Dave Pelz’s backyard short-game playground is well-known in the world of golf. It has a level of prominence that only makes sense for the backyard of the man who authored The Short Game Bible.

By Richard Sandomir Dave ... in golf that I care about, so that I can practice them.” Three weeks before Pelz’s death, Patrick Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, practiced in that backyard ...

Short-game coach Dave Pelz ... One could certainly call Pelz eccentric for transforming the rocky terrain around his new house here into scale replicas of famous golf greens—the 12th at Augusta ...

The day before I was scheduled to meet Dave in Austin was my then-fiancée’s birthday. In lieu of a romantic dinner, I spent the evening studying old GOLF cover stories from Pelz and skimming ...

Dave Pelz, a renowned golf instructor and innovator, died Sunday at his Dripping Springs, Texas, home. He was 85. Pelz started his career as NASA scientist, but later became a golf researcher ...

The golf world learned the sad news this week that Dave Pelz, the legendary short game instructor, passed away at the age of 85. Pelz thought about the game like nobody else. At a time when ...

Legendary golf coach Dave Pelz died Sunday at age 85. Pelz, a former research scientist at NASA, was best known for his innovations improving golfers' short game and putting. He tested and created ...

Dave Pelz, who has died aged 85, was a Nasa scientist who became one of the most successful coaches in the history of golf, known as “Professor Putt”: he was a master of the short game, and ...

Golf instructor Dave Pelz, an acknowledged authority on putting ... by a scant 17 shots (mostly due to poor officiating); won 10 club championships; and made seven holes-in-one (though none ...

He is credited with establishing multiple different short game techniques and training methods, which were showcased on his Golf Channel series, 'The Dave Pelz Scoring Game Show.' He also wrote a ...

In the days that followed, a few of the golf websites in the US ran articles on exactly what a Pelz swing is. So, Dave Pelz ... ago that if pros took the club back to what looks like a nine ...

Image: Dave Pelz: Has used his science background to study the short game Sky Sports talks with short-game guru Dave Pelz about his early life at NASA and the keys to better scoring.