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If golf has a real-life Jerry Maguire, it’s Mac Barnhardt, who has, over the past 25 years, represented Davis Love, Justin Leonard, David Duval, Lucas Glover, Brandt Snedeker and other popular favorites. At the moment, he doesn’t represent anyone. Still, his quest remains: to sign the first new client of the rest of his life.
 
When the U.S. Amateur is played, as it was at Bandon Dunes last week, it’s a holy week for amateurs. The event is also a confab for agents, at which (in normal times) they size up talent and chat up parents and swing coaches. In this odd year, owing to the pandemic, the agents were not hovering, but last year, like every year, they were. Any winner of a U.S. Amateur can expect to be overwhelmed with agent attention. Last year’s Amateur champ, Andy Ogletree, found that out. Barnhardt was among Ogletree’s suitors. Every agent is trying to sell something. Barnhardt sells the lessons of his life. To be frank about it, it’s not what most young golfers or their parents want to hear. Barnhardt doesn’t particularly care. He knows it’s the best thing he has going for him because he knows it’s the best thing he can give a potential client.  
 
In 2013, the company Barnhardt owned, Crown Sports Management, was bought out by Lagardère Sports, which has a golf division run by Steve Loy, Phil Mickelson’s agent. In May 2018, Barnhardt was, in his own candid telling, fired. That act triggered a noncompete clause. Barnhardt was pushed to the sidelines for a two-year period. Those two years have come and gone and then some. Which brings us to the comeback he is attempting.

In the story of his business life, to turn our subject’s 58 years on this earth into a movie script, Barnhardt’s in the part of Jerry Maguire where Jerry (Tom Cruise) is trying to recruit the fictional NFL receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) to be the first client in the new, we’re-humans-first agency Jerry wants to launch. In real life, Barnhardt settled on his Rod Tidwell last summer. That’s when he started focusing his particular brand of attention, with its curious blend of purposefulness and nonchalance, on Ogletree, a tall, lean golfer from Union, Miss., where his father owns a Piggly Wiggly grocery store.
 
There have been U.S. Am winners who were destined for professional greatness (Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods). And many more who were not (Bill Sander, Nathaniel Crosby, Steve Fox). The cognoscenti don’t consider Ogletree a can’t-miss kid. The Georgia Tech golfer was ranked No. 120 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. But Mac is a true believer. 
 
“I love his work ethic, his intelligence, his maturity, his family, his value system,” Barnhardt told me during the PGA Merchandise Show. That was in January, at a time when Barnhardt, among others, was trying to get a commitment from Ogletree, without endangering the young man’s amateur status. (Doable, if you know the applicable USGA and NCAA rules.) Ogletree’s plan then was to choose among his suitors, play in the Masters in April as an amateur, turn pro the next month, after the NCCA tournament. Then a nasty virus turned the world on its head.

So instead, Ogletree stayed amateur. He played in three Tour events as an amateur and missed three cuts. At this year’s U.S. Amateur, he played in the 36-hole stroke-play qualifier and missed a playoff to qualify for the match play portion of the championship — that is, the main event — by a shot. Being an agent in pursuit of a high-profile amateur is a high-wire act, with a lot of ups and downs. It can be like being a Hollywood director where one’s status is dependent on your last movie’s box office.
 
As it happens, Barnhardt’s story actually does share a lot of Jerry Maguire. Except that is mainstream entertainment and you know how it’s going to end. If Barnhardt were available on Netflix, it would be a documentary with a familiar beginning, a revealing behind-the-scenes middle and a TBD end. 

In truth, Barnhardt is looking to do more than come back. He’s looking to reinvent how golfers are represented. The last time that happened, in the early 1960s, Mark McCormack was wearing a plaid coat and could deliver Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, as a package, to your pro-am and cocktail party. Barnhardt in 2020 (and beyond) does not want to be an agent in the traditional sense. He wants to be a performance coach, an advisor, a member of the golfer’s board of directors. He wants to vet and manage the group around the golfer that will help the golfer play better golf. “Talent minus distraction equals performance,” Barnhardt likes to say. He wants to reduce distraction. 
 
