WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:06.679 H right. This is Bob Anklin from Rosemont, Minnesota, and 2 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.720 I play at the Emerald Greens golf Course. This is 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.759 a Golf Smarter number nine hundred and sixty one. You 4 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:19.480 need a new golf organization called real Golf that dispenses 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:24.039 with the USGA. Solid, simple, stupid little rules plaid as 6 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:26.199 it lays, be goes out of bound, put it back 7 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:28.320 in bound, don't go back to the t. You can 8 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.960 grind your club and the hazard. Who cares? Those are 9 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:33.799 the rules so that amateurs will actually be able to 10 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:35.600 follow them. Got to have a lot of degrees and 11 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:39.079 a master in taxes to follow the USGA rules. They're stupid. 12 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:43.359 It's like only twelve rules. Originally, the USGA is all 13 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:46.200 over the map. They don't even know what skill is. 14 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.560 The yards books were originally illegal because they're not the 15 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:55.520 golfer's eye and senses telling him about the conditions of 16 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.119 the golf course and how to play the shot. Anything 17 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.479 that's other than that, like a book, a green map, 18 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:05.799 a yards book or illegal. The USGA's obligation is to 19 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:10.519 protect the game of skill from cheating. They don't want 20 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.920 fake scores, they want a real handicap. According to the 21 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.519 rules of skill. Then they made that goofy exception if 22 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:21.120 it's traditionally accepted. The first case that they considered was 23 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.799 the yards books, and they said traditionally accepted. We're sorry, 24 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.920 go ahead, you know what. The second one was plumb bobbing. 25 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.319 They considered the case of plumbbobbing. They said, so many 26 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.560 golfers cheat with it, accepted that wasn't even cheating because 27 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:34.920 plumbbobbing doesn't work. 28 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:46.000 Everything you know is wrong. According to Jeff Mangum of 29 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:47.239 the Pudding Zone. 30 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:52.239 This is Golf's Murder, sharing stories, tips and insights from 31 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.280 Greek golf minds to help you lower your score and 32 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:56.920 raise your golf IQ. 33 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.200 There's your host, Fred Green. Welcome back to the Golf 34 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:02.120 Smarter podcast. 35 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:05.680 Jeff, Hi, Fred, how you doing. Long time no see. 36 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:06.840 Long time no see. 37 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.120 You know, I was looking back on my spreadsheet here 38 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:12.280 to try to figure out how long it's been since 39 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.439 you were on the podcast. And so this is episode 40 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:20.080 nine sixty one. Last time I see it was an 41 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.840 episode number six hundred and two in twenty seventeen, in 42 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:28.960 like almost exactly a year, So seven years since we've 43 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:29.759 talked to each other. 44 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:36.039 Yeah, right, but more importantly, the first episode you were 45 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:41.919 on was episode thirty seven in August of two thousand 46 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:42.439 and six. 47 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:44.159 Wow. 48 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.879 So it's uh, we've been talking to each other for 49 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:48.919 a long time, but we haven't talked to each other 50 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:50.800 in a long time. And it is great to have 51 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:56.159 you back on because the putting world has changed, and 52 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:59.199 probably from your perspective, it hasn't because people still suck 53 00:02:59.199 --> 00:02:59.680 at putting. 54 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:06.599 I'm not going to say anything like everybody sucks. 55 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.360 Okay, how would you characterize it? 56 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:12.479 But it could definitely be better. 57 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.919 Yeah, they can be better. They can be better. 58 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.000 So you've been running the putting zone for probably longer 59 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.719 than I've been doing this podcast, and since two. 60 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:26.400 Thousand, twenty four years. 61 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:33.319 Wow. Congratulations, and you have certified teachers all over the 62 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.800 world to become putting zone instructors. 63 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:41.080 I've trained seven hundred and fifty golf coaches, most of 64 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.560 which were sixteen hours two days training each. 65 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:46.599 Wow. Wow. 66 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:51.759 This got back from Korea where we did classes, two 67 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:56.840 day classes with thirty and then we did two classes sixty. 68 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.800 We did four days of training, and then we did 69 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.159 they're players and individuals. 70 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:04.919 And do you have a language barrier? 71 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:09.000 Do you have somebody who's there as a translator for 72 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:10.919 you or your host speak. 73 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:17.639 English in Korea, English is very hard for Koreans. Yeah, 74 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.519 and they're pretty conscious, self conscious about not being able 75 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:24.079 to speak English. So I had the good fortune of 76 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.480 a Korean that was born on Saipan, which is now 77 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:33.120 part of America, and he grew up speaking English very fluently. 78 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.759 He's the one that was my host and he translated 79 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:38.759 and that worked. 80 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:43.399 Great, awesome, awesome. And what about in Japan? Have you 81 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:44.319 done Japan as well? 82 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.800 Japan? I have a friend that's working on that right now. 83 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:52.399 Oh, it's amazing, but talk about you know, they definitely 84 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:57.279 if they can't speak English, you know perfectly, they're not 85 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.120 going to do it. And they're all trained as kids. 86 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.600 I mean the kids speak English, it's amazing, but adults 87 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.839 they don't use it as much. They don't feel comfortable, 88 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:06.759 so they just don't do it right. 89 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:08.240 It's incredible. 90 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:12.839 Yeah, if if if a person has difficulty with English, 91 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:17.399 they laugh and then they go away. They do know, 92 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:22.519 and they don't enjoy the feelings of not being perfect. 