PUTTING - AIMPOINT v PLUMB BOB

Alright guys, Dan Hendrickson, here we are at the Simelian Golf Club and we're out doing a little series. We just went and made the back nine on the Somalians Nicholas course. I was there with my brother, James Ruth, Will and you. We'll see when that series comes out or if you haven't seen it yet, I'll show a little link in the description below now that we're on the old course that's actually now known as the Kerno course and we find a hole. One of the older holes but they still maintain the green pretty well so we thought we'd do a little short game for you today and what I'm really looking forward to finding out is about Plum Bob.

I want to see how good the Plum is. bob is because I've used plum bob with my

putting

and I'll show you how it works in a moment, but I've used plum bob for years, probably 20 years since I've used it by now and I really want to do it. look, does it really work? I use it as a rough guide rather than an actual precise point of where I'm trying to aim, but it just gives me an idea of ​​what the tracks are doing, so let's get my brother involved and

plumb

. in front of his sights, look, do you remember when I first used or learned to use the sinker?

I don't remember when it was okay, but you've seen me wear something and what do you think of me actually wearing it? I don't really understand it if I'm honest, okay I've tried it a bit but I can't really understand it so I first learned how to use it when we went to Sweden. Paul and I, as junior golfers, were members of a church and a golf club that we used to do this exchange with, so there would be 10 junior members of the church and that would go to Sweden and play against the 10 junior members of Vasatorps there and then during the year.

Later they came back and it was like a Ryder Cup week where it was a fantastic, amazing, good experience, so we played a foursome at Vasatorp in the actual game against two brothers from there, Hampus and Markell, two very good golfers in their I don't know if they still play, but two very good golfers and I remember Markell using the Plum Bob back then, so I was probably 15 or 16. Yes, now he showed me how to find out what the Plum Bob is and how. Now it works, what he said was you have to get to a point where you mark the golf ball while looking through the brakes, you stand behind the ball, you look between the ball and the hole and you pick a spot, the ball sits over the top of the point on the putter, now to find the point on the putter, what you do is you find the balance point on the putter, okay, so yeah, it would be, let's say, and we go back to those .

The days we had steps on the putters, remember on the shafts, so it's pretty easy to figure out what the point was because, so I roughly calculated that the midpoint is there, yeah, and you let the putter hang, yeah, and then, when you bring it. Once finished, you can put the ball on that spot. You let the putter hang from that point there and then you place the ball between this point and then as the shaft goes up towards the hole, that shaft will tilt to one side or the other. side of the hole and obviously sometimes it goes right over the top of the hole, but it gives you a rough guide of where the landing would be on that particular green or that particular putt, nothing that you've ever come across, no, but I'm just thinking with that, you have to depend on how you're standing, it does it right, it's right, so when you're standing on the slope behind the ball, it obviously depends on how you work and like you said. them or in

aimpoint

, you use your feet to get an indicator on the slope, this one does it for you, okay, like I said, I don't use it as something precise, but I will use it if I really have a hard time reading aside, I will use the

plumb

line and the I'll use for longer puffs, but what I wanted to do today after the

aimpoint

video you made for everyone was get an idea of ​​how my sinker comes out. against your sights, yeah, done, we can also use the perfect putter, we'll use the perfect putter device to read the putt for us, yeah, and then we'll make some putts and I'll tell you where I'm reading it. and then you can tell me where the actual slope is and what percentage it is and how and then what the actual break should be, okay, yeah, the first thing I do is I take about three steps back, yeah, so I walk. away about three places now I'm off the surface here so I'll be honest I'm not 100 sure where the slope is, I think it might move a little left to right on this particular part, it doesn't.

It's, it's just going to be a subtle break in this one, why did you take three steps? Just because it gives me enough. I just learned that over the years to see that that's where I want to be, so what, what, what, do I understand where my center point is with the putter? I place the balance point over the golf ball, let the putter hang and then close it so I can use my dominant eye, yes. Okay, so I close my left eye because my right eye is my dominant eye and then at that point, the axis is now hanging and I have it at this point here, so my point of aim is about there, which is basically where if I stand up. directly behind the ball and hole, when I hover over that, now the center of the shaft running up hits over the top of that peg, okay, so I want to get an idea of ​​what you would be reading. app with an aiming point of view and then we get the perfect putt to roll it and see what it would do, from the point where my golf ball is, what do you have there?

We're about two percent up the slope from there. I'll move it down here to see if that changes a little bit, yeah, maybe 1.5 down here so it doesn't break as much closer to the hole, okay, so it'll be between two percent and one and a half percent, yeah. What I can do then is come back here and then I'm going to take my finger so I'm going to try two percent to start with yeah so two percent hits me right outside your marker um and then something like a one and a half percent. it's going to be pretty much on your scoreboard, yeah, probably if it was me hitting this putt, I'd probably give it a little bit more than what you've given it, so I'd probably give it two percent, okay, but um.

