gdunc79
Assistant Pro
At least once every two rounds. Still yet to learn.....
"I'll just finish it off if that's OK..."
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richart
Major Champion
I will finish as often as possible. Speeds up play, but more importantly I don't want to spend time thinking of ways to miss the putt. Get the misery over as quickly as possible.:thup:
pokerjoke
Money List Winner
3565
Journeyman Pro
What's wrong with plumb bobbing???
slicer79
Challenge Tour Pro
I went to finish off one on the 17th last weekend for par, straight away didn't feel right over it but kept going and missed. Finished with 37pts when 38 would have got me a prize. Still raging over it
3565
Journeyman Pro
It ain't worth it. If you got an awkward stance, Mark your ball.
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
If it's outside 12" and I can't take my normal stance I mark it. I missed one once from about 4" trying to knock it in nonchalantly one handed, never again.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Ask Tom Kite......air shot with a 4'' putt, probably cost him a Major.
JohnnyDee
Tour Winner
I once attempted to knock one in from about 3 inches with the back of my Ping Sedona.
It has a step down on the back which is perfect to ensure a strike on a ball well below its equator. On this occasion that's exactly what I did and I looked on in horror as the ball jumped the hole and finished an inch on the other side.
NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
It has a step down on the back which is perfect to ensure a strike on a ball well below its equator. On this occasion that's exactly what I did and I looked on in horror as the ball jumped the hole and finished an inch on the other side.
NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
richart
Major Champion
Wasn't that Hale Irwin in the Open ?
3565
Journeyman Pro
It was. Missed out by a shot as well.
Very prone to getting lazy in a comp and making a mistake and missing. Trying so hard to stop, mark and go through the routine and give it the care it deserves. After four putting last medal through trying to knock it in standing the other side of the hole and hitting the ground and leaving it short has acted as a stark wake up call. Of course, ask the question after the medal tomorrow
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I once heard one of the TV commentators say about Mark James....."I'll finish.........I'll finish........I'll mark" 
Tiger man
Challenge Tour Pro
Nice, you think of that?Didn't Hamlet have this problem?
To mark or not to mark that is the question
Whether tis nobler on the green to step up and hole the putt
Or to mark the ball and wait your turn,
And by waiting hole it? To wait, to miss
No more, and with that wait to hope we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That putting gives us. Tis a holing out
Devoutly to be wished. To mark, to wait,
To wait perchance to think, aye there’s the rub
For in that wait for thought what fears may come
When we have shuffled for our lucky coin
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so short putts.
For who would bear to contemplate the putt,
To read the break, and calculate the pace
When he might his easy par make with a quick tap in.
Who would these worries bear but that the dread of putting thrice,
That unforgiving country from whose bourn
No birdie may be made, puzzles the will
And makes us rather get it over with
Than judge the borrows that we know not of.
Thus holing out makes cowards of us all
And putts of little length and break
With this regard their rolling turns awry
And lose the chance to drop.
mcbroon
Journeyman Pro
Didn't Hamlet have this problem?
To mark or not to mark that is the question
Whether tis nobler on the green to step up and hole the putt
Or to mark the ball and wait your turn,
And by waiting hole it? To wait, to miss
No more, and with that wait to hope we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That putting gives us. Tis a holing out
Devoutly to be wished. To mark, to wait,
To wait perchance to think, aye there’s the rub
For in that wait for thought what fears may come
When we have shuffled for our lucky coin
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so short putts.
For who would bear to contemplate the putt,
To read the break, and calculate the pace
When he might his easy par make with a quick tap in.
Who would these worries bear but that the dread of putting thrice,
That unforgiving country from whose bourn
No birdie may be made, puzzles the will
And makes us rather get it over with
Than judge the borrows that we know not of.
Thus holing out makes cowards of us all
And putts of little length and break
With this regard their rolling turns awry
And lose the chance to drop.
Tip of the cap for this, sir. Excellent.
Liverbirdie
Ryder Cup Winner
People should be able to hang wallpaper in a straight line.
MashieNiblick
Tour Winner
The opening line just popped into my head as I was reading the OP and I think we've all experienced that feeling after we've marked a shortish one, that the more we look at what's left the harder it looks, so it just flowed from that.
Glad people liked it, thank you all for all the kind comments.
Tiger man
Challenge Tour Pro
Wish I had such a beautiful mind!The opening line just popped into my head as I was reading the OP and I think we've all experienced that feeling after we've marked a shortish one, that the more we look at what's left the harder it looks, so it just flowed from that.
Glad people liked it, thank you all for all the kind comments.
MashieNiblick
Tour Winner
Credit goes to the Bard. Maybe with Wednesday being his birthday he was subliminally on my mind. The only real golf tip I can think of that he gave was to "Imitate the action of the Tiger", but that was before the latest swing changes.
MashieNiblick
Tour Winner
Credit goes to the Bard. Maybe with Wednesday being his birthday he was subliminally on my mind. The only real golf tip I can think of that he gave was to "Imitate the action of the Tiger", but that was before the latest swing changes.
Oops it was Thursday of course, St George's Day!
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