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Speaker 3: The most important thing is to separate out the elements,
Speaker 3: and this is what most people don't do in their
Speaker 3: putting routines. When you've taken your practice stroke and you're
Speaker 3: ready to address the ball, you have to be done
Speaker 3: with thinking about how you're going to make that stroke.
Speaker 3: You have to be finished with that and say, Okay,
Speaker 3: that's the stroke I'm going to put on it, and
Speaker 3: I give some ideas in how to make every put
Speaker 3: of how to go about finding your best stroke. Then
Speaker 3: when you set the putter and you've taken your stance,
Speaker 3: you have to be done with direction. You don't want
Speaker 3: to be pushing or pulling any putts, so you make
Speaker 3: a commitment to use your stroke to send the ball
Speaker 3: on the line where that hutter's pointing at address No Push,
Speaker 3: No Pull. There's a chapter called every Putt starts as
Speaker 3: a straight putt, and that's really what you want to do.
Speaker 1: How to make every put With Zen Golf author doctor
Speaker 1: Joseph Parrot.
Speaker 2: This is Golf Smarter sharing tips and insights from golfers
Speaker 2: and golf professionals to help blower your score. It's worked
Speaker 2: for your host, Fred Green.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Golf Smarter. Doctor Joe.
Speaker 3: Hi, Fred, great to be here.
Speaker 1: It is great to have you back because we've had
Speaker 1: you many times. You are the most regular of our
Speaker 1: regular guests, and it's mainly because that your first book,
Speaker 1: Zen Golf, led me to this podcast. Honestly, I mean,
Speaker 1: what it meant to me and on the bigger picture
Speaker 1: made me think in a whole different way and launched
Speaker 1: this podcast and the questions behind this podcast. It was
Speaker 1: definitely from Zen Golf.
Speaker 3: So again, well thank you, Fred. It was a pleasure
Speaker 3: being on that first podcast, and I appreciate how much
Speaker 3: you connected with Zen Golf. Every time we've talked, you've
Speaker 3: really shown that you understood it and understood where I
Speaker 3: was coming from. And it's been very gratifying how many
Speaker 3: golfers have really appreciated Zen Golf. I get a lot
Speaker 3: of emails thanking me for writing the book. And it's
Speaker 3: been eleven years since the book came out, and it
Speaker 3: has stayed pretty consistently in the top five of all
Speaker 3: golf books throughout that time, which is remarkable for a
Speaker 3: little book on the Eastern wisdom and Western psychology principles
Speaker 3: of getting out of your own way and playing your
Speaker 3: best golf as much as you possibly can.
Speaker 1: And that is why it's probably the most successful golf
Speaker 1: mental book in history.
Speaker 3: Right it seems that way, certainly in the last decade,
Speaker 3: and it's really been a great, a great phenomenon that
Speaker 3: I really didn't expect when I first wrote it. But
Speaker 3: it's been consistently in the top five in mental game
Speaker 3: golf books and in all golf books for the last decade.
Speaker 3: So that's that's been great. And you know, it came
Speaker 3: out eleven years ago and it's still near the top
Speaker 3: of the chart, so awesome, got lasting power. I really
Speaker 3: appreciate your your how much you connected with it and
Speaker 3: how much it meant to you and how and the
Speaker 3: feedback that I've gotten from people about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. Well, there's a new book out, and
Speaker 1: as soon as I saw the title, I went, We've
Speaker 1: talked about this, the title the new book, how to
Speaker 1: Make Every Putt the Secret to winning Golf's game within
Speaker 1: the game. So how to make Every putt is a
Speaker 1: line that you have said on this show. You know
Speaker 1: you made the putt, you just didn't hold it, right?
Speaker 1: Is that where we're going with this?
Speaker 3: That is the basic principle, you know, a cup. I've
Speaker 3: gotten some very nice reviews about the book already, and
Speaker 3: a couple of them mentioned they say it's a presumptuous
Speaker 3: title or it's a you know what, what does that mean?
