Boy the difference in putting surfaces from one course to the next this time of year is really something. I guess it is always different one course to the next and maybe just more so this time of year. My home course features greens with a good deal of undulation that also happen to be very very fast. They were just aerated on Monday so they are not much to putt on right now.
I went off to one of the courses I have not played this year to see what it was like as I know that it is tough tee to green but did not know much about the greens themselves. Also my new NEAD came in today and I wanted to try it on something, anything.
As it turns out the greens at this place were slow as molasses. They were not aerated so the greens were not swiss cheese. However they were incredibly slow especially when compared to the greens at my home course. My NEAD is 20 grams lighter than the putter I had played this year. I wanted something more around 350 grams as my other putter head comes in at 370 which seemed a bit much to me especially on the faster greens. I love the feel of the NEAD but going from a much heavier putter and super fast greens to the lighter putter on greens that made you feel like you were plowing through something did not make it easy on either me or my new NEAD. Anyway as I said I do really love the feel of my new putter. Balance is terrific. NEAD made it close to a 4:30 putter which matches my gated swing nicely. It just took some time to get some feel using a lighter putter on what where the slowest greens I had seen all year.
Is there a big disparity between greens speed going from one course to the next in your neck of the woods?
How do folks feel about putter weight? Like a putter to be on the heavy side, the light side and does the speed of the greens that you play regularly tend to push you one way or the other regarding weight?
I should also take the time to put in a good word for Gene Nead. He is terrific to work with and his putters are working golf tools that happen to be very pleasing to the eye as well. I would not describe them as eye candy as they are more elegant and graceful than they are flashy. A quality I think of that beauty of a putter that one of our members posted up earlier today. Are you listening P4B?
I went off to one of the courses I have not played this year to see what it was like as I know that it is tough tee to green but did not know much about the greens themselves. Also my new NEAD came in today and I wanted to try it on something, anything.
As it turns out the greens at this place were slow as molasses. They were not aerated so the greens were not swiss cheese. However they were incredibly slow especially when compared to the greens at my home course. My NEAD is 20 grams lighter than the putter I had played this year. I wanted something more around 350 grams as my other putter head comes in at 370 which seemed a bit much to me especially on the faster greens. I love the feel of the NEAD but going from a much heavier putter and super fast greens to the lighter putter on greens that made you feel like you were plowing through something did not make it easy on either me or my new NEAD. Anyway as I said I do really love the feel of my new putter. Balance is terrific. NEAD made it close to a 4:30 putter which matches my gated swing nicely. It just took some time to get some feel using a lighter putter on what where the slowest greens I had seen all year.
Is there a big disparity between greens speed going from one course to the next in your neck of the woods?
How do folks feel about putter weight? Like a putter to be on the heavy side, the light side and does the speed of the greens that you play regularly tend to push you one way or the other regarding weight?
I should also take the time to put in a good word for Gene Nead. He is terrific to work with and his putters are working golf tools that happen to be very pleasing to the eye as well. I would not describe them as eye candy as they are more elegant and graceful than they are flashy. A quality I think of that beauty of a putter that one of our members posted up earlier today. Are you listening P4B?
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