Are you hitting every breaking putt? Or are you, like most of us, saying, "Gee, I sure underestimated that break" or "Wow, that putt broke way less than I thought"? The fact is, the slope of the green is the single biggest factor in how much your putt will break on the way to the hole.

For most of the distance of your putt, the force of your putter stroke is the determining factor on how the ball will roll. But as the ball slows down on its way to the hole, the power of your stroke has progressively less effect as the force of gravity takes over. This is why the ball breaks the most as it nears the hole.

Sometimes it's obvious which way a green is going to break, but a lot of times it's just not visually apparent, particularly if you're playing in a hilly or forested area where you can't find a visible horizon line for reference. So how do you find the true break of a green?

The value of reading greens by plumb-bobbing with your putter has been called into question by leading putting experts. The reason is that you need to be practically laying down on the green in order to read the rim of the cup as a horizontal line intersected by the vertical plumb line of your putter.

Until now, there was simply no reliable means of reading greens and lowering your score by sinking those breaking putts. Enter the BreakMaster Digital Green Reader from Exelys.