Looking for info on famous putts

[Michael Wolf]

A friend is having an artificial putting green installed in his backyard. He would like to have one or more of his hole locations recreate a famous putt from professional golf. Can anyone help him with the specifics of a famous putt's break and elevation change?


(his green will be 15'x30')


Thanks,
Michael

[JESII]

Interesting.


Nicklaus in ‘75 on #16 at Augusta


Steve in ‘84? On #18 at St Andrew’s


Bobby Jones made a putt at Winged Foot #18 in the 20’s

[mike_malone]

Rahm’s putt after Johnson’s.

[Rick Lane]

Payne at Pinehurst

[Michael Wolf]

Jack's putt on 16 at Augusta will be too much elevation change to replicate on a backyard green. The Bobby Jones putt at Winged Foot was the first one I thought of.


The tricky part will be finding info not just on how much a putt breaks or how much it rises or falls, but where along the line it starts it's movement. Others can weigh in, but I've always thought putts that break early are much harder to read than putts that break late?


Michael

[Michael Wolf]

Payne at Pinehurst

Any idea on the specifics?

[JMEvensky]

Phil Mickelson (2004?) at Augusta.


Sandy Lyle (1988) at Augusta.


Nick Faldo (1989?) at Augusta.

[Dan_Callahan]

There's really only one: Justin Leonard at the Country Club.

[Peter Pallotta]

Jack's 'Maybe...Yes, sir!' putt on 17 in '86, courtesy of Vern Lunquist. (It proved to be the winning putt, no?)

And it should be replicable at a home putting green -- I don't remember it as more than 12-14 feet, with not much break at all.

Plus, with Vern's call so readily available, you can record it and whenever a friend hits a good putt of roughly similar length you can hit play and get the 'Maybe...Yes, sir!!' effect right at home.

[Michael Felton]

Couple of Tiger options - the one on 18 at Torrey to get into the play off with Rocco. The one on 16(?) at Hazeltine(?) in the playoff against Bob May where he walked it in while pointing. Also that one from the President's Cup where they played silly buggers with the video and made it look like he was shaking hands while it was still half way there.


If you mean a famous green, 16 and 18 at Augusta would be the obvious choices, but I think 16 is not really replicable. You could probably create 18 the ledge where the Sunday pin always is, but it's going to be hard to make it recognizable. Problem is you need extreme to make it recognizable, but that's tough in a 15'x30' back yard green.

[Kalen Braley]

Looks like Jim Nantz has the setup figured out.

Billy H hitting a HIO and supposedly Phil has hit one here too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XH3iy2FVo

[Ira Fishman]

“Better than most”.


But for that size green, Payne Stewart at Pinehurst.


Ira

[Michael Wolf]

Lots of good suggestions. Just a reminder that in order to implement one my friend will need to know the green specifications in pretty good detail.

[Dan Kelly]

Jack's 'Maybe...Yes, sir!' putt on 17 in '86, courtesy of Vern Lunquist. (It proved to be the winning putt, no?)

And it should be replicable at a home putting green -- I don't remember it as more than 12-14 feet, with not much break at all.

Plus, with Vern's call so readily available, you can record it and whenever a friend hits a good putt of roughly similar length you can hit play and get the 'Maybe...Yes, sir!!' effect right at home.

https://youtu.be/6X9-LRZNM60


Yes, sir!

[Thomas Dai]

Does the famous putt have to be one that went in? A few famous ones, even very short ones, didn't.
atb

[MKrohn]

Does the famous putt have to be one that went in? A few famous ones, even very short ones, didn't.
atb

I thought of this as well, who can make the Doug Sanders putt?

[Rick Lane]

Payne at Pinehurst

Any idea on the specifics?

Maybe call PH and ask?  I bet they know……eg, 15 feet, x percent slope, curves one ball right…..something like that….

[Ronald Montesano]

Tiger and Bob were at Valhalla, not Hazeltine. Rich Beem took down Tiger at Hazeltine.


Bamabearcat, none of us reads very well here, hence the lack of geometry that you requested.


I saw recently that Pinehurst received a request from a dude for the Payne Stewart hole location on 18, on the day that said dude was on the tee sheet on the deuce. Pinehurst said YESSIR and cut the hole there for him.


I would think that the architects and the green keepers among this lot would be the ones to give you the measurements you need. The rest of us just prattle on.

[jim_lewis]

Ben Crenshaw's put on #10 at ANGC in 1984.

[Will Lozier]

Jack's 'Maybe...Yes, sir!' putt on 17 in '86, courtesy of Vern Lunquist. (It proved to be the winning putt, no?)

And it should be replicable at a home putting green -- I don't remember it as more than 12-14 feet, with not much break at all.

Plus, with Vern's call so readily available, you can record it and whenever a friend hits a good putt of roughly similar length you can hit play and get the 'Maybe...Yes, sir!!' effect right at home.

This is great!!

[mike_beene]

With the size a copy of part of 17 at Pebble. The putt I am thinking of is the Gary Woodland US Open putt which he pitched from the green. The middle ridge would make a nice back yard green plus Watson pitch in could be set up also

[Rob Hallford]

I'd assemble a few candidates and then see which have green reading books available (Strakaline seems to have detailed slopes that would get you the info needed).  Payne at Pinehurst #2 is a great idea.  Anything from Augusta (or some of the US Open sites beyond PH) would be hard to get detailed info on.