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**AlistDakisa** · 06-29-2009, 05:11 PM

Full disclosure - my family says watching me read a green is painful.

The greens here are typically bent grass. People tell me that you can see the grain depending on the time of day. I don't see it though. Perhaps another New Englander can answer better than I can.

When I started playing, I lived on the "break line" between bent and bermuda greens. Everything north was bent and south was bermuda. Consequently, I had to learn to read the "grain" when we played bermuda. We never considered that bent had any grain. I suppose when you see the heavy grain effect on bermuda, bent doesn't seem nearly as bad. Whenever I read a green, I am looking for where the water runs off to establish the direction of break. I imagine pouring a cup of water out on the highest part of the green and seeing where it flows. That helps me establish the slope and tells me my aimpoint for my putt. Works for me.

06-29-2009, 05:11 PM	#15
AlistDakisa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	Full disclosure - my family says watching me read a green is painful. The greens here are typically bent grass. People tell me that you can see the grain depending on the time of day. I don't see it though. Perhaps another New Englander can answer better than I can. When I started playing, I lived on the "break line" between bent and bermuda greens. Everything north was bent and south was bermuda. Consequently, I had to learn to read the "grain" when we played bermuda. We never considered that bent had any grain. I suppose when you see the heavy grain effect on bermuda, bent doesn't seem nearly as bad. Whenever I read a green, I am looking for where the water runs off to establish the direction of break. I imagine pouring a cup of water out on the highest part of the green and seeing where it flows. That helps me establish the slope and tells me my aimpoint for my putt. Works for me.
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