Has anyone been practicing on a bullseye and noticed an improvement in there (sic) putting?
I've had one for about 8 months...and yes...
First thing you will notice after using the bullseye for a couple weeks is...
You put worse... because your confidence is shot
On the course you start shorting your puts off the baskets...
The basket on the bullseye is short, and as such, you get lazy on keeping the putts up.
about a month in you notice that you are "pro-siding" your puts (the right side of the chains for a RHBH), because the bullseye won't catch anything on the opposite side.
Confidence is going up because you are making more on the course, and getting comfortable with missing at home.
2 months...you rarely miss left to right, but on innova disc catchers... you are bogey banding a lot...
because there is no outer ring on the bullseye, you have a little more leeway on your high puts to go in.
3 Months... you peak... you never miss...(Seemingly), the baskets on the course look HUGE... especially after a week of not playing a course.
4 months... you flatline... can't make a damn thing...because now your depth perception is set to the bullseye...so anything outside of the circle is either way high, or way low...but right on line!
5 months... you are back to where you started skill wise...
6 months... gaining more and more consistency... NOW is where the basket really starts making you improve...this is when you are improving your foundation...
In my experience anyway....
NOW
I rarely....and I mean... RARELY miss the basket completely (left to right) on any putt... even outside of the circle...
I may chain out on one side or the other... but I'm hitting metal if I'm using my putting stance...
I still short baskets (my biggest issue... *that's what she said) occasionally... but in practice I don't count anything that just creeps over the lip.
I think the bullseye is great tool to help improve... but you have to give it time to work, and you have to know it's quirks... ie... where it can help... and where it can actually hurt your ga
me.
It's amazing for left to right accuracy...and confidence (once you start seeing the course baskets look like giant trash barrels.
but getting completely used to it, is just as bad as never having used it...IMO
because it isn't a full size basket, there will always be the times where a perfect put, on the bullseye, won't go in on a course basket....