A telling phrase of the management business describes how the agent “looks after” (a chiefly British phrase) this player or that one. Mark Steinberg, for example, of Excel Sports Management, looks after Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Matt Kuchar. Barnhardt doesn’t want to hold the hand of his golfers after their rounds or walk with them for 72 holes. “Those things aren’t going to help the golfer perform better,” he says. Barnhardt’s starting point is that to make it today, a golfer needs a team.

Mock that belief if you like, but at your own peril. Not a team with a big roster, mind you, but a team nonetheless. The right caddie, swing instructor, mental coach, fitness guy, club-fitter, accountant, travel-and-docs person. Plus, a designated place to meet these people and do the associated work during tournaments and on off weeks, too. In the mission statement in his mind, Barnhardt says that his job will be to make sure the fits are good ones, that the relationships are managed appropriately, that the financial terms make sense.

“The professional golfer should think of himself as the CEO of a small business,” Barnhardt says. “The product is tournament golf scores, the lower the better, the more years at it the better. Everything the golfer earns comes from that, and every person in the golfer’s life should contribute to performance. The best golfers have always thought about what they earn on the course, not what they make for showing up someplace.”

Barnhardt is a plus-four talker who sprinkles in references to psychologists, philosophers, ballplayers, snow-boarders, business visionaries and military generals in his conversation. His father was a Methodist minister, and the son learned at his feet, except now Mac doesn’t believe in divine anything. He believes in planning, staying the course, adjusting as necessary. He believes in work, even if work is playing golf at home with your buddies five days a week. He does not believe in get rich quick.
 
“A lot of the fathers of a lot of the kids looking to turn pro ask the same questions,” Barnhardt says. “’How many tournaments can you get him in? What guarantees can you give him?’
 
“Those aren’t the right questions. The right way to look at it is this: You hope this is the start of a 15-year career. Your son’s good, but he needs to get better and these are the things he needs to do.”
 
Now that doesn’t sound particularly fun, does it? It has the advantage of being Barnhardt’s hard-earned truth. But fun it’s not.
 
All the things Barnhardt has learned over the past 25 years are the things that, if he said them, practically guarantees that he won’t sign the young player. This conundrum is known broadly as a Catch-22.
 
“It could reinvent the business — or I could wind up working as a lift operator at Sun Valley,” Mac will tell you.

It’s an amusing comment and a telling reference. Barnhardt came up in a legendary agency, Pros, Inc., located in Richmond, Va. That agency represented Tom Kite, Lanny Wadkins, Davis Love and other golfers catching southbound trains. Mac’s job was to make the trains run on time. He looked the part and knew the lines. In 1999, Pros, Inc. was bought by Octagon. In 2003, Barnhardt broke away and became Love’s full-time guy. Soon after, he started Crown, signed Jonathan Byrd and Glover, made Sea Island, where Love and Barnhardt both live, a center for Tour players. None of this is as tidy as it sounds. It couldn’t be. 
 
As Mac became more of his own guy, he started dressing more like the snowboarder Shaun White and less like Steve Loy and Mark Steinberg. You’d often see Barnhardt at tournaments wearing a hoodie, a flat-brimmed cap and tennis shoes, talking about new-agey things.
 
All the while, he was taking a lot in. He could read players — his own and others. He’d casually make prescient observations. When Player X, a winner and a star, bought a home with an elevator, Barnhardt said, “He’s broke, he just doesn’t know it yet.” (That proved to be true.) Barnhardt has a keen understanding of the PGA Tour’s C-suite execs and how they work with Capitol Hill pols, network television deal-makers, mono-named star golfers. He knows how to read the fine print of a contract, how to ask for sponsor exemptions, how to get Korn Ferry Tour status. There’s more to being an agent than standing under a tree and chatting people up, although that’s an important skill, too.
 
