CHAPTER13

DEVELOP YOUR ARTISTIC SENSES (FEEL, TOUCH, GREEN-READING)

感觉与果岭阅读

13.1 Touch and Feel Are Different （感和觉）

Many golfers use the two terms interchangeably without thinking about it. I think we need separate terms to describe these distinct attributes. Very simply, I liken touch on the greens to knowing what to do, and feel to knowing how to do it. With these distinctions it becomes possible to focus on and measure your touch and feel abilities, I’ll discuss how to improve touch first and the feel later in this chapter.

大多数球手经常换用这两个词，我觉得有必要分别来描述这两个词。“感”是知道做什么，“觉”是知道怎么去做。有了这样的描述，我们就能分别对这两种能力进行关注和测试。我先说如何提高“感”，这一章的后面将会解释“觉”。

Touch	Feel
Touch is knowing WHAT IS REQUIIRED for this putt:	Feel is knowing HOW TO SUPPLY what is needed for the putt:
* What is the length of the putt?	* How does this practice swing look for this putt?
* What is the speed of the green’s surface	* How does this swing feel?
* What is the roll: uphill, downhill, flat, or some combination?	* How far will this swing roll the ball if I use it?
* What size swing (what power) is required?	* How perfect is this preview stroke?

 

感	觉
感是知道这一推需要知道的内容	“觉”是知道如何提供这一推所需要的内容
长度	这样的试挥合适吗？
果岭速度	感受试挥
果岭坡度	想象这样的挥杆会带来的结果
上杆高度（力度）	比较试推与预期的效果

13.2 Sharpen Your Touch （锐“感”）

Good touch is knowing somewhere in your mind’s eye what is needed to roll a good putt. it’s knowing what the putt will require – how far， how much up – or downhill – and what it will look like as it rolls toward the hole. And it’s knowing what the stroke that will produce that roll looks like before any of these things happen.

Your knowledge of all these was good, you have good touch. But even if you know perfectly well what was needed, they may or may not have the proper feel to produce that perfect stroke.

“感”是脑获取这一推需要的情况和数据。多远，坡度，想象中的球滚动线，从积存在脑中的数据经验库中找出类似的一推，想象这一推用在当下的效果。这是好“感”！但是即使你拥有了好“感”，也不一定能推出你所想要的推杆，这是“觉”。

*** Distance （距离）

To have good putting touch, you first must know how long your putts are. While you can be fairly accurate just by looking at and guessing the length of a putt, your subconscious needs much more accurate information. And there are times when your eyes can deceive you, times when things appear to be different from reality.

首先要知道推杆的距离。有些人瞄一眼就能对距离做出大概的判断，但是我们的下意识需要更精准的信息。而且，眼睛会有看花眼的时候。

It doesn’t matter if you learn to recognize your putt distances in feet, steps, yards. Any measuring system that lets you accurately judge and differentiate lengths consistently from one putt to another, from practice green to golf course, and from one year to the next, will do.

任何一种度量距离的标准都是可以的，英尺，步子，码数。关键在于坚持使用，即使在练习果岭上的练习也一样要度量距离。

*** Triangle Drill(三角练习法)

This is my favorite touch-development drill. Pick three holes. Walk from the first hole to the second, count your steps and determine the distance. Walk from the second hole to the third and repeat your distance measurement. Then walk from the third hole back to the first, completing the triangle. You now know the three distances of 12 different putts. First putts around the triangle in a clockwise direction, from the outside of each hole. Then putt again around in the clockwise direction, but this time from the inside of each hole. After these six putts, play the triangle counterclockwise from both inside and outside of the triangle. You’ve tried 12 different putts, four of each distance by walking only three distances you can test you touch to sense the subtle differences required for each of the four putt situations to each hole.

在练习果岭上选择三个洞，绕着三个洞分别度量洞洞之间的距离，然后回到第一个洞。现在有了三种距离12个不同的推杆可以练习。顺时针绕洞从洞的外侧推向下一个洞，然后从洞的内侧推向下一个洞，这样是6次；接下来是逆时针方向分别洞内洞外的6次。这样每种距离四次，细微的差异，提升“感”的能力。

*** Edge-of-Green Drill（果岭纵推）

Putting to the far edge of the practice green is a good drill for a course you don’t know. It will both acquaint you with the speed of the greens and warm up your stroke mechanics. Take three balls and walk off the distance from one edge of the green to another. Putt that distance back to where you started from, trying to roll each putt exactly to the edge of the green without touching it. As you walk to your three balls, notice if you were putting with or against the grain then putt the balls back in the opposite direction, over the same distance to the edge of the green, to see if you can detect any differences caused by the grain. Doing this several times won’t take long and will adjust your touch for the unfamiliar greens.

