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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1082.1 | Mini ramp | WALTA::LENEHAN | stick-em | Tue Sep 25 1990 08:37 | 17 |
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Hi Peter,
I saw a demo of one , when I was watching a ladies tourny.
It's very simple... there's this board that seemed about
3 feet or so long that has a track running down the middle
for a golf ball. They hold up one end of the board to a set
height ( they probably have another device to rest the board
against, I didn't notice). Then they roll a ball down the
ramp... and measure the amount of roll.
Someone else may know EXACTLY how it's done, but I believe
that's pretty close.
Walta
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| 1082.2 | alittle more information. | CHRLIE::HUSTON | | Tue Sep 25 1990 09:35 | 10 |
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Walta is right, alittle more info though. A stimp meter is a 3 foot
board with groove as Walta said. They hold it so that one end is
18 inches off the green and roll a ball down the board. THe
measure of the green is how many feet the ball rolls. So a green
that "stimps" to a 12 means the ball rolled 12 feet. Of course
this means that they try and do it on a flat part of the green.
--Bob
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| 1082.3 | Numbers? | BTOQA::SHANE | | Tue Sep 25 1990 12:43 | 4 |
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What's considered fast, slow, average???????
Shane
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| 1082.4 | | PUTTER::WARFIELD | Gone Golfing | Tue Sep 25 1990 16:50 | 7 |
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When "stimping" the greens they also take the average of several
different directions. After all very few greens are totally flat.
I believe fast is anything 10 + over.
Larry
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| 1082.5 | what about grain? | CSC32::J_KLEIN | | Tue Sep 25 1990 19:39 | 14 |
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I believe they find what they consider a flat part of the green and
roll it in opposite directions and average the two, to verify the
flatness. I'm not sure what they do in regards to grain, ie: do they
intentionally do it cross grain etc. Anyone know how they take grain
into consideration?
There is a course southeast of Tampa, Florida called Bloomingdale where
they measuse the speed of the putting green and post it every morning.
I've never known another course that does this. I found it very
interesting to be able to relate to what they say on T.V. I would say
that anything at or above 9.7 is very fast. U.S. Open speed is usually
around 10 or more.
-Joe
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