Putting By The Numbers

Are you looking to better your golf score? You can achieve this goal by improving your lag putting. In Putting by the Numbers, author Bob Labbe provides a quantitative method of lag putting applicable for all golfers whether recreational, amateur, or professional. It can help to reduce your score by four to five strokes per round regardless of skill level.

This method is based upon science, including physics and engineering mechanics, but is simplified and reduced to an arithmetic method anyone can use if able to do simple arithmetic in their head quickly. Putting by the Numbers provides an on-course and in-home practice video that fully demonstrates the method that can be used to play on any golf course throughout the world.

No new equipment or change in your putting stroke is needed, just the willingness to practice in and around the putting green to develop your unique power factor to overcome the frictional surfaces encountered during play.

Testimonials:

“Finally an alalytical system that works not only in practice but can be used during play, and is adaptable to greens of any speed or slope. Putting by the Numbers should be a great teaching tool.”

—Mike Beck, member, Firestone Country Club and Portage Country Club, Akron, Ohio (CEO, Polymer Valley Chemicals, Akron, Ohio, and Macon, Georgia)

“I have known Bob for decades. He is an ingenuous engineer who has created numerous improvements in his chosen field. It is not surprising that he has managed to create a measurable method to control long putts.”

—Tim Beringer, thirty-nine-year member, Portage Country Club, Akron, Ohio (retired owner and partner, Ceeco Equipment Company)

“I have seen Bob Labbe excel on and around the greens for many years. Most amateur golfers putt by feel. In Bob’s ap- proach, the putt must be a well-defined conscious action. The

method really works! I wish that he had written his book much earlier.”

—John Halligan, member, Horseshoe Bend Country Club, Roswell, Georgia (retired president and CEO, Amerex, Inc.)

“Your book will significantly decrease 3-putts and handicaps for the average golfer.”

—Doug Regula, member, Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio (retired chairman of the Anesthesia Department, Cleveland Clinic/AGMC, Cleveland, Ohio)

“Bob’s method has proven an excellent alternative to chipping. It certainly improved my scoring and I very seldom 3-putt.”

—Ron Kessler, member, Meadowbrook Country Club, Ballwin, Missouri

“As a high handicap golfer and terrible chipper, I found Bob Labbe’s technique to be a great help to me with my short game. It’s an amazing method has worked for me on the green and as far off the green as 25 yards.”

— Gary Halls, Bogey Hills Country Club and Meadowbrook Country Club, Ballwin, Missouri. (CEO, Halls Sales and Marketing)

“It’s like having your own putting tutor. This system is for just about any golf skill level. Your ability to read greens and putt more precisely will improve considerably.”

— John Chmielewski, past member of Meadowbrook Country Club, Ballwin, Missouri (CFO, OBAX Infrastructures)

Bob Labbe earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1968 and began studying for his master’s in engineering and business; in 1972, he embarked on his career in air pollution control, engineering, manufacturing, and installing industrial systems throughout North America and in other parts of the world. He began his career with American Air Filter in 1968 and in 1972 became a founding member of the first of three air pollution control companies he led over forty-nine years.

Conducting business often meant playing golf with salesmen, and Bob worked with many over the years who were also passionate about the game. For twenty-five years, he attended an annual sales meeting that featured a one-day golf tournament. While Bob was rarely competitive with these accomplished golfers, he learned to love the game and knew that one day, he would play it on a regular and dedicated basis, which he began doing in 1996.
As he played more, he realized that becoming a good golfer depended on putting. Putting by the Numbers is the result: the method of lag putting he developed to be able score at a level that was both satisfying and competitive, a method that has allowed him to shave 8 to 12 strokes per round from his early playing days.

Contribution from Mike Shaw, acclaimed author mikeshawnow.com