Speaker 3: How to Make Every putt? And I made that the
Speaker 3: title because I wanted to intrigue people and say, is
Speaker 3: that possible? Well, it's possible if you change the definition
Speaker 3: of making a putt and separate out making and holding.
Speaker 3: So if you got the putt started just the way
Speaker 3: you want it, and we know what that feels like
Speaker 3: when it leaves the putter face and we say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I really like the way I got that one started,
Speaker 3: then you made your putt if it's on the line
Speaker 3: you chose, at the pace you chose, with a good
Speaker 3: roll coming off the sweet spot of the putter. Then
Speaker 3: you made your putt, then you see what happens, and
Speaker 3: if it goes in, then you hold your putt. So
Speaker 3: we separate making and holding. It's highly unlikely that you're
Speaker 3: going to hold every put but you can make every putt,
Speaker 3: and you want your confidence to be based on your execution,
Speaker 3: not so much on the outcome, because we're not dealing
Speaker 3: with a perfect surface. You know, on the PGA Tour average,
Speaker 3: and this is a group of the best golfers in
Speaker 3: the world, the PGA Tour average from eight feet is
Speaker 3: only fifty percent amazing. So if you say, you know,
Speaker 3: these guys, they're not that good. They miss half their
Speaker 3: putts from only eight feet away.
Speaker 1: I can do that.
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound very That's not a confidence builder. So
Speaker 3: and to have your expectations. I have a chapter in
Speaker 3: the book about lowering your expectations. If you think that
Speaker 3: you should hold every putt from eight feet, you're going
Speaker 3: to be pretty frustrated since the best golfers in the
Speaker 3: world only hold half of them. Yeah, well, your expectations
Speaker 3: and focus more on building your confidence based on how
Speaker 3: you get the ball started. And then if you get
Speaker 3: the ball started the way you want to. The only
Speaker 3: thing you need to adjust is how well you read
Speaker 3: the putts and how well you gauge the field of
Speaker 3: the pace.
Speaker 1: And that's what this book is about.
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I think that there's a bigger picture to
Speaker 1: all of this, and that is that our expectations on
Speaker 1: our game is always probably set a little too high
Speaker 1: and leads to disappointment and frustration.
Speaker 3: Probably true, and more with putting than anything else. I
Speaker 3: don't think we really compare ourselves so much to the
Speaker 3: pros when it comes to t shots, and not many
Speaker 3: people I know hit the ball three hundred yards, so
Speaker 3: it's not too realistic to compare ourselves to the pros
Speaker 3: hitting greens. Well, most of what we see on TV
Speaker 3: are pros that do hit the greens, but we have
Speaker 3: to remember the clubs that they hit into the greens
Speaker 3: are usually shorter than the ones that the average middle
Speaker 3: to high handicap or plays, So we really can't have
Speaker 3: that much expectation. But putting, come on, there's the ball,
Speaker 3: there's some grass as a hole doesn't take that much,
Speaker 3: it doesn't take strength, it doesn't take that much skill
Speaker 3: er coordination. That's where we start to compare ourselves to
Speaker 3: the pros. And the problem comes in with telecasts. Golf telecasts.
Speaker 3: Mostly we watch golf on TV, and if you watch
Speaker 3: golf on TV, you see mainly the guys who are
Speaker 3: leading and mainly the ones who are sinking putts.
Speaker 1: Right, let's go back to thirteen. Now is sixty footter,
Speaker 1: and of course it's a replay of something that's already happened,
Speaker 1: so they've already vetted that shot. They're not going to
Speaker 1: show you. They'll show you a miss if it's two feet,
Speaker 1: but they won't show you a miss if it's eight feet.
