret.
Read now what thousands of PGA members are now reading.
Kudos on a great article, Ted, and also for the recognition (you deserve it). It is good to be reminded that probably the best and simplest way to shoot better scores is to make more putts. On an 18 hole par 72 round, if you hit every green in regulation and shoot par, exactly half of your strokes are putts. That 8 foot putt (and its follow up, if you do not make it) counts just as much as every other stroke. It is just so much more fun to hit that little white ball and watch it get very small, very quickly as it flies away like a missile.
I did not see the end of the tournament on Sunday, but I was thinking as I was watching that Mickelson was playing like a wild man and Howell was being VERY consistent and making A LOT of putts, as you pointed out. Then again, it would be nice to play like a wild man and shoot 68 .
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