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Putting Is Fun
Everybody who's ever tried it knows putting can be fun. It can also break your heart. This show takes the fun road.
Putting Is Fun is a weekly conversation between Brian Manzella, a Top 100 teacher who spent 44 years coaching golf and will happily tell you he's a poor putter, and John Ortega, the putting guru who has coached PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp since he was 8 years old and co-founded John Byron Putters back when Scotty Cameron was still Scott.
No systems. No gimmicks. Just two lifers who…
Episodes
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A $69,000 Scotty Cameron Is Baloney. Here's the Collection Worth Building | Ep. 15
John Ortega and Brian Manzella build the ultimate putter collection: Copilot's 10 most iconic putters, Brian's Grok list from the Schenectady (so dominant the…
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Scottie Scheffler's Putting Coach Built an App. Will You Use It? | Ep.14
Two of the more notable putting instructors on tour are coming out with apps: Phil Kenyon, who helped Scottie Scheffler go from around 100th in strokes gained…
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The USGA Said Heck No. Version Five Is in Tony Finau's Bag | Ep. 13
ohn Ortega is back with The Putter, a Ping Ally Onset, and the story of what Tony Finau has sticking out of the top of his. A hockey player from Wisconsin put…
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A $750 Putter Shot 125. Hubert Green's Cost $5 (with Kieran Harris) | Ep. 12
John is out this week, so Kieran Harris of Good Misses sits in the Ortega chair from his mother-in-law's basement in Toronto. Brian Manzella, Top 50 teacher…
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Nicklaus's White Fang and the Putter Karsten Never Glued | Ep. 11
Tricked-out putters, all the way down. Brian Manzella and John Ortega on the first putter covers, $800 headcovers, black oxide and Cerakote, flipping a beat-up…
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The Training Aid Episode: Putting Platforms, the Smittle Stick, and Se Ri Pak's 81 Putts | Ep. 10
Brian Manzella and John Ortega go through the training aids that actually work. The motorized putting platforms with projected break lines, why John is buying…
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Side Saddle Putting with Sam Osborne: Snead, Bryson, and the Stroke the USGA Tried to Kill | Ep. 9
Sam Osborne (No More Lies) joins Brian Manzella and John Ortega for the first three man Putting Is Fun. Sam has putted side saddle for eight years and makes…
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They Called Scotty Cameron "The Copycat Kid" | Ep. 8
They called Scotty Cameron the Copycat Kid. His original designs shut that down for good. Brian Manzella is a Top 50 teacher and runs his Studio in the Sky in…
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Blade Putters Are Disappearing | Ep. 7
Mallets are winning on tour by a landslide, blades are vanishing from the racks, and after 20 years of better equipment and better data, tour putting stats…
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You Can Become a Great Putter Without Ever Playing Golf | Ep. 6
Brian Manzella and John Ortega build a putter from scratch. Not a club, a person. Ep. 6 is for two kinds of listeners: someone who has never held a putter…
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Aimpoint vs Vector Putting, and Grok's 25 Best Putters | Ep. 5
Aimpoint took over the PGA Tour and never made it to your Saturday game. Brian Manzella and John Ortega break down both green reading systems, the lawsuit…
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Are Zero Torque Putters Already Fading on Tour? | Ep. 4
Brian and John are back from the US Open at Shinnecock with a report from inside the ropes. John's student Jake Knapp returned from six to eight weeks off with…
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The Putting Stroke Stopped Evolving 50 Years Ago, Ep. 3
The golf swing changed. The equipment changed. The putting stroke? Stuck in 1975. Brian Manzella (Top 50 teacher) and John Ortega (co-founder of John Byron…
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Arnold Palmer Asked John for a Putting Lesson, Ep. 2
Brian Manzella (Top 50 teacher) and John Ortega (co-founder of John Byron Putters, coach to PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp since he was 8) share the stories only…
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He Needed a Baseball Bat. Golf Got Him Instead. | Putting Is Fun Ep. 1
He needed a baseball bat. Golf got him instead. In the first episode of Putting Is Fun, Brian Manzella sits down with John Ortega, the man who has coached PGA…