The Details and a Boring Round

So I've been working on a couple of swing thoughts, mostly for the long ball.

Mostly I've been able to wack it well if I stay behind the ball and not slide during the swing.

With the long ball in some form of order, I found putting was a issue.  I believe that my alignment and aiming of the implement was my big problem.

Yesterday I wandered over to the local Golf Mart and played with the clubs they had and wound up with a Seemore FPG Milled putter.  I had seen these talked about on youtube and they looked interesting.

This has a number of technological aspects to it:

• The putter is balanced at the 70 degree swing path
• There is an alignment marker on it that forces you to setup consistently
• There are milled groves on the face 

Some details:  The putter is not faced balanced, but when you suspend it to the swing angle the face stays on line.  Thus swings that are off line are somewhat self correcting.  Oh you can twist it horribly and man handle it, but if one is gentle, the putter will strive to get back on line.

The putter is close to a center shaft and behind the shaft is a large red dot.  The putter shaft down by the face is a black material.  What you do is line up the putter to the target by a normal alignment line and then hold the putter so the red dots is covered by the shaft.  Now everything is locked into a consistent position.

Face grooves are supposed to roll the ball better. 

Basically, align to the target hide the red dot and then move it back and forward.  If you do this with a small arc, the red dot will stay hidden and the ball will go where it is aimed. 

Now, how about that round, I hear you say.

It was pretty boring.  I parred the first 11 holes, took a bogey with a crappy chip, parred a few more, three putted the 16th and then parred in. 

I had a couple of up and downs, but other than a 12 footer on the first hole, nothing was too challenging.  I had a bunch of birdie putts, but was not able to convert.  Nothing was real close.  No real problems with two putting.  I was hitting them close for the most part.  The one 3 putt, I was above the hole on a fast down hiller and I left it quite short to start with.  Hit a good second putt, but the break was not what I played for.


I had more problems with irons going further than expected.  I'm hitting them better and they are going beyond their calibrated distances.

It will still be a struggle to keep the new swing thoughts active.  It was a slow round today, lots of hit, walk, wait. 

Here is a link to the putter:  http://www.seemore.com/putters/fgp-original-rh.html

Mine is milled, not sure about this one.  But, so far, so good.