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Tournament greens?

• jasonfromcincy 36 Posts

  Thu, Aug 25 2011 5:18 PM

  Just starting putting on these greens and having a hard time with it. Can someone explaine if they're fast or slow greens? How do you read these greens? Seems eveything uphill I put to much on it, and downhill ends up short.

   

   

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Thu, Aug 25 2011 5:46 PM

  jasonfromcincy:

  Just starting putting on these greens and having a hard time with it. Can someone explaine if they're fast or slow greens? How do you read these greens? Seems eveything uphill I put to much on it, and downhill ends up short.

   

   

  hi

  they are faster and break more, especially on downhill lies because you have to hit slower.

  -wgticon

• suncity28 1,266 Posts

  Thu, Aug 25 2011 5:53 PM

  Lets say you have a 10ft putt & the putt is level (no up or down) hit the ball 8.5ft - 9ft you should be right. 

  For up hill putts if it is 1up add an extra foot to your putt & 1 down take 1 foot of.

• jasonfromcincy 36 Posts

  Thu, Aug 25 2011 5:58 PM

  Thanks for the tips gents.

  Much respect.

• gene1022 112 Posts

  Thu, Aug 25 2011 6:50 PM

  Figure your uphill or downhill, then reduce power by 20%..that will get you pretty close. Putts under 5ft just use normal power.

• JuanMendoza 469 Posts

  Thu, Aug 25 2011 9:25 PM

  Oh lol, worst advice ever.

• jasonfromcincy 36 Posts

  Sat, Aug 27 2011 6:21 AM

  JuanMendoza:

  Oh lol, worst advice ever.

   

   

  What would your advice be?

• jasonfromcincy 36 Posts

  Sat, Aug 27 2011 6:22 AM

  What would your advice be, Juan?

• pillsy 489 Posts

  Sat, Aug 27 2011 6:28 AM

  i hit putts 75% on tournament greens.  8' flat putt, hit it 6'.  add or subtract 1' for every 1" up or down slope.  works for me.

• sixkiller 1,147 Posts

  Sat, Aug 27 2011 6:52 AM

  short uphill putts on tourny greens, you need to hit 100% of distance up to 10 ft or so, the 77-80% percent rule works well past that 10 ft mark on uphillers, downhill subract a foot of distance for every inch of down hill elevation and start backing off 75% in increments of 2-3% for each inch downhill.