Speaker 3: So they'll show you the leaders. And then if you
Speaker 3: see a guy who's not in contention, and as you said,
Speaker 3: as about a sixty foot or across the green, bet
Speaker 3: your friends that he's gonna hold it, because the only
Speaker 3: reason they're showing the guy is because they're going to
Speaker 3: show him holding a pot. Right, So you see puts
Speaker 3: going in all the time on TV, and then when
Speaker 3: yours don't go in at that frequency, you start to
Speaker 3: get frustrated, be more realistic and focus more on how
Speaker 3: how good it feels to get the putt started, and
Speaker 3: realize on a twenty footer you know, maybe one out
Speaker 3: of one, out of ten or twelve is all at
Speaker 3: the pros hole. So when yours goes in, get excited
Speaker 3: when it gets close, feel like, hey, I did a
Speaker 3: good job. I rolled a good putt there right right.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because you know, when you talk about
Speaker 1: a level playing field with the pros, it's the place.
Speaker 1: I feel that putting is the place that if somebody's
Speaker 1: interested in getting started playing golf, that's where you should
Speaker 1: take them. Is a practice putting green, not a driving range,
Speaker 1: because the driving range can be so frustrating because you're
Speaker 1: not hitting the ball. But even a five year old
Speaker 1: can put the ball in the cup, right.
Speaker 3: I like to teach. When I teach beginners, I do
Speaker 3: something that Harvey Pennock said the same thing. And you
Speaker 3: know the objective of the game is to get the
Speaker 3: ball in the hole, So start with that and work
Speaker 3: your way back.
Speaker 1: Well, I taught Harvey everything he knows.
Speaker 3: That's good, so we do want to I like to
Speaker 3: teach it backwards, so you work starting with a two
Speaker 3: foot putt, in fact, a tapin there's a chapter in
Speaker 3: How to Make Every Putt called turning knee knockers into
Speaker 3: tap ins, and I put something similar in zen putting,
Speaker 3: and that is that you're little tap in strokes. It's
Speaker 3: free of worry, it's free of care. You just make
Speaker 3: a little swipe, you know, a little back and through
Speaker 3: with the putter, and often it represents your best putting stroke.
Speaker 3: So when you get four feet away from the hole,
Speaker 3: you make your tap in stroke. It's usually enough to
Speaker 3: get it all the way to the hole. You'll find
Speaker 3: you're making your best stroke that way. So we start
Speaker 3: with a tap in and work our way back, and
Speaker 3: then you work to long putts. And then if I'm
Speaker 3: teaching somebody golf, then I start teaching them with osay
Speaker 3: an eight iron from just off the green, but I
Speaker 3: have them make a putting stroke with that, and they
Speaker 3: begin to see that the ball goes in the air
Speaker 3: without them helping it in the air, just by making
Speaker 3: a putting stroke along the surface with their eight iron
Speaker 3: and then a pitching wedge, and then they start to
Speaker 3: get the idea, Oh, I just send the club through
Speaker 3: the grass under the ball, and that's what lists the
Speaker 3: ball in the air. I don't have to help help
Speaker 3: it up. Because helping the ball in the air is
Speaker 3: the most common cause of fat shots and top shots.
Speaker 1: To me, the ball going in the cup. That's what
Speaker 1: I call the happy sound. I mean, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: looking for. I got to hear the happy sound. I'll
Speaker 1: tap it in.
Speaker 3: Don't give it to me. In fact, I tell people
Speaker 3: in their warm ups for going out before they play,
Speaker 3: the last thing they should do is cut a few
Speaker 3: two footers because you're not going to miss too many
Speaker 3: of those, and so you'll have a feeling of confidence
Speaker 3: of both making your put and holding your putt, and
Speaker 3: you get to hear that sound again and again and again,
Speaker 3: and it's very reinforcing and confidence building.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I should have I wish we
Speaker 1: would have had that conversation last week because I should
Speaker 1: have done a couple more two footers before my round.
Speaker 1: I feel that I have a decent mental game because
Speaker 1: I'm a a practitioner of zen golf and all that
Speaker 1: you have taught me in your books. But when I
Speaker 1: get frustrated, you know, I can let it go. I
Speaker 1: can let it go. That's fine. Something happens, it's out
Speaker 1: of my control. I'll start laughing about it instead of
Speaker 1: screaming and throwing things. But last week I was playing
Speaker 1: with a friend. Par three, I hit a great gap
Speaker 1: web shot right leaves me four foot from the cup.
