Camilo Villegas shares the downside of his “Spider-Man” technique

Camilo Villegas burst onto the PGA Tour golf scene in 2006 with seven top-25 finishes in 29 occasions and greater than $1.7 million in earnings.

Over the ensuing years, Villegas received 4 instances, most just lately at the 2014 Wyndham Championship. The now 40-year-old Colombian has made almost $21 million in winnings over the course of his profession.

Though his expertise spoke for itself, Villegas shortly made a reputation for himself on Tour in one other means: his distinctive green-reading type. Villegas incessantly stretched out on all fours to review his putts close to grass-level, incomes him the nickname “Spider-Man.”

On a latest episode of Subpar, Villegas mirrored on his profession with hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz, and the detailed each the origin of his well-known technique, in addition to a hilarious downside.

“So, 2005, Korn Ferry Tour, I wasn’t putting great,” Villegas started. “I at all times appreciated when the inexperienced was form of elevated and you would get your self in a bunker and also you see the line like so good, or simply off the inexperienced. And I’ve like a ten, 15-footer, and I began getting decrease and decrease and decrease. I’m not even fascinated by what I’m doing. And I ended up considerably in that place and I made a 15-footer.

“A couple holes later, I have a putt that’s very, very straight,” he continued. “So I’m like, man, let’s get decrease once more, let’s examine this putt out. And I began getting decrease and I ended up in that place. I made the putt once more. So individuals assume it was one thing that I thought of, to do it, and it wasn’t. It simply got here pure. I made just a few putts. I used it on very, very straight putts. And then, to be trustworthy, when my agent Clark Jones noticed, he stated, no matter you’re doing, preserve doing it.

“It worked for a while.”

Stoltz then requested Villegas about any “oopsies” he endured whereas using his unorthodox technique.

“I ripped some pants on Hilton Head,” Villegas stated. “Hilton Head, everything’s so close there. We’re staying just 200 yards from the golf course. But it’s ripped. So, my wife’s walking, she goes back to the thing, brings me some pants. I’m like, I roll into somebody’s house. They freaking open, ‘Hey, what happened?’ Boom, all the pants are ripped. Change pants. Just like new. Come on, keep it going.”

For extra from Villegas, together with the story on an unlucky mishap on Tiger Woods’ jet, try the full interview beneath.

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