Tips for putting on really fast greens

[Brian Manzella]

The Trick Ray,

The trick is finding the "energize" spot.

If YOU are putting on a green that is "normal speed" for you, on a level area, and you putt a 10 footer to a spot (size of a quarter will work), and the putt goes the perfect distance, that is the energize spot for a ten foot straight putt.

No matter the green, no matter the break, find YOUR energize spot, and putt to that.

Get it?

 

[The Return of NAT]

Understand that "Faster Greens" does not mean that the ball is rolling faster...it is actually rolling slower due to the increase in Elapsed Time and less Surface Friction thus taking more time to slow down..."Slower Greens" the ball is traveling faster ...it is actually rolling faster due to the decrease in Elapsed Time and more Surface Friction thus taking less time to slow down..

The ability to adjust to the difference in Elapsed Time for the delivery of the ball for a particluar distance (10 feet in Brian's energizer example) is the major reason golfers have trouble getting acclimated to surfaces that are "slicker"...Good players are comfortable with getting acclimated quicker...often less than a few putts on the practice greens..That's why tour players are so good every week they have to acclimated to a new textures of grass and on occasion different surface speeds...The muni-golfer who plays his regular 5 days a week on greens with more friction gets used to his 10 footer arriving in a cetrain Elapsed Time, then gets invited to go play golf with his boss at the "club" and has a 10 footer on the 1st hole and blows it by another 10 feet. Not only does he have another 10 footer coming back his self-esteem is destroyed and his boss thinks he's a terrible putter and is more than glad to remind him of this to keep in him in his place! By the time he reaches the back nine he realizes non-consciously that he needs to deliver the ball more slowly...A Day later back on the muni..he comes up short on every putt through the front nine and really starting to believe his boss is correct..."I really suck as a putter and that i don't have any Touch or Feel" ...time to find another putter that might provide some "magic to alleviate these putting woes.

Brian ...great to be with you at AMF...always learning more in the back of the room than in the front!

David Orr

 

[thefuture37]

The trick is finding the "energize" spot.

If YOU are putting on a green that is "normal speed" for you, on a level area, and you putt a 10 footer to a spot (size of a quarter will work), and the putt goes the perfect distance, that is the energize spot for a ten foot straight putt.

No matter the green, no matter the break, find YOUR energize spot, and putt to that.

Get it?

is this the same as core putt?

 

[jbrunk]

I am still waiting........

for my username and password to be approved for posting on

CHRISSTURGESS.COM.




I wonder when that will be available?

 

[holeout]

Understand that "Faster Greens" does not mean that the ball is rolling faster...it is actually rolling slower due to the increase in Elapsed Time and less Surface Friction thus taking more time to slow down..."Slower Greens" the ball is traveling faster ...it is actually rolling faster due to the decrease in Elapsed Time and more Surface Friction thus taking less time to slow down..

The ability to adjust to the difference in Elapsed Time for the delivery of the ball for a particluar distance (10 feet in Brian's energizer example) is the major reason golfers have trouble getting acclimated to surfaces that are "slicker"...Good players are comfortable with getting acclimated quicker...often less than a few putts on the practice greens..That's why tour players are so good every week they have to acclimated to a new textures of grass and on occasion different surface speeds...The muni-golfer who plays his regular 5 days a week on greens with more friction gets used to his 10 footer arriving in a cetrain Elapsed Time, then gets invited to go play golf with his boss at the "club" and has a 10 footer on the 1st hole and blows it by another 10 feet. Not only does he have another 10 footer coming back his self-esteem is destroyed and his boss thinks he's a terrible putter and is more than glad to remind him of this to keep in him in his place! By the time he reaches the back nine he realizes non-consciously that he needs to deliver the ball more slowly...A Day later back on the muni..he comes up short on every putt through the front nine and really starting to believe his boss is correct..."I really suck as a putter and that i don't have any Touch or Feel" ...time to find another putter that might provide some "magic to alleviate these putting woes.

Brian ...great to be with you at AMF...always learning more in the back of the room than in the front!

David Orr

Really well put David. Especially on the shorter putts, it can be difficult to have the ball "on the green" for so long before it goes in. I especially struggle to let my 3 and 4 footers roll slower, break more, and take more time to go in the hole.

 

[Burner]

I refuted your answer. Get over it.

You refuted nothing.

You simply took my explanation, given in good faith, of why I don't practise on the putting green before I play a round as an excuse for pushing your own agenda.

Deal with it and get over yourself.