Sporting Life

The most tense, testing, overthinking part of golf? Putting, of course

Canadian Brooke Henderson reading the green with her sister and caddie Brittany during the third round of the HSBC Women's World Championship. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
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Line. Speed. Tilt. Grain. Slope. Wind.

On the ninth green at the Tanjong Course at Sentosa Golf Club, players have turned into scholars. They circle the hole suspiciously, crouch, study, squat, squint, summon caddies for a read, wipe the face of their putter with their fingers. The green is the foreign land of golf. In an otherwise aerial sport, here everyone comes down to earth.

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