For those who do aimpoint

[c1973]

We've done this mate, golf is full of fads. I had a look at aimpoint when it was first mentioned on here. To me it seems like a chargeable way of telling golfers to carry on doing what they are doing.....but with a chart. If people want to spend their hard earned on it,
fair enough.

I have 2 thoughts though. If it doesn't contribute to slow play, why is there a need for an express version??

Also for me it lost a bit of credibility when it was mentioned Adam Scott used it when putting well, but when he was putting poorly it had nothing to do with aimpoint

Yeah, your right. I just find it amusing that people can deride other folks tried and tested (club pro) methods but woe betide anyone that points out the naivety of them buying magic beans.

Totally agree with the Adam Scott scenario btw.

 

[3565]

Here they come............... thick n fast.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I've not used it but recognise some of the ideas, and in some cases already use those techniques. Similar to new golf thinking, there are techniques that are already in use, just rebranded.

But a rhetorical question; if people are willing to spend £200 on a new driver or putter that might shave a few shots off your score, why aren't people willing to spend the same on a new technique?

Brian, I think you have answered your own question when you refer to old ideas being rebranded as 'the next big thing'

Going back to the OP, ever since I started playing I have stood along the line of a putt and felt the slope through my feet. Nobody taught me to do this, it has always seemed the natural thing for me to do. Only regret I have is that I didn't package and sell my idea

 

[c1973]

I only paid £40 for my lesson. Money well spent on the Express read and has transformed my putting.

Aimpoint is a SIMPLE and SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND system of MEASUREMENT.

If you are good at reading slope- you don't need Aimpoint.

If you often miss high and low but with a good pace then Aimpoint might be able to help.

This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that a piece of golf instruction with it's merits based on physics has packaged itself under a brand and has felt a backlash from those who would not dare attempt to understand the 'new' before defending the 'old'.

And you know what? I get the dubiety and unfounded criticism- I really do. Those who have not done the course see handicap hackers walking about the greens with a chart in their back pocket or straddling their golf ball and putting their fingers up to the hole. Looks weird and even worse- 6 foot putts are still missed.

I suppose my main disappointment lies in the fact that there is still a HUGE element of golfers and instructors happy to peddle the "That looks stupid / expensive" or "I've been putting fine for 40 years" or "just another gimmick" lines.

I, on the other hand, believe that embracing new ideas and change in golf instruction can only be a good thing for the game.

Here we go again, if you disagree with it or point out weaknesses you don't understand it! Well, I do understand it, I just think it is...well, I don't want a warning so I'll leave that bit.
But I do firmly believe all this aimpoint new thinking nonsense is hocus pocus and only serves to slow up play, but if it works for you go for it.

 

[virtuocity]

Here we go again, if you disagree with it or point out weaknesses you don't understand it! Well, I do understand it, I just think it is...well, I don't want a warning so I'll leave that bit.
But I do firmly believe all this aimpoint new thinking nonsense is hocus pocus and only serves to slow up play, but if it works for you go for it.

What are the weaknesses of Aimpoint?

And as for slow play- I bet you that I can read any single-breaking putt from any distance in 7 seconds. Can you match that?

 

[c1973]

Here they come............... thick n fast.

Maybe the majority are correct in their thinking though? Is that a consideration perhaps?


An old saying;

If it looks like a duck, smells like a duck and goes quack then it's a bloody duck!

 

[chris661]

But I do firmly believe all this aimpoint new thinking nonsense is hocus pocus and only serves to slow up play, but if it works for you go for it.

Have you tried it? And by that I mean done a course etc?

 

[CMAC]

I only paid £40 for my lesson. Money well spent on the Express read and has transformed my putting.

Aimpoint is a SIMPLE and SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND system of MEASUREMENT.

If you are good at reading slope- you don't need Aimpoint.

If you often miss high and low but with a good pace then Aimpoint might be able to help.

This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that a piece of golf instruction with it's merits based on physics has packaged itself under a brand and has felt a backlash from those who would not dare attempt to understand the 'new' before defending the 'old'.

And you know what? I get the dubiety and unfounded criticism- I really do. Those who have not done the course see handicap hackers walking about the greens with a chart in their back pocket or straddling their golf ball and putting their fingers up to the hole. Looks weird and even worse- 6 foot putts are still missed.

I suppose my main disappointment lies in the fact that there is still a HUGE element of golfers and instructors happy to peddle the "That looks stupid / expensive" or "I've been putting fine for 40 years" or "just another gimmick" lines.

I, on the other hand, believe that embracing new ideas and change in golf instruction can only be a good thing for the game.

it's not new though, that's the point!

 

[c1973]

What are the weaknesses of Aimpoint?

And as for slow play- I bet you that I can read any single-breaking putt from any distance in 7 seconds. Can you match that?

Pretty much, I've usually read the green on my approach to it, like a lot of amateurs do.

 

[3565]

Here we go again, if you disagree with it or point out weaknesses you don't understand it! Well, I do understand it, I just think it is...well, I don't want a warning so I'll leave that bit.
But I do firmly believe all this aimpoint new thinking nonsense is hocus pocus and only serves to slow up play, but if it works for you go for it.

Have you taken the course?

 

[virtuocity]

it's not new though, that's the point!

I haven't yet found the book "How to Putt using Feet and Fingers" which precedes the course I did last year. As for being 'new'- of course it's not- it's physics!

Anyhoo- I'm bowing out of this thread, but I do so knowing that I can now #makeeverything

 

[3565]

it's not new though, that's the point!

Explain your point?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I haven't yet found the book "How to Putt using Feet and Fingers" which precedes the course I did last year. As for being 'new'- of course it's not- it's physics!

Anyhoo- I'm bowing out of this thread, but I do so knowing that I can now #makeeverything

Hope your good scores keep on coming :thup:

 

[c1973]

Have you tried it? And by that I mean done a course etc?

Do you need to try something to have a belief or form an opinion? I've read up on it, as I did with new thinking, I've saw people using it and in my experience/opinion from what I have witnessed it slows up play.

 

[3565]

Have you tried it? And by that I mean done a course etc?

Do you need to try something to have a belief or form an opinion? I've read up on it, as I did with new thinking, I've saw people using it and in my experience/opinion from what I have witnessed it slows up play.

Do you use a rangefinder or gps?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Irrelevant what method is used - still need to apply the correct pace

Played a scratch KO with someone using aimpoint yesterday - they just say it wasn't successful for him or express

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

A couple of questions for the Aimpoint exponents........

1) You need to know the stimp reading so that you can work out the line? How is that affected by say, a bermuda green where you can be putting both into and downgrain on the same putt and the speed can vary quite a bit during the length of the putt?

2) How many courses have you played where someone can actually tell you what the greens are stimping at? I can think of only 2 out of the 300+ that I've played.

 

[User20205]

It's probably a good idea that's being milked to the max @£200 per hour. Some will go for it, some won't. But the evangelical true believers, like all fundamentalists, are blind to other opinions.

It sounds a bit S&T to me, as in those that use it are looking for a magic bullet. It probably has some worthwhile take home messages, like S&T, but the majority will view with sceptism because if you really strip away all of the packaging, it's nothing new.

 

[c1973]

Have you taken the course?

No and I won't, having wasted a fiver on new thinking I'll stick to the proven method of going to a pro.

Anyway, I'm getting dragged into an argument I don't want to be involved in. I only posted originally to comment on the pricing of aimpoint. You slag of my lessons for being cheap and I'll wait on the defence of aimpoints pricing.

 

[c1973]

Do you use a rangefinder or gps?

Who's sitting on the bank with the fishing rod now?