I hit some good putts, I hit some bad putts.
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The tour recognized that its own measurements of putting (putts per round, putts per green in regulation, and total distance putts made) were flawed.
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I missed a lot of putts, had a bunch of three-putts.
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My wedges were good, rolled in some putts, definitely missed some putts.
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I made some putts, and a couple long two-putts, so it was good.
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Koepka, who had just 25 putts, then sank one of his seven birdie putts.
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"No three putts (and) I had eight or nine putts over 30 feet," Spieth said.
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Walker needed only 25 putts, taking advantage of benign morning conditions and making more than 85 feet worth of putts.
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Woods's second and third birdies came on putts of 13 and 10 feet, and he took a total of 27 putts in Thursday's round.
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"Hopefully I make some putts like I did at Travelers, and that's the key to anybody's game is if you can make some putts," said Watson.
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Five missed birdie putts of 12 feet or less and two missed par putts from inside 6 feet will make any golfer drop his chin to his chest.
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He one-putted on six holes of the final round and needed only the customary two putts at the others, and he sank 21987-foot putts at Nos.
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While Johnson had needed only 53 putts to tour Shinnecock Hills' undulating greens in the first two rounds, on Saturday it took him 38 putts to complete his round.
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"I just misread a number of putts today just by half a cup," said Spieth, who was off target on the lengthy putts he had made in the first three rounds.
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I was hitting all my putts where I wanted to.
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"I just need a few putts to fall," he said.
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Oosthuizen hit good iron shots, but had trouble making putts.
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Spieth had 30 putts, which he considered the bright spot.
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Ko is tied for the fewest putts through three rounds.
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He talks or yelps a lot on backswings and putts.
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Any time you're making putts ... you're going to shoot good.
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I made some nice pars and rolled in some putts.
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The putts aren't going in but I think he's fine.
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He finished with 26 putts, one better than on Thursday.
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"I didn't think I was hitting bad putts," he said.
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I just holed important putts for pars at certain stages.
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Woods missed fairways and greens, and he needed 23.04 putts.
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Four times on his outward half Woods holed putts from outside 10 feet, and though he did not hole any long putts coming home, he did not get himself in to as much trouble either.
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In one of the more excruciating moments in recent Masters memory, Ernie Els required six putts to complete the first hole, even though the first of those putts was from no more than 26 feet.
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I mean, I didn't really make any putts the whole round.
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"What a difference a few putts going in makes," Ogilvy said.
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The key is to hit putts solid and see what happens.
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Finally rolled in a couple of putts on nine and 10.
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I grew up holing putts back home to win The Open.
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"I fought the speed on my putts all day," Palmer said.
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He stalled midround, missing birdie putts inside 241 feet at Nos.
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"She says she putts better because of her boobs," Kang said.
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Rory's thing with Augusta is he has got to make putts.
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He was making a lot of putts on the front nine.
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The kind that can make a professional golfer fluff easy putts?
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He has also altered his setup as he stands over putts.
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Reed started birdie-eagle and then missed plenty of short putts.
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Naegel keeps his own yardage and typically reads his own putts.
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Both players made birdie on the final hole with short putts.
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So the lesson was to make more putts in the Masters.
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"I knew if we were going to have a chance to win, I was going to have to make some putts and I knew I was going to have to make some par putts," Horschel said.
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The Spaniard pressed home his advantage, leaving himself two putts at glory.
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"I've been hitting great putts," the 29-year-old Fowler told reporters.
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It flipped and I got hot and made a bunch of putts.
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To not see putts go in the past few tournaments is tough.
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The greens got really fast, the wind was affecting all the putts.
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I felt like I hit good putts, just nothing was going in.
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But three-putts for bogeys on the 14th and 15th cost him.
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"I have not made a lot of putts this week," he said.
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Spieth had two curling 20-foot birdie putts on the back nine.
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Players practiced putts on Monday and Tuesday mornings on freshly manicured grass.
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Two putts later, he had a posted a 10 on the hole.
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She must have hit a lot of fairways and made good putts.
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But I hit some really nice putts and I played really solid.
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They have made a lot of big putts at the right time.
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Hit almost every fairway, almost every green and then holed some putts.
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"As the putts go down, the thumbs are coming up," he said.
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But on Saturday, he missed seven birdie putts from within 633 feet.
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He is not used to making pressure putts to make the cut.
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Three timid putts on consecutive holes led to a playoff with Rose.
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He sank seven putts from outside 12 feet, including a 30-footer.
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Andrade stopped stroking putts, approached Olazábal and gave him a warm embrace.
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I've learned here that you have to be aggressive on your putts.
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I felt like I paid a lot more attention to exactly what the putts were going to do and just tried to make sure I just trusted the line that I was playing and made some putts today.
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"Even the ones I missed, I hit some really good putts," he said.
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I played some really good golf and holed a lot of crucial putts.
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Even his putts, delivered pigeon-toed and slightly knock-kneed, packed a punch.
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I'm playing good, and I'm hitting the ball solid and making some putts.
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We started reading putts, started seeing it and we started pouring them in.
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Feel like I'm hitting my putts on my line with the correct speed.
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He takes putts within (the length of a) driver, like those long drivers.
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Other than that, I was hitting them well, I made a few putts.
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Four of the putts he sank in that span were over 11 feet.
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But the missed birdie putts might have been starting to grate on him.
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I rolled the ball nicely, I made some good putts here and there.
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When you have 26 putts a round, that'll do it all day long.
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If he starts making some of those midrange putts, he'll be in business.
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McIlroy three putts from just off the green for back-to-back bogeys.
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Justin Thomas missed consecutive short birdie putts that stopped any momentum he had.
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Both players missed par putts on the last hole to force the playoff.
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It might look funny, but missing putts can make a brave man cry.
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That eagle on 673, the putts he made on 4, 5 and 7.
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He finished with just 23 putts over all and sank several long birdie putts, including a 39-footer on the picturesque par-3 eighth hole, where hundreds of fans sit on hills adjacent to the green to take in the action.
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Those are the putts that haven't been going in as much for me recently.
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I fought hard but missed a few putts I wish I could get back.
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Speed control needs to improve to have a chance for these putts to drop.
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If you're putting like that all day, you're always going to make some putts.
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He got his round into red figures with consecutive lengthy birdie putts on Nos.
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"I started hitting it better and I just kept making the putts," she said.
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She needed just 25 putts in the second round and 28 in the third.
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Washington (CNN)No drives, no putts and no chance for a hole-in-one.
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"I felt like I played pretty decent, just didn't hole any putts," Hull said.
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"I gave myself a lot of chances and the putts dropped today," she added.
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It's been a summer of tweets, putts, and international travel for President Donald Trump.
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In life you gotta make the putts, but a lot of it is genetic.
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Holing putts at the right time under intense pressure has been the decisive factor.
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Thompson missed five putts inside 4 feet, four of them to the right side.
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On the front nine, he had seven one-putts, including four in a row.
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Looking thunderstruck, Molinari and Finau missed bogey putts that led to matching double bogeys.
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He said he had trouble seeing the lines on many of his putts Saturday.
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"I played fine, I just didn't hole the putts," Johnson said at his locker.
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I made some good birdie putts early and then some great par saves later.
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As the round progressed, Johnson spent longer and longer trying to read his putts.
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I've been hitting the ball very well and I'm starting to make some putts.
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The putts continued to fall at the 10th as both players birdied yet again.
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It wasn't that I was hitting bad putts, my speed was a little off.
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If those putts go in, it's five, six under par with not much trouble.
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But if I just continue hitting good putts, eventually they'll go in, in boatloads.
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Hit a shot like I did yesterday, two putts and we're in the playoff.
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He excelled with the irons again Saturday, leaving himself birdie putts of reasonable length.
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I was hitting my putts on my lines; I just wasn't reading them right.
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"It was just one of those days, they (putts) just didn't go in," said Watson.
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So it's just making the putts at the right time to keep the momentum going.
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I holed a couple of nice putts and played real solid where I needed to.
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"It was nice, I made some putts today, that was basically the difference," Woods said.
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"She putted amazing today, walked in so many putts," Thompson said of her partner Kerr.
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"Any hole out here, it's easy to miss putts," said the athletic, loose-limbed Johnson.
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Stenson made birdie putts of 12 and 15 feet on the second and third holes.
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He said he had struggled to put the ball within range of making birdie putts.
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After he putts out, he will probably not begin his second round for many hours.
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He could feel his right wrist rotating, causing him to miss putts to the left.
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"If one or two of those putts fall, it's a whole different day," she said.
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He birdied four of the next 12 holes without a bogey, needing just 22 putts.
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"It all depends on if these putts are going to drop or not," Korda said.
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Im, who got through the second round on only 25 putts, was atop the Web.
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But his inability to sink those putts has kept him from making a serious charge.
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"Those three putts I missed kind of took the air out of everything," Koepka said.
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This week, the good putts lipped out and the bad ones didn't have a chance.
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Blasts out, two putts, for what Trump records as a 4 (in fact a 7).
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"It was one of those days where all the putts were going in," said Martin.
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Or give him a kiss when he putts through that windmill on the sixth hole.
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Pulled myself together on the back nine, made some good swings, made a few putts.
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In a 2011 study, researchers asked college golfers to execute putts from a prescribed distance.
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As of last week, Langer ranked second in putting average on the senior circuit this year (27 putts per green, an improvement from 2444 in 143, before the anchoring ban), while McCarron ranked fifth (214 putts per green this season, down from 21 in 22019).
