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Lining Up a Putt: The Stimpmeter (Lesson 2,Part 3)

About this site: Golf Is Simple This post continues our discussion of the mathematics and mechanics of lining up a putt.  This post covers some additional considerations: how green speed impacts the results of misalignment; some three dimensional graphs to … Continue reading

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Lining Up a Putt: The Basics (Lesson 2, Part 1)

About this site: Golf as Gave It To Us This article discusses lining a putt.  The relevant mathematical concept starts with tan(θ) or the tangent of an angle, θ.  For those of you traumatized by eleventh grade trigenometry, this article, by I. … Continue reading

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