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Choke down on a 3 wood, use your putting stroke, determine your line and speed... let it rip.

glad to hear its helping, It will take a little more then it will become second nature. 

ODYSSEY AI#1 MINI GOLF - HOME COURSE 
 
Got in some Mini Golf today, I played the hall way course today with all the snow outside. Conditions were random, teeing off from 15ft throw rug, then the ceramic tile fairway onto the green plush carpet to the hole. I did encounter a couple walls as you will see in the first video but was dialed in on the second. 
I used 3 different balls today, Titleist PROV1 - Taylormade Tour Response and the Kirkland, the PROV1 and Tour response felt great but the Kirkland was clicky and felt more plastic than usual, going forward I'm removing the Kirkland from all tests.  I quickly was able to gauge the speed by the end of the first video then the second had 1 miss hit. 
I'm going to say that the Odyssey AI#1 putter is many steps above my current putter!
Hope you all enjoy! Stay warm and yes you can remove the snow with your hand on your putting line.
 

Dicks Sporting Goods has a special clearance store and website where there are limited sizes items etc. I was able to find some Golf polos and shoes. Give it a look!
the site is ---           www.goingoinggone.com 
Here is the website when I searched "GOLF" and this is the current results in the link.
https://www.goinggoinggone.com/search/SearchDisplay?storeId=15108&catalogId=12301&searchTerm=golf&pageNumber=0&filterFacets=facetCatgroup%3A12301_201051%2F12301_201478
 
Hope you find some good deals!
 

You can shovel a line to the hole and voila - more putts made and less dispersion!

This is what I'm dealing with the past 2 days, and now snowing again. More indoor putting to come, with breaking putts.

That's awesome looking forward to the next 5000

Choke down on a 3 wood, use your putting stroke, determine your line and speed... let it rip.

The 5K felt terrible so I put it back on the shelf immediately.   The Ai is so smooth and I didn’t feel like I needed to hit the ball as hard.  

That's awesome looking forward to the next 5000

That's awesome looking forward to the next 5000

This is what I'm dealing with the past 2 days, and now snowing again. More indoor putting to come, with breaking putts.

Choke down on a 3 wood, use your putting stroke, determine your line and speed... let it rip.

glad to hear its helping, It will take a little more then it will become second nature. 

Choke down on a 3 wood, use your putting stroke, determine your line and speed... let it rip.

glad to hear its helping, It will take a little more then it will become second nature. 

Who did you get Bigfoot to teleport in for the photo! LOL, Now I got to go watch the Finding bigfoot show.

Putting with different soft cover balls vs 2 prototype balls.  Not sure if you can tell the sound difference from the video,  but I definitely could. The softer covers definitely come off the face hotter.

Local store had a milled insert (finally!), but it was backwards (right handed) and a different model (2 CH), they also had white insert model.  I had to putt a few just for feel/sound…can’t speak to anything else.  The milled insert was firmer and had a more audible click.  Likely comes down to a personal preference…for me, I like the white insert better.

Is that adhesive under that putter?

Changes take time, but seems to be working so far, keep up the good work.
For me, it is easy to fall into bad habits in both putting stroke and full swings.

The arc reduction.  I got in my own head once I was able see putting on video. Everyone has an arc either in the back or forward part of the strokes.  To me, mine was "over exaggerated " and unnecessary. Also it eliminated SOME of my push.
Thanks Buck,  great tips, but definitely took quite some adjusting on my part to even get to that point. Naturally wanted to keep elbows in and had to think and adjust each time. I feel better about it now too.
Putts were from 4'- 35' some were on fringe too.
Appreciate the feedback everyone.

I know I’m changing the subject here but I found the pictures of the 5K - 7 and the Ai 7 side by side.  The 7 milled is smaller than the Ai 7 and last year’s 7 db being the smallest I believe.  I hit the Ai DW again tonight and the 5K -7.  I like the larger footprint of the 5K but couldn’t seem to identify where the strikes were on it.   At least with the Ai I knew where I hit the ball on the face of the putter.  

Past weekend weather:
- Saturday: 65 and breezy = no golf 
- Sunday: 60 = no golf
- Monday: 40 and windy/snow/rain = golf! 

The test must go on…not many people out, but I had some friends with me

The Ai-ONE was working well today…total of 30 putts, no 3 putts.  Only 1 hole was “stressful” with a 4 footer for the second putt (first was a downhill big breaker that ran out a bit).  I feel like every putt I stand over has a chance to go in.  Still feel super comfortable with this putter this far into the test.
For the community, how would you play this shot…off the green with 3’ of fringe (uphill) and then downhill green 7’ to hole breaking right to left: 

I had this situation today, hit a very nice approach that carried long…was 15’ farther back and tried to get too cute with the chip and left this shot.  Previously I would pull a wedge and chip this just because my putting can be iffy at times (at least with my prior gamer).  Gave the 7S a shot today and sunk the putt.  Ball came off the face cleanly and rolled through the fringe nicely.  Will likely be rethinking my shots around the green with the 7S in my hand!
The conditions were wet and muddy throughout the round…the white part of the cover can get a little dirty, but has wiped clean for me so far. 

That's awesome looking forward to the next 5000