Green Reading Myths - The PGA Tour Pro Myth

I admit, I'm an average golfer. I've had a hard time reading greens, so I developed a product to help golfers do just that. Since we introduced the BreakMaster Digital Green Reader, I have spoken about green reading with literally hundreds of PGA Tour Pros, PGA Tour Caddies, and Pros and Caddies on the LPGA, Champions Tour, Nationwide Tour, as well as many nationally known golf instructors at golf academies and major universities.

What I learned from These golf professionals is that the average golfer is not only a hard time reading greens - every golfer has a hard time reading greens. This is especially true for the pros, for pros on the tour is not just a matter of a putt that over the money, by making a putt.

Based on my research I have done something which as far as I can figure never before done in the 200 years + history of golf - I applied some basic science to read greens. Tobe specific ... I measured greens and trained them in a Green Paper (more on that later in this article).

All this led me to a fundamental conclusion: green is reading with the eye and the other senses in fact an incorrect statement. We compare it to measure the distance. Golfers do not measure distance to the green just by eyeballing it. No, leave golfers to yardage markers or measurements of sprinklers, and more recently, laser range finders and GPS devices. If we now use, for measuringTools for assessment of the distance, why should we rely on our eyes and other senses in order to measure something as critical as the slope on the green?

The answer is ... we should not. After all, if you hit all green in the regulation, 50% of strokes are still on the green. When you improve your implementation by improving your green reading, do not improve your score? Of course would.

And nobody knows that better than PGA Tour pros. Thus, like the Tour pros figurefrom the rest? Now understand, first of all, this basic fact: do not read greens from Tour Pros eyeballing, Lot imagine bobbing, water on the green, walking around the green, feeling the grain, or any of the other mythologies of the green reading.

For years, the Tour pros had their caddies get to the greens in the days before tournaments, and roll balls on the green to find out how they break. Then they made the Open maps, gave them an idea of the GreenPause in the vicinity of the expected hole locations. In practice rounds and the tournament pros and their caddies, consult these green cards (which is, of course, decide legal), how to adjust the aim of their putt-line to compensate for the breach. Until recently, the Greens have cards are pretty rough. But they were at least some indication (of good tests - rolling balls), as would break the Greens.

Recently, caddies would climb on the greens with a tool to measure as a smartLevel. That was a good next step in the green reading, but Smart levels only show a break in one direction - they do need to turn a number of different find ways to break the exact direction, and this is not easy. Also, because smart design levels for carpentry, are not playing golf, they are quite awkward to get around on the golf course.

The Break Master Digital Green Reader is the first high-precision instruments for measuring the break on the green. Because it was developed for golfers, it isalso very convenient to take on the golf course. Break The Master shows the two most important factors in the break: the break direction (also called the fall line, the downhill direction) and the break amount (severity of the downhill course), we measure known in degrees.

Understood Tour Tour Pros and caddies, the concept immediately. For the first time in the history of golf, they had an accurate tool for measuring the break. Now their green cards are demanding - and amuch more accurate. If you are a tour pro to look green card (available on our website - used by PGA Tour players at a recent PGA tournament) you can see that the break on the green much more complicated than you might be adopted. The break can change (in the direction and magnitude quite) a lot about all of the green. That is why the old method of reading greens to the naked eye is not just a myth, but actually false. In fact, there are many ways to break and the amount of pauseon a green. Each can influence the role of a putt, and each can be accurately measured and mapped. By understanding the pause in this way you can really improve putting.

Now the question you are probably wondering - is this legal? Well, yes and no. No, it is not currently legal, a device such as the break during the Masters tournament competition using (but remember that until a few years ago, there was not legal, a GPS device or laser rangers find it, use either ). Butis certainly legal to use the master break during a training round and taking notes on a green card - and that is exactly what the pros do too. I know that you say, "But what if I see pros going to walk around the green or the squat and saw the hole before they putt?" To this I say that the pros really only visually soothing about what their research (their caddies measurement and mapping of the Greens before the tournament), it has already shown. Here is a quote is publishedfrom someone you've probably heard ...

"My caddy is explored Stevie Williams, and I have the greens on every course we've played. This knowledge is essential for a tour player, because we basically play the same places every year. I recommend to you due diligence similar to prices you play a lot. Take notes on hole locations with respect to pauses and direction of grain. They are more comfortable on the greens - and make more putts. "

Tiger Woods, 'Lesson Tee, "GolfDigest, April 2008

Now you understand the myth that PGA Tour pros to read greens, using their senses. There is really only one way to read green and accurately measure - to. Everything else is just guessing - and guessing is usually wrong. In my company we have a word for false assumptions about the green - strokes.

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