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So that's certainly going to pay off, even though you still got extremely difficult two-putts.
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He missed some putts and seemed to have issues with his distance control throughout the round.
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A lot of times you can hit great putts on poa and they don't go in.
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Howell recovered with a birdie at 15 but stumbled again with three putts at the 16th.
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Apart from that I felt like I played pretty decent, I just didn't hole any putts.
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I just get a little shaky and jittery on putts and that's what happened on 15.
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I lipped out some short putts that kind of got me almost a little bit pressing.
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"I made a lot of long putts today and that was the difference," he told PGATour.com.
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It ended with Westwood, the Europeans' most experienced Cup player, missing excruciatingly short putts at Nos.
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As long as I keep giving myself chances to make putts, I think I can win.
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He needed just 25 putts on Friday as he moved into a share of the lead.
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He had a whopping 36 putts, which ranked 113th in the all-important strokes gained category.
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David was hitting some great shots into the hole and I had to make some putts.
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Smith and Blixt could have won it on earlier playoff holes but missed short birdie putts.
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"I just could not hit the putts hard enough; I left every putt short," Woods said.
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Phelps took note of Spieth's glancing over at Greller in frustration as the missed putts mounted.
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On consecutive holes, he ran long putts some 10 feet by the cup and made bogey.
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I didn't make a lot of putts but made the ones I needed to for birdie.
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His knee was strong enough to play, but not to practice or squat to read putts.
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I hit some good putts that didn't go in, but overall it was a nice start.
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I wish I could have a couple of putts back and hit them a little harder.
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They dropped balls in the rough to test its thickness and rolled putts on the greens.
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"I felt like I was hitting good putts and they just weren't going in," Reavie said.
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"I holed some putts, maybe three or four putts outside 20 feet ... and I haven't done that for a while," said the 28-year-old, whose highlight came at the par-three 16th where he drained a 30-footer in front of a raucous stadium crowd.
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Mickelson had missed momentous putts before (a lip-out on a putt for 59 at a PGA Tour event in 2013) and made momentous putts before (the 18-footer that rolled around and in to give him the Masters title in 2004), but this was different.
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The South Korean-born Ko was bogey free for the final round and made several crucial putts to stay in the hunt, including pair of long birdie putts on the front nine and a solid par-save on the 13th to stay two shots back of Jutanugarn.
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I didn't hole the putts that I needed to ... I didn't get up and down for birdies.
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I'll tell ya, Bill Clinton, he took a Mulligan on putts, chips, when I played with him.
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I came out holing birdie putts on one and two... and I was close on three too.
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I've just haven't made any putts and, importantly, haven't made the key ones to keep momentum going.
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He rarely looked comfortable on the greens Thursday, when it took 35 putts to negotiate 18 holes.
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I had a couple of long putts that burned the edges... hopefully they will fall in tomorrow.
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She counted at least four putts that she thought she had hit well enough to be birdies.
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The swing was good enough, though, to put him in position to make the putts he needed.
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"I haven't made those key putts to keep the momentum of a round going," Woods said Friday.
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"I hit the ball in good spots and made birdie putts when I had them," Henderson said.
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Fleetwood, a hirsute Englishman, took control of the match for good by making birdie putts at Nos.
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The result: The golfers who thought they were holding a professional's club sank 32 percent more putts.
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In 1976, as an 18-year-old newcomer to the European Tour, he began jerking putts uncontrollably.
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Mr. Langer has periodically struggled with the "yips," a condition that causes problems with short, easy putts.
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I got through over par and didn't get any coming in when I hit some good putts.
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Bradley putted beautifully in the first round, draining five birdie putts that were 22011 feet or longer.
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"When he putts well and when he's confident, he's the best," 1991 British Open champion Baker-Finch said.
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The Australian birdied 10, 12, and 13, while Koepka missed short birdie putts at 12, 13, and 10.
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But I'm not going to complain because I made a lot of good putts on the front (nine).
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"I putted pretty good yesterday, putted really good today," said Kang , who needed 25 putts over his round.
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"There was a lot of big momentum putts in there that I had not been holing," McIlroy said.
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Give yourself chances and you will roll putts and that's what I'm going to try to do tomorrow.
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"Made some really good par saves in the middle of it," said Wesley, who needed just 27 putts.
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"I rolled it well today, hit a lot of good putts early that didn't go in," he said.
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Pornanong hardly missed a fairway and holed putts for birdies on the third, sixth, eighth and 11th greens.
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So after he was discharged in June, Sauers began chipping and hitting putts on his backyard putting green.
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Then he watched Blayne Barber, Henrik Norlander and Camilo Villegas miss par putts from 10 feet or closer.
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I had a few tough holes but I managed to make the putts so overall I played solid.
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Spaniard Sergio Garcia six-putted the fifth hole, while Rory McIlroy suffered five three-putts in his 75.
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"I made the putts I had to make; when I missed the greens I saved the pars," Uribe said.
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"We got a few putts to go early and just kind of kept the course," he told PGA radio.
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"I felt like I hit good putts," Johnson said after posting a 36-hole total of four-under 136.
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Par allows a set number of shots to reach the green, and then two putts to sink the ball.
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I could have shot something near even par if I would have made some putts but I made nothing.
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He hit eight of 14 fairways and 11 of 18 greens and needed 32 putts to complete the round.
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That left Knost, who hit all 18 greens in regulation, with short-iron shots to set up birdie putts.
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Woods hit 12 of 18 greens and 10 of 14 fairways, needing just 27 putts to complete the round.
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I drove it well, kept the ball in play, hit a lot of greens and made some good putts.
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Moore is ranked 203nd but showed his mettle this week, displaying a knack for holing critical putts on Sunday.
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"I kind of holed a few putts that I wasn't holing and I got up-and-down," Hull said.
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He liked how it felt, and the putts were dropping, so McIlroy decided to use the stroke in competition.
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Lee6, playing two groups ahead of Boutier, was practicing putts when the Frenchwoman could not make the sand shot.
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He takes deep breaths and, particularly on putts, he counts to three in his head before starting his stroke.
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They argued constantly about anything from club selection to reading putts, and she fired him at least 10 times.
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Brooker knows the greens like his backyard, which is why Ko trusted him to read many of her putts.
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He putt-putts across America, his heart tucked up into the overhead bin, from where it is frequently retrieved.
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"The name of the game is you've got to make putts, and you've got to roll it," Woods said.
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I just thought if I make a few putts, it might play well and I might be all right.
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What it did teach me is to give the same effort to every shot, even the shortest of putts.
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Broadie determined that the actual culprit was a failure to one-putt enough, and Donald was leaving putts short.
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Rose completed his bogey-free round using just 27 putts, as he found 15 of 18 greens in regulation.
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Some putts didn't go in on the front nine and I just stayed patient and made some coming in.
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He hit the ball so pure on Friday that he missed five putts inside 7 feet and still shot 67.
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After a second wayward tee shot, he three-putts No.2 for another bogey and falls out of the lead.
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Six putts later, he carded a 9 on the hole — it was originally reported as a 10 but later changed.
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Mickelson, however, struggled from the start on Sunday and could not keep making enough par putts to hold off Taylor.
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He frequently sprayed drives into the trees and misfired on straightforward putts, turning birdies into pars and pars into bogeys.
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I hit some great putts but there were some a little off-speed that hit the holes and went in.
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"I started off hitting it a little inconsistent, but I made some really great putts," Alex said after her round.
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He finished the day having hit eight of 14 fairways, seven of 18 greens in regulation and needing 25 putts.
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He missed the green with his second shot, chipped to 21999 feet and took six putts to find the hole.
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Thus, after a round with multiple three-putts, a player will talk about all the good reads that went unrewarded.
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The idea is to use the short putter for the medium-length putts that have been a struggle for him.
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"I hit so many quality shots all day, whether it was tee-to-green or it was putts," Woods said.
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He hit towering, soft-landing iron shots, and finally — yes, finally — was able to coax a few putts to fall.
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"I made a few more longer putts yesterday but still putted well today," said Holmes, a two-times Phoenix winner.
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Yes, as he was quick to point out, he watched a handful of putts burn the edges of the cup.
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"I didn't feel like I played particularly well but I made the putts that I had to make," he said.
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"My job today was to come out and make putts, and just let Brooks do what he does," said Snedeker.
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Having been perfect on all 24 putts inside 10 feet for the week to that point, McIlroy's attempt lipped out.
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Scott also blamed himself for missing two short putts on the front nine, one from 18 inches on No. 5.
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"Every single hole, you can find as much break as you'll see on any putts you'll hit all year," he said.
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Kaufman, level with six to play, produced a sizzling finish as he drained birdie putts at the 13th, 14th and 16th.
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It was a lot of fun because he actually did play some good golf, and was getting excited making some putts.
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"The greens were getting fuzzy, they&aposre getting slow, and I didn&apost hit the putts quite hard enough," Woods said.
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I did the little things that was able to keep the momentum going and made a couple putts here and there.
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I actually left a couple of putts out there, but I'm not going to complain about the score that I shot.
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Just your mind gets off a little bit once you feel like you hit a few putts that don't go in.
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He also missed short par putts at 17 and 18 to end the round a distant 14 strokes off the pace.
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He had 14 putts for birdie in the third round, and all but one of them were from inside 25 feet.
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Green, a 2147-year-old Australian, maintained her momentum from a superb opening round in which she needed just 222 putts.
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He hit 23 of 63 greens in regulation on Friday and has needed only 55 putts in his first two rounds.
