Aimpoint controversy: It slows down play, looks silly, but putting guru Phil Kenyon says it could help you make more putts

It’s so much more fun to get out the driver and hit bombs at the range, but practicing your putting is essential to bringing your score down. Just like most parts of the game of golf, putting requires feedback and that’s where golf instructors can really help you on the greens. The name everyone is talking about is Phil Kenyon and our friends at Grosvenor Sport helped us get in touch with the putting coach of the stars before heading to Quail Hollow for the PGA Championship.

Kenyon revealed what he thought about AimPoint and how it can make most of us amateur golfers better when it comes to reading greens and sinking putts.

Here’s what Phil Kenyon says about AimPoint and why he recommends it for amateurs:

I like AimPoint, I can teach AimPoint to students. It’s a method and if you look at skills in general, there’s a variety of different methods you can deploy to develop skill. AimPoint is one method, one technique.

There’s some that don’t use AimPoint that are more intuitive when it comes to green reading. They’ll look for other elements of information or use their intuition more. Particularly an elite level, it’s finding what the best strategy is for you as a personality. What some of your traits are as a golfer, that can take a bit of working out.

AimPoint can help average golfers because they’re so poor with their green reading that they have no solid concepts. If you learnt AimPoint it would help your basic principles to get good feedback and develop something of a skill there. I’ve seen a lot of club golfers that are poor with their green reading.

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You see it a lot on a Pro-Am. For a lot of players, the low hanging fruit can be green reading. AimPoint is great for club golfers because their green reading is so far out that traditional techniques can’t get their putting in a better place whereas AimPoint can give you a structure to get some good information.

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