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Putting Tip: Distance Control

• SteveLamazza 2 Posts

  Tue, Apr 16 2013 10:53 PM

  Thank you a lot. Very informative.

• borntobesting 9,623 Posts

  Wed, Apr 17 2013 4:35 PM

  ParFortyseven:

  Nivlac:

         What about using the 50 ft. scale for a 10Ft. putt?  It seems to me that, as the swing meter returns "home" it speeds up and hitting it right on the nose is difficult (I am sixty-four and losing some of my hand/eye coordination skills).  If one uses a bigger scale, then the meter travels less distance and has less time to speed up, thus making it easier to (theoretically) to "ring the bell."  Is this a sound approach???

  ParFortySeven

  I use as high a scale as possible.I use a combination of avatar moves and putter pal.But always the highest scale possible. For example for a putt that needs to be hit with 27 foot power I would use the 300 foot scale and use 1 avatar move. With a female avatar that would be very close to 27 feet. I only have distance problems on very long uphill and very long extreme downhill putts.

   

• LarkinPat1 83 Posts

  Thu, Apr 18 2013 8:20 AM

  LarkinPat1 wants you to see this shot replay from World Golf Tour:

  # 8. pebble beach Golf Links, using the 300ft putter setting to make this hole in 1, //www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=50747419-57ab-45ea-ab71-a1a3003e902f

  was only a 36ft putt avg is 33.33ft per motion love it had used it for ever about time time wgt started letting lose of the calibration took allot out me though gl

• hatcojack 410 Posts

  Thu, Apr 18 2013 12:31 PM

  nonsense! if you use higher scale and miss ding by a tiny bit it means a large error. always use lowest scale. if u have trouvble hitting ding, get a putter w slower meter speed and more forgiveness. also use balls w slower meter. you do not have to ding a putt to make it!  speed and reading the break are MUCH more critical.

• 8802 4,131 Posts

  Thu, Apr 18 2013 2:39 PM

  hatcojack:

  nonsense! if you use higher scale and miss ding by a tiny bit it means a large error. always use lowest scale

  Strongly disagree with this part of your post,  I routinely use a 100 foot scale for putts up to about 15 feet and a 150 scale for 20 feet.  Combined with the Putter Pal, I need only 10% power vs 80-100 on a smaller scale.  My putting has improved tremendously since adopting this method.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, Apr 18 2013 2:45 PM

  hatcojack:

  always use lowest scale.

  I, too, disagree. One of the most overlooked attributes of a putter is the balance. Putters with high balance attributes hold the line better on longer putts and do quite well when you use a higher scale for shorter putts. It also makes the backswing very short and easy to ding. One move on the 300 scale for a 92 Ghost is 43 feet and the backswing is about 1/4" long.

  You are right about magnifying the miss, though. You can't get away with too many mistakes.

• KittyWumpus 345 Posts

  Fri, Apr 19 2013 2:35 PM

  I also use the shorter swing method. For me, the results have been great. Ditto on what YJ said (except I use a Max Master+).

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Sat, Apr 20 2013 12:36 PM

  OK everyone is talking about distance for putting, but what about any suggestions on reading the break.

  Am I the only one who is having this problem. I am in a slump so bad, its not funny. I am getting within 5 feet on my approaches and missing putts like crazy .

  my avg is totally due to my putting. I am at my wits end. 

• TarheelsRule 5,468 Posts

  Sat, Apr 20 2013 12:44 PM

  Just try to hit it to 15 feet those are easier  lol

• 1,417 Posts

  Sat, Apr 20 2013 4:11 PM

  Woodoworkery:

  OK everyone is talking about distance for putting, but what about any suggestions on reading the break.

  Am I the only one who is having this problem. I am in a slump so bad, its not funny. I am getting within 5 feet on my approaches and missing putts like crazy .

  my avg is totally due to my putting. I am at my wits end. 

  Totally hear you on that, Gary.  I really struggle with the 7-10 foot putts with break... I make more of them from 15 feet.   Seems like the ball comes off the putter inconsistently from that range and  I can't get the speed right .  Some nights everything goes in, but most nights I can't get any of them to go. 

  CM