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"Just playin golf pally"
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The guys I play with are all fast players. If any of us went through a new, complete "putting routine" more than once on a green they would "hear about it" from the rest of us.
One doesn't even have to be a fast player to see that greens play can often be one of the biggest reasons for slow play. Right up there along with searching for lost balls are both imo the two biggest reasons of them all. Far greater than wrong tee choice or poor play which are imo about the least (with some exceptions) and then of course all the other stuff that falls in between.
Someone mentioned that "even pros miss" as a means to imply why going through the process for all but the very shortest putts is needed. But I say its that very fact which actually works towards implying why its sometimes ridiculous. Of the thousands (or uncountable) amounts of putts I've collectively seen through many years of playing I can honestly say the same amount of putts are hit and missed by those who pickup, mark, wait, replace as those who don't. The only one thing I can say at times I have seen it actually do for certain more than anything else is simply take more time. And its not a detriment towards pace all the time of course but it is a detriment often enough of the times.
Nothing worse when the next group ahead is out in the next fairway hitting approaches and player X (who missed his lag putt) has to now wait for another to clear before then again going through an entire time consuming process and then miss the put. Have two or three in the group or dare i say all four do the same thing on the same green and you can be there for quite a lengthy time.
Ok, I'm ready to get blasted now
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