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Distance increments on the Redwood putter (Lvl 44)

Fri, Dec 24 2010 7:21 PM (14 replies)
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  • nigyrob
    92 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 7:01 AM

    Can anybody tell me what the distances are with the increments on the Redwood (Level 44) putter please?

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 10:44 AM

    It depends on the green speed. What I did was use one set of numbers for the default green speed and adjust off of them accordingly. I use 6  6  9  12  15  30  for Standard greens.  I use 8  8   12   16   20   40  for Tournament greens but you have to be careful not getting hung up on the actual numbers as they are just close estimates.

    There's a lot of "feel" in many putts where you need to know how the putt is going to react before you make the swing. Putts break differently at the tail end when they're slowing down vs early in the putt when they tend to speed through the break. That kind of feel.  GL

     

  • mohuyu
    891 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 12:41 PM

    nigyrob:

    Can anybody tell me what the distances are with the increments on the Redwood (Level 44) putter please?

    15ft,30ft,45ft,90ft,150ft,300ft

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 2:05 PM

    LOL, mo-If that was what he was asking I might as well have posted that in Chinese. I just assumed he meant the moves but your answer is probably what he was looking for.

    Heh, if he looked a little harder at the club info he would have seen that.

  • JeffGooch
    263 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 3:06 PM

    Redwood Putter  15 ft setting...how many movements does it  have?

    I tried the Spider and its 15 ft setting only had 1 1/2 movement leaving a lot of guess work for shorter putts.  The Starter putter has better distance control than that Spider.

    Glad I only rented  that POS ...it'd be nice to know as much as possible about the clubs b4 you buy.

    Thanks

     

  • mohuyu
    891 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 3:11 PM

    See Jim's post... I believe thats what he was trying to answer...

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 3:27 PM

    JeffGooch:
    Redwood Putter  15 ft setting...how many movements does it  have?

    2 and 1/2

  • borntobesting
    9,709 Posts
    Wed, Dec 22 2010 3:54 PM

    YankeeJim:

    JeffGooch:
    Redwood Putter  15 ft setting...how many movements does it  have?

    2 and 1/2

    I never quite understood why they didn't make the 15 foot meter 5 3 foot movements. It would be more in line with the 30 and 45 foot meters then.

  • nigyrob
    92 Posts
    Thu, Dec 23 2010 4:16 PM

    No Jim,

    The distance in the moves is exactly what I was after and your first post was extremely helpful, however your second one & Mo's wasn't!

    I tried to devide the moves against the distance that they quote for each increment (using Standard Green speed) but some of them didn't quite gel as I came up with 12.5 feet on the 90` setting but when I tried it out it seemed way off the mark! (more like 14 or 15`)...........and why would they make the first two the same......seems a little silly to me!

    And yeah, I'm with you borntobe - why? beats me too!

    Thanks....Nige

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Fri, Dec 24 2010 5:45 AM

    Nige-Anyone that doesn't understand the method you're trying to learn would look at that 2nd post as if it were in Chinese (or any other foreign language) in that they wouldn't understand it. Nothing on you, laugh.

    As for your initial attempts at it two things you need to know. One is that a long time great, Nivlac, pointed out that WGT doesn't deal in fractions or decimals on our end. Second, the method is very exact but you have to be just as exact in the moves of the avatar's club. The first 2 scales aren't exactly the same. One is a weak 6 ft and the other is a strong 6 ft. This will make sense as you become accustomed to the feel  of the movements. 

    This thread will help you understand what I am talking about. I urge you to keep at it because the numbers I use are what I have developed for me as starting points. Whatever numbers you eventually wind up using will be from your practice doing it your way. This is a good thing because setting the actual values aside, this method gives you a consistent spot in the swing to go back to every time and that makes it easier to be consistent. GL

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