Speaker 1: I was so excited because my friend put the ball
Speaker 1: in the water. Then he put one off the green.
Speaker 1: I three putted from four feet and I cannot let
Speaker 1: it go. That is the one thing I've been still
Speaker 1: frustrated about that round is I three putted from four feet.
Speaker 3: Clearly you can't let it go. Right now, let me
Speaker 3: let me guess you didn't leave it short.
Speaker 1: H No, the first one, Nope, on any of them.
Speaker 3: I got it, So you know, you you might have decided, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if there's any break, I'm going to
Speaker 3: just aim at the hole and hit it a little
Speaker 3: extra firm and make sure I don't take out any
Speaker 3: break and then zoom it goes by. And then you
Speaker 3: try it again, and well, at least you didn't four putt.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: That's well, there you go, Okay. I feel so much better.
Speaker 3: Now, you know. In Zen in Zen Golf, there's that
Speaker 3: chapter where I tell the story about the two monks
Speaker 3: walking around walking down the road and in their monastery
Speaker 3: they they've taken a vow of celibacy and also not
Speaker 3: to not to even make contact with women. But they
Speaker 3: meet this woman in a beautiful silk kimono who's trying
Speaker 3: to cross the stream, and one of the monks says, well,
Speaker 3: climb on my back, I'll take you across. And he
Speaker 3: takes her across the stream and she thanks him and
Speaker 3: they go on their way, and the other monk is
Speaker 3: very very upset, and he's thinking, how could my brother
Speaker 3: have violated his vow and how could he do this?
Speaker 3: And am I going to get in trouble if I
Speaker 3: tell on him? And then I'm kind of a rat
Speaker 3: and I don't want to do that. But if I
Speaker 3: don't tell him and people find out, then I'll get
Speaker 3: in trouble. And he gets all worked up and upset
Speaker 3: it and upset, and about half a mile down the
Speaker 3: road he screams out, how could you do that? And
Speaker 3: the other the first monk says, do what he says?
Speaker 3: That woman? He said, oh her, her? I set her
Speaker 3: down when we crossed the stream. Why my brother, are
Speaker 3: you still carrying her? I want you to encourage, to
Speaker 3: encourage you. You know, what's done is done, and set
Speaker 3: it down at the end of that round, and it's
Speaker 3: time to move on. Okay, I have a good friend
Speaker 3: who says, he says, you know, we think about the past,
Speaker 3: and we run it through in our minds again and again,
Speaker 3: as if we could change it, as if thinking about
Speaker 3: it is going to make it any different. Well, it's
Speaker 3: not right. So you have to say, Okay, what can
Speaker 3: I learn from that? What I can learn from that
Speaker 3: is I have to treat a four foot putt just
Speaker 3: like any other putt, And on any other putt, you
Speaker 3: don't want to run it four feet by you want
Speaker 3: you wanted to go at a pace that it's going
Speaker 3: to take it no more than a foot foot and
Speaker 3: a half past. Got it? I do.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and I promise from now on I'm
Speaker 1: going to be putting in a great silk kimono.
Speaker 3: A good plan.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the chapters in this book.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the things that we can learn from
Speaker 1: this book that we're going to take away from this book.
Speaker 1: And before we do that, I just want to commend
Speaker 1: you on this awesome element that you've included at the
Speaker 1: end of every chapter. You have QR codes that when
Speaker 1: you scan it with your I something or your pocket
Speaker 1: phone pad whatever.
Speaker 3: Whatever we use smartphone or.
Speaker 1: Smartphone or device tablet. When you scan that, it'll pop
Speaker 1: up a video that shows you basically what the tip
Speaker 1: you've been trying to give in that chapter.
Speaker 3: That's right. We don't have for every single chapter, but
Speaker 3: many of them have these QR codes, and in a
Speaker 3: lot of the chapters, the way the chapters are formatted,
Speaker 3: they most of them have a challenge. It talks about
Speaker 3: one of the challenges of putting and the solution that
Speaker 3: I provide, and often an exercise, a drill, or a demonstration.
