| At first, it was a crooked stick and a feather stuffed | | | | the score of the average golfer has remained largely |
| ball. Leap forward 100 years and it is large Titanium | | | | unchanged over the past 100 years. It seems that |
| club heads on ultra light weight graphite shafts and | | | | the average player scores as poorly today as they |
| perfectly balanced hi-tech dimpled golf balls designed | | | | did with wooden shafts and gutta percha balls. |
| to fly far and straight. | | | | Why hasn't the average score improved? We have |
| Not only has the equipment changed, but so has the | | | | access to golf instruction from many sources. We |
| course. Turf technology has transformed the sand | | | | have the PGA and its group of trained professional |
| greens of the olden day into the perfectly smooth | | | | teachers. We have the best equipment. |
| grass masterpieces some of us are lucky enough to | | | | There is only one reason the average score has not |
| play on. | | | | improved over the last century. The average golfer |
| Even the natural athletic abilities of the human being | | | | still can't make putts. If you want to improve your |
| have been dramatically improved over the last few | | | | scoring, you have to improve your putting. |
| decades. A football player of the 1920s would get | | | | One must consider that the average golfer is limited |
| killed on the field today. And kids are brought into | | | | by the putting method they use. The same things |
| sports at an early age these days. | | | | have been failing for 100 years now. Maybe it's time |
| Yet, despite these advances in all areas of the game, | | | | to look for a better way to putt. |