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Fix Fringes!!!

• cjfelton 79 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 4:15 PM

  I'm with Jim, a pitch (or chip if the distance to carry is short enough) is preferable to me.  I gave up on the putter long ago unless the ball is less than an inch or two off the green, chalking it up to the nature of this game.  I guess I really never looked at it as a bug and just found a way to work around it.  But, it would be handy to be able to use the putter in many of those short chip/pitch situations, so come on WGT, get 'er fixed!

• MioKontic 4,654 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 5:51 PM

  Yappy22:

  I add yardage when I'm in the fringe: ST.A. I add 3.yds. Say I have a 10 ft putt from the fringe I add 3 yds. making it 13 yds.. Oakmont & Bethpage I add 4 yds. Of course if your on the hole at Oakmont that has the 50 ft. fringe.... I flop. KIA varies between 3 & 4. All of this also has to do with what you think or feel about how deep into the fringe you are. It goes without saying that you have to also make your cals for elevation.

  You've got yer ft and yds mixed up there fella!  Just an obsie.  Else yer puttin stats are through the roof!

• Yappy22 733 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 6:25 PM

  MioKontic:

  Yappy22:

  I add yardage when I'm in the fringe: ST.A. I add 3.yds. Say I have a 10 ft putt from the fringe I add 3 yds. making it 13 yds.. Oakmont & Bethpage I add 4 yds. Of course if your on the hole at Oakmont that has the 50 ft. fringe.... I flop. KIA varies between 3 & 4. All of this also has to do with what you think or feel about how deep into the fringe you are. It goes without saying that you have to also make your cals for elevation.

  You've got yer ft and yds mixed up there fella!  Just an obsie.  Else yer puttin stats are through the roof!

  Your right of course.  LOL THANX for pointing this out.

• Joeyola 1,210 Posts

  Sat, Feb 5 2011 3:10 AM

   

  If fringe putts ever start working right, would the brave player that discovered it please let the rest of us know.  I, for one, use the chicken method now, and would never know if it got fixed unless it came though the grapevine.

  Joey

• GoodyChamp 595 Posts

  Sat, Feb 5 2011 2:11 PM

  Well, I think we just have 2 sit, or should i say CHIP, and wait. Asked WGTicon about his view on fringeputting. 

  Quote: "i do not have a view on that situation. but, i forwarded all the posts/threads to the appropriate people to look at & evaluate it. thanks:)"

  ....lots of wisdom 2 the 'appropriate people'.....:-)

  Cheers, GC

• borntobesting 9,709 Posts

  Sat, Feb 5 2011 3:09 PM

  Joeyola:

   

  If fringe putts ever start working right, would the brave player that discovered it please let the rest of us know.  I, for one, use the chicken method now, and would never know if it got fixed unless it came though the grapevine.

  Joey

  I putt from the fringe much more often than I chip or pitch and make a fairly high percentage of them. I just don't putt the very short ones because there is a good chance that if you let up like you would need to on a very short fringe putt that you will whiff it. I add 3 feet to the distance needed then putt as I would normally, using the avatar movement style of putting and choosing the highest scale for the distance needed.For instance a 9 foot fringe putt i add 3 feet making it like a 12 foot putt and i choose the 90 foot meter and use 1 avatar movement which is between 12 and 13 feet. Anything under 8 feet and i chip or pitch. Except in the case of the fringe on # 3 at Oakmont. The fringe there is so big that you always have to chip or pitch.

• sdorr 650 Posts

  Sat, Feb 5 2011 3:24 PM

  Ya, I like that as well, the "chicken method". It saves me allot of grief with the fringe and I will chip whenever possible. I use the chip or flop whenever if find myself on the use of the over stock applied fringe, i.e. Oakmont #3 or Bethpage #10 greens, or shall we say fringe, and it gets me close to the hole. Forget putting unless I add one foot for every inch of the nasty I find myself on and God only knows how much nasty I am sitting on at the time.

  Bottom line, fringe sucks and sorry about your luck if you are there. May as well take a revolver, load one round, spin the chamber and pull the trigger. Smile or die, it does not seem to make a difference to WGT. Have a nice day!

  Now back to the painted green concrete fringe. Elevation does not seem to have anything to do with anything. If you land in the rough short of the green, there you stay, stop. If you land on the green while playing a ball with no back spin capabilities, roll, if you hit the fringe on your approach shot, advance to the other side of the green rapidly, choose pitch, chip, or flop and hope you have a get out of jail free card.

  What is up with the fringe? Oh, beside it sucks to be there of course.