It’s tough being an amateur golfer, isn’t it? We have to source our own clubs, pay for our own green fees and – most of the time – we don’t have a caddie to help us out over awkward shots.
Unlike touring pros, we’re not often afforded the luxury of courses so perfectly manicured that you’d eat your dinner off of them. The courses, not the pros. Moving on.
Regardless, due to the variety of layout we often deal with, I think there is a cheat code of sorts which might help to lower our scores.
You may have read recently that I struggled initially when gaming a brand-new putter in an important round, and that’s not something I’m keen to repeat any time soon for the reasons I highlighted.
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My original flat stick featured an insert face which is really soft on contact and encourages me to be a touch more positive with my stroke. On the other hand, the newer putter is a milled face which was far hotter than I was used to and scared the living daylights out of me on slicker surfaces.
Despite very strong initial reservations, I stuck with said putter and have gamed it a few times since, slightly lessening the unadulterated hatred I felt towards it at first. A bit like a dad who says he doesn’t want that new puppy, only to end up viewing it as his best friend a matter of months later.
While I might not be there quite yet, it was during a recent round on an inland-links-style layout with a green speed that barely registered on the stimpmeter that I realized the milled-face option was proving fairly successful.
Due to the particularly sluggish nature of the greens, I could maintain the correct putting technique and the club would do a great deal of the heavy lifting.
If I’d been gaming my old insert-face putter, I might have ended up bending it out of shape after thumping golf balls with it for hours on end. Not to mention, the quality of contact would have been pretty low and I would almost certainly have holed fewer putts overall.
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It was during that round that I enjoyed something of an…
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