Play puts from your putter toe to ensure that you do not blow the ball along the hole.
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Imagine: you have just beaten a laser at the flagstick and your ball is located 15 feet past the cup. It is the best look at Birdie you have had all day and you are strengthened. You steal around the cup, let yourself be read and settle over the ball. You bring the putterhead back and forth and wait with expectations while the ball rolls to the cup. It just The edge burns and rolls past the cup. Then it keeps rolling … and rolling … and rolling.
By the time it stops, it is 10 feet past the hole and you have a few comebacker to save par. What was once a great look at Birdie soon turns into a three-put-bogey. You walk from the green with steam out of your ears while you are the mental error and missed opportunity.
If you look like me, this is a well -known scene. If you look carefully, it is of course to be excited and to feel your adrenaline increase. But when this happens, it becomes very easy to get at Juiced and get the ball too much pace.
Fortunately, there is an old-school trick that you can use to ensure that you have a perfect speed on those downhill bird looks, so that you do not turn a possible birdie into a frustrating bogey.
SLA Downhill Putts from the toe
If you have a smooth downhill putt, it is absolutely essential that you touch the ball with a good pace. Take it too hard and the ball gets away quickly. Take it too soft and you look at another smooth downhill look.
It is clear that in this situation it is much more common to hit the ball too hard. To watch against this, get a page from the Old-School Playbook and put in line with the Bal Off-Center on the Putterhead.
“We’re going to place this ball from the toe,” instructor Kelan McDonnaaugh told me last fall on our Golf Top 100 Teacher Summit on Cabot Citrus Farms. “What that will do is that it will lower the ball speed and the ball will come out a little perpetrator and with a slower role of the [face.]”
Just like with a complete shot, when you get the ball from the toe – and away from the Sweet Spot – the bullet speed will be slower. Normally you wouldn’t want this, but if you have a smooth putt that can easily get away from you, keeping the ball speed can be quite useful.
