Wright Putting Dynamics
The Wright Putting T-Bar
Patent Pending
Spring, Texas
Background
Rick actually began his career in 1980 as a certified public accountant for an international accounting firm. His interest took him into consulting to and managing small businesses; a pipe fabricator in Houston, TX, a transportation company in Vail, Co, and in 1993 a very small putter company, Kirk Currie Putters, in Spring, TX. In the early ninties, the company manufactured putters for the Ben Hogan Company, Lynx Golf, and Bridgestone Sports, USA. After a couple of years learning the business of putters, Rick was inspired to create a system to custom-fit putters. By the end of 1996, he and his partner had developed and licensed to Slazenger Golf, USA the Professionals' Putter Fitting System. A very sophisticated system which allowed some of the top golf instructors in the world to begin experimenting with custom fitting. It was during the next ten years that he proved himself to be one of the pioneers in the field.
In 2007, Rick began to devote full time to putting instruction with an emphasis on custom-fitting putters. He quickly learned that the emphasis needed to be placed on instruction; custom-fitting was an important but smaller part of the process. He teaches the simplest and most reliable putting stroke, the single-plane putting stroke. His approach to instruction breaks putting into two major categories; analytical and intuitive. The analytical side includes; alignment, set-up, and mechanics. Proper equipment fitting can impact all three areas. The inuitive side includes visualization, perception, and feel. Proper practice and experience will impact the intuitive side of putting.
Working with a crude version of a device he had developed to transmit the feel of a single-plane stroke, his students would ask him where they could purchase the device. Those requests were followed by golf instructors wanting to incorporate the Putting T-Bar into their instruction. After a couple of rounds at the drawing table, he developed the first prototype, then produced a batch of 50 to test market. They disappeared in days. Upon sending a prototype to his colleague, Mike Shannon, Mike communicated the following: "Rick, I am using the T-Bar with every lesson now. The success has been incredible. It gives my students the feel and the feedback that they have never had. It's really a great item." The Putting T-Bar was developed primarily as a very effective teaching aid, equipping golf instructors to enhance their putting instruction. It is an equally effective training aid for golfers at all skill levels, allowing them to connect the analytical with the intuitive.
Rick makes his home in Spring, TX with his wife Sherry and youngest son Max. He has two older daughters and an older son that have flown the nest.
In 2007, Rick began to devote full time to putting instruction with an emphasis on custom-fitting putters. He quickly learned that the emphasis needed to be placed on instruction; custom-fitting was an important but smaller part of the process. He teaches the simplest and most reliable putting stroke, the single-plane putting stroke. His approach to instruction breaks putting into two major categories; analytical and intuitive. The analytical side includes; alignment, set-up, and mechanics. Proper equipment fitting can impact all three areas. The inuitive side includes visualization, perception, and feel. Proper practice and experience will impact the intuitive side of putting.
Working with a crude version of a device he had developed to transmit the feel of a single-plane stroke, his students would ask him where they could purchase the device. Those requests were followed by golf instructors wanting to incorporate the Putting T-Bar into their instruction. After a couple of rounds at the drawing table, he developed the first prototype, then produced a batch of 50 to test market. They disappeared in days. Upon sending a prototype to his colleague, Mike Shannon, Mike communicated the following: "Rick, I am using the T-Bar with every lesson now. The success has been incredible. It gives my students the feel and the feedback that they have never had. It's really a great item." The Putting T-Bar was developed primarily as a very effective teaching aid, equipping golf instructors to enhance their putting instruction. It is an equally effective training aid for golfers at all skill levels, allowing them to connect the analytical with the intuitive.
Rick makes his home in Spring, TX with his wife Sherry and youngest son Max. He has two older daughters and an older son that have flown the nest.