Barnhardt is eager to see what Ogletree does playing alongside Tiger Woods at the Masters in November, if traditional Thursday-Friday threesomes are maintained.
 
Maybe Ogletree will be the 36-hole leader at Augusta in November. Maybe he’ll shoot 150 and miss the cut. Either way, this is Barnhardt’s view: The kid is 22. He’s good at golf, loves the game, works hard at it and has already accomplished way more than most. Let’s see what the next 15 years brings. 
 
Michael Bamberger may be reached at Michael_Bamberger@Golf.com.

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With the excitement of the PGA Championship behind us, the PGA Tour heads to Greensboro, N.C. for the Wyndham Championship, with Sedgefield Country Club playing host. Sedgefield Country Club is one of the only courses on the PGA Tour that was designed by legendary architect Donald Ross and it poses some unique challenges for players.

Ross is known for his penchant for small greens and putting a premium on accuracy of approach shots. Often times what seems like a well-struck shot can trundle away from the hole and off the greens if they land in the incorrect position. Players this week will have to be extra precise with their short-iron play if they hope to score well at Sedgefield Country Club.

A number of players were asked in their pre-tournament pressers how they hoped to attack Ross’ repellent greens, and they all agreed that attention to detail will be key.

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“You have to really be strategic and think your way around this golf course on where to miss it,” said Brandt Snedeker, who has won the Wyndham Championship twice. “If you’re on with your wedges and on with your short irons, you can really control your distances and leave it in the right spots.”

Snedeker knows a thing or two about scoring on Sedgefield’s tricky greens. In the opening round of his win in 2018, he fired a 59 — the ninth in Tour history. Harold Varner echoed Snedeker’s thoughts on the keys to attacking those tricky hole locations, though he stressed that it all starts with hitting the fairways.

“Aim small and miss small,” Varner said. “You just need to be in the fairway. That’s the biggest thing. People always talk about you’ve got to be accurate with your irons, it doesn’t matter how good you are, if you hit it in the rough, it’s just hard to get it close to the hole.”

As one of the shortest, but most accurate (historically, at least), players on Tour, Zach Johnson answered similarly. Shots off the tee will be crucial this week, because even with a wedge in your hand, playing into a Ross Bermuda green from the rough is a difficult proposition. And once you find the fairway, controlling the trajectory and spin coming into the green is key.

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“You can hit the number exactly how you want to, but if you don’t have the right kind of spin or if you don’t land on the right ridge or the correct spot, the ball’s going to work away from the hole,” said Patrick Reed, who won his first Tour event at the Wyndham in 2013. “I think that’s something that’s going to be shown this week.”

The mindsets might be old school, but when attacking an old-school course, that might be exactly what’s necessary

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One thing we’re finding out during this coronavirus pandemic is that many PGA Tour pros are just like us. Case in point, PGA Tour veteran Brandt Snedeker.

Forced to balance a new form of home life with his job, the nine-time Tour winner has been juggling home schooling his children, while also trying to keep his game sharp.

Snedeker is consistently one of the best putters on the PGA Tour, and while he’s been home in Tennessee, he hasn’t just been working on his putting, he’s also been helping golfers around the country with their flat sticks.

GOLF.com’s Ryan Asselta recently caught up with Snedeker while at home in Nashville. The 2012 Fed Ex Cup champion talked about how he’s learned “this retirement thing” isn’t really for him, the putting drills he uses at home, and a few keys you can try to roll in more putts.

Asselta: Brandt, you’ve been at home in Nashville and spending time out at your farmhouse. What has this layoff been like for you?

You know, it’s been a weird time. Never thought I’d see this in my lifetime. I’m trying to find the positives in a bad situation. Being home with the kids and trying to homeschool has been a new challenge for me to say to the least.

We head out to the farmhouse pretty much every weekend and get the kids outside. You don’t see anybody for several days, so it’s kind of nice. Plenty of room to run around and let the kids go fishing.