从果岭的一边到另一边的长推，对于熟悉新的果岭，查看果岭速度和推杆热身很有效。从果岭的一侧推三颗球到刚才自己站的果岭的另一边，尽量推到果岭边，感受速度；然后往回走，查看草纹，再把球推回刚才推杆的地方，观察草纹的影响程度。这样来回做几次，能够让自己的“感”尽快适应陌生的果岭。

*** Draw-Back （后退游戏）

“Draw-Back” is the best games of all for developing and refining touch for putts longer than 35 feet. Because the odds of making long putts are so poor, the real skill in lag putting is rolling your putts consistently close to the hole, taking the pressure off your short putting and eliminating any chance of three-putting. And Draw-Back is designed to develop exactly that skill.

The reward in Draw-Back comes in lagging your first putt close enough to the hole so that after drawing it back 34 inches, the next putt is significantly less than six feet, so the probability of make it is great. You can play Draw-Back by yourself, but you will learn far more quickly if you play nice-hole games in competition with good lag putters and with something at stake.

对于35英尺以上的长推，后退游戏是最好的提高“感”的练习。长推总是一个问题，我们需要的是尽可能接近洞口，减少第二推的压力和三推的可能。后退游戏正是为了这个而设计的。

后退游戏第一推尽量接近洞口，那么在退回34英寸后，第二推就不会多于6英尺，所以，推进的可能就大了。可以一个人做这个练习，但是如果和一个长推高手一起比上9洞，并且小有赌注，进步可能会更大。

*** Safety-Drawback（安全区与后退）

“Safety-Drawback” is a drill that you can play as a game designed to sharpen your touch on putts of less than 35 feet. The purpose is to exercise the ability of your mind’s eye to recognize the stroke needed to produce the perfect putting speed and distance to optimize your chances of holing putts in this range. To develop your touch on these “makable” putts, you want to play Safety-Drawback to many different holes. It’s the judging of your speed and distance result after each putt that teaches your mind’s eye the proper touch for the future. This is the touch you want to carry over into your putting for makable-range putts up to 35 feet.

‘安全区与后退’游戏是用来提高小于35英尺推杆的“感”的练习，目的是锻炼大脑对这个范围所需力度和距离的判断能力，以此来提高入洞概率。为了提高这些能一推入洞的推杆的“感”，需要经过无数不同情况洞的推杆训练，从每一次失误和正确来习得正确的“感”。这个“感”是为35英尺以上推杆做准备的。

*** Double-Safety-Drawback（安全区与加倍后退）

This is the ultimate pressure drill for practicing touch on putts between 10 and 30 feet, because the penalty for rolling first putts the wrong speed is so severe.

This game also emphasizes the skill of holing 6- to 10-footers, putt you often face whenever you play. It’s best to play Double-safety-drawback to a new hole every time: This makes your mind’s eye focus on a new putt, a new distance, and the touch for a new stroke each time.

Finally, remember that it is of the utmost importance that you use your routine and ritual during all of these games to maximize on-course benefits later.

这是10-30英尺内“感”的压力训练方法，因为在这个游戏规则下，第一推的失误惩罚性是很大的，这个游戏还能训练6-10英尺这个在场上经常碰到的距离。‘安全区域加倍后退’最好每次都是一个新的洞，新的挥杆，新的距离，新的“感”。

有一点非常重要，就是在进行以上游戏时，一定要每次完成routine 和仪式，因为这是为场上的推杆做的最好准备。

*** Rules of the Game （游戏规则）

==Drawback（DB）：

1.       Play for putts of 35 feet or greater.

2.       prior to each putt( except first), ball must be drawn back straight away from hole 34 inches, from spot previous putt stopped (use putter length – usually 35 inches – to measure 34-inches drawback distance).

==后退游戏（DW）

1.       推杆距离35英尺或以上。

2.       第一推没推进的球，必须从原来的停球点退回34英寸的距离，也就是一根推杆的长度。

== Safety-drawback (SDB):

1.       Play for putts of 15 to 35 feet.

2.       First putts coming to rest in “safe-Zone” are exempt from drawback and can be putted out from where they stopped.

3.       First putts which stop outside “safe-zone” must be drawn back 34 inches straight away from hole before putting again.

4.       All putts after second putt must be drawn back 34 inches before putting.

== 安全区与后退（SDB）

1.       推杆距离15-35英尺。

2.       第一推到达“安全区“的球可以免于退回，从停球处推第二推。

3.       第一推在“安全区”之外的球，必须退回34英寸，再开始推。

4.       如果第二推没能推进，球必须退回34英寸，再推。

== Double-Safety-Drawback (DSDB):

1.       Play for putts between 10 and 30 feet.

2.       Rules similar to SDB, except when first putt stops in “Safe-Zone”, it must be drawn back 34 inches prior to putting.

3.       If first putt misses “Safe-Zone”, and on all putts after second putts, balls must be drawn back double (68inches) prior to putting.

== 安全区与加倍后退

1.       10-30码的推杆。

2.       规则同于SDB, 如果第一推球停在“安全区”，第二推必须把球往后放一根推杆的距离。

3.       如果第一推，球没能停在“安全区”，那么第二推以后的所有推，都必须把球往回放两根推杆的距离。

*** Chi-putting （切推）

Every golfer should run the “Chi-putt Test” to determine the distance at which the chi-putt becomes a better choice than putting. The chip-putt is a stroke make with a putter but utilizing a chipping grip, stance, posture, swing, and follow-through.

