Andy North becomes first Pelz student to win a major championship, winning the U.S. Using this analysis, Pelz began teaching and coaching PGA Tour players one-on-one in their short and putting games. This research formed the basis for many of his future efforts in golf, and led to Preceptor launching "Frequency Analyzers", becoming the first club manufacturer to offer frequency-matched sets of clubs. He discovered that players with the best short games win the most money, and that while touring professionals miss shots from further than 100 yards from the hole by an average 7% of the total shot distance, that percentage rises to 16–20% on shots from within 100 yards. Using caddies, tour players and amateur golfers, he spent more than three years entering the data from thousands of rounds (shot distance, where each shot landed, relation to target, and so forth), coming to the conclusion that more than 60% of golf shots are part of the 'short game' - those made from within around 100 yards of the hole. In 1977, Pelz began an analysis of every shot in golf. Pelz also launched his "Teacher Clips", a development which turns any putter into a "Teacher Putter"-like club and developed "The True Roller", a device that rolls a perfect putt and was integral to his later research into putting. Preceptor Golf began to offer custom-fitted clubs, and developed a method of engraving a player's signature on each head in a set of stainless steel clubs. Pelz resigned from NASA on January 1, 1976, to concentrate on his golfing endeavours. In 1996, the USGA again banned the Teacher Putter on the grounds that it is not "plain in shape." At first, the USGA ruled against the Teacher Putter, saying it was "designed to be adjustable during play." They later ruled if two separate inserts were used, it would conform to the rules. In 1975, Pelz took a leave of absence from NASA and started Preceptor Golf, formed to manufacture and market the Teacher Putter. His experiences convinced him that good putting, far from being solely a natural ability, could be learned. Amateur, though he lost in the second round, and he finished as a medalist in the Maryland State Amateur. Pelz improved his putting enough to qualify for, and play in, the U.S. His research led to the development of the "Teacher Putter" patent. Pelz's own weakness was his short game, so in 1970 he began measuring what happens when the putter head strikes the ball, and how the mechanics of player and club swing through the putter. Pelz, still disappointed at his own inability to make the grade for the PGA Tour, decided to apply his knowledge of physics to the game.
Pelz became a senior scientist with responsibilities for several satellite programs, including Explorer. In 1961, Pelz joined NASA, working at the Goddard Space Flight Center doing research on the upper atmospheres of the earth and other planets in the solar system. He played, and lost to, Jack Nicklaus on 22 occasions. Pelz attended Indiana University on a four-year golf scholarship where he majored in physics.
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Eleven of Pelz's professional students have won a total of 21 Major golf championships. Pelz's Short Game Bible was a New York Times "national best-seller" in 1999.
Pelz is an American golf coach, known for his expertise and published writing on the art of the short game, particularly putting.
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