What’s been the toughest part about the layoff for you?

The worst part has been the uncertainty. I’m kind of ready to go back and get on the road and get back to playing golf. I joked with my brother and my dad and told them ‘this retirement thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.’ I’m definitely a guy who needs to be working or doing something.

Lots of reports of what the return to the PGA Tour will look like in June at the Charles Schwab Challenge. One idea is that flag sticks could be left in at all times. How would you feel about that?

I’ve always been a flagstick out guy. I don’t do well with the flagstick in. For some reason it kind of throws off my vision a little bit. I’ll have to wash my hands real clean after the round or carry sanitizer and use it every few holes and make sure you’re not putting your fingers on your face. It’s gonna be a necessary risk we’re going to have to take. I can’t see us playing with the pins in all day long.

Speaking of putting … you partnered up with one of your sponsors to give golfers some putting tips that they can use at home or at their own courses, correct?

Yeah, Wyndham’s been a partner of mine going on 12, 13 years now. They were my first sponsor ever out on Tour. Former CEO Steve Holmes is one of my best friends in the world and it’s fun to partner with them and give Club Wyndham owners a few tips during this downtime at home.

Obviously, I putt a little bit differently than most people. The pop stroke is not something you teach readily, but I kind of have some general thoughts on what I think good putting looks like. Even though my stroke is a little unorthodox I guess I still do a lot of the same things many of the great putters do.

You’ve ranked inside the top 25 in Strokes Gained: Putting on the PGA Tour for six consecutive seasons. What’s your biggest key to putting?

I’d say I do it a little differently, right? So, I’ve got two or three things that I always focus on when my stroke gets off.

One is to check if my stroke gets too slow. If it gets too slow, I start putting a lot of hit into the ball and when I do that my right hand gets involved too much and it breaks down. So, I’ve got to make sure my rhythm stays fast.

Number two is that I’ve got to make sure I hinge the putter going back. Kind of counterproductive to what most people think. Most people try and keep it locked in like Steve Stricker or Loren Roberts or somebody who only has shoulder movement. I can’t putt like that. I’ve got to have a little bit of hinge in the putter going back so that when I do hit it, I release that energy to the ball.

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And the third thing … I work on all of the time is the arc of my stroke. My stroke is so short that if it gets too much arc, I start missing short putts. I have a laser I use and some chalk I use to keep my stroke straight back and straight through.

So those are the keys that you work on. Can you give us three tips that a recreational golfer can use at home?

Probably the easiest thing that people do the opposite of, is that your back stroke has to be longer than their follow through. That’s the number one thing I see in all bad putters. Their stroke goes back too short and they’ve got to put a ton of hit into it and their follow through is too long. If you look at every great putter throughout the course of history … look at Brad Faxon’s follow through. It was two inches shorter than his back stroke. Ben Crenshaw is probably my favorite example. He had a big long, sweeping, beautiful back stroke and barely a follow through.

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Number two is something that is really easy to do. When you take a practice stroke, make sure you’re practicing the putt you’re getting ready to hit. Most amateurs take this big, long practice stroke for a two-footer. Or they’ll have a forty-footer and take this little tiny practice stroke. I try and imagine that there’s a ball down when I take a practice stroke. When you see me, I take five practice strokes for every putt. All I’m trying to do is figure out how hard to hit the ball. It’s a way to take the pressure off and kind of get your nerves out.

And the third thing is really easy. Have the putter shaft line right up your forearm. Have the putter almost too upright on the ground so the putter face doesn’t arc or open or close too much. Those are three things every great putter does, and you can do at home by looking in a mirror and figuring out pretty quick.

How about a drill. What’s the one drill someone who’s stuck at home right now can use during this time?

