Putting Leave Distances

[Mel Smooth]

Such a simple method that I have no clue what you’re on about. Literally impossible to do!

Maintain tempo and determine the strength of the putt by focussing on the length of the backswing and the backswing itself. Once I start to swing the club towards the ball, I'm literally just maintaining that tempo and no longer thinking about pace or line (that is determined in the set up of course).

 

[D-S]

Personally, once beyond the beginner stage, it is pure instinct when on a real green (not practicing on the putting green).
I wouldn’t dream of concentrating on the length of my backswing or maintaining tempo when throwing someone a ball underarm. You just throw it and it goes roughly the right distance. Having swing thoughts over a putt is not for me.

 

[r0wly86]

I read a book that taught this idea.

The author put it as, when we jump across a stream, our mind calculates the distance and effort perfectly, we always land, just on the other side, if it's 0.5m or 1m the brain calculates and gives us exactly the amount of power we require to just get over. So for putting switch off the conscious side if the brain, let your hands move back on the backswing, your head will automatically tell you when to stop, then just let it fall, don't accelerate, your brains done the hard work for you.

Interesting idea

 

[nickjdavis]

I read a book that taught this idea.

The author put it as, when we jump across a stream, our mind calculates the distance and effort perfectly, we always land, just on the other side, if it's 0.5m or 1m the brain calculates and gives us exactly the amount of power we require to just get over. So for putting switch off the conscious side if the brain, let your hands move back on the backswing, your head will automatically tell you when to stop, then just let it fall, don't accelerate, your brains done the hard work for you.

Interesting idea

Must admit....if we were rolling a ball by hand across the green towards the hole, there wouldn't be half as much thought put into the process as there is when we putt.

 

[Orikoru]

I read a book that taught this idea.

The author put it as, when we jump across a stream, our mind calculates the distance and effort perfectly, we always land, just on the other side, if it's 0.5m or 1m the brain calculates and gives us exactly the amount of power we require to just get over. So for putting switch off the conscious side if the brain, let your hands move back on the backswing, your head will automatically tell you when to stop, then just let it fall, don't accelerate, your brains done the hard work for you.

Interesting idea

I'm not sure about that since it doesn't account for the variable speed of the green. If the greens are very slow or very fast, it will obviously take a lot longer for your brain to 'naturally' adapt to the right speed. Mine never seems to do that particularly well anyway. I'll just keep hitting it short or long all day.

 

[r0wly86]

I'm not sure about that since it doesn't account for the variable speed of the green. If the greens are very slow or very fast, it will obviously take a lot longer for your brain to 'naturally' adapt to the right speed. Mine never seems to do that particularly well anyway. I'll just keep hitting it short or long all day.

I mean yes obviously there are variables, but that would be the same as any putting stroke or style we can't know the variable speeds until we hit it. The idea is the unconscious brain is far better at doing these calculations than our conscious brain. He also did teach that this theory means most putts would be dead weight which is idea, just as I know you're a fan

 

[r0wly86]

Must admit....if we were rolling a ball by hand across the green towards the hole, there wouldn't be half as much thought put into the process as there is when we putt.

yeah it's weird isn't it, somethings we do completely naturally no thought, but stick a golf club in our hands and suddenly we try and think about every aspect of what we're doing. As an experiment I have started to putt with an open stance to mimic rolling a ball with my hand as much as possible, results so far are good, feel more in control and less mechanical

 

[Springveldt]

I'm not sure about that since it doesn't account for the variable speed of the green. If the greens are very slow or very fast, it will obviously take a lot longer for your brain to 'naturally' adapt to the right speed. Mine never seems to do that particularly well anyway. I'll just keep hitting it short or long all day.

I'm the same, I'm usually short all day on slower greens and I'll chastise myself the whole way round for leaving it short only to knock it 6 foot past on the last and let out a sarcastic "finally got it to the hole".

 

[Orikoru]

I'm the same, I'm usually short all day on slower greens and I'll chastise myself the whole way round for leaving it short only to knock it 6 foot past on the last and let out a sarcastic "finally got it to the hole".

 

[nickjdavis]

Putting was diabolical today....I stood over at least 5 putts between 3 and 5ft and didn't even hit the hole with any of them.

39 putts in total....don't think I've done that in decades.

Saw the club owner on the practice green afterwards with his new shiny LAB Oz mallet.....i picked it up and promptly rolled in 3 putts from 7 or 8 feet without even really aiming!!!! Then battered two putts from around 35ft to within a foot of the hole.

Need to remind myself....its not the arrow...its the archer.