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Originally Posted by wacor

I literally could not make a putt over 3' in length. I had one round where I was 3 over par and was on every green in regulation. (9 hole round) I still am terrible at long putts. I am pretty deadly from 5 foot in and make a lot of 10-15 footers though. I am all feel and I cut my putts. Drives people nuts trying to read my putts

sound like my dad. He's got 50 odd putters in his garage, still haven't convinced him it's not the damn puttER's fault, it's the puttee.

One summer (of course I measured it, I'm an engineer) I tracked, for 3 months I track his game. I had him write down everything; tee to green, green in reg, putts, fairways hit, etc.....at the time he had just retired, so it was the summer he was 55, maybe 56.......

over that 3 month span, I compared him to the Senior (now called Champions or Legends or some equally politically correct term for 'old fart') Tour average for a similar span that played on similar length courses. Of course, I couldn't get the handicaps to match and all that garbage, but I got a great rough estimate of where he sat.

Tee to green, he was a shade under the average, something like .43 or .44 strokes better.

putts, he was something like 7 or 8 strokes worse than the average. Literally. Never have I seen so many 74's turn into 82's via 3' lipouts, pulls, or flat out misses.