Bernhard Langer on Reading Greens (Video)

I recognize I do a variety of comparable posts on reading vegetables, but it's some thing all of us need to examine. I do a number of posts, in hopes that at least certainly one of them will "click" with you and make it less difficult with a view to keep in mind the important thing points.

This video is from GC's PGA Tour Champions Learning Center on Wednesday. Bernhard Langer gives you the basics of reading greens. The site won't let me embed the video, so you can use the link in the previous sentence or click the photo below to go to the GC page.

A brief precis of what Bernhard says:

• shiny grass = grass growing away from you = putting downgrain
• dull grass = grass growing toward you = putting against the grain
• rough edge of the hole = grass growing away from hole (Bernhard is showing the rough edge in the photo above)
• smooth edge of hole = grass growing toward hole

And of course, if you're putting against the grain then you have to hit the ball harder.

Yes, the ones are the basics. Not complex, but we nevertheless have a tendency to get stressed when we attempt to examine greens. Hopefully this video will help you hold the fundamentals clear in your thoughts.