Reading Greens – Part 2 – Golf lesson and golf tips on how to read greens for putting.
► Reading Greens for Putting Tips – Video Golf Lesson Summary
In this part-2 video on how to read greens let’s explore why golfers tend to underestimate the breaks in their putts and what can be done to alleviate that problem.
In this example, we’ll stick one tee high on the slope where we think the ball should roll in order to reach the hole. But then we’ll stick a second tee into the ground higher still into the slope by another order of magnitude so that this second tee is twice as high as the first tee. Next we’ll hit our putt by aiming at the high tee rather than the true line – second tee – that we think the ball should travel onto. If done correctly, you’ll see that instead of going towards that top tee, the ball will actually go towards the bottom tee thanks to the slope, resulting in a putt that comes to rest very close to the hole. This of course is only true if that low tee really did represent the line the ball should take in order to reach the hole.
The point to take away from this exercise is that if you were to hit the ball towards where you think the ball should travel – the low tee – in reality the ball would have traveled lower than that and would have missed the hole on the low side. Aiming higher gave the ball the correct trajectory, rolling near the low tee and towards the hole.
So remember that golfers tend to underestimate the breaks in their putts and that aiming twice higher in the breaks will often result in the ball travelling on the correct path towards the hole.
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