Richard4168:About fringe putting, where does the problem lie?
There's no problem whatsoever.
That is, until you run across the problem. At which point you get pretty furious if the game is for money.
On a normal fringe putt, you just add 1-3 ft onto the putt, depending on how far you are into the fringe. If the putt is short and/or downhill, however, and you hit the ball soft, the ball goes nowhere. Putts hit with even up to 6-8 ft of power will go 2-4 inches, and a stroke is completely wasted. A putt that should've been pretty decent becomes one of the worst shots you've ever made.
Even the vast majority of "bad shots" improve your position significantly, and it is pretty rare that you use a stroke and you are no better off than you were before you took it. Outside of hitting into the water, there are few strokes that are completely and utterly wasted. Pitches/flops/putts from the back/top of the BPB #15 might go screaming past the hole, but that's because you screwed up your approach, but you just got unlucky... 80% of the time, you don't screw up that approach, and you just got unlucky. You might miss a short putt on some random hole, but you gave yourself a shot to sink it... the stroke was worth it, even if you don't sink it 100% of the time.
With a stuck fringe putt, you accomplish nothing. It never had a chance of being a good shot because it never moved.
So let's say you do the smart thing after you get owned by the fringe and decide to chip. You can use your imagination about how stupid the chip out of there has to be if you were trying to putt with under 9 ft of power. The 60-yard wedge has a 7-yrd chip, and I think the 50-yard wedge is a 6-yard chip. If you were trying to putt with 4 ft of power, that is 19% of the 7-yard chip and 22% of the 6-yard chip. You can take a guess how good the result is going to be when you put in 28-35% power. Who knows what's going to happen. You might whiff it again, or you might go 10 ft past the hole.
Or you can try to putt, this time with way too much power. The correct amount of power was 3-5 ft, but you're going to give it a good whack using 10-11 ft of power. Right after you watch your ball roll 15-20 ft past the hole, you will probably immediately ALT+TAB and leave a profanity-laced message for WGTSky and WGTadmin2 to read in the morning.
If you're on the fringe, uphill from the hole, and it's a delicate shot, you might as well be in the nastiest lip of the nastiest bunker in the entire world of golf.