Please explain the Plumb Bob?

[Philfest]

Can someone please explain how the Plumb Bob actually works?

[Johnny]

I dont think it does... :bigwhack:

[MrJones]

My old playing partner uses it and reads greens the second best of anyone I know. He's tried several times to explain it to me but I just don't get it.

[bosoxfan]

People who believe in it swear by it but I can't make any sense to it all.

KH

[502 to Right]

Dave Pelz thinks it's useless, FWIW.

[yahtzee]

People who believe in it swear by it but I can't make any sense to it all.

KH

 

 

Same here....i chuckle when I see someone doing it but cant figure it out for the life of me....

 

from a quick google search...

 

- First of all, how does one plumb bob. It's actually and very simple procedure but is difficult to be accurate if you're not careful.

- stand behind the ball so the ball is between you and the hole

- ensure that the hole, the ball and you are on an imaginary, straight line.

- to ensure all are on a straight line, you should stand about 10 feet behind the ball (closer will make it difficult to estimate whether you are on a straight line)

- holding your putter loosely between two fingers, raise it onto the imaginary line so that the bottom of the putter's shaft blocks or partially blocks out the ball from your sight.

- move the putter so that either side of the shaft dissects the ball into two (thus you will see one half of the ball).

- look upwards at the top of the shaft and estimate how far the same side of the shaft is from the edge of the hole; this distance is related to how far you should aim your putt on this side of the hole

- what most do not know, is how this distance is related to how much the putt breaks; most know that it does not equal the amount that the putt breaks.

 

as an example, let's say that the upper shaft is aligned 2 inches left of the left edge of the hole. Since the hole is about 4 inches in diameter (thus the edge of the hole is 2 inches from the hole's center) the shaft is about 2 + 2 = 4 inches from the middle of the hole. When plumb bobbing, this does not mean that the putt breaks 4 inches. It actually breaks more.

[MTM]

There is a Realtor in my town named Bob Plumb. :bigwhack:

[cbae]

http://www.drputt.com/deardrputt/plumbob.htm

[Philfest]

http://www.drputt.com/deardrputt/plumbob.htm

 

 

To be perfectly honest with you, I'd rather miss the putt than go through that Sh!t. T.M.I.