Which brings us to the chart below.
Controlling your face angle is a hugely important part of putting. The most important part, according to many teachers, and the chart helps illustrate why.
Golf balls are 1.68″ wide; the hole itself is 4.25″ wide. Odyssey crunched the numbers, and assuming you start your putt on the correct line, from inside of 10′ you’ve got about a degree on either side of zero of wiggle room. In other words, if you hit a putt with the face one degree closed, one degree open, or anywhere in-between, you’ll likely make the putt (that’s what the green squares indicate).
When you start wavering around two degrees on either side, you get into the maybe (yellow) category. Once you start hitting putts that are either 2.5 degrees or more open or closed, you’re in the miss zone. That’s what those red numbers mean. You don’t want to be in the red zone.
Interesting stuff. Study up on it below:
