Putting used to be the worst part of my game…many 3 putts during a round and few feet birdie chance missed…sometime even turned into a bogey!
Although I had studied as much as I could, it didn’t help….
Lately, I wanted to upgrade my iphone to firmware 3.0 and afterward I came across a golf game “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2009”…OK…a golf game on iphone, let me try….
Not surprisingly, “Tiger” always hits 400 something yards and beautiful approaching to the green, though not in 2009 PGA Championship, anyway…the putting method “Tiger” or actually the player of the game is to take “caddy advise” a certain distance left or right and short or long. You can also trigger a fall line just like on TV.
For example, once the caddy tip said “5 inches left; 4 feet long” I move the aim cursor left and pass the hole accordingly, and trigger the fall line to see. After a few rounds of playing, I was able to make 15 birdies in a roll…Wait, I suddenly realized that I might miss a factor when I putt in real course, most of the time I putt, I just think of direct left or right to the hole…with lighter or heavier pressure.
In the last round, I ingrained the Long or Short factor pass the hole or short of the hole respectively. To my surprise, I made three 10 feet+ birdies and saved many Pars. That’s my funniest part of my golf learning…by a golf game on iphone!
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If you cannot take the shoulder down the clubshaft plane, you must take along some other path and add compensations - now, instead of one motion to remember, you wind up with at least two!
Cool! It is a great way to show people how to read greens. The notion that great putters treat all putts as though they are flat and straight has been around for a while. Geoff Mangum's book Optimal Putting helped me in this regard. So a 10 foot up hill putts plays like a "flat" 12 footer. And of course every putts is "straight" in that the intention is to start it on a straight line and let mother nature move it where she wills!
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