PGA TOUR 2K23 Putting Tutorial - Ultimate Guide for Beginners 

I hope this will help beginners improve and grow their skills in PGA 2K23! There will be many more tutorials to follow on the channel on all different aspects of the game. Checkout the full tutorial playlist here to see if more are live: ru-vid.com/group/PL2ypHzc7pV81pV8ypNZqzzBM0y9D1NkPz || There will be plenty more videos coming for PGA TOUR 2K23! Subscribe, turn on notifications, and stay tuned! I will also be live streaming this evening (October 15, 2022) on Twitch if you all want to check out some live gameplay. Here is my twitch link: www.twitch.tv/gamer_ability || Typical stream schedule is Monday/Wednesday/Friday at 1:00 PM EST on Twitch!

Holy cow you have been putting in WORK with this game. I have never seen so much content output in such a short time from you before! Thank goodness for the weekend. Gives me a chance to catch up! You’re a machine!

This video literally changed this game for me. Thank you so much for posting this! Went from being stressed putting to looking forward to it.

Dude, I was struggling like crazy with putting. This took about 11 strokes off my game. Thank you!

Thank you so much. I've gone more for feel but the tip of directions of the green has made it a bit easier for me .

Your tutorial changed my putting game dramatically! Best putting tutorial I've seen! Thanks!

Playing on ps4 and not being a golfer myself, I didn't know holding square would show you the path for the putt. Previously my guide was getting the ball as close to the hole as possible for putting. Now that I know this, I'm spanking everyone

I did the count and got closer to the whole than ever. More practice and work on my power. Wow best channel thus far.

Solid technique. Went from wide to the side to sinking puts. Use this on chips too!

Thanks! Good to know that it is indeed challenging and I’m not just horrible at it 😂

Yo man, I picked this game up 2 days ago and boy what a tough ride. I never stuck to pga games but played a few here and there. Firstly, your channel is undoubtedly underrated, thank you for everything you are doing for this community. Secondly, your vids are helping tremendously. This putting system of yours is just incredible. I literally just paused your vid to try this out and made about 9 putts in a row and came straight to comment here. This system is a great start and now I can actually see a way forward. I struggle a lot with the swing path(driver, woods and irons), but for the time being I have found a way which works better but not perfectly. Although it's only been a couple of days so I cannot gauge anything realistically yet. I found that using my index finger works better from me as I am able to move my whole arm back and forth as opposed to just moving my thumb in a 360(it sure feels like that at times). I index the radius of the analog joystick on my knuckle and the rest is history. Ever heard of something like this? I saw your how to improve video but thought I might just comment here to save time. Anyways, I will be following you for a long time and again, thanks for everything you do. I cannot wait to see the other videos in this series. Much love from South Africa

I got somthing from your video I don't use numbers I use my eye and the put preview will check out the practice area

I can’t get putting down😂 I’m not bad, but I miss tons of eagle opportunities 🤯

☀️☕️⛳️ This Strategy he is showing you absolutely works. I was new last year and used it and I started nailing putts right away. Excellent tutorials all the time from GamerAbility.

Are there any greens that don’t break crazily from every angle? I don’t think I’ve ever had a straight putt on this game

Hopefully this will help me get better at putting! Great video Ryan! 😍

This is ton of great info! Thank you for it. I'm not a beginner at reading greens, but I'm still learning, and having additional systems to use in various situations is always good. And this one looks interesting, I'm going to try it out! This putt-by-the-numbers will likely help make things go more smoothly on those "fun house" greens like Quail Hollow and Thieves Landing. It will also almost certainly help when there are only minimal breaks that make it harder to visualize, but when you believe it will still be just enough to mess up those mid-range putts. Video presentation-wise, speaking as a viewer (and thinking as a beginner who might be arriving here frustrated with the fast greens and wants immediate help) a 30+ minute video needs more organization to help one find information quickly. This wonderful but dense 30 minutes is a firehose worth of great information for a full beginners guide and is filled with many single answers. My--certainly unsolicited but well-meaning--opinion to make a guide like this even more useful than it already is, would be to have it broken into chapters to show specific parts of your system. So as an example you could have: --Green speed/grid lines general info --Effects of down/up hills on putts --How you choose which numbers to use based on the green speeds/color/grid lines --Adapting to your personal tendencies during a round --Do a few "training simulations" where you break down your system step by step and then putt (probably good to edit in made putts to show the ideal--while acknowledging no system is perfect) --End with a few "full speed" putts showing how efficient this can be at a normal game speed--once the player practices enough with it and gets used to it. Regardless, I love the video and the info is truly helpful. So thank you for the tons of work you've put in on this game, your other videos have helped me as well!