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On the par-4 14th, Scott Stallings reached the green in three and then needed six putts to finish the hole.
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At the 14th hole: Woods on fairway, Woods on green, Woods with good shot at a birdie but two putts instead.
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So it's nice to be able to feel like I'm seeing the greens really well and seeing some putts go in.
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With two putts he finished at eight-under 276 for his third victory on the PGA Tour in 250 career starts.
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I didn't hole that many putts this week but I tried to give myself quite a few opportunities over the weekend.
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She just missed two putts — for eagle on 16 and birdie on 18 — that would have put her at 21-under.
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Just missed a few putts that I needed to make, and kind of my wedges let me down a little bit.
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"It's nice to see putts go in early, especially from a little bit of length," he said after a nine-birdie round.
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"I've done a lot better this week, but at the end of the day, it's more important to make putts," Woods said.
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And there's always the feisty Ian Poulter, who has sunk some of the most memorable and clutch putts in the event's history.
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That might seem like a stupid canned burn (it is), but I'm not actually dissing the storied game of pars and putts.
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I had so many close calls, so many putts that I hit close that just didn't go in, it's just incredibly frustrating.
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"My shots were good, but my putts were so good I couldn't believe it," Nomura was quoted as saying by Kyodo News.
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Despite a bogey at the 693th hole, he played the final seven holes in even par, making clutch par putts at Nos.
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We had two three putts but usually when you're putting well you're being aggressive and you're going to have a couple mistakes.
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"It would have been nice to hole a couple of putts on the back nine for sure," the 27-year-old said.
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All three players had mouthwatering chances to claim victory but grazed edges, misread lines or mis-hit their potential playoff-ending putts.
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If he has displayed a weakness, it has been on the greens, where short putts have especially bedeviled him in tense moments.
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I ran a few putts way too hard, almost trying to force them in, left my partner in a few tough spots.
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And he has switched to a heavier, mallet-style putter that should make it easier to quicken the pace of his putts.
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"My irons, I just tended to hit exactly where we were picking the spots, and I holed a few putts," Fleetwood said.
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"If I can just make a few putts, I feel like I could be right there, right next to Gary," Koepka said.
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On Friday, she had 2166 putts on the way to a three-under-par 69 and a seven-under total of 137.
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It has been a more hostile European crowd than in the past, with the spectators regularly booing American miscues and missed putts.
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And he had the yips — involuntary hand and arm movements that caused him to yank his putts one way or the other.
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When you play safe into the greens, you give yourself very tricky putts, like the one I had — downhill, left-to-right.
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Birdies were at a premium, and Australian Adam Scott called it "carnage" as putts rolled off greens and settled 40 yards away.
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The wind remained strong, though the course was manageable for everyone who holed putts and stayed out of bunkers and deep grass.
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But things stalled from there, as Woods struggled off the tee on the back nine and failed to convert a few putts.
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" He added: "I hit the ball well, kept the ball in play, made a few putts, controlled my ball in the wind.
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Adam Scott was in the hunt until he missed six consecutive putts from under 10 feet that dropped him out of contention.
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McIlroy tried to draw Woods into casual conversation early in the match only to have his attempts peter out like short putts.
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I ran a number of putts by but I made a lot of them coming back and made a lot of short ones.
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I had a couple of three-putts, didn't hit wedges close, didn't hit any fairways today, did a lot of little things wrong.
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But Thomas steadied with clutch play over the next three holes, twice holing putts of around 12 feet to re-establish his authority.
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One stroke behind is fellow South Korean Kim Hyo-joo, who needed just 26 putts on her way to a bogey-free 64.
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"I was just making putts on the front nine, holing stuff out, chipped in once, holed a shot from 113 yards," Landry said.
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"I just stayed really patient because I've been hitting the ball really well all week but not many putts were falling," Park said.
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Asked later to describe the horrid series of putts, the nine-times PGA Tour winner invoked the memory of the late Seve Ballesteros.
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I think I putted O.K. I had a couple of three-putts, but I think with some practice, I can overcome my mistakes.
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In all, he made eight putts of six feet or longer, despite the wind, mounting pressure and the most undulating greens ever created.
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Overall I hit a lot of good putts and it was nice to feel that and nice to feel the putter swinging again.
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Friday, in difficult conditions that included cold temperatures and driving rain, he had six birdies and no bogeys and needed only 26 putts.
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Woods did not finish the way he wanted, making a bogey at the difficult par-173 14th and missing birdie putts on Nos.
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For Jordan Spieth, it was more of the same with two long putts and another comment filled with bravado directed at his caddie.
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STERLING, Va. — On the green at the 11th hole, the golf stars John Daly and Rocco Mediate sized up their opening tournament putts.
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It's like if you don't play golf long enough to miss a lot of five-foot putts, you never think about missing them.
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I had three lip-outs on the back nine, but I hit the putts and the shots that I had to just keep hitting.
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Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry expects to be draining putts instead of 3-pointers this weekend in his return appearance to the Web.
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Poulter was safely on the green as Hossler took his penalty drop, chipped onto the green and took two putts for a triple bogey.
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"I started to hit it really close and was able to make a few putts," said Henderson, who won the event two years ago.
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I had a couple of three-putts there and hit a bad chip at (the eighth) hole and left myself in a bad spot.
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He really made a lot of putts, a lot of unbelievable up and downs to kind of keep me from getting all the momentum.
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"I made a bunch of putts and that's what it takes to shoot a low number out here," world number 40 Berger told PGATour.com.
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"Made some putts early and just couldn't get up and down the last couple," said Piller, who has never won on the LPGA Tour.
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"I had six or seven putts today that I could have easily putted right off the green, but that's what it is," he said.
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"For sure, I knew five-under through 10 that I had a lot of chances but I didn't make any big putts," he said.
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The telling statistic was successfully scrambling in just one of five attempts while also needing 30 putts to get around Medinah's No. 3 course.
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The American sank a series of clutch putts and carded a five-under 65 for his first victory in the World Golf Championships series.
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"Didn't chip it, didn't make that many putts and consequently I'm one under," said Woods, who swung freely and showed no signs of discomfort.
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He took 34 putts while absorbing a stinging blow to his dreams of completing a career Grand Slam this year with a victory here.
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"I made a lot of key short putts for par," he said of his first back-to-back weeks of playing in three years.
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But after the second delay ended, DeChambeau catapulted off the leaderboard with consecutive double bogeys, and Landry misfired on back-to-back birdie putts.
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Starting on the front nine, he jarred a series of clutch putts to keep the lead, including consecutive seven-footers for par at Nos.
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But the Brown brothers are definitely rich enough to go for a few putts, while making a drift arrival on a jeep, of course.
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For 10 days after the hurricane, Torres prepared for the qualifying tournament by practicing putts on carpet and chipping balls in a local park.
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But on Sunday, the notoriously tricky greens got the best of Bubba, as one of his putts somehow found its way into a bunker.
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The rest of Cabrera Bello's putts were from 6 feet or closer, as he and Bradley teed off early and had bogey-free rounds.
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"I was hitting the ball really well today, so all my putts were under 10 feet," said Im, who had a 6:24 a.m.
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On Friday, he needed only 23 putts, and in two days he has been 9.08 strokes better than the entire field with the putter.
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Molinari, who clinched the British Open title while paired with Woods on the final day, made putts to win the 11th and 12th holes.
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And both had to watch lengthy birdie putts creep into the cup on the 18th hole to share the lead at four-under 67.
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He has finished inside the top 20 in four of his past five seasons in putts per green in regulation, including fifth in 2013.
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Kuchar followed with 250-foot birdie putts on the next two holes, and he was on his way to his ninth career tour victory.
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"There were a lot of putts that didn't go in but I was really glad to make that birdie putt on 18," Park said.
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Three-putts will present an acute danger on the large, fast and sloping greens for the 156-player field gathered for the year's third major.
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"You have to avoid three-putts because you'll be putting from far away from the holes here," the South Korean former world number one said.
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Woods, who finished one stroke behind Casey, lamented a "couple of putts here and there" that could have led to his 80th PGA Tour victory.
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"I had 127 putts the week that I won the Irish Open, so it's not as if I putted particularly well that week," he said.
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Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) (ouuuuch)Wow - Ernie Els had as many putts on that green as Donald Trump had positions on abortion this week. Sad!
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He'll need many more putts to fall to have a chance on Sunday, said six-time champ Jack Nicklaus, a longtime friend from South Florida.
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If you don't make putts at Augusta you can't win, and Augusta has the most difficult set of greens that we have on the tour.
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"I made some great par putts and a bunker up-and-down, so that was really key today to keep the round going," Stenson said.
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The bottom line is that if you're sensitive to noise, the crack of tee shot drives is far louder than the murmur of greenside putts.
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"As soon as Fran holed that putt on 11, things changed straightaway," said Fleetwood, who then made clutch putts to win the 15th and 16th.
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In weather that turned out better than expected — only one heavy shower — Kim shot a bogey-free 66 by converting a string of birdie putts.
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At nine-under 201, Simpson was two strokes ahead of Danny Lee and Paul Casey, who both made long birdie putts on the 210th hole.
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Hoffman, playing in his fourth Masters, did not have an auspicious start to his round: He needed three putts on the third and fifth holes.
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After taking only 264 putts in his second round at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course, Spieth believed he had rediscovered his form on the greens.
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But McIlroy ought to also have been prepared to face an opponent, in Woods, who was a dispassionate adversary intent on making putts, not conversation.
