A Graduate Level Dissertation on Reading the Greens with Geoff Mangum

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	For members only, Golf Smarter number 350, published on September 25, 2012.
0:07.9	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:10.7	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the
0:16.6	Golf Smarter podcast.
0:19.1	Great golf instruction never gets old.
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0:27.7	this that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:31.3	So we have a simple case.
0:32.9	For example, a 10-foot put across flat green on a tilt that you run into all the time.
0:38.3	What's the break? How much does it break? So I've designed two little puts to tell you all about it.
0:43.3	You find a 2% slope. We've already described how to you know it's 2%.
0:48.3	Walk straight down, you'll 100 inches away.
0:50.3	You can go and then you stop and you compare where the foot is to where the hole is and what's the elevation drop from the hole to your foot.
0:57.0	You imagine the string coming out of the hole dead level and have it as far as your foot.
1:02.0	And high the string above your foot tells you how many inches it is to the surface.
1:06.0	That's what percent the slope is.
1:08.0	If the string hits your foot at two inches off the ground, it's
1:11.6	two percent slope because you went 100 inches down hill. 2% is 2 over 100. It's a drop or rise
1:18.6	of two inches of very run of 100 inches. That's the slope percent. It's also called the grade.
1:24.6	If the string hits your foot at three inches off the ground,
1:28.8	then that's a 3% slope.
1:32.1	If the level string from the hole to your foot hits you in the ankle,
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