What is the key to mid- and long-range shots? One of the best PGA Tour games of this length has a simple tip to help guide your next practice session.
Max Greyserman has only 27 starts on the PGA Tour, but in the 2024 season (in which he made 26 starts) He finished second three times and was a finalist for the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award (an award ultimately won by Nick Dunlap). Greyserman didn’t win in his first year on the Tour, but he had six top-10 finishes throughout the year and only missed six starts.
His season ended with the BMW Championship (he had a T28), but he was good enough to finish 48th in the FedEx Cup standings, meaning he qualified for all of the lucrative Signature Events in 2025.
The key to his success was hitting. Greyserman finished second last season on Tour in the Strokes Gained: Putting category, with a .749 stroke percentage in the field. But it was his mid-range game and latency that made him successful. (If you are a good lag putter, you will be less likely to three-putt.)
Greyserman led the tournament in putting from 20-25 feet and was second in putting from 10-15 feet. His secret? Speed control.
“I watch all these guys practicing starting the ball on the line and I feel like putting is really 50 percent speed, 40 percent reading the green and 10 percent starting on the line,” Greyserman said during a recent appearance on GOLF’s Subpar podcast. “That’s why I rarely practice the starting line. I practice speed almost entirely. So I won’t even be hitting the holeshot very often. I just think a lot of guys have it the other way around.
And if you’re looking for a good latency-reducing exercise that will allow you to fine-tune your speed, there are plenty of people who can help.
You can listen to the entire Greyserman episode Hereor you can watch the video below on YouTube.
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