Recent content by pinberry

FYI - AimPoint was born *exactly* to show the lines you see on TV. The adaptation to in-round use came later, once the TV lines were shown to work

No. It's hard to pick up anything that slopes less than 0.5%, I would even say 1%. Also, you have to understand that holing a 10 footer is not easy. What tells you that you got your read wrong? Perhaps it was the right read but you pushed it. Or the ball jumped right. Or whatever. PGA Tour pros...

Generally speaking, you take the read at the middle. On longer putts (20') the break can start to vary, so you should focus on the middle third, take two reads and play the highest break. So on a 30' putt, take a read at 10' one at 20' and play higher break. Now, why the middle third and not...

A significant amount of putts are. Even if they are not, green reading is all about having the best possible approximation. You can't eyeball slight changes in break the same way you can't feel it with your feet. That's why you use the middle 3rd for your read - it has been shown that the break...

Wrong. After just 30mins of learning AimPoint, you would be surprised by how often your assessment of the slope with your feet matches what the scale tells you. There will be errors, the same way you make errors when judging wind direction etc.

Big aimpoint believer here. What you say it is right, but that does not invalidate the merits of AimPoint. Pace is more important than line, except on very short putts (inside 4 feet). The reason is that an inconsistent pace will cause two problems. First, you either don't get to the hole or...

100%, stick to one pro and follow only his advice. I'm guilty of watching too much YouTube videos myself. My usual cycle goes from having lesson with pro -> striping it -> swing thought gets a bit stale -> find something on YouTube that catches my attention -> try it -> spraying it everywhere ->...

How can you ban aimpoint? It would be like banning reading putts with your eyes...

What is your scientific knowledge that allows you to state that aimpoint is scientifically nonsense? Because when I look at Mark Sweeney, Aimpoint founder, he looks quite solid in that department. Quoting from a GolfWRX article "I have background in high tech really. I worked in finance, but...

biggest misunderstanding these days in media is that everything is mobile. Yes, we do more things on mobile and mobile phones etc are great, but for watching stuff, nothing quite beats a good old fashioned tv. Having the fourth major of the year available on streaming only (don't care if it's...

Hard to remove spectators from the course for shouting after a shot. I hate it and it's really terrible to hear it, but hard to come up with objective reasons to ban these people. On the other hand though, any personal abuse (plenty on the US tour) or shouts before the ball is hit should not be...

Netflix this year will spend more money than any studio on movies and series production. The amount is around $13bn. Netflix will lose around $4bn in 2018 and never made any cash in the last six. Actually, the cash losses are getting bigger as they expand. Netflix is indeed borrowing money to...

Limited understanding of the problem. It's a chicken and egg situation. The reason why many sports are behind a paywall it's because they get more money by doing so. More money means higher purses. If you stop selling TV rights to the likes of Sky etc then there will be less money flowing...

JV, I don't know how old you are, but I'm assuming you are fairly young-ish. The irons are unlikely to be the reason why your game got worse. Actually, there is a lot of evidence that game improvement irons are not as good as people think and even high handicappers might be better off with...

By the looks of it, the Hertfordshire County Champ looks like a top event. Format is 36 holes on Friday and then top 16 advance to match plays. There are 66 slots available. The event is always oversubscribed. Lowest 50 handicaps get direct entry, the other 16 places are awarded to the lowest...