Zephyr melton
Golf.com
Setting is a skill that can be a great equalizer on the course. If you can sink consistency, it can cover many holes elsewhere elsewhere in your game.
Making a great prey requires a lot of practice – and requires you to have a feeling of two distinct skills. One is yours Ability to read the greensand the other is the ability to Hit the ball at the right speed. If you have one, but not the other, it will not matter how clean your blow is, you will not make many strokes.
The nice thing about these two skills is that they are complementary skills. Your line should match your speed for the ball to enter. This means you can have a slightly different reading than a golf player, but you can both do the same blow based on the way you get married in line and speed.
In the video below, throughout life Top 100 Golf teacher Peter Kostis explains how you can use this knowledge to make more strokes.
A speed trick to make more strokes
You can hit a stroke with the “correct” line but still not by increasing it. This because you have to get the line AND The speed to match each other.
You can practice this skill by following the advice of Kostis. First, hit a kick that has a ton of rest and play it ORDER Outside the hole. If it comes out short, cut the reading in half and then hit the putt again.
“If you are always short, cut off your reading in half,” says Kostis. “If you are always tall, double your reading.”
Practice this several times – by doubling reading or cutting it in half – and find the speed that matches the rest. Once you start getting a feeling to marry the two together, you will make more strokes in no time.
Zephyr melton
Golfit.com editor
Zephyr Melton is an editor for Golf.com, where he spends his days on the blog, producing and editing. Before joining the team in Golf, he attended the University of Texas followed by stopping with the Texas Golf Association, Team USA, Green Bay Packers and PGA Tour. It helps with all things guidance and covers amateur and women’s golf. He can be reached in zephyr_melton@golf.com.