You putt 1 hand, and you just won a PGA Tour event. What’s going on here?
Are you a vegetable head case?
Do you know who else is?
A recent PGA Tour winner.
“I have to write down all my putting thoughts so I can look back in 10 years and laugh,” said 33-year-old Adam Schenk after capturing his first PGA title with a 243. “It’s always been one-sided.”
Yes, you read that right: Schenk beat a field of 120 players at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship — and winds up to 40 mph — with a putt, at least with his right hand.
And even when his left hand joined the group, there was a lot on display.
“When it was protected from the wind, I used one hand to hit a lot of nice stones,” Schenkk said Saturday after his 54-hole hole was covered. “He had a lip-outing. I don’t think I did anybody today with one hand, but I was putting my left hand on top so it was like a right putt.”
On Sunday, in conditions more suitable for kiteboarding, Schenk was not working well – drilling 130-on the beach under the wind and shooting even 71 to finish the week, better than chandler phillips.
But back to the one-handed placement. Schenk has long maintained that he is more naturally gifted than most of his peers to compete (1) making as many starts as possible, and (2) using his wits. “There’s a lot of people out there that are physically better at golf than me, and I have to try and what an advantage I can be, if I do that, if I make a chance. If I make a chance.” If I make a chance. “
At Port Royal, where Schenk calls the conditions at Blurdtory “occasionally ridiculous,” he made putts. The trip didn’t have a shotlink in place last time, but it followed the putts on each green, a category where Schenk put 22nd 22 in the field of the week with a 1.73 average.
Schenk was inspired to try hand-picking after an interview he had in July with 67-year-old Mike Hulbert, a three-time winner, however – hand-made.
Hulbert drove this route at the 1995 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-AM. “I wasn’t just dressed enough,” he said when he was enough, when he explained the switch he had started in building the leader of David Loveberterter – he taught to pull the green grass. Hulbert was happy to succeed quickly with the new disease, saying, “I can get a good feeling for the rhythm and the ball just flows towards the hole. When I put my hand to make equipment.”
Schenk, who said he spoke to Hulbert at 3m open, said he was impressed by Hulbert’s advice if it was completely convincing. “Can you do that in front of people? That’s a big question,” Schenkk said of his thought process. “Like, can you do a tour? That’s another big question.”
But then came another insult to inspiration from humility that has more to do with sources.
“I saw something on Instagram like a day or two later,” Schenkk said, “and it’s like the left hand has hurt a lot of things in the short game, especially when you put the club out or kind of your release hand, and kind of your left hand to put out here.”
Solution: Remove his left hand from the process.
The result is not good, and not one of the others Schenkk One – to put the hacks, holding the chart down where the handle meets the metal. But all that matters is the minimum now the way that is not working for him – he looks. As arnold palmer used to say, swing your swing. And the same goes for putting: Combine your stroke.
“I can tell you 10 different methods, ideas, techniques that I used in my hotel room this week trying to get some kind of photo,” said Schenkk. Sunday in the light of victory. “I think the answer I come up with is there is no answer, it’s whatever works for you.”
