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PUTTING - Gauging break and power (a formula and work in progress).

• pillsy 489 Posts

  Tue, Apr 10 2012 6:23 PM

  G0LD, congratulations on your putting stats and low score on WGT.  But please do me a favor, if you see me searching for players in an alt-shot format, please click "search again" because otherwise I'll be swearing at the computer screen all round.

  "HIT THE $#C*!NG BALL!!!  WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?!"

  i think i understand how you're coming up with your 1 vs. 2  vs. 3 figures.  sometimes the dots move slowly representing a slow break (1) sometimes faster (2) and sometimes lightening fast (3+).  SOMETIMES on a double-breaker i'll do something similar and use that to count up how far it breaks one way, then counter that with how many it breaks the other way.  so at the end, i'm not left judging the break over the whole 40', maybe it's only the last 10 feet or so.  

  ...that being said it takes me about 10 seconds.

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Tue, Apr 10 2012 6:38 PM

  I've never used math one time to shoot a sub-30 round from the tips, or any round for that matter. Its still a good thesis on putting though Gold.

  I can see how slide rules, protractors, T-squares, and pi could help a person be a better putter in this game, but it seems too impractical to me. The alternative is to play a lot of ranked rounds on all the courses.

  Happy hitting

• solsen1985 10 Posts

  Tue, Apr 10 2012 8:00 PM

  If you read the original post and READ IT and use it its quite simple actually and in most cases if you get the ball close enough you can do the calculations in your head. 

• solsen1985 10 Posts

  Tue, Apr 10 2012 8:03 PM

  I figured it out thx. The only adjustment you have to make is if the ball is coming off a hill you have to come from the other side of the grid. So the grid line next to the hole would be 0 and the hole is 30 thats my observation anyway

• solsen1985 10 Posts

  Tue, Apr 10 2012 11:46 PM

  Figured out the downhill. Freakin brilliant man. Thank you so much!

• solsen1985 10 Posts

  Wed, Apr 11 2012 5:45 PM

  oh and by the way you have to count the hole as part of the grid you can't start from the edge of the cup 

• GARRYCARTER 1,533 Posts

  Thu, Apr 12 2012 2:21 AM

  What is :- 1-1-2-2-3-3 that's what I'm not sure of any help.

  GC.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, Apr 12 2012 5:18 AM

  GARRYCARTER:

  What is :- 1-1-2-2-3-3 that's what I'm not sure of any help.

  GC.

  If I understand it right, these are the numbers YOU assign to the speed of the dots travelling down each line, with 1 being the slowest on a scale of 1 to 4. Kinda like a speed rating. It confused me at first but gets easy to do as you study the speeds.

  @Gold-Andyson clued me to this thread and at first look I thought it was going where Pillsy pointed-slow play. I took a serious look at how to use it and I can see where it would yield some pretty consistent results but there's too much math going on, on the surface. 

  I don't have to use a calculator because I'm good with math in the head so I looked for a fast computation with your style and I think I have it. Please correct me if I don't have it right.  Total distance (including elevation) X number of dots divided by number of lines. THAT number is the aim correction based on 30 being the size of the grid box. 

  Is this it?

   

• GARRYCARTER 1,533 Posts

  Thu, Apr 12 2012 5:32 AM

  Thanks YJ that's a little simpler for my ageing brain to take in I'll give it a go & let you know how I get on. :)

  GC.

• GolfDum 396 Posts

  Thu, Apr 12 2012 9:51 AM

  Gold:

  I have read that formula three times and trying to imagine what you're looking at just isn't working for me. You have said "see example". Where is said example? I'd love to see a video or at least a picture so I can understand this better.

  Thank you!