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In Scott's eyes, the greens could be something of a leveler for the players this week because of the difficulty of long putts with multiple breaks.
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"I had been having a hard time feeling like I was getting lined up right with my putts," the 33-year-old told PGA Tour radio.
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It is rare that you see a scoreboard as lopsided as the one at Hazeltine: Team USA made several important putts and thoroughly deserved to win.
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Spieth needed just 25 putts in Round 1 thanks to some approach shots like this one on 18, and he leads the Masters at 6-under.
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Koepka finally saw a few putts drop and carded a second round three-under 67 that left him four shots behind at TPC Southwind, equal seventh.
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Got it back under par for the day, and let a couple slip away with a couple bad putts and a couple mistakes at the end.
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The Spaniard was unable to replicate the hot form on the greens that he displayed on Thursday, when he sank five putts from outside 15 feet.
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Out in four-under 32, he tightened his grip with birdies at the 12th and 13th, sinking consecutive putts from 10 feet to forge three ahead.
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"When I got to 12 and 13 where I made a couple of nice putts, I knew I was in there with a chance," said Grace.
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"The ball was running out so far on these greens, and some of these putts, there's just no grass around the hole," defending champion Koepka said.
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" He added, "I think the only thing that's really held me back from winning a bunch of times this year is making a few more putts.
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"I was just putting a little timid and then hit a few good shots coming in, so I had a few short birdie putts," Thompson said.
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The key: Langer had 27 putts, which elicited a "well done" from Spieth, who has graced the final pairing in all three Masters he has played.
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The two of them went to the 212th green sizing up birdie putts, with Stenson's ball 214 feet from the hole and just off the green.
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Woods and May at Valhalla will always be remembered, if only because of how Woods chased one of his putts all the way to the hole.
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"I'm hitting in these spots where I've had double breakers, or if not triple-breaking putts, and I'm just not seeing or feeling correctly," he said.
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He's got a 35-foot putt on the last hole, and he could take three putts to get it in the hole and we'd still win.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Missing fairways, missing greens and piling up the putts, Tiger Woods got off to a rough start at the Dubai Desert Classic.
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Given that the terrain on a links course is naturally firm, he employs more bump-and-run shots and frequently putts from close off the green.
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Mickelson showed he meant business with a first-hole birdie after drilling a majestic approach to tap-in range while overnight leader Stenson took three putts.
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Jordan Spieth made the putts and beat the fog at Spyglass Hill, posting a seven-under-par 65 at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California.
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Leader Rose ran in a series of mid-length putts, few better than a 20-footer from the fringe for eagle at the par-five ninth.
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Spieth's score was respectable given his trouble on the 15th, a debacle that included a pitch shot into the pond fronting the green, and three putts.
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You could say that about Henrik Stenson, who nailed some ice-cold clutch putts to win his first majors ever at The British Open today. Sure.
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I had good looks (on 15 and 16) but they were just putts that I had to be so tentative with ... there wasn't much I could do.
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Dustin Johnson, who also played in Saudi Arabia, frittered away a couple of shots by missing short putts on Thursday but was otherwise satisfied with his form.
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That's a lot more stressful and I haven't been making putts from outside 10 feet like I did that year consistently, so I can't rely on that.
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He has not made a putt of longer than 212 feet over three days, and has only made five putts of more than 27 feet all week.
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A couple of misread putts, a couple of poor putting strokes, a couple of visits to the rough and a bad break added up to a 72.
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"I missed some putts this week, but that's okay as long as I'm starting the ball on my lines again and I have the speed," he said.
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"I've been having a little bit of difficulty reading the greens, I just don't have the energy or focus you require to make putts here," she explained.
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"I missed a couple of chances on the second and third holes, hit good putts and didn't find the hole," Jaidee said in an Asian Tour statement.
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But for the next several holes, Day's approach shots to greens were increasingly wayward and left him with exceedingly long birdie putts that he could not convert.
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On Golf AUGUSTA, Ga. — On the practice green before his round on Friday at the Masters, Ernie Els made 251 of 21998 putts from inside 21 feet.
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On Thursday, Els took 39 putts, 14 more than the first-round leader, Jordan Spieth, and posted an eight-over-par 19983 to sit 14 strokes back.
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McIlroy ranks 114th in the PGA Tour's primary putting metric (strokes gained), even with a career-best 100 putts in winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March.
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He also improved from 70th to 5th in approach shots from 100 to 125 yards this year, and sank more putts, particularly from 7 to 14 feet.
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"I liked the way I was hitting the putts, liked the way I was driving the ball, iron play was really good," the American told Golf Channel.
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After that, he sat out a weather delay that lasted just under 90 minutes, and he missed four putts under seven feet the rest of the way.
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It was one of dozens of missed putts in the last three days by Mickelson, and his response to yet another disappointment was familiar to any golfer.
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He has won eight professional events at Torrey Pines including the U.S. Open, and is optimistic that a ninth is within his sights if he putts competently.
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"I holed some beautiful putts and hit a few more that looked like they were going in and just caught the edge," said the 34-year-old.
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Rose knocked in par putts shorter than 210 feet on the 212th, 215th and 218th holes to close with a 21-under-par 25 at TPC Boston.
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"I made a couple good putts, that was obviously awesome, and I struck it a lot better than I did yesterday," DeChambeau said in a televised interview.
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After waiting so long to see Woods up close, the followers were not about to let a few errant swings or wayward putts ruin the festive mood.
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Conversely, his greatest weakness is on the greens: although he is capable of sinking long putts for birdie or eagle with impressive frequency, he ranks in the bottom half of the PGA Tour leaderboard during each of the past three years in the share of putts he has made from five to 15 feet (roughly 1.5 to 4.5 metres)—the range that has the biggest impact on overall scores.
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He birdied the par-3 No. 2 hole, then watched putts on holes 3, 4 and 7 fall just short and lip out on holes 9 and 11.
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On Sunday, however, Johnson was remarkably composed in the circumstances and made several clutch putts on a day when the entire field struggled on greens running lightning-fast.
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"I made a couple putts today and I went to put my hand up and I'm like, 'don't put your hand up, there's no one clapping'," Woods said.
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She equipped a group of low and high handicap golfers with an eye-movement helmet and asked them to do consecutive putts from a distance of 10 feet.
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I hit the ball well, just didn't get the kicks or the bounces that I needed to, to make the putts and make more birdies and less bogeys.
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Hoffman had no such wayward issues and also made his share of putts for a change after discovering pre-tournament that his alignment had been a little off.
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Mickelson's playing partner, Henrik Stenson, had not flinched at that run, rolling in dicey, spectacular and lengthy birdie putts from seemingly every quarter of the Royal Troon greens.
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McIlroy, who has switched to a left-hand low putting grip, found his groove on the greens and made eight birdies among his 243 putts to shoot 22009.
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The sands of Panama City Beach are the color of polished bone, its wide boulevards a riot of tacky and welcoming crab shacks, surf shops and putt-putts.
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But on Thursday, he was dialed in — missing only three of 14 fairways and three of the 18 greens, needing only 103 putts to get through the day.
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On a day when his shotmaking harked back to his glory years, Woods failed to convert six birdie putts of 20 feet or less on his last nine.
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"I just played solid just like I did yesterday, I just made more putts," said Woodland, who shares the top spot with Marc Leishman at 14-under 130.
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Woods missed five putts from inside 10 feet and flirted with missing the cut before scraping through with a two-over-par 73 at Quail Hollow in Charlotte.
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"When I chipped in on 12 and made the long putt on 14 for par, he (Rose) executed putts right after that on top of that," said Woodland.
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Mickelson took only 21 putts and shot a six-under-par 673 to take a two-shot lead in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, Calif.
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"I'm really proud of myself I finally made a putt, because I feel like I missed all the putts today," Jutanugarn said of the birdie to close her round.
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He shot 67 at Pebble Beach on a day when he weaved his old magic around and on the greens, holing a bunker shot and taking just 22 putts.
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"It doesn't matter who you are — everybody has days like this," Thomas said, referring to Spieth, who hit nine fairways and nine greens in regulation and took 34 putts.
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"Most everything has been pretty decent," he told Golf Channel after a round highlighted by birdie putts from 28 feet at the fourth and 18 feet at the 16th.
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He missed four more shortish putts — including a four-footer at the fifth hole that was a momentum killer coming straight after an eagle at the par-five fourth.
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Duke and Matsuyama were the only players to break 69 on a day when 76 of the world's best players combined for 149 three-putts, almost two per player.
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He dropped birdie putts of 17, seven and 10 feet on the back nine to extend his lead on greens that were giving other players something close to conniptions.
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But it's a great end to a pretty miserable tournament for Woods, who birdied eight and nine with sizable putts on each to get back to 10-over par.
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"Well, I finally got off to a good start," said Woods, who started birdie-birdie, hit 11 of 14 fairways and 15 of 683 greens, and had 27 putts.
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She hit 11 of 13 fairways and 16 of 18 greens and only needed 26 putts during the strong showing at the Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club Orlando.
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Fewer putts per round, for instance, may be an indication of good putting, but it could just as easily be a reflection of good chipping or poor iron play.
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Just before the putts, half the golfers were told the club they were wielding had previously been owned by a professional golfer (it hadn't); the others were told nothing.
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I holed some really good putts on the back nine, and Charley was the better player on the front nine, so we kind of matched each other quite well.
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"To go out and shoot a score like that with no bogeys, I just saw the lines and was hitting good putts and they were going in," said Fisher.
