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Putts That Just Won't Go In
Posted: Thu May 29, 2025 3:16 am
by Golferdee
Just wondering what you guys have experienced.
I have a library full of putts from all sorts of distances that stopped anywhere between 2 and 0 inches from the hole !!
What's your story?
Re: Putts That Just Won't Go In
Posted: Thu May 29, 2025 6:50 am
by Rustyred
When I played the game for real, if what happens now happened then many a putter would be changed or/and many a ball would be launched into space!! However, as the saying goes "a good workman nevers blames his tools". Golferdee I'm glad I'm not alone.
Cheers,
Rustyred.
Re: Putts That Just Won't Go In
Posted: Thu May 29, 2025 12:08 pm
by mwalimu
At least this is something that can and does happen in real golf. I'll complain a lot louder about things where that's not the case, such as trying to do a pitch shot over a bunker, it lands short in the bunker... and plugs.
Re: Putts That Just Won't Go In
Posted: Thu May 29, 2025 11:02 pm
by Golferdee
mwalimu wrote: Thu May 29, 2025 12:08 pm
At least this is something that can and does happen in real golf. I'll complain a lot louder about things where that's not the case, such as trying to do a pitch shot over a bunker, it lands short in the bunker... and plugs.
Yes I know all about that one too - very frustrating, but I guess that's just golf and something we all experience too.
Re: Putts That Just Won't Go In
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 4:07 pm
by whattashot
Golferdee wrote: Thu May 29, 2025 11:02 pm
mwalimu wrote: Thu May 29, 2025 12:08 pm
At least this is something that can and does happen in real golf. I'll complain a lot louder about things where that's not the case, such as trying to do a pitch shot over a bunker, it lands short in the bunker... and plugs.
Yes I know all about that one too - very frustrating, but I guess that's just golf and something we all experience too.
I'm almost 79 years old, and have been watching golf on TV since the 60's. I have never seen it. Played for 55 years. Never seen it. On this game it is almost commonplace.
Re: Putts That Just Won't Go In
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 8:59 pm
by maxie
I have had a few 0 inches from the hole guess i left it 24cm short
Re: Putts That Just Won't Go In
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 11:55 pm
by JMK59
I spoke to Andrew Jones about this back in Oct 2017, just before they bolted.
He said the plugging model was a random number occurrence based on the impact angle only. (it's bad physics).
Sand ballistics is one of my areas of expertise (engineer), so I sent him a detailed model with the promise that it would be in PG2.