Easiest thing to do is to take another club or a broom and put it straight down on the ground and putt right next to it. Make sure that your stroke is not going too much off that straight line. It’s really simple and something I do all the time at home. Put a club down on along the heel or the toe of your putter and make sure it stays really close to that for five-, six-foot putts. It’s a great visual to make sure your putter is not arching too much. Hit 40 putts a day like that. It’s so easy to do and doesn’t cost any money and you can do it at your house. It’s something I do all of the time.

How about the mental side of putting. What is the key mindset that a good putter has to have?

Think that they’re going to go in. It might now go in on this one. It might not be the next one, but once the first one goes in, we’ll make a lot a row. I tell people all the time, I never get over a putt trying to make it. I get up over every putt trying to give it a chance of going in. I don’t get up there and try to hit the perfect putt.

I kind of see a wide track that a putt can travel on to go in the hole. I can be on the low side of that track and still make it and the high side of that putt and still make it. I see so many people get so enamored with one line to make the putt and if it doesn’t start on that line you have no chance of making it. Whereas, I see a huge track and give myself a lot of leeway. You don’t have to be perfect.

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Club tinkerer Kevin Na, in a recent chat on the Callaway Golf Podcast, said that changing putters can be a positive for your golf game, as long as you’re smart about it. In his opinion, your lineup of varying putter models should all be built to the same length, lie and weight in order to eliminate too many variables.

“Changing putters a little bit here and there, to give yourself a different look when you’re struggling, is good,” Na says. “But if you’re constantly going from one extreme to the other, and you don’t have one go-to putter, I’m not a fan of that.”

If you’re dead set on tinkering with putters from month-to-month or round-to-round, this is heady advice.

That being said, is changing putters at all even smart to begin with? Recently, I spoke with two-time PGA Tour winner and self-admitted putter tinkerer D.J. Trahan on the subject, and he presented a different perspective than Na.

“The best putters in the world are the guys you see putt with the same putters for the majority of their career,” Trahan says.

Brandt Snedeker's Odyssey White Hot XG Rossie putter has been with him through thick and thin.

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“Should I use a blade or a mallet style putter?”

Back in the day, this was hardly even a question. Most golfers opted for true blades, such as the Wilson 8802 or Titleist Bullseye, or what we now call blade putters, such the Ping Anser or Scotty Cameron Newport.

In recent years, however, more forgiving offerings have flooded the putter market and become an increasingly viable option. Mallet-style putter designs provide higher MOI (moment of inertia), thus reducing the negative effects of off-center hits.

Professionals and amateur golfers alike are choosing to play mallet putters more often than ever before, and there’s a few reasons for that. First is availability. Nearly every putter maker now has a large variety of mallet offerings, providing more options in this category than ever. Also, mallet putters are now being built with different neck/hosel designs so that there’s a variety of toe hang options, as well. This means that mallet putters can now fit a wide range of stroke styles, from straight-back straight-through to a strong arc.

Of course, there are still a number of golfers who opt for the blade-style putters that have been popular for decades. Some choose to use blade putters because that’s what they’re comfortable with, and for others the blade-style is simply a better match for their stroke.

For this story, I wanted to find out what the best putters in the world are using: blade or mallet? The process was simple; I went through recent photos to figure out what style putter each of the top-50 in Strokes Gained: Putting (as per PGATour.com) for 2020 are using. Below are the results.

Note: Remember, the best way to figure out which putter style is best for you is to visit your local fitter and go through a full putter fitting that uses analytical feedback. 

Mallet Putters (60 percent)

Brandt Snedeker's mallet-style Odyssey putter

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Thirty golfers in the top 50 of Strokes Gained: Putting so far in 2020 opt for mallet-style putters. Of course, the mallet category is filled with different designs — some more outrageous than others — but we provided the specific model that each players uses for reference.