Well, can we now make the perfect putt? Yes, get the ball rolling and see what's right. Yeah, I think it's pretty impressive how this shows that the putt is going to do exactly the same thing every time you throw three there and each one of them has followed exactly the same path as the last and I think a lot of people can blame the greens for the movement of the puck in any direction, but I think it shows that if you have exactly the right line, you will hold the line. The greens are pretty impressive, but you're also creating the perfect spin as the ball goes, so there's bound to be a few when people say, oh, the ball jumped or whatever, yeah, you know, maybe that one's on actually your angle of attack towards the ball or they're not set correctly for a putter, you know, and the speed too because I'm rolling at exactly the same point every time, so it comes out at exactly the same speed every time, which is what which is very important. with the putt too, so let's get back to the actual reading of my plumb line, yeah, okay, how far am I because you're those putts that make me bad?

In fact, I think you probably could because they were dying in the left corner, right? they were going on the left edge of the hole putt, yeah, do you think that's actually it? Because I mean, aiming just off my mark, I think you were slightly off, I would probably say that's where the aiming point was two percent. Okay, but yeah, you got it. Yes, you are not far away. I'd say maybe an inch away from being a hit, but if you hit that, that might be the line for a slightly firmer pace. I am implementing this now. because obviously the speed you also know this speed is going to change whether the green has been cut or not so the spur meter reading is hugely important in how much rest you play anyway but that's a pretty guide good and that's all.

It's really for me as a guide, it gives me a rough idea because once I've found my mark of where I'm going to move it, maybe I can walk around the other side of the hole. and then calibrate what kind of speed I'm going to put on it because obviously that's going to determine where I'm going to hit it into the hole anyway exactly, yeah, exactly, so I've got this here, there's a point that's where the shaft is passing well, according to your point of aim, what is it if you put your fingers towards that? of the breakout is possibly right in this middle part, I think we're seeing that it's probably a little less than two percent of what I'm getting, so it's, but it's, yeah, it's definitely more than one and a half percent, Yeah.

So, it's a little over two percent, uh, a little less than two percent, a little less than two percent, so what does aimpoint give you as a marker now? So based on that, I make the fingers, I have it a little more broken than yours, okay, probably almost twice as much. I would. tell me here so we'll do this on the plumb line that's on mine, yeah, yeah, that's like I said, you know, when I said it, halfway there, it's halfway there, it really starts moving towards us, it flatten right at the beginning. and then halfway through it starts to really change, okay, let's do this for the crosshairs pretty well, I mean, maybe it only wobbled a fraction in the midsection there, but it was basically a follow through all the way so that You can see mine was actually pretty low. whereas yours held up pretty well, so definitely that extra good is three inches more, three or four inches off that marker, it definitely looks more like the line, yeah, based on that and you have to remember that you're the percentage. they're changing as the putt descends exactly, so you're doing two percent or one and a half percent, that's very subject to what's happening in each section, isn't that so conjectural and also not a perfect size?

It's always a guess that's It's always a guess, and I think what we can conclude from yours based on what we're seeing is that it gives you a very good rough guide, but maybe it's not quite calibrated correctly, yeah, for give you an exact yes, so maybe you just need to keep in mind that maybe your sinker isn't giving you enough reading, so maybe you need to add a little bit more to the rod, but there's actually a human element too that comes into it, yeah, I mean, my

putting

historically has always been a little bit open clubface, so I tend to look over the ball, my putter, if I put it too square, it actually looks like it's pointing toward the ball. left, so there's that human element that could be because I just pointed that putter just a little bit.

The outside fraction where my sinker is pointing I also think there are other things in it, it's not the key, it's that you've tried it and that perfect putter tells you exactly what's going on, so I think you know based on what we know . What you're seeing, I think it's pretty close, but maybe it just needs a little more or less and I think if you work on it and calibrate and spend more time using that perfect putter, then you can calibrate yourself to know exactly how the plumber works. works, but it gives you a good guide, I think so, so there you have it, obviously there's a little bit of information about the sinker to start with and obviously how I use it and for me it's given me a very good indicator of if it really works.

I mean, I've been using it for 20 years, it's okay every once in a while when I'm on the golf course. I'm definitely into every round of golf I play. I'm practically using the plumb line to get an idea. an indicator of where I'm going with this, but what's actually quite satisfying is that I'm really not that far off. I probably need a little more work with it, like using the perfect putt that Paul has there to give me. a better idea of ​​exactly what the lines are, but from a point of view, a rough idea of ​​where I'm going, I think it works very, very well, let me know, put your comments below, do you use a plum bob?

I would really like to know and I would like to know if you use it, how you calibrate it, how you determine where the actual aiming position or balance point of the putter will be. I'd like to hear your comments below. Forget it, if you're new to the channel, hit the subscribe button, give us a thumbs up if you like what you're seeing, and as always, stay safe and we'll catch up with you again soon.