Putter trick professionals swear to read cereals on Bermuda greens

If you’ve ever tried reading about grains on Bermuda vegetables, you’ll know how tricky it can be to correctly determine the direction of grasses growing (this is the key to reading these grasses).

Playing a partner and coach may try to teach you how to read grains by recognizing the “shiny” side and the “dolent” side, but this approach is not always guaranteed. Whether the grass’s grains are too subtle to distinguish, or the sun is shooting down, everything seems “shiny”, this method makes everything unexplainable.

However, one trick used by professionals is something that many amateurs don’t know. Here is a quick, guaranteed way to read cereals, as Parker McLachlin, a golf 100 teacher, explains in the clip below, one thing you have to do is remember: The ball broke to the dead side of the cup.

Find the Dead Side to Make More Putts

According to McLachlin, you need to know how the green grains will affect your putter.

First, you need to identify the dead side of the cup, which should be easy. This will be the brown and almost chewed side. If you reach your hand to the edge of the cup (not during the turn of course), you should notice that the grass falls at the bottom.

Next, determine the healthy side of the cup, which should be obvious. This side may be very green and the edges should be sharp. If you put your hands aside – again, not while playing the game – you should not fall out of grass.

“This tells me that the water moves from here [the healthy side] Go downward [toward the dead side],” McClarklin said. “The water is captured on this top side, rather than putting it at the bottom. This is the reason [the dead side of the cup] It is collapsing and turning brown.

“This is one of the ways we can say the ball breaks into this brown side. The water is trying to bend this direction down so that whenever you sit in the Bermuda green you see the brown side or the discolored side or wearing a lot on this edge, and you know the ball is going to want to break that direction.”

Very simple: find the dead side and adjust the putter to break that direction.

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