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Putting Tip - The Break

• Lordfds 18 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2012 8:52 AM

  There has been numerous posts on putting distance. All of which seem to help.  Being that putting accounts for almost half the game, I can't see anything more important.  With the articles I have read, I can now generally leave a ball within 2 foot of the hole on almost every putt.  The biggest question now is break.  I'm the guy that sits there and counts how many lines are breaking right and left, but, I haven't come up with that personal trick that keeps me under the 2 putt realm.

  Would anyone like to share there own personal trick on calculating break?

   

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2012 1:09 PM

  There are no tricks or formulae. Just keep practising.

• gbarto 141 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2012 10:57 PM

  its really a "feel" issue reading the break....and how do we develop "feel"?  NO shortcuts... practice and doin your time is only way..for what its worth..the best advice i ever got on putting is "Always miss it high.and always miss it long".  gl.

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Sun, Jan 29 2012 1:35 PM

  You miss it long on Oakmont you are in for serious trouble.

• gbarto 141 Posts

  Sun, Jan 29 2012 4:26 PM

  lol...agreed mnshiner.. by long i met  "try" to miss 1-2 ft. past the hole rather than  short.

• gr8flbob 592 Posts

  Sun, Jan 29 2012 5:33 PM

  gbarto:

  its really a "feel" issue reading the break....and how do we develop "feel"?  NO shortcuts... practice and doin your time is only way..for what its worth..the best advice i ever got on putting is "Always miss it high.and always miss it long".  gl.

  good advice!

   

  mnshiner:

  You miss it long on Oakmont you are in for serious trouble.

  Well yeah, shiner, but Oak is a special case. But 'never up, never in' applies there as much as anywhere.

  What I'd add is:

  1 . generally most of the break will happen in the last 1/3 of the putt's roll as the ball is slowing down, so lining up using the reverse view will help a lot. Exception to this - putting up to, or down to, a different tier - where the real break may occur in the middle of the roll

  2. once you've lined up, do the actual putt from the normal view and if you're going to miss the ding, miss it 'opposite of the break' - that is if it breaks left miss late, and if it breaks right miss early.

  3. for extreme breaks the arc of the actual roll is going to be significantly longer than the indicated straight-line distance to the cup, so you'll have to add distance to whatever you've calculated.

   

• gbarto 141 Posts

  Sun, Jan 29 2012 5:47 PM

  Excellent tip about adding distance to severe breaking putts never really thought about that  but it is true.  no wonder im always short on those!!  Always something new to learn to help my game on these posts.ty.

• Donko58 183 Posts

  Sun, Jan 29 2012 9:38 PM

  esssy:

  piztaker:

   

  come on piztaker there is a trick to putting and making these post all the time with no meaning is annoying people lol I MEAN ANNOYING

   

   

  Esssy....Why do you have to argue with everyone. Can't you just get along with people ??

• kilbraur 219 Posts

  Tue, Jan 31 2012 3:01 AM

  If you have a putter with a 30 foot scale and have a 30 foot putt. Lets say you on a flat green with no break. Hit the ding and the ball go in.

  Suppose you hit not to the ding but to the farthest point right of the putter's blue scale, how far right will your putt be? I find a lot of my opponents not knowing that. It like an inverted triangle, or a cone, and a good putter need to know how wide that angle is.

  I use Ghost putter and on 15 foot scale I have 6 foot width ( 3 feet either side of ding point) on a 15 foot putt.

  Once you work out that span for the 15, 30 60 etc scales then it a lot more easy to judge breaks.