Understanding and Embracing Aimpoint – Cubed!

AimPoint makes sense and is important to putting excellence.

It is still exciting, as a 63 year old, when something clicks and you totally get it.  That happened today when I took the AimPoint Fundamentals Class from Mark Sweeney – inventor of AimPoint.  AimPoint is a rigorous approach to learning how to exactly determine the break of a putt.  I have known about it for a year or so know, but Mark was able to help a group of about 25 golfers truly understand how it works and how  it is a tool all golfers need to have in their bag.

Today I feel like I now get AimPoint at 3 important levels:

1.  I get the mechanics of knowing how to to determine the things you need to know to predict break – putt length (not trivial), finding the line where the ball will not break, finding the slope along that line, finding the slope angle relative to the line where the putt will not break, and using the AimPoint charts to determine what the break of a putt is;

2.  I get how you can by "feel" determine the no-break line and the slope – and how this needs to be by feel with your feet and not visually; and

3.  I get how important it is to know how to predict the true break of a putt.  There has to be a relationship between knowing how much a putt breaks and how  you stroke a putt.  I believe if you cannot predict break that will have an influence on your putting stroke.  And – the other way – if you can predict break correctly, it can help you develop a better putting stroke.

NOW – it is up to me.  There is practice required  to lock in the skills I learned today.  But the good news is that I am certain that if I work at AimPoint, I can become a great green reader.  How good is that!

The Fit Is IT!!

Tony