borntobesting: In alosso's example he shows right at 20 feet. Which is similar to what my old way would have given me. 19.5. My new way I get 13.5 The old way I would have been well past the new way I get very close. My reasoning was that the elevation does not change it is a constant and should not be used until after the distance has been calculated.
That is a key concept! From a physics standpoint, the power required to go a linear distance is a function of green speed ('friction'). The correction for change of elevation is a function of gravity acting on the mass of the ball; in WGT-land, it would take a putt of 1 foot power to pop the ball up 1 " in the air, or for the elevation in the OP, a 24 foot putt to pop the ball 2 feet up - IF you could hit the bottom of the ball, lol.
I use the 30% faster rule of thumb for Tourney speed calculation, then plug in an extra 1.5 feet 'safety factor' to be SURE the ball gets past the back of the cup. For uphill putts I might jack that up to + 2 ft for safety; for downhill putts I'll reduce the safety factor. If it's a down-hiller at Oak or Oly, of more than 1 or 2 ", I'll remove the safety factor entirely.
TheTigerEye: The putt i am about to make is 50ft and 74ft with the elevation added. I now think the putt as being a 74ft flat putt and take my shot that way. I compensate for the legend greenspeed (remove around 25-30%) and hit the ball around 42-45ft on the 50ft meter.
In TigerEye's OP example, my mental calculation would go: a 50 ft putt uphill 24 ", 50 - 30% = 35 ft ... +24 ft for hill = 59 ft + 2 ' safety factor' = 61 ft.
I'll bet I'm closer to the hole, lol
I note that my result and Borntobe's are nearly identical, though they are arrived at via different methods.
p.s. to alosso:
alosso:
As for practice:
I have a paper pal installed on my screen frame (0 - 100 %) and I use different distance tables for each scale & green speed. I calculate the distance +- elevation to a number of feet and translate this to meter %% by the tables.
Does your 'paper-pal' look like this?
The top-most offset scale is %-age for non-putter shots - it's offset slightly to left and a bit longer, because that's what the game meter does in play. The multiple putter scales are set to read actual distance for STANDARD greens on the various Rossa scales (15, 25, 50, etc.). My mental calculation essentially is a conversion to Standard green power. Having the readout directly in feet saves me the additional '%-of-full scale' calculation. My adjustment factors are the widely known values: -40% for champ, -30% for tourney, -20% for VF, -10% for fast, zero for standard, and +10% for slow greens.