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Kuchar seized control late in the round with back-to-back birdie putts, the second one on No. 16 prompting a rare show of emotion with a fist pump.
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"Last week was pretty solid, second place, played great and unfortunately didn't make enough putts to win but hat's off the Gary," said the 29-year-old from Florida.
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For about 218 minutes, Scott McCarron looked like he had won the PGA Tour Champions Shaw Charity Classic with one of the more clutch putts on tour this season.
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Scott's misfortune was a product of a blustery day that blew empty folding chairs over, hats off heads, putts off line and scores sky-high at Augusta National on Saturday.
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The duo, who are good friends and congratulated each other for fine shots throughout the round, arrived at the 18th tied at nine under par, and earned themselves birdie putts.
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But it was another QB who stole the highlight show for the day ... Aaron Rodgers made some tremendous shots on the course -- and even walked in one of his putts!!
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It was the sound of fans cheering on Tiger Woods as he made crucial putts, pumped his fist and almost won a big tournament, the USPGA Championship, on August 12th.
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Most golfers have heard the saying, "drive for show and putt for dough," meaning big-hitting drives from the tee are impressive, but those who win tournaments make clutch putts.
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"I hit some more quality golf shots today, gave myself a ton of looks out there and the putter stayed hot," Hadwin, who needed just 25 putts, told Golf Channel.
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Even if your television flattened out the contours, you could see how much Jack Nicklaus's and Tiger Woods's and Jordan Spieth's putts moved on their way to the green jacket.
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He said he would typically spend four and a half hours practicing chips, sand shots, putts and approaches inside 150 yards and two hours hitting his long irons and woods.
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Despite winning the last time the Scottish Open was held in Inverness, he struggled to make putts and took three bogeys on par 5s on his way to a 76.
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With Patrick Reed setting the tone and sinking the clutch putts, the Americans won three of the four better-ball matches to take a 33 ½-6 ½ lead into the singles.
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He drained putts of 38 and 23 feet on successive holes on the back nine and gave himself the cushion he needed to hold off Gary Woodland and Morgan Hoffmann.
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A season-ending evaluation of one player revealed a propensity to miss putts of 3 feet or less compared with the tour average of making 99.42 percent from that distance.
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But, she said, Mr. Orbach surprised himself by sinking a couple of decent putts on camera and was so pleased about it that she wanted to leave that footage in.
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Swinging with metronomic consistency, Kim fired a flawless five-under-par 67, with both of her back-nine birdies, at the 12th and 15th holes, coming courtesy of huge putts.
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Molinari, who last month shot a final-round 64 to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational, showcased a solid day off the tee, hit some quality irons and holed some nice putts.
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"Conditions were quite tough and it was a little bit scrappy with some putts not quite getting to the hole but overall I'm very happy," he told the European Tour website.
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He had several opportunities over the closing stretch to seal victory in regulation but narrowly missed birdie putts from 15, nine and 19 feet at the 16th, 17th and the last.
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You start off with a bogey, a snap hook three-wood off the 10th tee (but I) made some long putts on the front nine and got hot on back nine.
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"Six under through seven holes with a couple of missed putts, anytime you have that going for you you get thoughts coming through your head of 59," Rahm told Golf Channel.
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McIlroy, who finished his opening round on Friday morning, found five fairways and eight greens and had 34 putts (seven more than the Englishman Lee Westwood, who finished 10 strokes better).
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"Obviously, making those putts on 11 and 13 was crucial, too, but just not knowing anything, I wanted to focus on my game and just what I could control," Ko said.
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Though tested by nervy putts, deep bunkers and narrow fairways, he shot even par after he was told he might be penalized after his final stroke and built a cushy lead.
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Robert Streb, a 673-year-old who is ranked 74th in the world, needed only 26 putts en route to a 63 — the 217th in P.G.A. Championship history — to tie Walker.
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This week, the local populace has gotten its first up-close-and-personal look at Woods twirling his club after a well-struck shot and walking his putts into the hole.
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Two equally fine shots into the teeth of the wind at the par-four 18th left him with two putts from 25 feet for the victory and he made no mistake.
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Woods said his last two rounds could easily have yielded lower scores if he had made more putts from inside eight feet, which used to be almost "gimme" distance for him.
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He made several long putts and covered his first nine holes at Aronimink Golf Club in 229 strokes, his lowest nine-hole total in a PGA Tour event in 213 years.
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But after making birdie putts from 25 feet on No. 5 and from 15 feet on No. 6, he figured out the speed of the greens and was on his way.
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Scott survived a calamitous Sunday with just enough clutch putts — for birdie, par, even a bogey — and closed with 53-under 70 for a two-shot victory in the Genesis Invitational.
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This is the same Tiger Woods who not so very long ago was playing in agonizing pain, spraying the ball all over the place, flubbing his chip shots, misjudging his putts.
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He halved holes by making putts from 6 feet and 4 feet, and then seized control on the 15th when Kuchar's chip was too strong and led to another lost hole.
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"Two good yardages, two good shots and two good putts," he said after becoming the sixth player to record two eagles on the back nine in the same round at The Players.
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"I just didn't hit a lot of good putts that burned the edges and didn't quite go in," the 2017 winner said after his round, which included five birdies and three bogeys.
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"I made a lot of good putts today but they were all really tricky," said Hurley, who was encouraged by fans shouting out "21412" as he confidently made his way around Congressional.
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"I was just making putts finally," Fowler, 27, told Golf Channel about the biggest change in his game since his surprising missed cut at last week's Farmers Insurance Open outside San Diego.
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"I thought there was an outside chance and just started making putts," 36-year-old Molinari told NBC television about his mindset after he had teed off five strokes from the lead.
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On a cold, crisp morning at Augusta National, with the sun barely peaking over the par-three course, Cook took off his beanie after stroking a few putts on the practice green.
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Johnson, the world's top-ranked golfer and the 2016 U.S. Open winner, had perhaps the most dramatic day, producing four birdies by making long putts and by holing out a bunker shot.
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But the honours were shared when, on the 303th hole, Thompson regained her touch and sank a birdie from nearly 20 feet to halve the match after both Europeans missed their putts.
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So after signing his scorecard, signing autographs for fans and speaking with the news media, Mickelson spent 20 minutes rolling putts and hitting chips in front of his swing coach, Andrew Getson.
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Thomas had to watch Reed have two putts at the win, a 123-foot eagle putt on the first extra hole and a 12-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole.
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After narrowly missing birdie putts on his opening two holes Woods hit his approach shot at the par-five third to about 212 feet and went on to tap in for birdie.
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"I felt like I played really well," said Koepka, who added that he would have gone even lower if some of the putts on good lines he hit had found the cup.
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"Greens were really smooth, so almost made a couple (of putts) early and rolled in a couple of five-footers and then just felt comfortable for the rest of the day," he said.
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After a short turnaround, he then followed up with a one-under 69 that could have been three or four strokes better had he not missed several putts from 10 feet and in.
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"It's a ball-striker's golf course, and if you can hit the greens, they're pretty small to begin with, you can make some putts," said Lewis, who made an eagle at the 14th.
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Just moments earlier, Johnson loitered behind the ropes during a Ryder Cup practice session on Thursday, taunting a few of the world's best golfers as they failed to solve putts of their own.
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He saved par on each of the final three holes with putts of 10, 20 and 22 yards and needed 22 strokes of the short stick to navigate the links-style layout Thursday.
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"I feel like my swing coach this week has helped me a lot finding the slot, and I'm holing a lot of putts," said early starter van Aswegan, chasing his maiden tour win.
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"I'm going to be working a little bit more on my short game over the next couple of weeks because in match play you have got to make those important putts," he said.
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If you struggle to properly align your putts, the Odyssey O-Works Red 2-Ball putter gives you a visual clue with circles that look like golf balls printed on the mallet head.
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Leishman let his team mate down by missing a number of makeable putts, including a short one for par on the 18th that left them five strokes adrift for Saturday's four-ball round.
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Woods elicited loud cheers with an assortment of impressive shots from the rough and out of bunkers, as well as several lengthy par-saving putts, all of which compensated for his wayward driving.
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With a two-under-par 267, which included 683 putts, Holmes went into the final round sharing the lead, at nine-under 268, with his fellow American Kyle Stanley, who recorded a 267.
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Into the wind, uphill putts into the grain, I put a little more hinge on it going back to try to get a little more hit to it and it still didn't work.
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Michelle Wie rolled in several clutch putts and had six birdies in a 10-hole stretch to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore.
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Starting his round at the 10th, he was plodding along at even par after seven holes, but birdied the next two with putts of five feet before slipping with a bogey at the first.
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She rolled in several medium-length putts before completing her day in style with a tap-in birdie at the last for a bogey-free six-under-par 65 at Las Colinas Country Club.
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The putts would not drop for the duo over the next couple of holes, however, and at the 17th, Olesen's drive found one of the series of bunkers on the left of the fairway.
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It was a rare miss on a day when most of Woods's par putts were tap-ins, with the notable exception of a seven-footer he coolly drained at No. 7, his 16th hole.
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He got plenty of inspiration from Poulter, the 42-year-old Englishman who has routinely risen to the occasion at the Ryder Cup, eyes bulging and fists clenching as he drained putts under pressure.
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The wind on the Plantation Course is most treacherous on the greens, with players having to guess if a 30 mile-per-hour gust will knock putts offline or give them too much speed.
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That adventure started with a wayward drive that took him into the trees, leading to two horrendous shots and a penalty stroke, a weak escape from choking rough, a weak chip and two putts.
