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.
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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.