Speaker 3: So these drills or demonstrations are what we have videos
Speaker 3: of on my zenngolf dot com website and they're also
Speaker 3: on YouTube. And what will happen is when you scan
Speaker 3: the QR code at the end of the chapter, it'll
Speaker 3: take you immediately to the video on our site. It'll
Speaker 3: take a little bit to download. So what I recommend
Speaker 3: is people scan it in first, then read the chapter.
Speaker 3: By the time they're done reading the chapter, it'll be
Speaker 3: loaded on their computer and they'll be able on their
Speaker 3: smartphone or device and they'll be able to play it
Speaker 3: and see me demonstrating that particular tip, that particular drill
Speaker 3: for that chapter on the ebook. I don't think we're
Speaker 3: going to have the QR squares because you have your
Speaker 3: e book right there, but it will have a link
Speaker 3: to that very same video.
Speaker 1: Oh fabulous. And how long are the.
Speaker 3: Videos anywhere from thirty seconds to a minute. I think
Speaker 3: a minute and a half is the longest one. So
Speaker 3: they're very short. Yep. You know. The book is written
Speaker 3: for our modern generation. No chapter is more than two pages,
Speaker 3: so I make the point, I get to the point,
Speaker 3: and then go to the next one. And the videos
Speaker 3: are the same. They're just very brief drills and administrations
Speaker 3: of what's in the chapter.
Speaker 1: Sounds like the keeping the which I appreciate greatly. Keeping
Speaker 1: the chapters short, that that was something that you thought
Speaker 1: well in advance to make sure that you did.
Speaker 3: That was a planned part of the format. And I
Speaker 3: had to edit some of them down and it was
Speaker 3: a great exercise because it really it made me take
Speaker 3: out any extra stuff, any fluff. You know. It's just
Speaker 3: really the key points, raising the questions that golfers have
Speaker 3: about putting, answering that question, giving them drills and exercises
Speaker 3: to do so. One, two, three, and move on.
Speaker 1: And this book is not just a zen golf type
Speaker 1: of putting instruction book you give actual, you know, physical
Speaker 1: things to do beyond what's in your head to make
Speaker 1: you a better putter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we include some elements of the stroke in here,
Speaker 3: and I develop those in conjunction with people working on
Speaker 3: the mechanics of putting. But also, you know, I work
Speaker 3: with a lot of different instructors and a lot of
Speaker 3: scientists who worked on the mechanics through I think there's
Speaker 3: all these putting monitors that they have nowadays that they
Speaker 3: and they've come up with really what some of the
Speaker 3: key elements are. So I include a few of those,
Speaker 3: but I also include options because it is really more
Speaker 3: of an art than strictly a science. So when we
Speaker 3: talk about the grip, I include lots of different ways
Speaker 3: of holding the putter and talk about the fundamental motions.
Speaker 3: They're not that different. But the key is that you
Speaker 3: want the putter face to be sending the ball directly
Speaker 3: on the line perpendicular to the way that face is
Speaker 3: set up at address and whatever gets the putter back
Speaker 3: to that point that's not a glancing blow, but that
Speaker 3: the putter head is moving down the same line and
Speaker 3: the face stays square to that line at impact, before
Speaker 3: or after it's not as important as at impact that's
Speaker 3: going to send the ball where the putter's pointing, And
Speaker 3: that's really a key element in the routine that I teach.
Speaker 1: It's more than just the stroke. You get into elements.
Speaker 1: And what I'd like to do is if I throw
Speaker 1: out a topic, if you can just go ahead and
Speaker 1: run with it and I'll pull from the book. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to do that. And we don't have
Speaker 1: a ton of time left for this episode, but would
Speaker 1: you be able to stick around and we'll do a
Speaker 1: member's only episode and we can get into a lot
Speaker 1: more depth of the book.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, let's do a few now though, Okay.
Speaker 1: Let's do it for a few now, and no.
