SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Similarly - fearsome 3ft downhill putt back to a hole cut at the front of green - rolling off green and down a steep slope if slightly overhit - leaves a very difficult chip or pitch back up. Pitch up too long and I am likely to have a longer putt back down green slope to the hole - if I am too cute with my pitch I leave it short of the hole and chances are high that it's back at my feet and I am faced with the same problem. So I take S&D and put ball back on the green from where I putted it. I now know line and length. Is always an option I consider.Yup I managed to hit a long putt into a bunker located near a pin recently on a wickedly sloping fast green only to find I ended up in PP's footprint (who'd just played out & hadn't raked yet)
Being realistic I didn't fancy my chances of exiting first time with any measure of control with a very possible 3-putt looming, so took stroke and distance option and took the putt again (still needed 2-putts)
Painful penalty but definitely the lesser evil
Sorry for OT post