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Once upon a Time, the two best Golfers on the Planet played an 18 hole Match on TV, for the entertainment of the Golfing Public. The Match was [...]
November 24, 2018
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Email me at oriongolf@ymail.com if you would like to receive info on how to… … Make donation to SJCRH & get Gift Certificates [...]
November 26, 2013
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Here’s where to go for what’s new… Our Video with Rukket Sports here … thanks to Jana & the people at [...]
September 27, 2013
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Beginning today, I’ll be posting my daily thoughts on Putting, and directing you to information that is timely and relevant to the current [...]
September 27, 2013
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They say a picture is worth 1,000 words… I guess a Video is worth a million then. Or, how about… Black Hawk & Swan Videos that [...]
July 27, 2013
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We say it clear… You Will Putt Better with the Black Hawk, or Black Swan Putters, than You will with any other Putter, and better than You [...]
June 18, 2013
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If You Designed a Putter to Make Putts… … It would be designed to actually “Putt where it Aims”. Surprisingly to most [...]
June 18, 2013
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Just thinking… Do You have a friendly wager riding? $5? $10? $20? More? What’s a Stroke Worth to You then… would you change [...]
June 18, 2013
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Just some thoughts on the USGA’s latest US Open Championship… Congratulations, Justin Rose… a wonderful performance. When Ben [...]
June 16, 2013
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Had a fairly typical Day at the incredible Myrtle Beach National Golf Club, Tuesday. On the Putting Green from 9 am to 6 pm… enjoying [...]
May 30, 2013
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Can you drive the ball 285 yards on average, hitting 65% of the fairways? Can you hit 11, 12, or 13 greens in regulation on an average day, [...]
April 15, 2013
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After you hit the ‘PLAY’ button… Click the little HD in the box for the HD version. After you hit the ‘PLAY’ [...]
April 12, 2013
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One of the interesting things we learned early on, in test-marketing the Putters, was that Golfers actually played more once they put the Black [...]
April 1, 2013
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Putter-head Mass Moment of Inertia, or “MOI”, is one very important component of good putting results. Since the Black Hawk & [...]
March 17, 2013
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We’re looking for three Golfers to feature in our Video Production of “Putting 2.0“. Send us an email at oriongolf@ymail.com, [...]
March 16, 2013
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How good a Putter are You? Do You even know? Does it matter? If you’re like most people I meet, you’re disappointed with your [...]
March 12, 2013
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We’ve collected enough putting test data to long ago know without any doubt that the Black Hawk & Black Swan Putters are the Best [...]
January 25, 2013
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Golf Digest & Golf World magazines have selected the “Black Hawk Putter” as the #1 Golf Equipment Story of 2012. [...]
January 2, 2013
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I don’t do any controlled trials personally anymore. Usually I’m quite busy teaching others, and sometimes they will perform trials. [...]
December 5, 2012
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Well, the USGA & the Royal & Ancient have finally offered a proposed ruling on “Anchored Putters”. We’re not surprised [...]
December 3, 2012
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What is the Core Function of the PGA Professional? Simple. To Make Golf a Better Game. When the first Golf Professionals were imported from [...]
November 21, 2012
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Often, when searching for an answer to a problem… I’ll go back and browse my copies of books written by those whose genius I respect [...]
November 21, 2012
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Wow. We’re finally done testing. It’s time to finally call it for what it is… it’s Putting 2.0. Putting 1.x is done. RIP [...]
September 30, 2012
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Lots of people ask me questions… here’s a set of links to answer some of them… “Is that Putter USGA legal?” [...]
August 11, 2012
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When we show the Black Hawk & Black Swan Putters to Golf Professionals, we get pretty much the exact same reaction dynamic every time… [...]
July 29, 2012
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Often, as I work my way through this project, I think of my Grandpa and his stories of working for “Mr. Ford” as a Tool Maker at the [...]
July 26, 2012
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Thomas Edison was a genius at the Art of Innovation. Repeatedly, he shocked the world with his inventive developments. They changed the way [...]
July 25, 2012
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Never Before in Golf History has there been a Putter … … that is even 5% better than all other putters in existence… … [...]
July 25, 2012
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Golf’s biggest controversy right now is whether “Anchored Putters” (Belly & Long Putters) should be banned. It’s [...]
July 24, 2012
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There are approximately 26 Million Golfers in the USA… and currently less than 1000 of them actually have a Putter in their bag that works. [...]
July 22, 2012
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Mass Moment of Inertia. MOI. It’s key to Newton’s Laws of Motion, and for the sake of simplicity, it’s the measure of an [...]
July 22, 2012
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The single most important factor in putting is the player’s ability to control his “speed’, or distance control. A close second [...]
July 22, 2012
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This post is directed at the Tour players… but everyday players will do better by observing these lessons too. If you suddenly had a more [...]
July 21, 2012
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Tour Players are shown on TV all the time making long putts, right? So they must make a lot of ‘bombs’, right? Not exactly. They show [...]
July 21, 2012
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The Tour finally has gone to statistical record-keeping that allows us to see how good … “These Guys Are Good” … really [...]
July 21, 2012
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We believe in making Golfers into Better Putters and Happier Players. We share what we’ve learned freely. We’re offering this help to [...]
July 20, 2012
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Process is what engineers who work hard to improve quality focus on. Results take care of themselves, if the Process is correct, repeatable, and [...]
July 20, 2012
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We hear lots of commets on the “appearance” of our putters, mostly before the person commenting has ever even put one in their hands [...]
July 20, 2012
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Sometimes, an Ingenious Design Solution trumps all the gobbledygook that passes for commonly believed, or marketing [...]
July 20, 2012
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It’s Golf… it’s Putting. It’s not Rocket Science… it’s more important than that… 🙂 In my lifetime, [...]
