Rivers Edge Golf Club – Putting Pro Tip With Dan Miller

Now, in addition to the tricky par-5 ninth hole called Arnie’s Revenge, River’s Edge is also known for some subtly tricky Bermuda grass greens. So we decided to get some tips from River’s Edge head golf pro Dan Miller.

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Another must is knowing how to read putts, and Dan Miller says at River’s Edge it is all about the dark and light shading of the grain. So if we’re looking out this way, it looks fairly dark. You see some spots where they’re lighter in color than others. So the darker spots is going to indicate you’re going to be more into the grain in those areas. Like if we’re going out this way, we’re going to be into the grain more often. So you’ve got to hit it harder. You’re going to have to hit it harder.

If we stand on the opposite side and look this way, everything should look a lot more lighter in color. So that means the ball is going to be down grain. If we look back this way, we see it’s a lot more lighter in color. You see some of the darker spots, but as a whole, it’s a lot more lighter in color. That’s going to be down grain. So our ball, we’re not going to have to hit it as hard as we would if we were having to come back the other direction. So the darker the grain, the more uphill. And the lighter the grain is more downhill and quicker.

Dan showed us the subtlety. It’s still going that way, but I think that the friction, I mean, it’s really tough to tell sometimes. But I mean, this putt looks like it should, just based on the slope and the contours of the grain, it should fall more right to left. But with the grain kind of being up, I guess, face down this way, it’s going to hold it up a little bit more than you would anticipate. So if I’m just looking at this, I’m thinking maybe right edge, and it should fall into the left. But with the grain kind of, I think, into us and kind of going that way, it’s going to hold it up a little bit more. It just falls slightly. It doesn’t fall as much as you think it’s going to. So if you overplay the break, you could find yourself kind of hanging it out there just a little too far.

So you’re a grainiac. I wouldn’t quite say grainiac, but I do take it into consideration.

Now Dan says you can look for the shadings and the grain subtleties on the putting green before you hit the first tee:

And then that should give you an idea of what some of the holes out on the course will do. And once you get out on the course, it’s really easy here to putt, correct? It’s the easiest thing in the world. Trust me, these greens are tricky.

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