Aimpoint is one of the most popular green reading techniques in professional golf.
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Impossibles impossible to be a great place if you can’t read greens. In order to know what line to start your ball, you need to know which way the green breaks.
All have Their method to read greens, But over the last decade, the Aimpoint Green Reading has become extremely popular – especially among professionals. The method has been adopted by many of the best players of the game – Collin Morikawa, Victor Hovland and Justin Rose, to mention some – while marrying physics and feels to help get an understanding of correct green reading.
Adam Scott He is such a professional who uses Aimpoint to read the greens, and in a recent video on Instagram, he gave a brief explanation of how the method works. Check below.
How does Aimpoint work
The first thing you have to do when reading a green using Aimpoint is to find a place between your ball and the hole and tighten that place with one foot on both sides of your line. What you are doing here is to use your feet to feel in which direction the slope is moving.
“I feel the weight on my left foot,” says Scott. “So it’s steep right to left.”
The next step is to Determine the severity of this slope, on a scale of one to five, with one be less heavy and five to be higher. Once you have determined this number, you can go behind your ball.
Next, you need to stand behind the ball and close one eye. Raise your hand so that your indicator finger is just off the cup. Based on the slope of the percentage you think it is affecting your stack, decide that many fingers in your hand (ie, one finger for one percent, two fingers for two percent, etc.).
For example, if you think there is a two percent slope from the right to the left, place two fingers and line up your finger of the indicator just outside the right side of the cup. Where your second finger is highlighted is your purpose point.
“I’ve done it for nine years, so I feel like I read the green really well,” Scott says. “So I don’t know what my problem is.”
All left to do is to line up your ball and hit it at the point of purpose. If you have judged the slope correctly, the ball must roll straight to the hole.
