Make More Putts With The Pendulum Method

There are plenty of different golf putting training aids on the market today, but, at the end of the day you need to be able to read the break of the green if you are planning to regularly make putts.

There are several different approaches to determine the break on the green.  The one thing that every golfer ought to do is to have a look at the location of your ball in relation to the hole before getting onto the green itself.  Much like water, a golf ball rolls down hill.  When you look at the golf green from the your last shot, just think about where the water would go if it rained.  That is the general pitch of the green and water will accumulate in certain areas.

That seems simple enough, but how do you know specifically how much the ball breaks?  One easy technique for figuring out the break is to make use of the pendulum procedure for reading the break.  To do this is fairly simple.  To start with, stand behind the ball and take a position straddling the imaginary line from the ball to the cup.  You need to make your stance to ensure that both feet are an even distance from the imaginary line.  Which means that an imaginary line drawn from the cup to the ball passes directly through the middle of your entire body.

Next, hold the putter with two fingers just next to the handle of the putter so that the club swings just like a pendulum.  The putter should easily move from right to left if you are doing this properly.  And then, close your lazy eye - this is going to be your left eye if you are right handed, or your right eye if you are left handed.  Lineup the shaft of the club with the ball using your dominate eye and then take a look where the shaft is pointing alongside the cup.  This is the point where you aim your putt for the break.  

For example, if the shaft lines up two inches to the left of the hole, then the ball will break two inches the other way.  All you do is then line up the putt to that point.  This approach is a straightforward one to accomplish and is effective on bent grass greens.  Greens with bent grass generally don't have much grain that will also affect how far the ball will break.  If you are on Bermuda grass, then you should also take into consideration the direction the turf is growing - towards the low points, towards any water or toward the low point of the golf course.  The golf ball will break more, or less, dependant upon where the grain is growing - more towards the grain and less against the grain.

Check out these putting tips the very next time you go to the course.  You will discover that, with practice, these methods will increase your putting accuracy.

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