Speaker 3: Definitely want to get them going on the routine.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, so let's go ahead and do that. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the shot routine.
Speaker 3: Okay. The most important thing is to separate out the elements,
Speaker 3: and this is what most people don't do in their
Speaker 3: putting routines. You have to separate out the elements. So
Speaker 3: when you've taken your practice stroke and you're ready to
Speaker 3: address the ball, you have to be done with thinking
Speaker 3: about how you're going to make that stroke. You have
Speaker 3: to be finished with that and say, okay, that's the
Speaker 3: stroke I'm going to put on it, and I give
Speaker 3: some ideas in how to make every putt of how
Speaker 3: to go about finding your best stroke. Then when you
Speaker 3: set the putter and you've taken your stance, you have
Speaker 3: to be done with direction. You don't want to be
Speaker 3: pushing or pulling any putts, so you make a commitment
Speaker 3: to use your stroke to send the ball on the
Speaker 3: line where that putter's pointing at address. No push, no pull.
Speaker 3: There's a chapter called every putt starts as a straight putt,
Speaker 3: and that's really what you want to do. The third
Speaker 3: thing is to connect with the distance and only look
Speaker 3: for pace, for the feel for the distance, and take
Speaker 3: a good long look. Don't just glance at the hole
Speaker 3: and then guess how big a stroke to make. Let
Speaker 3: your visual connection with the distance imprint that distance as
Speaker 3: you look at the hole, or maybe you're not looking
Speaker 3: at the hole, maybe you're looking at a point on
Speaker 3: the green that you're putting toward. And connect with that distance,
Speaker 3: how uphill or downhill, how slower fast the green is,
Speaker 3: and really let that sink into your eyes, and your
Speaker 3: eye hand coordination will tell your body how big a
Speaker 3: stroke to make. And that's really the key part of
Speaker 3: the routine. That you imprint the picture and then you
Speaker 3: roll it into the picture that you've imprinted, so you're
Speaker 3: clear on your stroke. Then you're done with thinking about that,
Speaker 3: you're clear on your read, you're done with thinking about that,
Speaker 3: and then you only stroke it for the pace.
Speaker 1: When I take a putt, I'll look at it from
Speaker 1: different angles, mostly from behind the ball towards the hole,
Speaker 1: and then I go to the other side and look
Speaker 1: from the hole towards the ball, looking for the angle
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at. And then one of the things
Speaker 1: that I do, and I'm going to ask you this,
Speaker 1: I kind of like I started the hole of the
Speaker 1: ball and I count how many steps and I generally
Speaker 1: think of each step as one yard. I count, you know,
Speaker 1: how many feet do I have? So I can get
Speaker 1: that in my head too. Is that a hindrance?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 1: Am I over Is this overkill?
Speaker 3: Well, that's a good question. I think it has to
Speaker 3: do with people's personality. Some people it gives them an
Speaker 3: assurance and they feel like, I know this butt, I
Speaker 3: know what. I know what A fourteen footer feels like,
Speaker 3: I know what a twenty two footer feels like now
Speaker 3: you have to make some adjustments for uphill or downhill.
Speaker 3: So it can get kind of complicated. But for some
Speaker 3: people that might be very helpful and reassuring. Somebody I
Speaker 3: don't know, somebody who does a lot of technical work
Speaker 3: like editing and producing podcasts, somebody like that, it might
Speaker 3: be very helpful. But for somebody else it might add
Speaker 3: a complication, and they might it just might clog their
Speaker 3: brain and they're thinking about too many things. So if
Speaker 3: you're playing catch with somebody and you need to toss
Speaker 3: the ball to them, do you have to count Do
Speaker 3: you have to pace off how far away they are
Speaker 3: before you toss the ball to them? No? Not really.
Speaker 3: What as you look at their glove or whatever their
Speaker 3: hands they're holding it holding up, and what your eyes see,
Speaker 3: your brain translates to a message to your muscles to
Speaker 3: throw it this hard, to carry that distance. That's really
Speaker 3: all we're trying to do with putting.