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Thompson was 4 under after an even-par 72, undone by a series of short missed putts a year after a rules violation cost her four strokes in regulation in an eventual playoff loss.
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"Today I drove it beautifully, my wedges distance control is very spot on, and making the putts, those five, six-footers that you need to make," said the winner of the past two U.S. Opens.
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Spieth's decline was due in no small measure to the loss of his formidable mid-range putting prowess, as the previously insane percentage of putts he made in the 10-20-foot range dried up.
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Renowned for his brilliant putting, Spieth missed eight putts from inside 10 feet as he mixed eight bogeys and a double with just two birdies to card his worst opening round on the PGA Tour.
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At venerable Baltusrol Golf Club on Thursday, Walker enjoyed the fruits of his labors and the sight of birdie putts falling into the cup as he claimed the first-round lead at the PGA Championship.
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Marking the 28-year anniversary of his last major title, Woods compounded mistakes on the first hole (twice), missed the fairways a bit too often and simply could not deliver putts when he needed them.
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"So today, even though it was much tougher with the windy conditions and how gusty it was out there, I was able to hit some really, really quality shots and some great putts," he said.
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American DeChambeau struggled to a 71, hitting a series of poor shots down the stretch and compounding his misery by missing several short putts as he frittered away a handy lead with three late bogeys.
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The Canadian Adam Hadwin made two long birdie putts on the back nine and had a four-under-par 67 to extend his lead to four shots in the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.
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He had a chance at a share of the lead on the last hole but took three putts from 40 feet and finished with a 69, good for a fourth-place tie with Tyrrell Hatton.
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The four-times champion also had a trio of three-putts and his 72 included two double-bogeys, the first one coming right off the bat at his opening hole on a crisp Long Island morning.
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"Whenever I can roll in a couple putts in from 20 feet or more, that gives you a lot of confidence with the game," the world number eight said after his 62 tied the course record.
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It had become almost impossible to stop downhill putts near the cup in a strong afternoon breeze and low humidity that day, while several players putted all the way off the green at the 15th hole.
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The abundance of ground-nesting owls on the course could also lead to problems: They burrow into the ground and create holes about 20 centimeters in diameter, which could certainly derail even the best of putts.
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U.S. hopes were high after their victory on home soil two years ago, but it turned into the same old story for the visitors as they succumbed amid a series of errant drives and missed putts.
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Garcia and Rose finished tied on nine under par at the end of regulation and sent the year's first major to a playoff when both missed birdie putts and settled for pars at the 72nd hole.
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He hit 83 percent of greens in regulation, hit 67 percent of fairways and needed only 29 putts - one of which gave him a birdie on the 16th hole that had pestered him for two days.
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On the same hole in the first round, Els took six putts from 3 feet for an opening nine on his scorecard, sinking his title hopes when his 22nd Masters had barely shoved off the dock.
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Molinari, a two-time Ryder Cup player with a World Golf Championship among his credentials, overcame a few putts he missed from short range to close with two birdies and join Ancer at 211-under 212.
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Even though he missed a few short putts on the front nine, he closed with a 103-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th and hit wedge into 5 feet for birdie at the 18th.
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He made two medium-length birdie putts to offset bogeys from the bunkers, but fell out of a chance to be in the last group when he missed a 6-foot par putt on the 17th.
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"I would love to be in the mix coming down the stretch and have the chance to hole some putts to win," said Scott, who was third in the field in putting in the third round.
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He missed a half-dozen putts from 267 feet or closer, and while it looked as though he hit the ball well enough to go low at Quail Hollow, he was not the least bit frustrated.
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The PGA Tour superstar is hockin' dress shirts these days in addition to sinking putts on weekends ... and for his first-ever ad with the shirt company -- he threw down a cascade of dad dance moves.
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Sports Briefing | Golf Brandt Snedeker missed birdie putts from 12 feet on the last two holes and had to settle for sharing the lead with Zac Blair through the third round of the Sony Open in Honolulu.
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"I made nice long putts on 14 and 15, then I hit it close on 16, 17 and had a look on 18 to make it five in a row but lacked a little steam," he said.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Australian Marcus Fraser sank testing putts on his final two holes to land the European Tour's $3 million Maybank Championship Malaysia on Sunday after overnight leader Lee Soo-min fell apart down the stretch.
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After finding a bit of a groove through the middle of his round, Rory collapsed on the final stretch, needing three putts from inches away on the par-3 16th to put away a double-bogey.—GOLF.
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Starting a shot behind Fowler, he began tentatively, failing to capitalize on birdie putts of 03 and 20 feet on the first two holes and three-putting the par-21 No. 210 to fall two shots behind.
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The four-times major champion and former world number one has struggled with short putts for more than a year, but he felt earlier this season that he had overcome what golfers refer to as the yips.
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While those birdie putts slid past the hole, Woods still managed a four-under-par 22006 and a two-day score of six under that left him a shot off the tournament lead shared by five golfers.
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At that point, the English player Tyrrell Hatton turned to Paul Tesori, Simpson's caddie, and asked if he remembered Ty Webb, Chevy Chase's character from the movie "Caddyshack," who could knock in putts from anywhere, even blindfolded.
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However, Europe regained the lead after Suzann Pettersen and Anne Van Dam's 4 & 2 victory over Danielle Kang and Lizette Salas at the 16th hole, where the Americans conceded the birdie after both players missed their putts.
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Once I get that run of seeing putts going in, the hole looks massive and I see this perfect track going and all I have to do is make sure I hit the ball the right speed.
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Other than his putts, Fowler's best shot of the day was his approach on the par-4 16th, which landed three feet from the pin, making his fifth and final birdie putt his shortest of the day.
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Twenty-five years later he and the woman are that much older, and Maximo, now played by a paunchy Mr. Derbez, is so thoroughly pampered that when he goes golfing, he putts while supine in his cart.
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NEW ORLEANS — With unbridled enthusiasm, Jonathan Ashford arranged nine plastic foam cups around the rug of the Columbia Parc community center and sank putts on his makeshift course as if his dinner that night depended on it.
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SAN DIEGO — Tiger Woods has made more momentous putts on the 18th hole of Torrey Pines' South course, but he has probably appreciated few more than the 214-footer he rolled in for a birdie on Thursday.
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At Shinnecock it had become almost impossible to stop downhill putts near the cup in a strong afternoon breeze and low humidity that day, while several players putted all the way off the green at the 15th hole.
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"From 10 feet and in, for guys who putt well, you'll still make putts, but once you start getting out beyond that 10-foot range, there's so much movement in the greens," said the 35-year-old Australian.
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"Whenever I hit it on the fairway I gave it a good look for birdie and made those putts today," said the world number 119, who is playing with new-found confidence after working on his driving distance.
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The former world number one was not happy with two or three short putts he missed, including a five-footer at the last, but was pleased that his poor start to the tournament had spurred him into action.
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Bradley, who missed four of his last five cuts on the PGA Tour, had no trouble adjusting to the greens during a blustery round at Innisbrook Resort's Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, Florida, where needed just 25 putts.
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"I didn't play that great this afternoon but I thought I scrambled nicely and I made a couple big putts when I needed to," said the Spaniard, who ended his round by draining a 50-footer for par.
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"I been hitting very good shots, and not enough putts," said the 52-year-old, a 21-time winner on the European Tour, who will no doubt console himself with a trademark cigar and glass of red wine.
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"That two guys stand up and hole the putts on 15, 16 and 17 to win the match when it really matters, it gives them belief, but also gives their team mates a hope," the Europe skipper said.
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Holders Europe have won three consecutive Ryder Cups, and eight of the last 10, through a mixture of shrewd captaincy, consistently good team chemistry, often stellar play and an uncanny knack of sinking key putts at crucial moments.
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AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Ernie Els suffered an embarrassing start to his 22nd Masters when he required six putts from a short distance to post a record-high nine on the par-four first hole in Thursday's opening round.
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Ritthammer and MacIntyre had an opportunity to force a playoff but both left their birdie putts short on the final green as Casey became the third successive Englishman to win the event after Jordan Smith and Richard McEvoy.
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Cabrera Bello, of Spain, opened with four birdies in six holes in the morning chill, put together another run of birdies that included consecutive putts from 30-foot range, and wound up leading by two over Keegan Bradley.
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"I've been pretty consistent with my tee shots, putting the ball in the fairway and getting the ball on the green, capitalising on some putts and if not just tap in for par," said the PGA Tour rookie.
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Henley and Sung Kang of South Korea were tied with six holes to play, when Henley ran off three straight birdies with two short putts on par 5s and a 35-foot putt on the par-3 14th.
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For the first nine holes, Spieth was his usual unflappable self as he mixed five birdies with a lone bogey and several clutch putts to reach the turn five strokes clear at seven under, seemingly in total command.
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It's a very tough golf course ... We had a plan and I think we kept to our plan really well and I felt good out there, which gave me a lot of confidence and I made some putts.
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Using mostly his 2-iron off the tee, the long-hitting Johnson birdied the first two holes but missed par putts of less than 5 feet on his fourth and fifth in a foreshadowing of his second nine.
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Another new wrinkle on the course this year is using the flagstick as a backboard on putts; to speed up play, golfers can leave the pin in no matter where they are on the course, including the green.
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One of the PGA Tour's big hitters, Woodland ranks 11th in driving distance and greens in regulation but his work on the greens has not kept pace and he sits well back at 179th in putts per round.
