![]() If the shaft appears to the right of the cup, the slope you are on should take the ball from right to left. If the shaft also covers the hole, the putt should be straight – the ground you are standing on should be level. Hold the putter up, as described above between thumb and forefinger, towards the end of the grip if you can, covering the ball with the shaft. Stand about 10 feet or so behind the ball (maybe further back for longer putts) so you are looking directly through the ball to the hole in a straight line. You need to gain a good understanding of how the plumb bob method works before you put it into practice on the course, so you should spend some time on the putting green learning the process. This is very important as it’s how you must hold your putter each time in order to have a true vertical line when plumb bobbing – It won’t work otherwise. Look where the putter head is positioned and remember that. Twist the putter round between thumb and forefinger to find the point where shaft and the chosen vertical are level. Find a known vertical, like the edge of a building, and hold the putter up so you can compare the vertical with the shaft lean. It likely won’t do that automatically as the shaft will generally not go into the very centre of the head meaning there will be some tilting. Prayer is talking with God about what we’re thinking and doing together.In order to plumb bob effectively, you have to check the shaft of your putter hangs absolutely vertically when you hold it lightly between thumb and forefinger on the grip.The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Søren Kierkegaard.Prayer that gives God the most penetrating access to our depths is prayer that is offered in stillness.This is all part of training the brain to invite Gods presence to be your still point, to help you centre. To come as a dear friend and sit with you and say ‘I’m with you, let’s do this together’ You may think you can handle all those thoughts and feelings yourself. That you can problem solve and control the winds and storms hitting your life. You may well want to take charge, be in control. In fact, it may seem totally unnatural to you. This is an exercise that you need to train yourself in. “The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior.” Judges 6:12 This sense of ‘with-ness’ brings incredible feelings of peace and quiet to my mind. In particular, I like to focus on the words ‘I am with you’. Jesus then pours water of divine truth around me.I picture Jesus bringing a bucket. Into this bucket, he places my swinging pendulum of thoughts and feelings. ![]() I recognise that I need help from outside of myself, that I can’t live this moment without some external stable presence. I see the pendulum swinging and rocking back and forth. I picture my life being like a plumb bob on a stormy day.When it begins to swing around I take these steps. When the inevitable winds and storms of life roll in and my mind starts dancing a ‘non’ merry tune. The presence of the water acting on the surface of the bob creates resistance to movement. The water stops the plumb bob swinging around. You stick the plumb bob into a bucket of water. So how do we keep a plumb bob still on a windy day? Then when the gust of breeze stops, the plumb bob swings back the other way. The wind moves over it and pushes the string line away from vertical, from being centred. They stay straight and true, but when any wind comes along, that thin string and the weight on the end can act like a sail. Plumb bobs work really well when there is no wind. That string line would just float around with any little breeze. ![]() Imagine a feather being placed at the bottom of the string. The weight at the bottom had to be heavy enough to hold the string taut. The force of gravity acting on the weight would create a vertical taut string line from which they could measure their wall against. This is a heavy weight tied to a piece of string. Recently I was speaking on a podcast and suggested that it’s like a pendulum swinging back and forth, but actually, I think I can refine this down to an even better picture.īack in the old days, and still today, when builders wanted to check to see whether the wall they were building was vertical they would hang from the top of the wall a plumb bob. It swings into depression, anxiety and then back into depression. There are times that my thoughts and feelings seem to swing like monkeys in a tree.
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