When you have a long putt that you will likely leave short, don’t putt it, but stand tall and chi-putt it. You already know how to chi-putt: Just chip the ball using your putter. The only question is, at what distance will you chi-put better than you putt? To find it, run the Chi-putt test:

Walk off distance from 50 to 100 feet and mark them with tees in increments of 10 feet. At 50 feet, putt three balls, then chi-putt three. See which technique rolls your balls closer to the hole on the average. Move to 60 feet and do the same. Repeat each remaining distance.

切推是采用切球的握杆、站位站姿和挥杆送杆，用推杆来完成长距离推杆。长距离的推杆，使用切推比较好一些，通过切推测试来找到自己的切推起步距离。

长距离的推杆，由于推杆挥杆动作的幅度限制，往往会推短，可以改用我们已经很熟练的切杆动作——切推来完成。通过切推测试来找到自己的切推起步距离。

从50英尺到100英尺，每10英尺放一个tee，然后在每个距离，分别对同一个目标推杆和切推三个球，比较两组球的平均效果。后面的距离也以同样的方法测试。

At some point, chi-putting will become easier and produce better results than putting. This becomes your chi-putt distance for the day. Repeat the test on several different days, finding the average distance from which you consistently chi-putt better than your putt. Therefore, use the chi-putt technique on the course for all level putts greater than this length.

If 70 feet is your switch-over distance on level putts, you probably will find the switch distance for the uphill putts and downhill putts. Try chi-putting in all these situations to get a feel for it.

某一个距离开始，切推比推杆的效果要好，这个距离就是今天测得的切推起步距离。在不同的日子重复这个测试，找到切推起步距离的平均值，把这个值作为切推的起步距离，在场上有比这个距离更远时，就可使用切推方式。

如果70英尺是切推的起步距离，那么上坡和下坡将分别有不同的起步距离，在不同的坡度情况下测试，找到最好的感觉。

*** Phony-Hole Drill (便携洞杯)

The “Phony-Hole Drill”is one of my favorites for working on touch, especially when the putting green is crowded. It utilizes a device I carry in my bag at all time, the Phony-Hole, a thin, flexible circle of black rubber. Just smaller than the diameter of a real hole. The Phony-Hole almost looks like a real hole when lies on the surface of a green, is thin enough to let putts roll smoothly over it, and comes in handy when the practice green is full of golfers and there is no open hole available. By throwing down a Phony-Hole, you create you own target to putt to, and work on speed control by seeing if the putts you “make” (those that roll over the Phony-Hole) stop near 17inches behind the hole.

“便携洞杯”是我最喜欢的提高“感”的办法，尤其是在练习果岭满是球手的情况下。所需要的设备，一片灵巧的比真实洞杯稍小一些的橡胶薄圆片，我总是随身带着。放在果岭上的橡胶圆片很像一个真实的洞杯，因为很薄，所以几乎不会对滚过的球产生阻力。当练习果岭上的洞杯不够使用时，就派上用场了。可以把便携洞杯按在自己想要的地方，而且可以看到自己的球速是否让球过了洞杯而又停在17英寸之内。

*** Putting over Level Changes （多层果岭）

The best way to adjust for putting over a level change on a green – say, from one tier to another – is to not adjust your touch at all. Instead, imagine a hole behind or in front of the real hole to a level green. If you are changing levels uphill, imagine the imaginary hole is farther away; if your putt changes downhill, imagine the hole is close to you. Learn to estimate how much these level changes effect your normal roll distance, and then learn to see your imaginary hole at that adjusted distance. It’s much easier to imagine another hole than it is to adjust you touch for distance, which you’ve worked so hard to develop.

Train yourself to see imaginary holes by using the Phony-Hole on two-tier practice greens. Lay the Phony-Hole in front of (or behind) the real cup and imagine you are putting on a level surface to it when you take your practice stroke looks to determine your preview stroke. It will take a few minutes of practice to learn how far behind or ahead of the real hole the Phony-Hole should be placed to get good results.

有些双层果岭的距离判断，不是要调整“感”，想象另一个洞杯会更好一些。如果是推向上一层的果岭，就把想象的洞杯安在真实的洞杯后面，如果是推向下一层的果岭，就把想象的洞杯往自己的方向挪。学会估计上一层或者下一层对距离的影响，然后把想象的洞杯置于那个位置。想象一个新的洞杯比调整好不容易成型的判断通常果岭推杆距离的“感”更容易一些。

可以用便携洞杯在双层果岭上来做这个练习。把便携洞杯放在真实洞杯的前或后，然后想象在水平的果岭上推这个距离，来决定上杆高度。几分钟后，就能学会大概要把便携洞杯放在真实洞杯前后的什么位置来得到最大的真实洞杯进洞率。