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bub's Power Stroke
Instruction...
Brought to you courtesy of George Fitting - bub
and Mega-Links
PS
Putting... 
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Swing Meter
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Chipping 
Just like in the real world of
golf and the clicking method of swinging in golf
Sims, in PS, putting usually is the difference
between a good player and a great one. No matter
how far you hit your tee shots or how close you
hit your approaches (within reason of course),
you will need to be able to putt to score and to
win your matches.
First off, a couple of tips on PS and putting.
You only need to click once for the putting
stroke. No need to click again at the snap. It
doesn't matter one bit. So, you can either click
and release to initiate the back swing and then
pause to drop the distance marker or click and
hold to start the swing, then release to drop
the distance marker. A nice feature of the PS
swing meter (this is true for all the clubs in
PS), if you don't like where you dropped the
distance marker, you can hit the esc key and
start over. The only limitation on this, is if
you already started your through swing, then
it's too late to hit the esc key.
I try to swing all the way to the very front of
the meter on all my swings. I don't try to stop
at the snap point or try to get just past the
snap point. I try to swing all the way through
to the very front and try to 'smack' the club
head squarely into the end of the meter. This
keeps me accelerating through the shot and also
helps square up the club head.
Because everybody's PS swing is different, there
isn't any one technique that is best. You will
have to gain some experience putting to be able
to see where you can improve. My suggestion
would be to practice on normal/medium greens and
no wind/breeze. Try to figure out how far back
to swing the putter on 10, 20 and 30 foot putts.
Don't worry about CHS at this point as the
further back you take the putter, naturally the
more CHS is generated on the through swing.
The PS putting meter is broken up into 10 foot
increments with the first 10 feet further broken
up into 1 foot increments. The LW Chip swing
meter has the exact same markings as the PS
putting meter and the ball will travel almost
identical distances too. For me, I have found
that for a flat 20 foot putt, I need to pull the
putter back about 23/24 feet, then smooth on
through to the finish. This gets me the proper
CHS and distance control. Similarly, on a 30
foot putt, I need to pull back to about 35 feet.
And, a 10 foot putt, about 13 feet. I do not
worry about CHS while putting. I just
concentrate on getting the putter to the proper
distance in the back swing and swinging
smoothly.
Now, even though most charts aren't effective in
PS, some are very useful. The putting chart is
one of them. I use my putting chart (which you
can still find at my chart site), my breeze/wind
chart, and Microbell's Loft chart. If you get
the speed down on normal/medium greens, here is
a quick calculation to get the speed of
soft/slow or hard/fast greens (the other green
conditions are either very much the same as
normal/medium or slightly different, in that
case, a very minute adjustment works very well).
- For soft/slow greens, I
calculate 135% of the distance I would
normally swing back on normal/medium greens.
- On hard/fast greens, I
calculate 75% of the distance I would
normally take on normal/medium greens.
- For soft/medium and
normal/slow greens, I simply add a few feet
to the distance for normal/medium greens.
- For normal/fast and
hard/medium greens, I simply subtract a few
feet from the distance for normal/medium
greens.
A note on down hill h/f putts:
Be careful using the 75% method on h/f greens as
these greens have a HUGE amount of roll out. The
steeper the down slope, the more the ball has a
tendency to roll and roll and... well, you get
the idea. As you can see, that is why I
recommend you practice on normal/medium greens
to get a feel for how far you have to take the
putter back to get the proper distance control.
Now, all there is to do is a quick calculation
for the other green conditions.
There is no single factor in golf that will
improve your scoring like being a good putter.
If you have been a good putter using the click
method of swinging, then you can look forward to
being a good putter in PS too.
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