Aimpoint

[Dunesman]

For those that enjoy podcasts this is an interesting listen

Talk on aimpoint from 'certified' coaches does always come across a bit to much like a slick salesmans patter.

Bottom line is, and it not clear that aimpoint isnt just superstition, do we really want to see a golf of the future where everyone is aimpointing ? It is un golfing, and golf would undoubtedly be better off without it.
R&A need to move now before it gets out of hand completely, and they cannot put the genie back in the bottle. They dawdled badly on the distance issue, and know they screwed up. Time to swiftly kill off aimpoint definitively.

 

[Fore Right]

Our Pro did an Aim point course and started offering lessons to the members.

It's had a disastrous effect on slow play because non of them start their stomping round the hole till it's their turn to putt and then don't get me started on treading on people's lines before stepping back taking more time to work out how many fingers to take out of their behinds and how long their arm should be.

It's so bad the club is thinking of putting out a message in the pre season newsletter for members to be mindful of the time they are taking on the greens

 

[Deleted member 36735]

It's had a disastrous effect on slow play because non of them start their stomping round the hole till it's their turn to putt and then don't get me started on treading on people's lines before stepping back taking more time to work out how many fingers to take out of their behinds and how long their arm should be.

Absolutely does my head in when I'm trying to eyeball my putt and guys to putt after me are standing right by the hole doing their Aimpoint.

Get out the way ffs.

 

[3 jabber]

But it speeds up play!

 

[evemccc]

Slow golfers are people who are one of more of the following:

Slow people - just ‘slow’ whether in thought or deed, or slow moving in whatever they do

Careless/thoughtless people - self-absorbed or just inconsiderate to anyone else on the course/on the road/in the world

Practicing the pros on TV (with countless practice swings that bear no relevance to their real swing)

Slow-on-the-uptake people who have no idea of what approx distance they are from the green on their home course they play every week

 

[Dunesman]

Slow golfers are people who are one of more of the following:

Slow people - just ‘slow’ whether in thought or deed, or slow moving in whatever they do

Careless/thoughtless people - self-absorbed or just inconsiderate to anyone else on the course/on the road/in the world

Practicing the pros on TV (with countless practice swings that bear no relevance to their real swing)

Slow-on-the-uptake people who have no idea of what approx distance they are from the green on their home course they play every week

And Aimpointers of course. A slow play blight now. The only positive is few are doing it at amateur level. But thats why the gate needs to come down on it before the virus spreads.

 

[Neilds]

And Aimpointers of course. A slow play blight now. The only positive is few are doing it at amateur level. But thats why the gate needs to come down on it before the virus spreads.

2nd attempt to try and get people to bite, wonder if this one will work?

 

[Arthur Wedge]

And Aimpointers of course. A slow play blight now. The only positive is few are doing it at amateur level. But thats why the gate needs to come down on it before the virus spreads.

It’s a good attempt

Seen plenty of non aim pointers that are just as slow

Plenty with a PSR are slow

 

[Dunesman]

2nd attempt to try and get people to bite, wonder if this one will work?

Not at all. Its a very valid case that needs to be made. Slow play will only truly be improved when some of the superfluous stuff is banned.

 

[Pants]

OK. So you have made your case. Now leave it. Nothing more needs to be said.

 

[Orikoru]

I could no sooner read a green with my feet as I could taste a sandwich with my ears.

 

[Springveldt]

I could no sooner read a green with my feet as I could taste a sandwich with my ears.

I read it better with my feet than with my eyes. On the first today I did Aimpoint and had it going left to right, 1 finger. My eyes were telling me it started left to right but at the end I could see it going right to left. Playing partners all thought I was nuts and said it’s clearly left to right only.

The putt never came back right to left. Didn’t matter as I missed it low anyway after pushing the putt.

 

[SteveW86]

The only way to eradicate slow play completely is to put a shot timer in place. First to play their approach gets 1 minute to take their shot from arriving at their ball, next to go has 30 seconds from the first player going and so on.

Repeat the process on the green.

Use whatever PSR you want, Aimpoint if you want, but Agree what the times should be, agree what the penalty should be for being slow and crack on.

 

[Dunesman]

The only way to eradicate slow play completely is to put a shot timer in place. First to play their approach gets 1 minute to take their shot from arriving at their ball, next to go has 30 seconds from the first player going and so on.

Repeat the process on the green.

Use whatever PSR you want, Aimpoint if you want, but Agree what the times should be, agree what the penalty should be for being slow and crack on.

Too impractical. Nobody is going to do that. Who even times searching for a ball ? Nobody. Much less every putt.

 

[SteveW86]

Too impractical. Nobody is going to do that. Who even times searching for a ball ? Nobody. Much less every putt.

I’m talking the pro game here. Have a timing person with each group, make the guy who carries the scoreboard time them. There is a solution if people want it badly enough.

Club level is completely different though.

 

[Dunesman]

I’m talking the pro game here. Have a timing person with each group, make the guy who carries the scoreboard time them. There is a solution if people want it badly enough.

Club level is completely different though.

Club golfers will still ape the pros though, and if aimpoint creeps in there, then there will be no time policing. That aimpoint hasnt already become common with average golfers does slightly point to it not being relevant, and just more of a placebo for pros trying anything that claims to give them an edge. With all the stats now on putting, make percentages for all lengths, and for all levels of golfers, it would be a simple addtion to tag putts as aimpointer or not.
If it showed there was a benefit, then it should be banned as being too deviant from traditional golf.
It it showed thete was no benefit, then it should be banned as simply time wasting and detrimental to the game of golf.

 

[AussieKB]

Have seen young single figure golfers here doing it.....