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Rose, who hit a hole in one on his first day, carded a final round four-under-par 67 to beat Sweden's Henrik Stenson by two shots in a competition that went all the way to the final putts.
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In two subsequent starts in the United States and two others, in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, Spieth has not putted as precisely as he did in Maui, where he had 111 putts for an average of 27.8 per round.
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Ultimately penalized for a rules infraction on the fifth green after his round ended, Johnson displayed nerves of steel over the closing stretch, making several clutch putts on a day when the entire field struggled on lightning-fast greens.
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It is so perfectly suited to Augusta National that he can hardly help playing well - as proven by four consecutive top-10 finishes in the past four years - but you have to make medium-distance putts to win majors.
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But after struggling to hole putts over the first three rounds, he needed something of a minor miracle on Sunday, starting the day seven shots adrift of overnight leader Shane Lowry, who went on to record an outstanding triumph.
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In his misery, Day had plenty of company; there were 149 three-putts or worse on an afternoon when 60 of the 76 players who survived the cut had at least one double bogey or worse on their scorecards.
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The task force was established, in the acerbic words of veteran golf writer Dan Jenkins, to identify how the U.S. could "compete better over the next 20 years without sinking more putts and shooting lower scores than the Europeans".
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After aggressively going for the green on his second shot but landing wide to the right, he managed to scramble from the rough beside the bunker on his third shot and make two putts to earn the clutch five.
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He had a one-shot lead with four holes to play in 2015 when he had consecutive three-putts — one for bogey, another for par — and Matt Every beat him with an 18-foot birdie on the last hole.
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As he finished on Friday evening by sinking the last of seven birdie putts, Tiger Woods, his playing partner, stood off to the side with a grim expression and his head tilted toward the clouds swirling above the green.
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On the first, eighth and 12th holes, he stepped up and sank birdie putts as thunderous roars shook the course after electrical birdie strikes by Woods, the 14-time major winner playing one hole ahead of Koepka and Scott.
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But 217 years on, he was the Molinari saving the pars and making the putts under duress, and he is no longer under the shadow of any Italian golfer after his pressure-proof performance at this year's British Open.
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Two putts later, Spieth had a birdie, and more important, he had a symbolic statement on his way to a four-under-par 68 that left him two strokes behind the third-round leaders, Justin Rose and Sergio García.
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But Hsu missed two short putts on the back nine, one for birdie on 14 that would have given her a two-stroke lead and another on 17 that resulted in a bogey that put Lincicome ahead for good.
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The American played what he called a "modified" nine holes at the Liberty National Golf Club on Tuesday with Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson but limited his shots to chips and putts on the back nine at Wednesday's pro-am.
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But Woods rolled in a 21-foot birdie putt on No. 22, followed with short birdie putts on the next two holes and with a two-putt birdie on the par-24 23th, he put his name atop the leaderboard.
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He stuffed his approach to 2 feet on No. 4 and had a few more short birdie putts until he came to the par-3 16th, when his 5-iron settled 12 feet away for his longest putt of the day.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Jang Ha-na spent most of the week peppering the flags with exquisite approach shots and sinking monster putts, and after dancing like Beyonce following her HSBC Women's Champions victory on Sunday, the Korean was already setting new goals.
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"I didn't play great but I kept it together with some nice par saves and a couple of nice putts," said world number five Stenson after finishing with a five-under aggregate of 139 at the European Tour's flagship event.
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Rahm sank a bunch of medium-length putts in the 15-to-20-foot range, notching eight birdies at TPC Southwind, where he got up-and-down from 60 yards at his final hole to keep his card bogey-free.
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"I've seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire, I've seen him at Madison Square Garden with a topcoat on, standing in the key and hitting foul shots and swishing them -- he sinks three-foot putts," Scaramucci said.
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When he has doubts about the way his putts are shaping, Kieffer leans right down on the turf and stretches out his legs behind him to get a better view of the ball and its ideal path to the hole.
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Johnson could have been further ahead as he missed several birdie putts from 10 feet and in on a sun-splashed afternoon and had to settle for a two-shot advantage over compatriot Scott Piercy (70) and Spaniard Sergio Garcia (70).
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The 22-year-old Texan never truly hit his best form in Singapore this week and was guilty of missing a number of short putts on the large undulating greens that left him five back of Song after three rounds.
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Spieth was asked at the Memorial which was the tougher way to lose a major: with two bad swings on the 12th hole at Augusta National or with two missed putts on the 72nd hole like Johnson at Chambers Bay?
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"It's a shame to finish with a double because I was going along nicely and making a few putts," Ryder Cup rookie Pieters told reporters at Kingsbarns, one of three courses being used at the pro-am event in Scotland.
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And the switch of his putting stroke to a left-hand low grip has reaped instant results, accounting for 24 putts on Saturday (after 25 on Friday) and already signaling his readiness for the Masters next month at Augusta National.
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A brutal four-putt — including three putts from within six feet — has dropped Woods into a tie for 82nd at six-over par and killed any momentum he had gathered after recovering from a triple bogey to start his round.
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On the back nine on Saturday, he missed two putts of four feet, one for a birdie at No. 14 and the other for par at No. 18, and settled for bogey at No. 473 after an errant seven-footer.
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Woods arrived in France on a high after winning his first tour title in five years, but he has spent much of his time on the course wincing, grimacing and trying to make the best of difficult lies and long putts.
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Ignoring water waiting to gobble up a slightly misjudged or mis-hit shot, he took dead aim at the 15th and 17th holes, sticking his tee shot to inside eight feet both times and converting the putts with nerveless precision.
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He holed birdie putts of 20 feet, 12 feet and 25 feet over a four-hole stretch, and it looked as though the lead would get even bigger when he settled over an 8-foot birdie chance on the ninth hole.
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Johnson was a member of eight European Solheim Cup teams, and while Davies was the risk-taking bomber of the pairing, it was Johnson who would hit steely approach shots under pressure and drain critical putts to fire up their team.
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Though Snedeker edged a stroke in front with a tap-in for birdie at the 10th, Blair and Kisner each drained putts from more than 35 feet at the 13th to make it a three-way tie for the lead at 15 under.
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He then kept his nose in front of Fowler and Spieth for a one-shot victory, making clutch putts down the stretch, including a nerve-jangling five-footer for par at the penultimate hole, to shoot 71 and finish on 15-under 273.
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But obviously easy putts would soon seem to be the death of Sergio, as he found himself in the position where he only needed to sink a relatively easy putt on the 18th hole after Rose did some choking on his own.
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World number one Johnson struggled to hole putts in the first two rounds, but he drove the green at the par-four first and sank a 20-foot eagle putt to find some confidence, staying in the hunt for his second consecutive victory.
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As Oakmont's treacherous greens become firmer and faster, Rory McIlroy four-putts from 13 feet to run up a double-bogey at the par-four third, his 12th hole of the delayed second round, to slip back to five-over for the tournament.
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The American world number four, who heads a strong field at the TPC Scottsdale, finally got the putts to drop as he fired a six-under-par 65 to end the opening round level with Ireland's Shane Lowry and Japanese Hideki Matsuyama.
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Garcia and Rose both carded 69 to finish tied on nine-under-par 279, three strokes clear of 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel of South Africa, sending the year's first major to a playoff when both missed birdie putts at the 72nd hole.
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Day found nine fairways and eight greens and had 31 putts, surprising numbers for someone who had posted only one round higher than two-over par all year, a 79 in the third round of the RBC Heritage the week after the Masters.
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But I just tried to remind myself the putts I did make the last two days, and remember those strokes and getting that feeling, and basically telling myself to just put a more confident stroke on it, put some more speed on it.
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All day, they had watched Fowler keep up a steady stream of conversation with his partners, Sergio Garcia and Kevin Na, even as the number of putts trickling past the cup added up to one of the worst scores of the round.
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Originally described in 80.43 in what would become a seminal paper in the field of behavioral economics, loss aversion is a persistent psychological response that researchers have found to affect actions as varied as professional golfers' putts and taxi drivers' work patterns.
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The former U.S. Women's Open champion, who has endured a start-stop return to competitive golf after hand surgery last October, hit just six of 14 fairways and 10 of 18 greens in regulation while needing 35 putts to complete her round.
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Woods, who skipped a planned practice round Wednesday because he was ill, hit only 260 greens in regulation and had 31 putts, an inconsistency that ruined any momentum he built in his second nine, which he opened with back-to-back birdies.
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"I missed a lot of short putts, which is something I don't normally do, which is just frustrating," said Woods, whose best round this year, in his comeback from back surgery, has been a seven-under 65 on Saturday at the Players Championship.
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"I just did a really good job of picking my way around to the green and making some putts on top of that," said the five-time PGA Tour winner, who is competing at La Quinta for the first time in six years.
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It was just about the worse score he could have shot, as he lipped out several putts, including a 30-foot birdie chance at the last that left him laughing when it caught a large part of the cup but refused to drop.
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She missed short putts on the 16th and 1083th holes for a bogey and par, and three-putted No. 18, including missing a 10-footer just to the right, to finish a par round that left her two over for 36 holes.
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Holmes closed with a 1-under 70, and that was enough to overcome Justin Thomas, who took 19 putts on the back nine at Riviera Country Club — three of them from 8 feet when he lost the lead for good — and shot 693.
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The final day featured a wild shift in weather, from sunshine in the morning to complete 16 holes of the third round, brief rain when they teed off in the final round, and wicked wind that made it tough to hole putts.
