I do think that it messes with putting statistics. I'd say Paul had about 3 strides there that were that short or shorter out of 9, and he didn't take the last step to the pole. At 5'10 with short legs for my height - a comfortable step was 3'4.5" per.
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Teaching orienteering I kept a consistent walking pace by feel - stretch before an activity, and then focus on how my hips felt at each step to keep it consistent. I think he is *there.* I know his general walking stride is shorter than what we see there - but it doesn't take too much in terms of a purposeful stride to get to a 4' stride. Long time ball golfer, had my strides pretty close to 3'.PM is about the same height.a 4' stride is really long for someone 5'8"ish). You think McBeth takes 4' steps? (Oh, I didn't read on to see the further discussion about this.
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When you can put screen grabs of the video (Paul is walking horizontally across the frame) into Photoshop and measure out that his steps are each creating easily greater than 2 shoe lengths between heel of lead foot and toe of trailing foot on each step - it makes it fairly obvious. I did, I do, and I don't see how his shoes matter at all.īecause, visually, we can see how long his steps are.
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I saw the flags, didn't see the white line in video - so that was an assumption. White line with white flags to make it more visible. Each step he's taking there is demonstrating more movement at the hips than someone taking 3' per step even when accounting for the uphill involved in the stride. I've been around Paul and know how tall he is relative to me and I can recognize in his strides whether he's taking a long or short stride relative to 3' (for reference my own orienteering pace is consistently measured at 6'9" or 3'4.5" per step). All that matters is how he perceives each putt in relation to his other putts based on what he arbitrarily intakes visually.Īs for "the other guy" - the "other guy" has flags down at 3' intervals between 2 baskets out to 48' and putts on them daily, and has taught orienteering (the actual physical activity associated with what I'm talking about, I'm not talking about Paul's putting skills) for two years. You're making just as big an assumption as I am in saying "one guy is the best in the world at judging his distance to a target." - you have absolutely no idea how well his internal system for calibrating his putts is tied into actual physical feet/meters. Your guess is evidence? Then, so is Paul's right? Let me think, who should I trust? One guy is the best in the world at judging his distance to a target and was actually there. Otherwise, I enjoyed watching them meet the challenge of the water, wind and OB in that first round. Most of these Pros get their discs for free. When/If I did play it, some holes would be skipped entirely, or water-safe temp-tees would be improvised. If this course were near me, I would not play it often. The design element that is essential for a course like this to be accessible/playable to all levels of play is a "dump" area where 920ish players can make a relatively safe throw and accept par or even bogey. There's this tension between challenging the very best players and making the same course "playable" (read "fun") for most everyone else. Can't say I'm surprised.įull disclosure, I'm a 920ish rated player (best estimation). UDisc says the scoring average on that hole in round 1 was 3.88 (par 3).most difficult hole of the day. I don't generally have a problem with obstacles like that in the circle, but having that there and an equal portion of the circle on the other side of the basket be water is bad. Castro had the "best" drive in that he was in circle 1, but his putt was completely obstructed despite being less than 20 feet from the basket. The players were throwing across the water to a very thin strip of grass (less than 20 feet wide) bordered on one side by thick trees and brush and the other by water. I've only watched the first half of round 1, but one hole stood out to me as ridiculous. I've seen plenty of poorly made holes that border on abuse due to the way the water hazard is used. But even then, they need to be well designed holes.
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3-4 water holes per 18 is about the limit IMO, at least in terms of holes where water is clearly going to be a factor. As with any design element, moderation is key.