Speaker 1: Well, when the golf hole is able to move around
Speaker 1: to catch my ball the way somebody with a glove
Speaker 1: can do, then I'll be happy not to count it out.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, when when they're forty feet away and
Speaker 3: your and the hole is forty feet away. All you're
Speaker 3: trying to do is throw it somewhere close to their glove.
Speaker 3: And that's all you're trying to do is get it
Speaker 3: up there somewhat close to the hole. Now, really that's
Speaker 3: not my philosophy on long leg putts. I still want
Speaker 3: you to try to be holding it. I want you
Speaker 3: to roll the putt in a way that it's going
Speaker 3: to finish and you see how it's going to go
Speaker 3: in the hole. Because you know, if if you just
Speaker 3: barely miss a four and a quarter inch hole, it's
Speaker 3: a pretty easy putt. But if you picture, you know,
Speaker 3: like some people teach picture of three foot circle around
Speaker 3: the hole. If you miss that, then you've got to
Speaker 3: then you got to face a little longer putt. So
Speaker 3: I'd rather try to get closer and you know, smaller targets,
Speaker 3: smaller misses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the visualized visualization aspect of it is now
Speaker 1: we're getting back into the zen part of putting.
Speaker 3: Right. You want to picture how the ball rolls and
Speaker 3: you can run your eyes. You know. I have a
Speaker 3: good friend Craig Farnsworth, who is a doctor.
Speaker 1: Farnsworth un putting down and he's at Lakinta.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, and he talks about running your eyes
Speaker 3: along the path that you see the ball is going
Speaker 3: to take in real time, which I really like that,
Speaker 3: and it imprints it more in your mind so that
Speaker 3: you have a picture, so you don't have just a snapshot.
Speaker 3: You have a video in your mind of the ball
Speaker 3: rolling out to the hole, and it includes a sense
Speaker 3: of how fast the pace needs to be when it starts.
Speaker 3: You know, when you start a straight down hill putt,
Speaker 3: it doesn't have to be going very fast at the start,
Speaker 3: and it's going to hold its speed all the way
Speaker 3: to the hole. When you're looking at a straight uphill putt,
Speaker 3: you have to give it a pretty good, get good
Speaker 3: go at the beginning, and it's going to be rolling
Speaker 3: pretty fast the first part of the putt and then
Speaker 3: slow down as it gets to the hole. So you
Speaker 3: have to be able to picture all of that. Once
Speaker 3: you can picture that, then you just give your body
Speaker 3: that message and let it re, you know, produce that
Speaker 3: picture and roll the ball into that picture.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, I want to talk to you about in
Speaker 1: our next episode. We're going to talk about reading greens. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the best putting routine ever,
Speaker 1: which you kind of teased a little bit ago.
Speaker 3: I gave you a little summary of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And then I have questions about things that
Speaker 1: you said about, you know, laying the scorecard over the
Speaker 1: hole or looking at the hole versus looking at the ball.
Speaker 1: So I want to go. I want to get into
Speaker 1: those things for our members only episode, which we'll published
Speaker 1: up next. And I just want to thank also Gotham Book,
Speaker 1: that's your publisher, correct, Yeah, I want to thank them
Speaker 1: because they sent me two extra copies of the book.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping one for myself, but I want to let
Speaker 1: our listeners know that the first two and that's all
Speaker 1: I can do here. The first two people to sign
Speaker 1: up for Golf Smarter for members only for the North
Speaker 1: American Plan B will not only get a box of
Speaker 1: Dixon win Eco friendly golf balls, but you for that
Speaker 1: same amount, you'll also receive the first two you'll receive
Speaker 1: a brand new copy hardback of How to Make Every
Speaker 1: put The Secret to Winning Golf's Game Within the Game
Speaker 1: by Doctor Joseph parent.
Speaker 3: Is That okay, sounds great, sounds good?
Speaker 1: All right, So thanks again and we'll have you back
Speaker 1: on our members only episode coming up next week.
Speaker 3: Thanks very much, Fred, always a pleasure talking with you now.