Can I Blame My Ball?

[wrx_junki]

Played a round today and seems like my putting is getting worse. Of course, I was trying to figure out if it was me, putter, or whatever else. Can I blame my golf ball for bad putting? I've been using Wilson Staff 50/50 golf balls and they are very soft and I am not getting much feedback especially with the putter. Anyone ever attribute their bad putting to the ball? I feel like I've been coming up short or way long on putts.

[twinke masta]

I have been practicing putting with 50/50 and Px3's and they seem really hard off the face of my putter. I now practice with a NXT Tour and it feels much much smoother and buttery. I think Wilson balls are just hard off the puttter. But don't quote me on that haha, it's just a personal feel.

[wrx_junki]

Really? It feels soft for me compared to the DT Solo's that I was playing with prior to these 50/50's.

[twinke masta]

Really? It feels soft for me compared to the DT Solo's that I was playing with prior to these 50/50's.

Well the DT is harder than the NXT Tour I believe. (The NXT Tour is alot different than the rest of the NXT's) The NXT Tour is like Pro V1's little brother. But again I think its a personal feeling I get when I putt the NXT Tour.

[ks8829]

99% of the time its the indian and not the arrow.

if distance control is your problem how do you judge distance with your putts?

try this to help with distance control:

a) keep the same tempo on all your putts
b) control distance with the length of your back stroke and try to keep the same length for the forward stroke.
c) practice lag putting with putts of 30 feet and putt 20 putts until you can consistently putt most of the putts within a 3 foot circle
d) vary the distance from 5, 10, 15, 20 etc.
e) you will feel confidence once you control your distance
f) distance is more important than your the line in putting
g) keep stats in the number of putts per round and focus on eliminating 3 putts
h) your chipping around the green goes hand in hand with putting, if you up and down is strong you will have more tap in one putts.

[piper_clap]

Weird-I noticed the same thing. My putting got a lot better once I worked through the dozen 50/50's I had.

Could have been all the putting practice during that time, too. It did feel a little harder off the putter than the other balls I played during that time (E6+), but I didn't think it was anything I needed to worry about.

[alf174]

I find the 505/50s, Zips, and PX3s soft off the putter face and prefer it. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

[wrx_junki]

Okay, like most of the time yet again it was the damn indian... Today, I concentrated on using the big muscles instead of overthinking the distance and line. Had 14 putts in 9 holes and 1 for birdie. Wish I putted this well yesterday where I was striking the ball well. Today, short game was there but the ball striking disappeared. That's golf for you!

In short, USE THE BIG MUSCLES FOR PUTTING and don't you forget that like me.