The Steve Williams Visit.....

A great week at Formosa… yes, we had Steve Williams at Formosa for the day on Friday. Steve was the guest of the” New Zealand Moving Company”. He arrived at Formosa via Helicopter at 9.00 . am and spent the rest of the day entertaining clients and talking to all of us at Formosa.

I was fortunate enough to spend about 2 hours with Steve in a 2 seater cart as he was going around the course giving advice and tips to all the players. What a great guy to be around ! He also chatted a bit about Tiger and said that Tiger was ready to play full time as from this weekend and was ready to go.

Interesting to listen to the advice he was giving the players during his clinic about putting. He emphasised the importance of how almost half the shots we play are on the green, yet we spend so little time practicing putting. He spoke about the importance of owning a good putter, avoiding those nasty three putts and comparing reading the slopes on the green with water running towards the hole… in other words what line would the water follow to the hole when you pour a bucket on the green. ) Quite a good image to have in your mind when reading the greens !

The other very important thing that he and Tiger constantly check, is that the palm of his left hand is completely on the grip of the putter ( if you are right handed ).Make sure the entire palm of the left hand is sitting flush against the grip.

He told us that Tiger's strength is hardly ever having a three putt. To explain how important putting was, he mentioned that Tiger had 4 three putts during the Masters and lost to Phil by 5. I suppose that we can all do with a bit of help regarding our putting. I will shortly have the new “ YES” putting system in the shop so come and have a look and let’s try and save some shots of your score.

Some photos from the day…