Marius Filmalter is a professional golf instructor and research scientist who has spent over two decades studying and identifying the factors that allow golfers to perform at the highest levels, in particular those that translate to the fine motor skills involved in putting. Marius has analyzed more than 54,000 professional and amateur strokes, which make up the world’s largest putting performance database to date and provides the foundation for Marius' mathematical assessment for improved putting performance, including his breakthrough discovery of the 10 characteristics shared by all great putters.

Marius’s ground-breaking presentation of his putting theories and research at the 2004 European PGA Expo in Munich, Germany transformed him from a relative unknown to the world's hottest putting commodity, and earned him partnership offers from two of the game's most respected instructors, Hank Haney and Dave Pelz. Marius chose to continue his putting research at the Hank Haney Golf Ranch for four and a half years with full access to the top players on the PGA Tour. Since 2008, Marius has split his time between travelling the major professional tours working with his various students and continuing to collect new data for his ever-growing putting database.

 

 

 

Golf Magazine Articles

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"Three Common putting flaws": Video tip

"Belly or Bust": Golf Magazine Cover Story , January 2012

"Cut your cut stroke": Golf Magazine, December 2011 (Watch Video)

"Roll it the right length": Golf Magazine, November 2011 (Watch Video)

"Five new rules for your stroke": Golf Magazine cover story, August 2011 (Read on Golf.com)

"Downhillers made easy": Golf Magazine, July 2011 (Watch Video)

"How to putt with consistency": Golf Magazine, June 2011 (Watch Video)

"Beat the green freeze": Golf Magazine, May 2011 (Watch Video)

"How to check if your stroke is smooth": Golf Magazine, March 2011 (Watch Video)

"How to roll putts with perfect speed": Golf Magazine, February 2011

"Add loft to hit better putts": Golf Magazine, January 2011 (Watch Video)

"Perfect putts in five steps": Golf Magazine, December 2010 (Watch Video)

"The instant stroke smoother": Golf Magazine, November 2010 (Watch Video)

"No. 1 Yips Fix": Golf Magazine, October 2010 (Watch Video)

"Roll your putts smooth and easy": Golf magazine, September 2010 (Watch Video)

"Steal Jack's putting secret": Golf Magazine, August 2010 (Watch Video)

"How to groove the perfect stroke path": Golf magazine, July 2010 (Watch Video)

"How to roll putts effortlessly": Golf Magazine, June 2010 (Watch Video)

 

 

Here's a fact about the putting stroke that may surprise you: It takes the same amount of time to stroke a 35-foot putt as it does a 5-foot putt.

In other words, the time from the start of your backstroke to impact is the same whether you need to roll the ball 5 feet or 35 feet, as well as every distance in between (and at distances less than 5 feet and greater than 35 feet). If you're like most of my students you're wondering, "How can that be? A longer putt requires a longer stroke, which takes a longer time to complete." Well, you have half of it right. Yes, a longer putt requires a longer stroke, but it's also a faster stroke, so it's not officially slower on the clock.

The key ingredient here is pace—the rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds. Good putters use the same pace on every stroke, from long-range lags to short knee-knockers. More important, they use the pace wired into their system. Every player has his own unique pace—a tempo fingerprint. The pace at which you naturally stroke is different than the pace I stroke putts, and it's different from the pace Tiger uses, your neighbor uses—whoever. The secret to putting well is to find your personal rhythm and then work it into your stroke. You can't avoid it because:

1) Your personal pace is a strong part of who you are, and

2) If you do you'll be forced to make some type of compensation in your stroke—compensations that are difficult to time and which always results in bad misses.

To understand the concept of personal putting pace, think of a classic Type A person at your work, the
guy chugging coffee all morning and going about his business at breakneck speed. Now, picture him putting.
What kind of stroke do you think he'll use? You can bet that it'll be as rapid-fire as his work pace. Next, think of
the mellowest person you know and picture his stroke. Getting the picture now?

If you are not tuned in to your personal rythm, you might have developped the yips. Let us find out for sure wether you have them or not, that's the first step towards recovery. We have analized thousands of putting strokes and we were the first to mathematically define the yips (Read More...).

 

 

 

Marius opened his first academy at the Old American Golf club, in The Colony, Texas. Old American is the home base of Marius golf Schools. (Read More)