When I am walking up the fairway approaching the green I look for the lowest part on the green, and Then I know generally which direction the ball is going to want to move towards. Then I go behind the ball and look even closer to see how severe the break is and approximately how much break I should play it. The break of the green varies from each course do to the speed of the greens. The faster the greens are the more break there will be, the slower the less break.
I along with many other golfers go into a squatting position behind the ball, to determine the break of the green, the only reason why people do this is because the lower to the ground the easier it is to determine the break. Reading greens takes some practice, but the basics are the slant of the green determines where the ball will tend to go.
That is incredible that you can conclude this just from the terrain of the green. Truly amazing stuff and wow. So are you good at this?
ReplyDeleteI, too, find this really hard to imagine. Sure, I can see when the ground is a little slanted, but how do you calculate how much it's slanted and how this will effect the roll of the ball? How do you know how hard you can hit the ball so as to take advantage of the roll? I suppose the easy answer is, "Practice," but I would imagine that each green would be different, so you'd have to practice on that green to master that green.
ReplyDeleteAre you any good at mini golf?
haha im pretty good at mini golf and i would consider myself a good putter. You also have to put into consideration up hill and down hill, down hill the softer you want to hit the ball and opposite for up hill. Its not that complicated with lots of practice, like for example if i were to asked a teammate what they thought the break of this putt would be we would have generally the same answer. Unfortuantely this skill of reading greens takes lots of practice and after time you will see a significant drop in your scores once you master this.
ReplyDeleteWould you say that putting is the hardest part of golf? If so, why?
ReplyDeleteNo I think that driving is the hardest part, because it is very hard to hit the driver straight and just getting the ball in play seems easy but I really struggle with driving accuracy.
ReplyDeletedrive for show, put for dough
ReplyDeletei dont know if this really applies but i wanted to say it