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Olympic Slant Putting

• 1,148 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 4:48 PM

  ok , i am not good with slant short putts. Missing many. 

  Any you tube videos for slant putting on olympic championship green?

  My normal method is move marker to middle distance ..draw or fade depends on dots movement (opposite).  

  That method is fail in olympic. Works wonderful in merion

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 5:14 PM

  alexk345:

  ok , i am not good with slant short putts. Missing many. 

  Any you tube videos for slant putting on olympic championship green?

  hi

  i didnt see any but mostly, you have to decide to hit it harder or softer and then adjust aim... like that shot I hit on #1 oak early... it was slowly so I aimed more and let it comeback and miss :)

  -wgticon

• jsweetcr 1,209 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 5:25 PM

  just guess!!

• Chinajohn 1,190 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 6:37 PM

  Response deleted as he "need input from expert"[sic] so obviously my answer isn't good enough.

• 1,148 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 8:37 PM

  I need input from expert , i made my share of putts but  i need to get to be 95% below 10 feet. At present i am not that confident my putt goes in. 

  Anyone use different technique in olympic?

  If i able to create championship green in practice i can solve this. 

   

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 9:37 PM

  alexk345:

  I need input from expert

  What construes an expert?

  There are players out there who have an experts knowledge, just cannot execute as well as others. just saying

• 1,148 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 9:40 PM

  money leaders are obviously experts.

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 10:22 PM

  alexk345:

  money leaders are obviously experts.

  Alex, all that is is an indication that they putt well. If I could hit the ball to within 5 feet every hole, I too would not miss many putts.

  If someone earns $200K pa in their job, does this mean they are  necessarily  good at their job?

  Does a good stuntman make a good actor?

  Could a good air traffic controller make a pilot?

  For all your wisdom and idealism you seem to have a  fairly  blinkered viewpoint.

  As for me, I am no expert and do not pretend to be, so will not offer any advice.

   

   

• looselugnutz 1,538 Posts

  Thu, Feb 6 2014 11:20 PM

  alanti:

  As for me, I am no expert and do not pretend to be, so will not offer any advice.

  But he did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.  ;-)

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Fri, Feb 7 2014 5:08 AM

  alexk345:

  money leaders are obviously experts.

  They probably are but you don't have to be a big winner to be a great golfer.  Maybe the finest player ever to click a mouse on WGT is someone who just plays for fun.

  As to short, breaking putts, if something isn't working, try something else.  We've all had to figure out how to sink those yip inducing 2-3 footers and all missed our share of them.  I used to hate 2 foot putts when I first turned legend, now I just whack 'em in.

  Figure it out, it isn't that difficult.