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Taylor Pendrith Joins Smylie Kaufman on Improvement in Putting
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10/8/2024
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But this past year, I was blown away at how good your putting stats were, your seventh in putting.
00:08
For you, what was the big change this year? Why were the putts fallen? Was it something that you
00:14
change in your setup, your stroke, putters? I always am interested to see why guys make a huge
00:21
jump in a category. Yeah, I guess statistically, for my whole career, that's probably been the
00:31
weakest part of my game, is on the greens. I switched to a center-shafted putter two years
00:40
ago, maybe. I think it was my second year on tour, I switched to it. I don't know my stats
00:45
from last year on putting, but I felt like I putted better, and I felt like I was close to
00:52
putting good. I changed putters for this year. I'm using a center-shafted jailbird. I've been
01:04
doing the same stuff though, same drills. Really, I guess, putting a little bit more work in on the
01:12
speed of the greens each week, and really trying to dial that in, which I think has helped a lot
01:17
in my feel. Three putts, trying to obviously avoid those is huge, but yeah, I've been doing the same
01:26
stuff. I think just getting a little bit more confidence with the putter, and seeing some putts
01:32
fall early, and seeing some putts fall in big moments can go a long way for the confidence,
01:38
but I haven't really changed my practice or preparation. I've been doing the same stuff that
01:43
I've been doing for 10 years, but a new putter, I mean, yeah, that putter, it seems to be working
01:49
good this year. Well, when you start hitting that start line, that definitely makes a big
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difference when it starts kind of freeing up the rest of your game, right? When you can hit it to
01:57
20 feet, feel like you can make a putt, that definitely makes a difference. When I look at
02:01
your results too this year, Taylor, you have six top 10s on the year, and I think that speaks
02:06
highly to what a hot putter can do for a guy, that when you're able to make putts, you turn
02:14
those 25th to 30th place finishes into top 10s. It seemed like your good golf this year, you found
02:22
a way to get yourself in position more often than not in the last four or five tee times on Sundays.
02:28
I think, would you credit that to just your overall game just being that much better and
02:34
just getting a little bit more confidence? Yeah, definitely. I think the second half of
02:40
the season, I've played a lot of really solid golf and everything was, nothing was spectacular,
02:47
but everything was really solid. I wasn't driving the ball great at the beginning of the year,
02:53
and that was really bothering me. I switched shafts in Houston, and I was swinging a little
03:02
slower then with my shoulder, and then it progressively kept getting better and better.
03:06
And the last second or second half of the season, I was driving it how I was the previous two years,
03:13
and I felt really good with it, could swing hard at it. And so the driving improved. The irons were
03:22
just steady, solid. If I hit it good that week, I'd likely have a good finish because my putting
03:30
was pretty solid all year, really. But yeah, I think my whole game overall was just really
03:39
steady and solid this year. And then you mix in a really good putting week, and you got a top 10
03:47
or a top five. So yeah, it's been, I've had a lot of really, really solid results, man, this year,
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and it's been awesome. I wasn't in the big events at the beginning of the year, and then after I won
04:00
in Dallas, I got in the three remaining ones and a couple majors and was able to play some pretty
04:08
solid golf in those events. And then the last three playoff events were good as well. So it's
04:14
been a really cool year. Yeah, I didn't expect it at the start of the year, but obviously happy
04:20
that I'm here.
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