The case for a bigger hole!

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delc said:
Golf is a hard enough game just to get the ball onto the green in anything like regulation figures, and then you are faced with getting the ball into the hole in not more than two putts, with three putts (or more) being a distinct possibility. A slightly slightly bigger hole would reduce the fear of a three putt, and encourage a more positive approach to putting. It would also speed up play by reducing all the faffing around that seems to occur on the greens these days.
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I started playing football at a very early age. Goalkeeper.
I would have loved the size of the goals to have been smaller. It would have made my job a whole lot easier and I know I would have had a far bigger number of clean sheets. I discussed it a few times with people but they didn't really want to listen.
So I made a valiant attempt to leap and stretch that little bit further. Spent quite some time working on my angles too, to try to give myself an advantage. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But I kept working at it, and although I say it myself, I became quite good.
But smaller goals were never going to happen. I gave up on that one.
 
I agree Delc. You are a golfing visionary. I'll back your campaign:thup:

I want more threads on the issues most important to club golfers, like this and, are courses too long? Is rough too penal? The campaign to fill in all the bunkers.

No one believed Jesus until it
was too late & pontius pilate had a good go at ending that campaign for the greater good.

Delc you are a golfing messiah, don't let these golfing Judas's sell you out!!!
 
therod said:
I agree Delc. You are a golfing visionary. I'll back your campaign:thup:

I want more threads on the issues most important to club golfers, like this and, are courses too long? Is rough too penal? The campaign to fill in all the bunkers.

No one believed Jesus until it
was too late & pontius pilate had a good go at ending that campaign for the greater good.

Delc you are a golfing messiah, don't let these golfing Judas's sell you out!!!
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Splash.
Margins, or deep water????
;)
 
bobmac said:
Last try.
Del, do you honestly think you will succeed in your campaign and convince the golfing world that every club will have to increase the size of their holes by 20mm ?
A simple yes or no will suffice
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Not convincing a golfing forum , so the golfing world may be a tad too far Bob ..

EDIT .. there was a long answer here but asked myself why .. and erased it .

I don't care bout size of hole il just play , if my putting gets bad il work on it ..
 
Smiffy said:
I started playing football at a very early age. Goalkeeper.
I would have loved the size of the goals to have been smaller. It would have made my job a whole lot easier and I know I would have had a far bigger number of clean sheets. I discussed it a few times with people but they didn't really want to listen.
So I made a valiant attempt to leap and stretch that little bit further. Spent quite some time working on my angles too, to try to give myself an advantage. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But I kept working at it, and although I say it myself, I became quite good.
But smaller goals were never going to happen. I gave up on that one.
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You could have stuck to 5-a-side football, or played hockey, because the goals are smaller! The standard size for football goals was codified in the 19th Century when people were generally smaller, so there is a case for a bigger goal, especially in these days of defensive possession football, where goals are quite rare occurrences.
 
:rofl:


Perhaps a new method of putting would help? Aimpoint maybe?

Or you could try NGT to help you forget about the missed putt and move on?


:)
 
There really isnt anything to discuss, the hole is the size it is and lip outs are nothing to do with how big it is. A hole 9" across will still lip out if the conditions suit.
Del, as much as I admire your preseverence, say you get thise extra 20mm, then start missing that (because technique slips or your reading of the green slips) then what? Do we come back around the table and start campaigning for a bigger hole?

If the ball rolls at the hole too fast and/or not on the correct line then it won't drop no matter how big the hole is.

The mastering of putting is what makes golf a great, but equally frustrating, game.
The adage, Putt for dough wasnt coined by accident.
 
c1973 said:
:rofl:


Perhaps a new method of putting would help? Aimpoint maybe?

Or you could try NGT to help you forget about the missed putt and move on?


:)
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Please don't start me off on the subject of aimpoint! People standing for ages on the green, trying to decide which foot has the most weight on it, then all the rigmarole of holding up fingers and then lining up a line on the ball. Can't see that aimpointers are any more successful at putting than those who just look and go, but they waste loads of time on the greens! :(
 
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Instead of making the hole bigger why not just fill them in and paint circles on the green. If you get it in the circle you add one shot to your score and move to the next tee. Anywhere else on the green but outside the circle you add two shots.

This would save clubs money as they wouldn't need to spend time cutting new holes and make golf cheaper for players as you wouldn't need to buy a putter. And it would speed up the game as there would be no putting.
 
delc said:
Please don't start me off on the subject of aimpoint! People standing for ages on the green, trying to decide which foot has the most weight on it, then all the rigmarole of holding up fingers and then lining up a line on the ball. Can't see that aimpointers are any more successful at putting than those who just look and go, but they waste loads of time on the greens! :(
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Agree 100%.
 
mcbroon said:
:rofl:

I actually agree with you Delc. The hole should be a bit bigger. The game's hard enough for your average punter without having to direct the thing into a cup that's only a couple of times the size of the ball.

And who doesn't want more birdies? I don't see what's not to like.
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Man, I was obviously more drunk than I thought last night.
 
Smiffy said:
Had to chuckle at East Sussex National during the Summer. Playing a betterball, partnering my old mate Normski.
On the 1st he had a putt for a birdie to win us the hole, my ball was sitting about 3 feet away from the cup, at a 90 degree angle.
He putted, hit it a little too firmly and it horseshoed out at pace and hit my ball. Penalty!!
Missed my putt and we walked to the 2nd tee 1 down.
We both made sure we marked our balls from then on.
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Assuming it was matchplay against another pair and not bogey vs the course, it's not a penalty for hitting another ball on the green.
 
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