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The most tense, testing, overthinking part of golf? Putting, of course
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Canadian Brooke Henderson reading the green with her sister and caddie Brittany during the third round of the HSBC Women's World Championship.
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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.
