Truths about Putting

"Golf clubs do not play golf"

The following information was learned along the way during the development of our line of putters. The following observations became the premises for the design, materials and manufacture of the Prescription Putting putters and methods.

These observations are not original and many are obvious, but allow us to list them anyway.

The golf ball rests in slight depression on the green. This is why conventional flat face putters have a 4 degree incline to elevate the ball at impact.

The club has no control over how hard the ball is hit.

The club has no control over the direction in which the golfer hits the ball.

All balls skid after impact with a putter in spite of opinions to the contrary. To contend that a putter did not skid implies that the laws of physics were suspended during the testing.

The length of the skid varies from a few inches to three feet with various putters.

The greater the skid, the greater the inconsistency of the roll.
Not all putters are created equal.

The ideal putter design and construction minimizes the ball skid.
The golfer can only control the speed of the putter head and has no control of ball speed after impact.

Putters vary greatly in this transfer of energy in both the amount of time to transfer momentum as well as the ability to reproduce the same speed as the putter head.

The ideal putter design and construction quickly transfers the same speed of the putter head to the ball.

Most putters have an optimal place on the face for hitting the ball, called a sweet spot.

The larger the sweet spot in all directions on the face, top to bottom and heel to toe on the face, the more forgiving the putter design for missed hits by the golfer.

The golfer has more influence than the putter design over the direction the ball travels after impact.

The optimal putter design minimizes directional error produced by golfer's misdirection of the putter face to the ball at impact.

The golfer has more influence than the putter design over the distance the ball travels after impact.

Optimal putter design and construction provides consistency of distance the ball rolls at any given impact force.

The performance is not solely dependent upon the face geometry; rolled or flat.

The performance is not solely dependent upon the club head geometry.

The performance is not solely dependent upon the mass.

The performance is not solely dependent upon placement of the weighting.

The performance is not solely dependent upon placement of the shaft in the head.

The performance is dependent upon the optimal combination of face and head geometry as well as the mass and placement of the weighting and shaft placement.

The variables of direction and the distance exist for each putt.

Therefore consistency of golfer and club design are the desirable factors.
Consistency of golfer and club design are the achievable factors.

Consistency can be measured for the club and learned by the golfer.

The golfer first should learn consistency in their putting stroke. Consider our Alternative Medicine for Putting workshop or materials.

Golfer should choose a putter that produces consistency by design and construction quality. See testing section and our line of putters.

Prescription Putting was founded by Lanny L. Johnson, M.D. Dr. Johnson is an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon, one of the pioneers in arthroscopic surgery. He is an inventor, holding over 40 U.S. and foreign patents related to surgery. The most notable was the co-invention of the motorized instrumentation used daily world wide, even now, more than 30 years later. The longevity of this invention is unprecedented in surgery.

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