Why You're Missing Putts
Tour Pros Don't Guess Breaks
Tour Pros Don't Guess Breaks
In golf, there are two variables that affect your score: Distance and Slope. To get to the green, DISTANCE is the most important variable. Distance is calculated by eye or by a range finder.
But once you’re on the green SLOPE (or the BREAK of the green) is everything. The BREAK affects how your ball rolls to the hole. No greens are flat. They all slope to some degree to allow water runoff. But unlike distance, BREAK is not so easily seen. Without a BreakMaster (which tells you BREAK DIRECTION and BREAK AMOUNT) you’re just guessing.
Tour Pros Don't Guess Breaks
Tour Pros Don't Guess Breaks
Tour Pros Don't Guess Breaks
Tour Pros don't guess the break. There is too much at stake. Their caddies go to the golf course before tournaments, measure the greens with the BreakMaster and chart the greens on each hole in a Greens Book. This is LEGAL under the Rules of Golf.
When Pro Golfers putt they KNOW how the green is breaking and adjust their putts accordingly. That’s why Pro Golfers on the PGA, LPGA, Champions and other Tours use the BreakMaster to chart greens. And it’s why they sink more putts than the average golfer.
How The Pros Read Greens
Tour Pros Don't Guess Breaks
How The Pros Read Greens
Pro Golfers and their Caddies take time before tournaments to make careful measurements and notations on greens and make charts in a Greens Book. Then they use that Greens Book information to adjust the aim line of their putt during the tournament. This is LEGAL under the Rules of Golf (Rule 4.3 Use of Equipment).
Now, the power that Pro Golfers have is now in the hands of any golfer – with the BreakMaster Digital Green Reader and the new BreakMaster+ Digital Green Reader with Bluetooth and Cell Phone Charting App.
All Greens Have Slope
How The Pros Read Greens
For most of the distance of your putt, the force of your putter stroke is the determining factor on how the ball will roll. But as the ball slows down on its way to the hole, the power of your stroke has progressively less effect as the force of gravity takes over. This is why the ball breaks the most as it nears the hole.
The slope of the green is the single biggest factor in how much your putt will break on the way to the hole, but the fact is: most golfers have a hard time reading it. And why shouldn't we? Our eyes were not made for taking accurate measurements of level.
Your Eyes Can Deceive You
Sometimes you think you know which way a green is going to break, but then the ball breaks differently than your eyes "told you" it should. The reason for this is that golf course designers often deceive our eyes by use of the terrain surrounding a green. Trees, bunkers, mounds and swales all play a part in these optical illusions.
Even a small break can affect your putt and make you add another stroke.
Plumb Bobbing Doesn't Work
The value of reading golf greens by plumb-bobbing with the putter has been discredited by leading putting experts. There are two reasons for this. First, most putters don't hang in true "plumb." The second reason plumb-bobbing doesn't work is that you need to be practically laying down on the green surface in order to read the rim of the cup as a horizontal line intersected by the vertical plumb line of your putter: inconvenient at best.
HOW the breakmaster WORKS
The BreakMaster Display
The BreakMaster Display
The BreakMaster Display
To read the green, simply place the BreakMaster green reader near the hole on line with your putt. The arrow will instantly show you the Break Direction (downhill or fall line) while the number shows you the Break Amount (degrees of slope). The greater the Break Amount, the more the putt will break. The lower the number, the less the putt will break.
The Arrow Display
The BreakMaster Display
The BreakMaster Display
The BreakMaster works equally well in reading an uphill or downhill lie. Simply place the BreakMaster ahead of your ball on line with the hole and its readout will give you a good indication of how much to adjust your stroke for uphill or downhill putts.
The Number Display
The BreakMaster Display
The Number Display
Since its introduction in 2003, the BreakMaster has become an indispensable tool for Tour Pros on the PGA, LPGA and Champions Tours as well as Professional Caddies and Golf Instructors around the world. MORE
