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Dave Pelz[1] stated in his book on putting: “Few golfers (myself and several Tour pros I work with) care enough about green-reading to expend the effort to accurately measure slopes on real greens (using precision instruments not commercially available). However, there is no better way to learn to recognize slopes. Measure the slope of a green near the hole, look at it as you read your putt’s break, then putt on it. Your brain will do the rest. After measuring a number of slopes and putting on them, you’ll begin to recognize their severity without having to measure.”
It isn’t necessary to “expend the effort to accurately measure slopes using precision instruments,” it can be done easily using a standard level. A method for doing this is described next.
Required: (1) Standard level, (2) a ruler scaled in 0.1 inch or 1/8 in, (3) a short golf tee, and (4) the use of a particular graph that’s included below.
Procedure: See figure of linked pictures: (1) Place level on green in direction of down slope being measured. (2) Press tee into green at the low end of level. (3) Set level on top of tee and press tee into green until its bubble is centered. (4) Measure level’s height above green at its end. (4) Read slope from graph for the level height from linked pictures.
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[1] Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz’s Putting Bible, Doubleday 2000
It isn’t necessary to “expend the effort to accurately measure slopes using precision instruments,” it can be done easily using a standard level. A method for doing this is described next.
Required: (1) Standard level, (2) a ruler scaled in 0.1 inch or 1/8 in, (3) a short golf tee, and (4) the use of a particular graph that’s included below.
Procedure: See figure of linked pictures: (1) Place level on green in direction of down slope being measured. (2) Press tee into green at the low end of level. (3) Set level on top of tee and press tee into green until its bubble is centered. (4) Measure level’s height above green at its end. (4) Read slope from graph for the level height from linked pictures.
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[1] Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz’s Putting Bible, Doubleday 2000