3 putts

[bobmac]

If you have a 3 putt, is it always your fault?
Wrong style of putter?
Wrong weight of putter?

or just rubbish greens.

People constantly blame their tools when actually it's all down to them.

Or is it?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg2MxkW8Bxo

If you do miss a putt you think you should have holed, don't beat yourself up. It might not always be your fault

 

[sev112]

OK - that's gone right over my head - perhaps my version of youtube doesnt show teh same thing as yours ????

 

[sev112]

And like Jack Nicklaus, teh phrase "3 putt" is not in my vocabulary, so dont worry answering because my mind wont let me open this thread again

 

[Imurg]

At The Grove Powerplay event, we had a putting comp on the practice green.1 "hole" was a putt from just off the green, over a hogsback ridge and down the slope to the pin that was halfway down. Ok an extreme putt, but if you didn't hole it you were either 8-10 feet down the slope with some break - very missable - or a little further coming up the slope with some break - still very missable.
Luckily I holed in 1 but 3 putts were common.

I've posted before about an impossible putt I once had. About 6-7 feet with not much break. I tried for ages, using every line and pace to sink this putt and it just wouldn't go in.

 

[Region3]

I don't beat myself up about it if I hit it on the line I intended.

I am beating myself up for the half a dozen I tweaked inside 6' today.

 

[rosecott]

If you have a 3 putt, is it always your fault?

Yes - always.

 

[bobmac]

If you have a 3 putt, is it always your fault?

Yes - always.

Did anyone watch the video?

 

[RobbOnTheRock]

Amazing, all three shots look to be starting out exactly the same way.

Were they all the same ball?

Cheers
Andy

 

[bobmac]

Amazing, all three shots look to be starting out exactly the same way.

Were they all the same ball?

Cheers
Andy

Thats the point I was trying to make.
Same ball, same putt, 3 different results.
First putt I thought may have dribbled left so made sure the second putt had more pace and it swung the other way.
Just goes to show a spike mark or foot print can cause a good putt to miss.

 

[rosecott]

Yes - I did watch it.

 

[CallawayKid]

At The Grove Powerplay event, we had a putting comp on the practice green.1 "hole" was a putt from just off the green, over a hogsback ridge and down the slope to the pin that was halfway down. Ok an extreme putt, but if you didn't hole it you were either 8-10 feet down the slope with some break - very missable - or a little further coming up the slope with some break - still very missable.
Luckily I holed in 1 but 3 putts were common.

I've posted before about an impossible putt I once had. About 6-7 feet with not much break. I tried for ages, using every line and pace to sink this putt and it just wouldn't go in.

Also not easy when someone's shouting free beer tokens!

CK

 

[john0]

Bob after watching that video have you tried the V-Easy? It could really improve your putting

 

[bobmac]

If you have a 3 putt, is it always your fault?

Yes - always.

If you watched the video, did you not see the ball go 3 different ways from basically the same putt?
How can that be your fault?

 

[Piece]

First putt should have been closer

 

[bobmac]

First putt should have been closer

Agreed, but it got held up by the moss on the green

 

[rosecott]

We all try really hard to re-create exactly the same putting action every time we putt - I fail. V-easy?

 

[geejayboy28]

I am a world expert in three putting.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

At my level 3 putts will happen. Hopefully not very often and as long as Mr 4 putt doesn't make an appearance this year I'll live with it. I three putt for numerous reasons. Tension, poor read, bad stroke, crap greens (no really, putting on a bad surface hardly enduces confidence) poor approach etc. If I can eliminate poor stroke from the equation as often as possible I'll try and live with it

 

[CMAC]

its never my fault, its the greens always, I mean I hit it at the hole intending it to go in, its a spike mark or bent blade of grass that stops me making tons on the european tour

 

[USER1999]

If it starts on the line I chose, and I put a good stroke on it, I'm happy. It is all I can ask.