Pulling back the trackball
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You write… “Only just recently did I learn of a big mistake I was making that was surely costing me several hit greens. I had no idea that the machine reads only your initial pullback of the trackball, and not any adjustments you try to make after it unless you reset your approach. I have always been in the habit of pulling the ball back once, and then pulling it back several more times until I have the angle I want. Little did I know that it only reads the first pullback and what I was doing had no effect at all! ”
I have my own machine, so I get to practice everything. So I tested this theory. I can honestly tell you that the information that you posted is incorrect.
Now, I didn’t practice this to perfection, but my hypothesis is that the computer takes an average of how far back you pull the club in one direction, then how far you pull it in another direction.
I started (on the practice course) by shooting a full C-2 and watched the curve. Then I tried pulling back on the C until the club was at belt high and finished pulling back on the B, the forward shot was at 2. The ball only curved approx. half as much as the full C-2.
I then tested the theory a little further before writing you. Try this one, it’s cool. Pull back on the C until the club is at the bottom of the short sleeved shirt arm, then switch an finish pulling back on the A. Shoot at the 2 and the ball will go straight. Thus, this is the reason I believe that it’s averaging the pull back.
I don’t see where any other this is usefull in shot shaping, but I figured that since you’ve put so much work into your website that you wouldn’t want to be giving out wrong information.
That last line in your article is funny, in that I’ve now played over 4000 games and just tonight learned how the trackball worked. Boy, did I ever waste a lot of games and money.
here is the best way to get maximum cut, either A-1 or C-3… used mostly to drive as far as you can to attempt to drive a long green, or just to make sure you are applying enough cut on on approach shot.
pull back straight just enough to barely move the club head away from the ball. it will look like the club head is still touching the ball, but you will see it move just a little.
then, pull it as far to the side as you need. for a c-3 pull it all the way to 3 o:clock. if you see the club moving slowly and it takes 3 pulls of the track ball to get to full backswing, you know for sure you have applied maximum cut. the first tiny movement back doesn’t affect the cut. the beauty of this is you can cut it as far as possibly instead of it reading that you are switching clubs.
beware of doing this when you are pulling to A…! if you pull back slightly, and then pull it fast to 9 o:clock, the club can go half way back then forward all in one motion and your shot will go about 10 yards… not good. unless you are 10 yards from the hole, then i would like to see that. lol
when doing this on an A-1 shot, make sure you pull slowly out to 9:oclock and that your hand doesn’t leave the trackball till the club gets up to waist level. then take your hand off the trackball and pull the rest of the way to 9 o:clock.
when you watch the pros play, you will see some of them do this, but it is such a fast movement it is hard to see if you aren’t looking for it. it is all one motion, but the initial movement is just a hair straight back, then they full cut to the side.