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Originally Posted by bjohnson
so are pros so used to ridiculously fast greens that playing on something slower would give them the yips so to speak? slow greens do not show the flaws in your stroke like the fast ones do...ex: i push a 3 footer on a 12 its not going in, i hit the same poor stroke on a 6 it has a chance.
(not arguing, just really curious, i know you were a pro and well someday i'd like to be at least scratch so pretty good info for me.)
You could look at it several ways I suppose.
On a 12-stimp if you stroke a 3-footer pure it's always going in. On a slower, bumpier green you can stroke a 3-footer pure and it can miss the hole completely.
On a 12-stimp you can roll a 10-footer with a much shorter stroke which has less room for error. In essence, it's just the same as putting a 5-footer on a slower green. I think we can both agree it's easier to make a 5-footer than a 10-footer.
Growing up I usually played greens that were kind of slow. But when I got to play a course that had fast greens, it was like I was cheating. It was so easy to make putts, all I had to do was start it on line and it would just roll until it hit the cup and fell in.
It wouldn't give Tour pros the yips, but when you're used to stroking a flat 10-footer with a small stroke, you're not going to make very many when all of a sudden you have to use a much longer stroke and somewhat hit at the ball.
BO