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Uphill or Downhill Putt? Leave It Below The Hole
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Uphill or Downhill Putt? Leave It Below The Hole
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
I play golf with friends that have a variety of honest handicaps. That's one of my favorite aspects of golf, you can have good competition regardless of skill level when handicaps are correct.
I occasionally play with a very low handicap golfer that changed his game to get to a plus handicap.
The change was that he became a little less aggressive with his approach shots, chips, and long lag putts.
His old style was to get everything to the hole, even in "low make" percentage situations.
He made more than his share of birdies, but he also made exponentially more than his share of 3 putts, and the net result was a higher handicap than he should have been carrying.
He's since adjusted his game so that he intentionally leaves his approach shots, long chips, and long putts under the hole rather than past the hole, and his handicap has dropped as a result.
He's using more of a lag mentality than a make mentality in those situations, and leaving himself more low stress 2 foot uphill putts than high stress 5 foot downhill putts.
I'm not quite sure that he's bought into the "hate bogeys more than you love birdies" mindset yet, but he's getting there.
I recently saw results from research conducted by MyGolfSpy that reinforces the benefits of leaving the ball beneath the hole or uphill putts, versus downhill putts.
Testing Parameters
- 10 testers (handicaps between 0-15)
- 20 putts taken from each condition
- 12' putts only
- Each tester used their own putter
Proximity to hole .
- Uphill putts – 0.42'
- Downhill putts – 0.46'
- The closest proximity to the hole was produced on an uphill putt (0.10').
- Uphill – 106 total putts holed
- Downhill – 89 total putts holed
- Uphill – 10.6 average for putts holed
- Downhill – 8.9 average for putts holed
- Uphill – 0.2 strokes gained
- Downhill – 0.12 strokes gained
- 60% of testers had a higher strokes gained on uphill putts
- 70% of testers made 10 putts or more on uphill putts
- 60% of testers made more uphill putts
- Uphill putts produced the best accuracy overall
- Largest strokes gained differential is on uphill putts
- 17 more putts were made on uphill putts
- 1 tester made zero putts on uphill putts
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