The Lumpy Donut

A condition cause by golfers on
every green in the world has been
titled the "Lumpy Donut", it
occurs with the first group of
golfers in the morning and is
there the remainder of the day.

Think about this; a normal
foursome will put about 500
footprints on the grass around the
hole; it takes two hours for a
footprint to bounce back to its
standing length.

In that amount of time however,
thousand more footprints have been
added to this green.

This has caused the grass and the
soil to be squished, flattened and
stomped on nearly everywhere on
the green. The only place not
affected by this phenomenon is
directly around the cup.

Golfers seldom step within a foot
of the cup, what this creates is a
two foot area around the cup where
the grass has not been touched, in
this area the grass is a little
higher than the rest of the grass
on the green.

This is what creates the "Lumpy
Donut" or a raised circle of grass
with the cup in the middle!

When a ball rolls toward the hole
it finds a man made hazard, as it
slows down to enter the hole, it
suddenly comes upon this ramp in
the grass, which tends to make it
roll off and to the side.

No matter how strong your putt is,
the "Lumpy Donut" can throw it
off, maybe not by much, but by
enough to make you miss your putt.

The way to deal with this is to
strike your ball with enough speed
that if it rolled directly over
the hole, and didnt fall in, it
would stop 17 inches on the other
side of the hole.

This is the perfect way to deal
with the lumpy donut, enough speed
to get the ball up the ramp, but
slow enough to allow it to fall
into the cup.