In the midst of all hype Happy Gilmore 2We bring your news about a real golfer who doesn’t play the game like everyone else.
His name is Philippe Gariepy, and if it is known, it could be because he played in one video Of the 103rd PGA championship of Canada that set the internet this week.
In the fragment, Gariepy, a lovable 49-year-old Pro from Sutton, Canada, is shown low on a putt for about 90 minutes from Montreal. Real low. Gariepy is 6-foot-4, but his putter is shorter than some tap-ins. It is only 23-inch long. (First reports said that Gariepy used an 18-inch putter, the shortest to allow the rules of Golf).
“You can read much better if you are so low in front of the ground,” Gariepy told Golf.com by telephone on Wednesday. “And with a putter that briefly, it is impossible to yip.”
Over the years, Gariepy has had fights from the Heebie Jebies. But he said that is not what pushed him to a putter of a pint format. An old teaching pro, he made the switch almost ten years ago while he played a casual round with a friend and young daughter of his friend. Nothing fell that day for Gariepy.
“So at one point I asked the daughter if I could use her putter, which was very small,” Gariepy said. Of course he emptied the putt. He got stuck with the mini-flat stick and understood the next four holes. “
That night Gariepy cut his Scotty Cameron to 21 inches. Later that season, with the help of that putter, he went on to a US Open Qualifier Playoff, where he lost a Birdie after he had left his own bid.
In an era in which legions of stars – Bernhard Longer, Fred -Parten, Adam Scott and on – Putts with broomsticks brushing, Gariepy had embraced a slightly closer in length to a chopstick.
It turned out to be a fairly easy transition, although it requires him to adjust his posture.
“I say to people, you don’t just want to bend over the putt, because that will hurt your back,” Gariepy said. “I assume a wide position and I use my legs. If you look at me, I actually squat over the ball.”
Apart from the forcing of Gariepy to become low, which gives him well to the break, there are other benefits to his sawn -off approach.
“The shorter the shaft, the less rotation,” he said. “You have more control. The putter just goes back and straight ahead.”
The bigger challenge, he said, can be a distance control, especially on rugged greens. When placing surfaces is slowly walking – because they are often early in the season in Canada – Gariepy throws his short putter for a long one.
“But on slick greens it is the short putter for me,” he said.
Gariepy no longer wears the 21-inch Scotty. “It had the neck of a plumber and I tended to pull it,” he said. Instead, Gariepy said, a cut version of a cheap model called a Broma Tour Star 1 with a ladies’ winnin grabbed and a head that Gariepy has bent to 80 degrees, the maximum legal lie for a putter.
That is the flatstick that Gariepy used this week at Pingrove Club De Golf, guest location of the PGA of Canada event, which contains a field of club professionals. The greens were much fast during Tuesday’s opening round and Gariepy she fully used them. He ended the day at one. On Wednesday, however, he started a rough start and his putter was partly the culprit. After he had left a bogey bid on the lip on the PAR-5 opener, Gariepy casually stood out to clean up. . . And sniffed.
“It was so stupid,” he said. “I’ve never done anything like that.”
Although Gariepy said his play partners did not notice his blunder, he reported himself and made a triple-bogey 8. He shot an 83 for an 11-over two-day total that left him three shots for the cut. Gariepy has none of that on his well method.
Is a short putter the way to go for everyone? Gariepy does not push it on his students.
“But I let them try my putter when they are curious,” he said. “It rarely works for them.”
It is the other way around with his colleague professionals.
“I sometimes suggest that they try when they complain about their well,” Gariepy said. “They try it, they make the putt immediately without thinking and they usually say:” That’s not for me. “
For each his or her own. Gariepy has faith in his approach, which he said he hopes to show off in the coming years at the Senior Circuit. He feels that he can compete with the 50-plus set. Although his strong suits are chipping, iron play and accuracy of the tee. Gariepy also said that he rolls the rock very nicely. Except when he doesn’t.
“On a good day I have the feeling that I can make everything,” he said. “But on a bad day I can miss them all.”
In that sense, he is just like the rest of us.
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