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Caliber Golf – The Right Putter Grip at the ‘Wright’ time.

Caliber Golf – 지금 바로 올바른 퍼터 그립을 만들수 있는 때

olf and hockey. Hockey and golf. Both require great Armour, to explain the condition that led him to abandon
Ghand-eye coordination to be successful. Both require tournament golf.
a strong, solid posture and width to execute a swing. Both
An avid hockey player since age six, Wright, CEO of Caliber
require balance, stability, and control. It makes sense why
Golf, grew up in a family of collegiate and professional
so many hockey players, especially professional ones, love
players (his dad and grandfather). Wright was confounded
and excel at playing golf.
by the fact that he could rip a slapshot from the blue line,
That love for hockey and golf brought Tim Wright, a but he couldn’t make a four-foot putt to save his life.
15-handicap, to a painful point of despair when he
“To say hockey is in our blood, is an understatement,”
developed the putting yips, and in a desperate twist of
commented Wright.
fate, resulted in an innovative cure.
Emulating a hockey swing, Wright designed a combination
What else would provoke a golfer to cut off the head of his
hockey stick grip and shaft to isolate the big muscles of
$450 Scotty Cameron Newport putter and attach it to the
the shoulders and neutralize the wrists and the hands
bottom of a broken hockey stick?
in the putting stroke. By placing his right palm on the
The “yips” refer to wrist spasms, twitches, or jerks in the flat rectangular side of the hockey shaft, Wright was
putting stroke – a dreaded, “don’t utter the word,” golf able to square up to the hole more consistently. Then by
affliction that can drive golfers to quit the game. The positioning his right hand down the shaft as if he was
term was popularized by Scottish American professional making a hockey pass, the sense of control was immediate.
golfer and winner of three major championships, Tommy Those pesky, frustrating four-footers suddenly became

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