I read the greens are supposed to be faster for this weekend's Nissan Open due to course renovations. Will that mean more of fewer birdies?
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When greens are faster..does that mean more or fewer bridies?
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When I play on fast greens, I end up with less birdies because of my tendency to overputt the ball. Of course, I'm nowhere near the level of a professional golfer.
Difficult to say tbh.
In summer/autumn when the course is in prime condition and the greens are running very true, I would say that more birdies would result from faster greens (within reason). But in terms of Riviera in February, these greens are relatively bumpy anyway at this time of the year (not helped by being basically poa annua), so a truer roll should be achieved if the greens were slower, particularly in the afternoon.
In summer/autumn when the course is in prime condition and the greens are running very true, I would say that more birdies would result from faster greens (within reason). But in terms of Riviera in February, these greens are relatively bumpy anyway at this time of the year (not helped by being basically poa annua), so a truer roll should be achieved if the greens were slower, particularly in the afternoon.
Sergio Garcia is the most obvious player who is much better on fast rather than slow greens. But as a general rule, so long as the speed is not ridiculously fast, Tour players with a poorer putting stroke tend to fair better on faster greens than slower ones IMO.
Agreed. A shorter putting stroke leads to less errors and so faster greens should help those with a poorer stroke.
Pelz says that putting down the slope should be easier because you need a shorter stroke and that will lead to less variance in execution. Sounds nice in theory of course.
