gfellerjm
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- Apr 15, 2009
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Okay so when I was in college and starting disc golf my lab partner informed me that putters were awesome. I thought "yeah for putts" but I couldn't throw very far so I figured I needed a huge driver so I could at least have fun and get to the basket. Well fast forward and I've read tons of threads here about the beauty of putters/driving with putters/throwing your putters until you can hit 250+ then throwing mids, etc and again thought I need a driver so I can score at all low.
So now we get to today, I went out to play the more challenging course in Kearney Cottonmill with my standard discs. While I was playing for some reason I decided to through two shots from each lie, one with the standard disc I would use and one with my putter, including my drives. Well over the course of 18 holes I used my regular discs lie maybe 5 times and all the others I used my putter's lie, including only using maybe 3 drives from my regular discs all of which had a miraculous bounce off a tree. I'm by no means good but scored on par with how I usually score using basically only my putter...
I wanted to test this further so I stopped by Centennial on my way home and got out with only my putter. Low and behold if it weren't for a missed 6' putt I would have scored my best round ever instead of just tying it.
I guess there is something to these putters. I have a couple of ideas on why I did better today.
A. My putter simply flies buttery straight. Cottonmill is pretty technical and I could through my putter better down the tight fairways and not have to go looking for it as much as my other discs.
B. My putter could hold any line I wanted. Need a curl right simply put a but of hyzer and through lighter. Need a curl left put a littl anhyzer and through hard.
C. My upshots were much closer then they ever were with mids or fairway drivers.
D. Really I only out throw my putter with my drivers by about 10-20' so I'm not actually loosing much distance.
BTW: The putter I was using today was a Gateway Magic soft.
So now we get to today, I went out to play the more challenging course in Kearney Cottonmill with my standard discs. While I was playing for some reason I decided to through two shots from each lie, one with the standard disc I would use and one with my putter, including my drives. Well over the course of 18 holes I used my regular discs lie maybe 5 times and all the others I used my putter's lie, including only using maybe 3 drives from my regular discs all of which had a miraculous bounce off a tree. I'm by no means good but scored on par with how I usually score using basically only my putter...
I wanted to test this further so I stopped by Centennial on my way home and got out with only my putter. Low and behold if it weren't for a missed 6' putt I would have scored my best round ever instead of just tying it.
I guess there is something to these putters. I have a couple of ideas on why I did better today.
A. My putter simply flies buttery straight. Cottonmill is pretty technical and I could through my putter better down the tight fairways and not have to go looking for it as much as my other discs.
B. My putter could hold any line I wanted. Need a curl right simply put a but of hyzer and through lighter. Need a curl left put a littl anhyzer and through hard.
C. My upshots were much closer then they ever were with mids or fairway drivers.
D. Really I only out throw my putter with my drivers by about 10-20' so I'm not actually loosing much distance.
BTW: The putter I was using today was a Gateway Magic soft.