July 20, 2012
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Today I had the Extraordinary Pleasure of another round with Mr. Bob Dickson at TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course. As before, we were first off the tee [...]
July 18, 2012
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How much better does a putter (the club) need to be, for a player to make the decision to change? Good question. But it needs to be seen from [...]
July 16, 2012
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July 16, 2012
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“… By Far, the Best” https://blackhawkputter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/sandy-lyle-black-swan-55-sec.wmv Click on this post [...]
July 10, 2012
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Putting proficiency has been analyzed, imagined, hyped, and argued about for as long as I’ve been alive. Never more so than when the market [...]
July 9, 2012
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Putter manufacturers put a lot of marketing emphasis on their “roll” characteristics. Very interesting marketing idea. Confuse the [...]
July 9, 2012
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Putters are built way too light to be effective. That’s a fact. 360g in a putter head are not nearly enough for an adult to properly swing [...]
July 8, 2012
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Straight Back? Straight Through? Simple physics and geometry says no. Putting observations say no. But the mental image of straight back actually [...]
July 8, 2012
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We’re looking for 100 first-pass public readers of our soon to be released “E-Book” on the science and fundamentals of [...]
July 8, 2012
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We hear it all the time. The player is on the green, scratching their head as to why they make more putts with our putters. They ask if [...]
July 7, 2012
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July 6, 2012
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William Benjamin Hogan was my hero as a boy… as for many golfers, he took on a mystical presence in my life… stories told by my [...]
July 6, 2012
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If everybody does something for years, for decades, and everyone thinks it’s good enough… well, maybe it’s good enough. But [...]
July 3, 2012
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Everyone in the golf business knows what putters are, and what they must look like, and do. They are a bunch of white swans. Indistinguishable as [...]
July 3, 2012
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We teach sound putting fundamental techniques. One of the most important fundamentals we teach is the putting grip, and what it needs to [...]
July 3, 2012
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There’s a thought process that “More (and Complex) Technology is the Solution” to solve most problems. In the main, [...]
June 28, 2012
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We call it “Extreme Putting”. Making longer putts, with more break, more often, than you could ever imagine. Making Ninety-Footers [...]
June 28, 2012
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We say the Proof is in the Putting… the data should speak clearly as to performance. In a Year Long Trial, 60 Top Players, including Tour [...]
June 25, 2012
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Chicago, 1942. Ridgemoor Country Club. Ben Hogan wins the Hale America National Open Championship. [...]
June 25, 2012
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June 24, 2012
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Breaking Putts… the More the Break, the Tougher to Make. Unless you’re using a Black Hawk or Black Swan. You see, the reason you [...]
June 24, 2012
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One Putt Per Round. It’s Huge. One good view of this, is to compare the best 150 players in the world (PGA Tour players) across several [...]
June 21, 2012
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If you roll a dozen balls at a hole from thirty feet away, it’s likely that you will notice two things… 1. The overall size of the [...]
June 21, 2012
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Meet the Real Designers of the Black Hawk & Black Swan Putters… Pythagoras, Galileo, Newton, Pascal, Edison, & Ford All we did was [...]
June 21, 2012
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Skepticism. It’s healthy. Engineers are usually the most skeptical… except maybe… Golf Professionals! Hey, I was skeptical [...]
June 19, 2012
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We’re looking for 60 “Everyday Amateur” golfers to perform a comparative putting trial under controlled conditions, just as we [...]
June 18, 2012
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A Men’s College Golf Team Captain won a tournament last year, then shortly after saw me at LPGA International fitting a Senior Tour [...]
June 17, 2012
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I had the pleasure of meeting a terrific PGA Professional who attended our Putting Science Presentation last winter. He was naturally skeptical, [...]
June 17, 2012
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June 17, 2012
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Had the pleasure of 18 holes with a friend, Warren Chappuis, a young scholar in the PGA Professional Golf Management program at Florida Gulf [...]
June 16, 2012
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A Gentleman from Oklahoma (5 handicap) flew in to Orlando last week, specifically to get fit with a Black Hawk (at the beautiful MetroWest Golf [...]
June 16, 2012
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Congratulations to a True Gentleman, Sandy Lyle, for his outstanding performance at the PGA Senior Championship in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Mr. [...]
May 28, 2012
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David, My name is Connor Lewis and I am your Johnny Appleseed in Iowa. I purchased the Black Swan putter from Michael Collins and have only had [...]
March 26, 2012
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“You’re a Better Putter than You Think You Are…” We’ve been saying this to hundreds of Golfers this past year, and [...]
March 25, 2012
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Bob Dickson is a distinguished competitive golfer, with wonderful career accomplishments. Mr. Dickson (he asked me to call him Bob, but I [...]
March 25, 2012
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I use a simple technique to show the Putter… It’s called “The Five Ball Drill”. We find the longest toughest putt on a [...]
March 25, 2012
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When first showing the Putters to Professionals, I started with PGA Pros whom I had known for a long time. I went to go see my old friend Fred [...]
March 25, 2012
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Why You Need a PGA Putting Lesson (click) We are focused on the Entire Process of Putting Better… not just Putter sales. When providing a [...]
March 18, 2012
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Odyssey, Ping, Titleist-Cameron, and TaylorMade produce nearly 80% of new putters sold in the USA.
March 18, 2012
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It Will Change the Game … for the Better. (click) What actually happens when you miss a putt? Do you understand why? Do you recognize [...]
March 18, 2012
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I was demonstrating the Putters to a Professional at a club in Florida this past year, and a senior Lady member came onto the green with three [...]
March 18, 2012
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Finally, a Better Putter (click) Introducing the Black Hawk Putter by Orion Golf… The first Putter actually designed to “Make More [...]
March 18, 2012