Putting a golf ball on a rotating green

HeyHomie
Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:12:10 +0000
Factual Questions

This came up in a movie I watched recently: a golfer was tyring to make a simple putt (3 or so meters) on a perfectly flat, level green. Because reasons, the green was rotating clockwise at a certain number of RPMs (use whichever number of RPMs is easiest for you to use when you do your calculations, and assume that the hole is at the center of the green, and the radius from which the green rotates). If this happened in real life, what would happen to the ball, and how could the golfer compensate?

I believe that the ball is going to go off in one direction or the other, but I can’t grok which. The golfer, I think, would have to hit opposite to the direction the ball is going to go.

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