• Louis Oosthuizen (No. 1 in Strokes Gained: Putting), Ping Vault 2.0 Craz-E H
• Denny McCarthy (No. 2), Scotty Cameron Tour-Only Fastback
• Jon Rahm (No. 4), TaylorMade Spider Tour
• Andrew Putnam (No. 6), Odyssey White Hot RX No. 5
• Peter Malnati (No. 8), Scotty Cameron Phantom X 12
• Cameron Smith (No. 9), Scotty Cameron Teryllium T22 Fastback 1.5
• Beau Hossler (No. 10), TaylorMade TP Ardmore 2
• Webb Simpson (No. 13), Odyssey Tank Cruiser V-Line
• J.T. Poston (No. 15), Scotty Cameron GoLo 5
• J.B. Holmes (No. 18), Bettinardi BB56 proto
• Wyndham Clark (No. 19), PXG Gen2 Gunboat
• Brandt Snedeker (No. 20), Odyssey White Hot XG Rossie
• Chad Campbell (No. 21), Odyssey O-Works Red
• Sam Burns (T22), Odyssey No. 7
• Daniel Berger (No. 26), TaylorMade Spider Tour
• Lanto Griffin (No. 28), SIK Flo
• Tom Hoge (No. 29), TaylorMade Spider X
• Ian Poulter (T30), Odyssey Stroke Lab Seven
• Tyrrell Hatton (No. 32), Ping Vault Oslo
• Patton Kizzire (No. 33), Scotty Cameron GoLo Tour
• Bronson Burgoon (No. 34), Odyssey No. 7
• Sungjae Im (No. 36), Scotty Cameron Phantom X T6 STR
• Max Homa (No. 37), Scotty Cameron Futura T5W
• Keith Mitchell (No. 38), TaylorMade Spider X
• Harris English (No. 39), Ping Scottsdale Hohum
• Ricky Barnes (No. 40), Odyssey Stroke Lab Nine
• K.J. Choi (T42), Ping Heppler Piper C
• Stewart Cink (No. 44), Ping Vault 2.0 Ketsch
• Billy Horschel (No. 46), Ping TR B60
• Mark Hubbard (No. 48), Odyssey Metal-X Milled No. 9HT

Blade Putters (40 percent)

Kevin Na's blade-style Toulon Design putter

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Twenty golfers in the top 50 of Strokes Gained: Putting so far in 2020 are using blade-style putters. Three of the putters (John Huh, Matt Kuchar and Adam Hadwin) used on this “blade” list, however, are “wide blades,” meaning that they have a blade-style shape but are larger and have more weight and forgiveness. An argument could certainly be made that a “wide blade” belongs in the mallet category, but I opted to place them on the blade list due to their shaping. If you disagree, that’s fair, but just know I didn’t overlook it.

• Patrick Reed (No. 3 in Strokes Gained: Putting), Scotty Cameron Tour Rat I
• Kristoffer Ventura (No. 5), Scotty Cameron Newport
• Kevin Na (No. 7), Odyssey Toulon Madison
• John Huh (No. 11), Odyssey 1 Wide
• Patrick Rodgers (No. 12), Odyssey Toulon San Diego
• Matt Kuchar (No. 14), Bettinardi Kuchar Model 1
• Bubba Watson (No. 16), Ping PLD Anser SS
• Rhein Gibson (No. 17), Swag Golf prototype
• Bryson DeChambeau (T22), SIK Tour prototype
• Maverick McNealy (No. 24), Odyssey Toulon
• Richy Werenski (No. 25), Scotty Cameron Newport prototype
• Adam Hadwin (No. 27), Odyssey Stroke Lab Double Wide
• Brandon Wu (T30), Scotty Cameron Newport prototype
• Vaughn Taylor (No. 35), Odyssey Versa No. 1
• Troy Merritt (No. 41), Odyssey Versa No. 1
• Dominic Bozzelli (T42), Scotty Cameron Newport 009
• Matthew NeSmith (No. 45), Odyssey O-Works No. 1WCS
• Talor Gooch (No. 47), Odyssey Toulon
• Rickie Fowler (T49), Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS
• Zac Blair (T49), EvnRoll ER TS

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