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Putting Tip: Distance Control v 2.0!

• CharlemagneRH 1,054 Posts

  Sun, Aug 8 2010 5:53 PM

  This is the only tip that anyone will ever get out of me, so you better pay attention.  I am only doing this in response to how much attention I've gotten in the past 48 hours for supposedly being "too good" for the amount of time that I've played.

   

  Step #1: Put a clear ruler on your computer screen... backwards.

  Step #2: Resize the WGT window to make your power bar 10 cm wide, and place it so the 0 cm mark on the ruler matches up with the 0 power mark in WGT, and the 10 cm mark on the ruler matches up with the 100% power mark in WGT.

  Step #3: Get a calculator.

  Step #4: Figure out the distance.  If you have a 7-ft flat putt, you'll want to hit it 8 ft, so on a standard green, and if you have the same putter as I do (15 ft power meter), you will want to move the power slider to 8/15 power, which is 53.3%, or 5 cm and 3-4 mm.

  Note #1 for Step 4: Adjust for uphill and downhill slope.  For every inch up, pretend like the putt is 1 extra ft, and vice versa.  If the above 7-ft putt was also 3 inches uphill, pretend it is a 10-ft putt, so hit it 11 feet.

  Note #2 for Step 4: Adjust for green speed.  Slow greens, for example, make the ball travel about 13% less than the power meter would have you believe, so multiply by 1.15 to compensate.  Using the same 7-ft, 3-inches-up putt from above, you would now need to make a further adjustment by multiplying the 11 ft by 1.15, which yields 12.65.  12.65/15 (again, 15 being the 100% power distance on my putter) means that you need to hit the putt with 84.3% power, or 8 cm and 3-4 mm.

  Step #5: Aim your putt.  I'm not going to give tips on aiming.  A boy's got to keep some things secret, you know.  ; )

  Step #6:  Take your shot.  (PS: Make sure your power meter is on the correct selection; e.g. if you calc'd a 16-ft, 3 inch downhill putt to be 14 ft, then make sure you're not on the 30 ft power meter.)  If you've calculated everything correctly, the ball will still stop extremely close to the hole even if you miss.

   

   

  Congrats on learning how to 1-putt or 2-putt on 98% of holes.  There are more details to this that I have not posted, but this is probably the best putting method you'll ever see posted publicly.

  Now don't blame me just because it only took me 5 weeks to figure this game out by myself and that I am now taking a little bit of your money.  (I am still not as good as AvatarLee, Bollox, tibbets, iconian, Infinito, ironking, jake, pricehcs, MacGullicuddy, yoban, LTDmin, and many others, so kindly get off my back.)

• jasondement 322 Posts

  Sun, Aug 8 2010 6:18 PM

  That's a good method C, but you don't have to apologize for being skilled at a game. There are many methods that work great, some even have argued that the tape thing is cheating. I for one think whatever it takes to get it in the dedgum hole lol. Besides anyone playing the courses you play could get to low 60's in the time youve been here, or I should say amount of ranked rounds you have. You just seem to have excelled at it more rapidly than the competition. Oh well, that"s just how it goes< I mean hell it took me a year to get where I am but I don't blame you bud, that"s just how Ive progressed. Go ahead and play your game man and let the hacks that think somethings up just report you and WGT will know soon enough your a stand up guy. Btw come on over to BPB and tee it up in the ready goes. They are taking to long to fill.

  happy hitting

  jason

• CharlemagneRH 1,054 Posts

  Sun, Aug 8 2010 6:34 PM

  jasondement:

  That's a good method C, but you don't have to apologize for being skilled at a game. There are many methods that work great, some even have argued that the tape thing is cheating. I for one think whatever it takes to get it in the dedgum hole lol. Besides anyone playing the courses you play could get to low 60's in the time youve been here, or I should say amount of ranked rounds you have. You just seem to have excelled at it more rapidly than the competition. Oh well, that"s just how it goes< I mean hell it took me a year to get where I am but I don't blame you bud, that"s just how Ive progressed. Go ahead and play your game man and let the hacks that think somethings up just report you and WGT will know soon enough your a stand up guy. Btw come on over to BPB and tee it up in the ready goes. They are taking to long to fill.

  happy hitting

  jason

  My best round at BPB is 83, so I'm going to have to decline... lol.  I could probably shoot 75 there now, but I'd rather keep my credits... lol.  That place gives me nightmares.

  Thanks, by the way... yeah, I shouldn't have to argue about it... but I'm not going to shy away from it either.  It took me about 75 RG's to win my very first one, but people are still quite displeased about that and make accusations on my profile.

• oldskooler 21 Posts

  Sun, Oct 17 2010 12:11 AM

  You don't realise how many shots you've saved me since I've read this. Brilliant advice and it's well structured and easy to understand.

  Thanks a lot bro

• CharlemagneRH 1,054 Posts

  Wed, Oct 20 2010 4:58 PM

  oldskooler:

  You don't realise how many shots you've saved me since I've read this. Brilliant advice and it's well structured and easy to understand.

  Thanks a lot bro

  Yer welcome.  More tips:

  - The method given above breaks down for severe uphill putts.  If you have a putt that goes uphill 14 inches, probably treat it as 12 inches... if you have a putt that is 20 inches uphill, treat it as 16 inches... and so on.  I don't have an exact formula for that... but be aware that some of this stuff breaks down if the putt is not a typical one.  If you find that you consistently get the distance on a certain type of putt wrong, adjust your math or just make a mental note to add or subtract some power for shots of that type.  Whatever you want to use as your putting formula, though, the ruler is right there to allow you to put that exact amount of power in, and using the ruler is a lot more accurate than the movement-counting method.

  - You can also download WGT Caddy, a program that puts a ruler on your screen.  That way you don't have to use a real ruler, and you should be able to scale WGT Caddy to fit any size power meter.

• oldskooler 21 Posts

  Thu, Oct 21 2010 1:19 AM

  Yeah I'm working to find a formula that works for the higher uphill putts, as well as the ones that peak mid putt then go back down hill (I find those the trickiest), but as of now no real luck besides finding that the higher uphill the less you take into account the height difference.

• jaderoks 571 Posts

  Thu, Oct 21 2010 7:22 AM

  I've been using something similar. I made up a ruler on a spreadsheet and taped it to the bottom of my screen. This pic is a little blurry, but basically just line it up with the meter. using excel you can just make it wider or narrower depending on your screen size.

   

  

• JuanMendoza 469 Posts

  Thu, Oct 28 2010 3:50 PM

  For stronger slopes, try adding 1/2 ft for every 3 ft up, and subtract 1 ft for every 4 inches down...

  *Edit* Sorry, I meant after all other calcs....

• oldskooler 21 Posts

  Thu, Oct 28 2010 6:41 PM

  You never want to add any extra to an uphill putt, at least not playing on very fast green. At least I've found that when I do my putt tends to go way too far past the hole.

  The crucial thing here if your green speed, that determines how you calculate EVERYTHING with your putting distance and how you read the slope of the green, once you get that right putting becomes fairly routine inside of 15ft or so (assuming you can ding with the current state of the meter)

• STEVIECURLEW 1 Posts

  Mon, Jan 17 2011 3:49 PM

  Great tip, thanks