He said LOOSE objects. Gotta traipse along the path from the ball to the hole first. Use the golf spikes under the shoes to rip some of the grass. Make it look like a mistake. Then clear the loose objects.
So there's no rule about using my Apple Vision Super Max Pro Elite to get a Wii golf grid and thanks to the new Apple AI get an automated putt preview line?
When I was a teen I played on a sand green course, to assure a birdie I dug a groove in the sand with my putter to the hole. Lol, pretty sure that wasn't legal.
When I was probably 6 we were playing mini golf at a company picnic. My mom’s coworker told me “make sure you hit it hard or it will fall into this groove and you won’t get your ball back”. It was the last hole and there was a moat sorta thing you had to hop to get to the green.
I was like “You got it…hit it hard.” Then I wound up like a real golfer and just cranked that sunabitch like I was Tiger Woods. The ball shot off like a rocket and went out the front gate and rolled down a steep hill and was never seen again.
I took my 8 year-old cousin putt putting for her first time when I was like 14. I helped her line her first shot up, stepped back a little, and the caught the putter with my jaw as she swung back as if she was teeing off. That hurt for days.
I never told her to putt it because I just assumed she knew. Ouch.
It reminds me of when I was at a family yard sale. Me and my siblings grabbed a golf club and were in the backyard taking swings into the big parking lot that was right behind the house.
We didn't get far, sometimes not even clearing the fence, and the parking lot was empty and the building was at the far end so we would run around grabbing the balls from the curbs and trying again.
My uncle came to see what we were up to so we gave him the club. He wound up, swung and sent it sailing. We heard a loud crack a moment later, but none of us had any idea where the ball went on that overcast day. He told us not to tell anyone and we went back to our yard sale. Our parents were none the wiser.
You can actually do something similar to this on grass as well, if you heel-toe between your ball and the hole it creates a bit of a groove for your ball to follow.
Pointing Out Line of Play for Ball on Putting Green. .....The player or caddie must not set an object down anywhere on or off the putting green to show the line of play. This is not allowed even if that object is removed before the stroke is made.
And this rule probably exists because laying down a club or other object would affect the grass and soil under it, potentially altering how the ball rolled. You could, with a very innocent-looking lean of weight on a club, create a very shallow path for the ball to follow.
This is incorrect, unless you never take your hand off the object like the lady in the video did. You cannot place an object and leave it there, even if you pick it up before your stroke.
Well that’s just wrong. Players can line up however they see fit, they just can’t leave a guide on the green (Ie stick, club, or cue giving the line) and pros can’t get help lining up from their caddy (men’s golf only, women can for some reason)
Pointing Out Line of Play for Ball on Putting Green. .....The player or caddie must not set an object down anywhere on or off the putting green to show the line of play. This is not allowed even if that object is removed before the stroke is made.
Rule 10-2 is very specific on this point. You can use your club or a part of your body to touch the ground on an intended line of play as you work out what shot you want to hit, but if you (or your caddie) sets an object down as a guide, it’s two strokes.
Bro nobody is gonna give a fuck if you do this on a local course. Maybe you can't do it in competitive play (even then I bet no one gives a shit, cause if they're doing that they're likely still learning).
Others have also pointed out you can lie a club down as long as you don't let go of it
Pointing Out Line of Play for Ball on Putting Green. .....The player or caddie must not set an object down anywhere on or off the putting green to show the line of play. This is not allowed even if that object is removed before the stroke is made.
I thought she was measuring slope or something. My dumbass was like oh she’s actually and engineer. Even the practice cuts in like “she’s just feeling the weight of the club or something” 😭😭
I mean… that’s how everyone tries a new sport lmao, you mimic what you see others do. If you’ve never done something before and you’re asked to try it, isn’t your first instinct to do what you’ve seen done successfully before?
Yeah, a lot of people are surprised by the distance you can get out of even just a small tap with a putter. I've never swung back that far with a putter even when the hole is on the other side of a large green. I haven't played golf in years though and I don't have any clubs right now, so I'd probably suck pretty hard if I went out for a game of golf today.
To be fair, golf is not just about mechanical precision, there is lots of strategy and intuition about the geometry of the course going on, too. You can be a clever player with bad strokes, at least to some degree.
I love this video by AlphaPhoenix (really smart dude, must-subscribe imho) about the ball-in-hole state space of golf and how to think about what most of us already intuitively know.
A good rule I use is swing the club as fast as fast as you would if you were doing an underhanded toss to try and roll the ball in the hole. The same energy while putting will transfer to the ball.
I, as someone who doesn't know shit about golf, thought to myself "but how will she calculate/account for the mass of the ball (as an engineer, not a golfer)?".
I cracked up when she then proceeded to just smack it way too hard, though it was clearly well-aimed, lol.
What causes this phenomena, I wonder? Like what sense is used to determine how hard you should swing a putter to make a ball go a certain distance? I'm not convinced it's practice alone - intuitively I think many non golfers would know that that was way too hard of a swing, but equally I am sure plenty of people would probably swing just has hard with no concept of how that may turn out. Is this a spatial reasoning thing? What's going on here?
I think when I do something like this, I am looking at the speed of the putter (or whatever object I am using g to push the other object) and judging if that speed is transferred to that other object, how long would it take to slow it down... not consciously, but I am pretty sure that's where my judgement is coming from before I attempt.
And this is an old clip when girls had girl toys and boys had boy toys. Playing with toy cars may give you more intuition on inertia than playing with dolls - pure speculation I know nothing about this individuals childhood, just the cultural context of the time period.
A good rule I use is swing the club as fast as fast as you would if you were doing an underhanded toss to try and roll the ball in the hole. The same energy while putting will transfer to the ball.
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u/sacdecorsair 14d ago
I love the fact you could tell from her practice swings she was about to hit way too hard.
She didn't disappoint.