David Leadbetter did a short article for Golf Digest called Rollerball on how to putt from off the green. It's a very short article with diagrams and a video.
There's one tip specifically that I assume you will want to glean from his submit. David suggests hitting the ball 10% to 15% harder than a normal putt to be sure you get it there. Personally, I usually discover those percent figures confusing when I'm on the direction, so here is a less complicated manner you may want to attempt:
For every 3 paces you need to roll the ball through the "rough," matter a further pace to get your distance.Example: Let's say you pace off your putt and it's 12 paces from the ball to the hole, but 5 of those paces are off the green. I'd add 2 paces -- I'm rounding off here -- to compensate for the 5 paces that are in the rough, and try to hit my putt about 14 paces.
Look, there is no person easy formula for this because the grass on each route is specific. You'll need to learn how to regulate for the kind and top of grass to your course, and of direction downhill putts roll farther with less effort than uphill putts. But this is a great area to begin -- the greater hard you need to putt thru, the more difficult you may hit the ball -- and it is an awful lot simpler than calculating possibilities for each putt.
To adjust: If you're hitting the ball a little too far this way, add fewer paces; if you don't hit it far enough, add more paces. But this is a simple way to get a ballpark figure.
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