Improve Your Lag Putting - Putting By The Numbers with Bob Labbe

And I've got to say, and I read the book and I watched your online video.

I don't even want to say I know what a stint meter is.

I know what it means in terms of the speed of greens, but until I watched your video, honestly, I had never seen someone use a stint meter.

So if, you know, nothing that it was just, it was interesting to say, I mean, obviously it's a pretty simple device, but it's, it works and it's consistent.

And, uh, yeah, I thought it was really interesting in terms of how that device is used to measure the speed of green.

Yeah,

and that was what got me to thinking, well, simply taking this tube with a notch in it and putting a ball in it and lifting it off the green until the ball by gravity flows down that tube and then moves out on the green and travels so many feet.

And that basically, you can do that with three balls and they're within two feet, you've established the number of feet or the speed of the green for the day.

And they use that throughout the world on basically all tournaments these days.

But Edward invented that in 1935, but the USDA didn't start using it until 1976.

So it took a few years for them to get it in the groove.

But when I saw that, I said, boy, I know about force and friction.

And I know about how, you know, when you strike the ball with putter, You're applying a force to it, and I know the green has a certain friction.

The fringe does.

The fairway in the first cutter up does.

So if I could establish a correlation between those frictional surfaces and the amount of force I have to apply to make the ball travel, I'm going to get something.

Well, that's how I set out.

That was the ingredients to the problem-solving.

And it, and I was, but you know, engineers don't like putting anything down in writing until they're absolutely sure that his breaks when he's putting writing.

And that's why I kept taking notes.

And I had so many friends through the 25 years from, I didn't write this book until night, uh, to 2021, 25 years of testing and retesting at golf courses all over the world.

And that's, what's cool about this method.

It works on any golf course in the world, and you can play any golf.

If you arrive at any course 30 minutes before your tee time and go out and practice on their green, their fringe, and their fairway for 30 minutes before, you'll play that course as it was your home course, and boy, does that make a difference in your score.