Excellent guide! Putting has been the hardest thing for me in this game... i will try this method for sure! TYVM for taking the time to put this series together. :)

Great video! Played like 50 hours and learned something in the first 5 minutes. Much appreciated

YES! Method works great! Once you get comfortable, you can put your own twist to it too. Very cool!

How do you get the up or down hill marker on and elevation marker thanks

So much to learn on this game. Glad i found your channel.

How do you change putting practice greens on PC/Steam? LB/RB for PS but what about PC?

I’ve been putting using each square as multiple numbers but the breaks are what screw me over day in an day out. Any recommendations for a number per square?

really love your videos they are so helpful

good stuff ty for sharing

Awesome guide my dude! I gotta do it to you though 😂😂😂......... "I am blasting these balls" -gamer ability 2023.😂😂😂😭😭🤣thanks for the good laugh and the awesome guide!

Reading Breaks: You assign numbers to varying dash line grid speeds. If we stopwatch seconds to count the distance covered from one side of the grid to the other (Grid #1 = 4 sec. Grid #2 = 6 sec. Grid #3 = 4 sec and so on), what numbers would be assigned? Of course, nothing will be absolute just want to establish a baseline to work from. What changes are made make for varying green speeds? Numbers assigned for slow green speeds would not work for faster ones right?- Thanks!

thx for this very informative video!

Beautiful . Thanks man

So green=0-15 Yellow =15-30 Orange 30-45 Red 45+. That sound about right?

Good Stuff! Definitely looking forward to the PC version as I play on PC w/ mouse & KB.

Actually been using a system just the same as this one since the old Rory game on Xbox. For a while I was hitting absolutely everything. Now I can’t seem to hit shit over the past couple games. Somewhere along the way what used to click for me stopped clicking 😂 ** I tried explaining what I was doing or what I thought I’d discovered to a friend all drunk at our buddies wedding, I couldn’t do it coherently so he wasn’t interested, but it’s good to know that it’s not just some weird thing I was the only one doing.

You the best!

I have used a variation of Gamer's system with a lot of sucess. I'm just a one year vet of the game, so I still misread a lot, but when I do miss, it's generally a tap in next putt.

Can you please make a guide for the new two button putting. How do I read the circle when the recommended power is not displayed?

Thanks for the review of the basics of putting, Ryan! Although, I would like a more advanced tutorial on the game if you could make that possible for the more experienced players. Thank you!

I like the number per grid theory. Right away though I knew the 18 was wrong as the ball travels faster in beginning and slows down towards hole. Ball wont move left or right as much when its traveling faster. The term hitting through the break when hit too hard comes to mind, or hitting under when too slow.

How did you get the stripe polo

Would love to see a tutorial on PC with mouse and keyboard with NO powerbar. I am struggling.

I'm here watching hopefully this helps my putting it's literally the only thing stopping from having good scores in this game, everything else I'm pretty good at but putting is killing me

Imagine missing that last putt.. making the whole video to have missed.. well executed tiger

Thank you for the video - it really helped me a lot in situations where I just don’t feel I can get the right read and I’ve sunk a lot more of those putts! Interestingly some putts where I was reading well before though now I’m just slightly missing so I think I need to get both the system and the feel converging and working well together, but it’s definitely helping a lot! I have one question though. I was excited to see your method of detecting fast greens but I found in my game that doesn’t work. I expected to see at least 104 in the distance on greens to know the speed , but I saw something more like “42”. Ok I figure this is because I use metric and maybe on yours it’s showing in feet and therefore 104 would be 32 in metres. Is that why I see a different number? Do you have the list of the feet numbers for the different green speeds? If so I can do a table for myself for conversion until I’m used to it 😊. Thanks in advance and thanks for all the awesome tutorial videos, I’ve subbed and been going through all of them and it’s really helped me get past the beginner stage much quicker!

I would love to see a tutorial for putting with no grid lines on the green. I just moved to legend and need some putting help.

Very handy guide. I never used this method, going to use it more. Playing 3 click, is hard with putting for me. Hard to get it to stop on the white part of the meter at times or the stupid it barely move and did the putt which only went 2”. It’s a new controller so I wouldn’t think it’s that. Almost like I put lag at times or just a glitch.

Anyway to default the cursor on the cup, it makes the putting to rest, when it judges the distance for you

Lol I hope this works. Very frustrating at time. Well done on the content!

The triangle in right upper corner, never goes up, it only goes down, regardless of uphill and downhill???

