Howdy Folks. Been away for a while. I recently retired at the end of October, and have spent most of November in Texas visiting my older brother. Back home in sunny Las Vegas now. After few hundred miles of snow/ice on the road, the desert is a welcome sight.

While in Texas I learned a new trick from another golfer that deals with putting and trying to figure out the break of a not so straight putt. He would look in the hole before he set up to putt. I finally asked him why he did that, and he told me he was reading the break near the hole. What he was looking at was the top rim of the plactic insert that was in the hole. If the distance from the top of the green to the top of the insert was equal completely 360* around the top of the insert, there was little or no break. If there was more dirt showing between the top of the insert, and the top of the green, on part of the hole, then this was the high side of the hole.

It's a little bit of info that could help. He did hole alot of putts, and I did notice that on some holes there actually was a difference in the amount of dirt showing around the circumference of the insert, and the top of the green.

Obviously it depends on how the greens keeper cuts the hole, and if the insert is actually touching the bottom of the hole. I asked him how he discovered this tid bit of information, and he told me he read about it in the book titled  "Short Game For Dummies". I got a bit of a grin on my face on that answer, but then again, as I stated before, he did hole a lot of putts. Might be something to it.

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