garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
There will be a number of examples of show this weekend when players miss on the wrong side.
Is every putt holeable?
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Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
But is that a real green anywhere?
If the green is only imaginable then its no leap to imagine the putt dropping too!
Robobum
Money List Winner
If the ball is on the putting surface - every putt is NOT holeable.
The 17th green at my place will have putts that just can't be holed - they would require a terrible approach shot to be in that position, but the situation is there.
The is, i think, a member at Naunton Downs on the forum. They have a par 3 where the green is shaped like a handle bar moustache with a bunker where the mouth is!!!
The 17th green at my place will have putts that just can't be holed - they would require a terrible approach shot to be in that position, but the situation is there.
The is, i think, a member at Naunton Downs on the forum. They have a par 3 where the green is shaped like a handle bar moustache with a bunker where the mouth is!!!
swingking
Hacker
Every putt IS holeable. It might take thousands of attempts but eventually one will go in
Thexindi
Assistant Pro
Of course every single putt you go for is puttable I dont think theirs much doubt there, But the likely hood of some putts dropping are just so low we often talk our selfs into believing we couldn't sink them. We start saying things like well 2 putts is OK here, We have all done it
swingking
Hacker
'2 putts Is OK here' I reckon I say to myself at least 9 times a round. Some times If ive hit a GIR and im 30ft away in my head im already walking to the next tee with a par, which is a horrendous mindset to have because ill probably go and 3 putt and balls up my next t shot still fuming over the previous hole
Robobum
Money List Winner
Darren24
Assistant Pro
My 1st thought was yes if your on the green then yes every put is achievable but then like someone mention on the Texas open I think there was a massive green with a bunker in the middle of it. The flag could be the other side of that bunker and the break would not take your ball anywhere near it so my answere now stands at NO.
Adi2Dassler
Journeyman Pro
Keeno
Challenge Tour Pro
This is also my thinking. There are some split level greens that putting down from the level above would be too quick to drop.
Stupidly designed greens imho
ruff-driver
Journeyman Pro
golfsaint
Q-School Graduate
Yes all putts are holeable 
a ball is 1.680 inches wide and the hole 4 1/2 inches wide .
sounds simple ha ?? sometimes lol
a ball is 1.680 inches wide and the hole 4 1/2 inches wide .sounds simple ha ?? sometimes lol
robert.redmile
Assistant Pro
There are positions on a green, that if the hole is cut in a certain part of the green are unholeable, no matter what you do.
Try it the next time you have time on a tricky green. Think of the hole in a tricky position, cut on or near a slope, then place your ball in another tricky spot - I would bet the laws of physics say if the hole is at point a, and the ball is at point b, that due to the breaks involved, there is no line, and no pace that allow the putt to be holed.......
Try it the next time you have time on a tricky green. Think of the hole in a tricky position, cut on or near a slope, then place your ball in another tricky spot - I would bet the laws of physics say if the hole is at point a, and the ball is at point b, that due to the breaks involved, there is no line, and no pace that allow the putt to be holed.......
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
Imagine a 2-tier green. The hole is cut a foot from the bottom of the slope and you've hit 5' past pin high just at the top of the slope but 30' wide.
Putt to miss the slope and it will stay up top. Putt to hit the slope and it will take it too far wide.
Q.E.D.
Putt to miss the slope and it will stay up top. Putt to hit the slope and it will take it too far wide.
Q.E.D.
CheltenhamHacker
Journeyman Pro
That was me! (not any more unfortunately). But I loved this hole, even when I ended up in the bunker a ridiculous amount of times. The 6th was brilliant as well, a two tiered green on a hill. if you're chipping down from above the green to the bottom tier, pretty tough to stop it rolling off the green!
CheltenhamHacker
Journeyman Pro
Imagine a 2-tier green. The hole is cut a foot from the bottom of the slope and you've hit 5' past pin high just at the top of the slope but 30' wide.
Putt to miss the slope and it will stay up top. Putt to hit the slope and it will take it too far wide.
Q.E.D.
In theory, if you could putt to an exact spot, there would be a point where you could putt along the slope, and it would then drop down at the very right point.
In practice, no chance!
D
Deleted Member 1156
Guest
No it's not.
PNWokingham had a putt at my place last year on the 10th, because of the pin position and where he was on the green, it just wasn't possible to hole it. The line was so far up a slope that the ball picked up too much speed coming down it to go in.
We had several attempts each afterwards and we couldn't get the ball within 10ft of the hole.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
But in having these exceptions we are in fact proving the rule 'Every Putt is Holeable' exists
