Re the last one… The putter is the only club where every shot has to get not just the direction, but the distance correct. Once you reach a certain level of skill, half of the strokes taken in a round will be taken with a putter. The difference between first and fifth in million-dollar tournaments is often putts that miss by a total of two or three inches.
The summer I spent making my beer money by hustling doctors and dentists on the golf course on Wednesday afternoons, and wanted to miss a shot, putts were the ones to miss. A putt that (intentionally) misses by a foot looks entirely normal — “I thought it would break more than that.”Report
Re the last one… The putter is the only club where every shot has to get not just the direction, but the distance correct. Once you reach a certain level of skill, half of the strokes taken in a round will be taken with a putter. The difference between first and fifth in million-dollar tournaments is often putts that miss by a total of two or three inches.
The summer I spent making my beer money by hustling doctors and dentists on the golf course on Wednesday afternoons, and wanted to miss a shot, putts were the ones to miss. A putt that (intentionally) misses by a foot looks entirely normal — “I thought it would break more than that.”Report