Speaking of modern equipment...
I recently got one of those huge, counterbalanced mallet putters with the heavier shaft and grip. I've always used the "mindless" putter from off the green, in recent years using it probably to excess.
But man with one of those 400 gram clubhead, 600+ gram total weight, high-MOI monster putters I don't even have to put the ball back in my stance. Just a dead stock, normal putting stroke that's a bit longer than usual will run the green through 10-15 yards of fairway cut and up an embankment onto a slightly elevated green. It's quite remarkable, actually, how big a stroke I can make and still put a solid roll on the ball every time.
Basically unless there's more than a couple feet of longer grass at some point in the ball's path or I've got to hit the ball over a bunker it would be foolish to hit a chip or bump and run shot from with 20, 25, 30 yards of the hole. Even when the ball is sitting half buried in Bermuda rough a few feet off the green, again a pretty much stock putting stroke will pop it out and can be judged reasonably well for pace.
Funny how a club designed to simplify and error-proof making short putts turns out to act like the world's greatest "chip-o" club!