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He doesn't hit the ball long — 78th in driving distance on the PGA Tour in 2015 — and for all the talk about his putting, he is not a very good close to the hole — 103th in 2015 on putts from 4 to 8 feet.
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Both Dustin Johnson, who by most statistical measures is currently the best player in the world, and Brooks Koepka, who had won three of the past six majors he had entered, reached the 18th green at 103 under par with achievable, if challenging, birdie putts.
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Despite being ranked 113th in putting average on the LPGA Tour, Ciganda was red-hot with the flatstick, sinking putts from near and far while her rivals failed to get to grips with hard-packed greens that refused to soak up Sunday's incessant rain.
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"I've never got over putts where I've had to lag a 10-foot putt and try and get it somewhere near the hole," said Day, who looked mentally drained after avoiding any further minefields following his second double-bogey at the par-three eighth.
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No waking up in a cold sweat over that gasp-inducing trio of putts 265 weeks ago on the baked-out final green at Chambers Bay that cost him the United States Open title, which would have been his first victory in a major.
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The 68-year-old Watson, playing with fellow greats Nicklaus and Gary Player, needed only eight putts to post a six-under 21 and edge out Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and Belgian Thomas Pieters to become the oldest winner of the tournament's traditional curtain-raiser.
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"To have a few putts go in, to be able to be getting up and down for par and saving shots to keep the momentum going, it makes all the difference," said Fowler, aware that it will take a complete game to prevail Sunday.
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Frank Bruni One day it's all sun and sycophantic fun on one of the president's fancy golf courses, where you're telling yourself that to marvel at his putts and swoon over his swing are small prices for influence and will pay off in the end.
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Hall, who holed a string of great putts, had five birdies in a 21 to maintain high hopes of improving on last year's tie for third and become the first British winner since Catriona Matthew of Scotland triumphed at Royal Lytham nine years ago.
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Jordan Spieth showed off his stellar short game and Ryan Palmer made key putts as they posted a six-under-par 66 in foursomes for a share of the lead in the Zurich Classic, the first team event on the PGA Tour in 36 years.
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On the front nine, he sank a 21-footer for birdie on the par-22016 fifth, but he also faced four par putts between seven and nine feet, a distance from which he is in the bottom half of the 53-man field that remains.
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The clincher, for many, is the Putting Experience, along the northeast side of Berckmans—replicas of the seventh, fourteenth, and sixteenth greens, with Augusta National caddies on hand, in their coveralls, to help the civilians manage what, up close, look like preposterously hilly putts.
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Woods had a 27-iron from the middle of the fairway on the par-279 2367th, put it into a bunker, blasted out weakly to 103 feet and four-putted for a double bogey, with the last three putts from just outside 210 feet.
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On days like Friday, when Bradley's aim is off and his putts are not dropping, he resembles in name only the player who was pegged as the future of men's golf after winning three PGA Tour events, including a major, in his first 230 starts.
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But it was two clutch putts at the end of the day that secured Woodland a two-shot lead over Rose, the first a heart-stopping 15-footer to save par at eighth followed by a monster 50-foot birdie at his last, the ninth.
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Former world number one Spieth missed a couple of short putts in a round marred by two dropped shots at the par-five 13th where his drive sailed out-of-bounds, but he also had his high moments, including a 35-foot birdie at the third.
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His storming run was halted on the penultimate hole before he found a fairway bunker on 18 and needed two putts to get down for a double-bogey six, while Smith saved par after a superb greenside chip left him less than two meters from the pin.
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"I putted out first on the last green, trying to give him the opportunity and the glory to fist-pump or do whatever he wanted to if he holed that putt to win the U.S. Open," Day said of the first of Johnson's three putts last year.
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The bad is that Watson shot his highest round of the week with a 4-over 76 and had to watch as Knox, a very good amateur player who frequently plays with tour players as a so-called "marker" on Masters weekends, made putts like these.
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It fluffs the ball up in South Africa one week, making it higher and easier to hit, and swallows it up or twists it around the next on the Bermuda grass of Dubai, a grass great for heat that can also redirect putts at the last second.
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This is the purest strain of Trumpian falsehood, the one where the motives are the most obvious, the New Yorkiest brand of BS. I won't venture to guess what it means when a man lies to make himself seem richer, or his buildings taller, or his putts more accurate.
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"I feel like I've been making too many mistakes, so to eliminate the mistakes out there today and hole a lot of good putts and give myself a lot of (birdie) looks, I felt really good about it," added McIlroy, who is seeking his 12th PGA Tour win.
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He apologized to the president for "the 50th time" for disparaging comments he made when Trump's candidacy was a long shot bid, and he sketched a triumphant scene with Trump as a star athlete "winner" zipping perfect spirals through tires, swooshing free throw shots, and sinking golf putts.
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The lead was briefly down to one when the Thai birdied the par-five 12th until Jang matched her moments later to keep the advantage at two shots, before a couple of monster putts led to back-to-back birdies from the 13th to send the Korean clear.
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Sports Briefing | Golf Brian Stuard shot an eight-under-par 64 to top the leaderboard in the suspended first round of the Zurich Classic in Avondale, La. Stuard had only 21 putts in his bogey-free round, finishing his final hole after a rain delay of nearly five hours.
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With booming drives that regularly left Mr Woods's and Mr Molinari's balls 30 yards in the rearview mirror; pinpoint approach shots that honed in on flagsticks like laser-guided missiles; and putts whose lines never seemed to waver; Mr Koepka seemed to be playing a different game from his rivals.
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"I holed a lot of good putts out there today for par and birdie," said the 28-year-old, who first swung a club at the age of three after his late father found an old three-wood in a rubbish dump near their home in the state of Queensland.
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To make the putts I did to win such a prestigious tournament was amazing, so I obviously will be going to Gullane and then Carnoustie knowing that my game is there, and that if I can keep playing at this level then I could get into contention at some point.
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He gave Matsuyama a putting alignment training aid, a chutelike device that is anchored to the green by golf tees, that Matsuyama was using as darkness approached Wednesday to stroke 10 putts into the hole using just his left hand, 10 using just his right hand and 10 using both hands.
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"That first nine, I made the putts I was supposed to make and then all of a sudden I went to the back nine and I missed a short one on one for birdie, a short one on two for birdie and a short one on three for par," Reed, 26, told reporters.
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I'm a robotMicrochips and cronutsY2K is on the wayAnd Tiger Woods is makin' putts Gravitational ConverterTransmitting me highInsterstellar revelatorThunderbolts and crime I'm a robotMicrochips and cronutsY2K is going to makeA jalapeno figure eight Nature for dinnerRiding microwavesAsk Jeeves what he's servin'Kickflip marinade Compelled by prophecy, I jump for a microphone, and start recording.
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After getting a putting tip from fellow pro Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño on the eve of the tournament, Munoz sank three putts from 25 feet or longer, including a confidence-booster at the first hole, en route to two-under-par 68 at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
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"To come out and put up duds the first two weeks was a really big gut-shock, especially after I shot that 80 last week," said the five-times PGA Tour winner Horschel, who rolled in two putts from outside 40 feet, including a 45-footer for an unlikely par at the last.
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Casey has never won in three previous times he had a 54-hole lead on the tour, all of them by two shots or more, and he was holding his own against the relentless pursuit of Mickelson, who missed three straight birdie putts from the 12-foot range by the slimmest margins.
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While the decision of some top golfers to stay away, with some citing concerns over the Zika virus, had stoked controversy ahead of the Games, the drama of the final hole of the men's game, which saw Rose and Sweden's Henrik Stenson battling down to the last putts, may have sealed its future as an Olympic sport.
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Novelists, whether Wodehouse or Updike, taught me that the best golfer is a contented, quasi-Zen idiot who blissfully ignores the game's myriad mental anguishes: the shorted putts, the drives that hook into the trees — which, when you watch them, make you feel as if you've been kicked in the groin if your groin were in your brain.
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McIlroy was in one of the four winner-take-all matches between undefeated players in their groups, and it was a struggle from the start against Kevin Na. McIlroy, the defending champion, did not take the lead until the 210th hole, then gave it right back, and both golfers missed birdie putts on 18 to halve their match.
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Johnson showed more game than rust at the Wells Fargo Championship, where he missed only two greens — and plenty of putts — for a two-under-par 70 that left him four shots behind the leader Francesco Molinari at blustery Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, N.C. It was Johnson's 13th consecutive round at par or better.
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"Those chip-ins were huge and some putts on the front nine as well to just kind of hang in there," Long said, He opened with a 63 on PGA West's Nicklaus Tournament Course, shot 71 on Friday at the Stadium layout and had another 63 on Saturday at La Quinta to get into the final group with Mickelson and Hadwin.
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Rose carded five birdies in a typically consistent display to take a one-shot advantage after 16 holes in the final round at the Antalya event but bogeyed the 17th hole to slip back into a share of first with overnight leader Li. Lackluster putts on the 18th from both Li and Rose meant they both finished at 17-under-par after 72 holes.
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"I've seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire, I've seen him at Madison Square Garden with a topcoat on, standing in the key and hitting foul shots and swishing them -- he sinks three-foot putts" One message Scaramucci successfully conveyed during his brief time on the job: He really liked the President, no matter his previous criticism of Trump or apparently liberal social values.
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The twists and turns along the way were both absurd and numerous — shots hit under trees, clutch putts made from all angles, a fan picking up a wayward drive and a four-hole playoff to decide it all — but at the end of a week filled with what-if scenarios and if-then possibilities, McIlroy made the calculus of the P.G.A. Tour season's final event remarkably simple: He won everything.
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