https://plumbbob.app/blog/ Green reading, putting and green speed guides from Plumb Bob. en https://plumbbob.app/blog/are-green-reading-apps-legal/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/are-green-reading-apps-legal/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT No, not during a competition round. Here's what Rule 4.3 says about green reading apps, AimPoint, green books and levels, and where you can use them. https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-hard-to-hit-a-putt/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-hard-to-hit-a-putt/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to judge how hard to hit a putt: how far past to aim by distance, turn uphill and downhill into a plays-like distance, adjust for green speed, build feel. https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-measure-green-speed-without-a-stimpmeter/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-measure-green-speed-without-a-stimpmeter/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Three ways to get a real Stimp reading without the USGA ramp: a stopwatch formula, a homemade ramp, and one rolled ball. With the maths and a worked example. https://plumbbob.app/blog/plumb-bob-putting/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/plumb-bob-putting/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to plumb bob a putt step by step: find your dominant eye, hang the shaft, read the break. Plus the geometry of why it works, and the putts it gets wrong. https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-read-grain-on-greens/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-read-grain-on-greens/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to read grain on greens: the four signs that show which way it grows, why grain acts like an invisible slope, and a two-roll test that measures it. https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-read-greens-for-beginners/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-read-greens-for-beginners/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Can't read greens? The easiest way to read greens for beginners: a four-step routine for which way it breaks, how much, and how hard to hit it. https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-stop-three-putting/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-stop-three-putting/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to stop 3 putting: most three-putts start with first-putt speed, not the second putt. The numbers by handicap, and a 15-minute practice plan. https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-tell-which-way-a-putt-breaks/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/how-to-tell-which-way-a-putt-breaks/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Can't tell if a putt breaks left or right? Six checks, in the order to use them, plus how to tell uphill from downhill and why downhill putts break more. https://plumbbob.app/blog/17-inches-past-the-hole/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/17-inches-past-the-hole/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Is 17 inches past the hole the right putting speed? 100,000+ simulated putts say yes from 12–20 feet, but short putts want more pace and long lags less. https://plumbbob.app/blog/missing-putts-low-side/ https://plumbbob.app/blog/missing-putts-low-side/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Missing putts on the low side is the most common miss in golf. Research shows golfers play a quarter of the real break. Here's why, and how to fix it.