Comments on: A Golf Lesson on Plumb-bobbing http://www.howtobreak80.com/blog/2008/03/03/a-golf-lesson-on-plumb-bobbing/ How to break 80 - instantly! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Weekley http://www.howtobreak80.com/blog/2008/03/03/a-golf-lesson-on-plumb-bobbing/comment-page-1/#comment-81821 Robert Weekley Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:16:22 +0000 http://www.howtobreak80.com/blog/2008/03/03/a-golf-lesson-on-plumb-bobbing/#comment-81821 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: With do respect, I read your article on plumb bobbing and it is fine on what has been said, however, it is not complete and accurate for precise plumb bobbin. For example, a carpenter, would not use a broken level for installing a door frame in a house, because the door would not swing level with the floor. I have a method that is precise that I have been using for the last 10 years. My method is simple but includes an important ingredient that your article does not have in it. You may contact me to discuss my method. You have my e-mail address. Thank you, Have a good day! TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
With do respect, I read your article on plumb bobbing and it is fine on what has been said, however, it is not complete and accurate for precise plumb bobbin. For example, a carpenter, would not use a broken level for installing a door frame in a house, because the door would not swing level with the floor. I have a method that is precise that I have been using for the last 10 years. My method is simple but includes an important ingredient that your article does not have in it. You may contact me to discuss my method.
You have my e-mail address. Thank you, Have a good day!

]]> By: Rick Hendershot http://www.howtobreak80.com/blog/2008/03/03/a-golf-lesson-on-plumb-bobbing/comment-page-1/#comment-81373 Rick Hendershot Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:08:06 +0000 http://www.howtobreak80.com/blog/2008/03/03/a-golf-lesson-on-plumb-bobbing/#comment-81373 I agree with those who think this plumb bobbing technique is unnecessarily complex and fraught with uncontrollable variables. I'm not sure who came up with this explanation of how pb is supposed to work, but whoever it is seems to have done a pretty good pr job. As far as I'm concerned the value of plumb bobbing is that it helps you find a reference for "true vertical" (assuming your putter hangs straight). Getting down close to the ground and then plumb bobbing the horizon of the ground close to the hole will give an indication of the slope at that point. This can be used (quite successfully I have found) as an indicator of the way the ball is going to break. Anything more than that sounds like voodoo to me. I employ pb all the time, but never in the way described here, so cannot really comment first-hand on its effectiveness but I can certainly see why skeptics knock it as being hopelessly unscientific. I think this analysis gives plumb bobbing an undeserved bad reputation. I agree with those who think this plumb bobbing technique is unnecessarily complex and fraught with uncontrollable variables. I’m not sure who came up with this explanation of how pb is supposed to work, but whoever it is seems to have done a pretty good pr job.

As far as I’m concerned the value of plumb bobbing is that it helps you find a reference for “true vertical” (assuming your putter hangs straight). Getting down close to the ground and then plumb bobbing the horizon of the ground close to the hole will give an indication of the slope at that point. This can be used (quite successfully I have found) as an indicator of the way the ball is going to break. Anything more than that sounds like voodoo to me.

I employ pb all the time, but never in the way described here, so cannot really comment first-hand on its effectiveness but I can certainly see why skeptics knock it as being hopelessly unscientific. I think this analysis gives plumb bobbing an undeserved bad reputation.

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