Wow....RB to reset. I've been trying to remember the percentage. I have experienced a situation (PC with xbox controller) where I take my practice swing and attempt to stop in the white only to have the meter speed back to zero. Seems to happen when I pull the stick back extremely slow. That tends to make me want to make my forward stroke faster than it should be. I am transitioning to no meter so that is kinda moot. Thanks again Gamer. Appreciate all the lessons.

You kind of commented on it at around 32:00, but from my experience looking at a ton of putt previews, it seems like the game resembles real life in the sense that a break closer to the hole (where the ball is slowing down) will impact the ball’s path more than a break right off the putter face (where the ball is moving quickly). It seems like you’re just summing up numbers along the putt path regardless of where the break is in the path. Do you just assign lower numbers for break early in the putt vs later in the putt? Obviously it’s working for you, so just curious if/how you account for it.

Why and how are you counting pass the hole instead of from ball to hole?.. please explain

I putt with the distance guide on and find that if I try to change from the recommended chip on the fringe to a putt and then hit the recommended putting sweet spot the ball goes sailing past the hole. Is this a bug? The game seems to be forcing me to chip from just off the green when I would prefer to putt most times.

Problem starts once your ball has to travel to squares to the left or right, and it leaves the path of straight squares to the hole.

will the ball roll metre on the golf ball sleeves help your putts from rolling out?

Ok, how about this.... Putt Preview. You can put it on UNLIMITED (also you can select 18). So why can't we look at our preview, adjust our putt, then put the preview back up again?

You can’t hold square for online can you?

What made you choose the number 4 when counting and not say maybe 3 or 5? Very confusing, please explain

How can i get rid of the green grid on ps5 always hated it

How do you make it show it shows the inches

How do you see the blue shot shaping line?

Do you think greens break more if they are faster?

im not sure why but my green grid is way brighter and thicker then it should be. Does anyone know what setting is causing that?

What difficulty is general online played in?

I only see FT. There is no inch number shown. Did I do something wrong in set up?

Just recently started playing this because of a friend. You are by far the best for tutorials but this...your whole number system confuses me. I'm bad at math and to me it just seems like your pulling these numbers out of thin air. If there is no actual numbers on screen, I just don't get it. I have to go by the numbers I can actually see and feel. I just can't wrap my head around where your getting these numbers from.

I don't know how you're moving your left analog stick that little bit of a time to get 18 clicks. I just use feel and history of previous green reads. I'm winning every tournament.

Cannot find Augusta National. Where is it located?

What about PS5 instructions

How am I 12 minutes into this video and been shown nothing but "the game does distance for you"

I was a brilliant putter on 2k21 but this game has me beat; every putt from inside 15 feet goes way long....

How do you look at the green from the flat angle lmao

How do you pull the pin?

When you're giving tutorials and talking about the buttons on the controller please show the controller while you're using the buttons so we have a visual.

great guide, but the music is annoying lol

Aimpoint?

Bro doing calculus putting 😂

I like the hunting portion of this game 🎮. Who knew you could practice your drive and hunt deer at the same time? Have you found all the deers?

I’m so lost

I'm thoroughly confused by reading the greens in this game. The speed and sloping of the greens is completely unrealistic. I cannot for the life of me find the right line and the ball just decides where it wants to go. This is not a good feature and it's ruining my enjoyment of it

Appreciate the tutorial. Your accent is off-putting though lol. When you say feel you pronounce it "fill". And when you say hill you pronounce it "heel" 😂. No disrespect intended lol

You teach more for advanced players, not rookies

All things being equal this game is completely RNG. Have not been convinced otherwise.

Very sadly, I have to say this game is garbage compared to 2K21. No-one I've played with can hit decent shots consistently. The sounds of the clubs hitting the ball are terrible, there's not the feedback from the stick when striking the ball that there was in 2K21. Even good shots feel awful. We're all hitting them way left, right, short and long. The ball doesn't roll like it should or predictably. Chipping and bunker shots are a nightmare. Putting is a nightmare, the menus are a nightmare of confusion. The 3-click system is dreadful yet can be used to score better than with the stick method. This from someone who could land it on a dime in 2K21 playing against players who could do the same. They perfected it in 2K21 so why is this game so broken? Awful.

36 minutes? Are you nuts?

Kobody know what the hell your saying but you.

This video was too confusing

Why do Americans say Expecially? It's clearly spelt ES pecially Especially!!! No X what so ever!

Man’s rambled and repeated himself too much. I’m a beginner I’m not stupid.

The first thing they should do ban completely online career mode....It will definitely kill game Industry... Rip off jokers..

Jesus 11mins in and I haven't seen you hit a ball yet........moving on.

In between instant replays, even with them turned off,you just close your eyes,aim behind you and swing.worst golf game ever