93 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.000 They are perfect monsters in Korea. Boy, they love perfect, 94 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.279 still love perfect. They love perfect. 95 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.000 And when they talk about golf, when do you learn 96 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:37.240 At what point do you accept the fact that there 97 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:38.800 is no perfect in golf. 98 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:48.199 I don't never think there's perfect in anything human. And 99 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:58.279 they kind of have to admit that they're not perfect, 100 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.639 even though they've been working harder than anybody, it's probably 101 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.279 not in the cards. And so you have to be 102 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:11.720 You have to disconnect their their sense of themselves from 103 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:17.160 their Korean context of family and friends. They don't want 104 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.319 to admit around family and friends that they're not either 105 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:24.439 perfect or just about getting there. But if you did 106 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:29.040 much pressure and you just go, hey, let's go eat 107 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:35.160 some kimchi, you know you can. You can make good 108 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:39.639 emotional connections. In Korea, it's a little bit nearer. You've 109 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.120 got to get through, and I'm the clown that can 110 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:46.319 get through. I have a name in Korea. My name 111 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:47.920 in Korea is Godzilla? 112 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:50.000 Really? Godzilla? 113 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:51.160 Godzilla? 114 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:52.160 Why is that? 115 00:06:52.800 --> 00:07:00.240 Detroyer of Tokyo. Actually Godzilla was kind of an earth 116 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:05.680 god protecting the earth, and it's a little bit of 117 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.560 a mystery on why he had it in for Japan. 118 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:14.560 That's not exactly clear. But the movie Godzilla was originally 119 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:21.279 written by North Korean. He later immigrated got to the South, 120 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.519 and I think he ended up in the United States somewhere. 121 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:31.279 But if you Wikipedia Godzilla, you can read that little story. Amazing. Yes, 122 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:31.759 it's fun. 123 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:34.959 Well, I hope you don't mind if I don't call 124 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:35.839 you Godzilla. 125 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:41.000 Oh well, please call me Godzilla. No, it was I 126 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.160 just told him. You know, you're not supposed to be 127 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:49.800 egotistical out loud in Korea unless you're like over forty 128 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:52.000 five year old male. And then they got kind of 129 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:56.560 very macho. Oh wow, young people. They're not supposed to 130 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:01.839 tell people I'm the great, right, but I'm the greatest 131 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.959 putting instructor in the history of the game. And I 132 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:07.199 say that to the Korean class of thirty and they 133 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.920 look at me for a second and I go, that's 134 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:20.959 because I'm Godzilla, and they bust out laughing. So we 135 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:24.480 get into a different mental mode for learning. We get 136 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.639 into the childlike mode for learning. 137 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:28.480 It's amazing. 138 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:30.800 Yeah, we have fun, we have great time. 139 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:33.759 I love that story. I love that story. 140 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:37.200 Tell me about the process of what the putting zone 141 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.679 instruction is to become certified. 142 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.759 Well, there are four skills and that was two words, 143 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:54.240 not one four or reading, aiming, stroke for line and 144 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:01.720 stroke for ball, pace or touch. The second word was skill. Okay, 145 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:06.279 the putting zone has a definition of skill that is 146 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:12.440 actually correct, but golf people don't know it. So let 147 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:16.320 me define what a skill is. A skill is not 148 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:21.240 you do it better than most. That's the definition of golf. 149 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.559 These guys are good, they're better than you. And then 150 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.679 they really like the phrase, these are the best golfers 151 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:35.720 in the world. No, they're not. Okay. So, for example, 152 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:44.759 Scottish Scheffler can't putt. He's terrible right now, He's barely average, 153 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.240 but he you know, he wins like crazy. Yeah, all right, 154 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:53.480 but for putting, he's not skillful. He's not even better 155 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.600 than half of the two players. So for him to 156 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.240 say he's the best putter in the world, that that's 157 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:04.000 not flying. And for him to say that there's nobody 158 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.320 on tour better than him, that doesn't fly. And so 159 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:10.799 the whole idea of tour players are better than country 160 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:16.480 club fat diabetic males. That's not a good definition of skill, 161 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.200 all right, So what is the definition of skill? You know, 162 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.919 how to operate the body to do the task of 163 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:31.440 the skill, whether it's reading the putt. How do you 164 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.960 use your body to read a putt, or if it's aiming, 165 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.639 how do you use your body to aim the putterface correctly? 166 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:42.559 Or if it's stroke for lyne, how do you use 167 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.720 your body to make it go where you aim? Or 168 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.720 for touch, how do you use your body to organize 169 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.320 the velocity of impact so that the physics of your 170 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.279 putt matches the physics required of the world. I have 171 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:03.639 thirty five years of that reading brain science to answer 172 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:11.879 those questions. And that's daily reading, every day, heavy duty neuroscience, 173 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:18.399 not blogny, not watered down psychology today versions the hot 174 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:25.159 off the griddle studies with all the complicated statistical analysis 175 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.639 of data, blah blah blah. And I know more about 176 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:34.639 the brain science of putting than anyone who's ever lived, 177 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:39.000 no question about it. I never even met somebody in 178 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.200 golf that thinks they know much about it, other than 179 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:47.519 one particular guy, and he doesn't know how to apply 180 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.840 brain science. To apply brain science, you have to have 181 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.759 the big picture of how the brain works. And don't 182 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.600 get lost in the mlution. You're not a science just 183 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:04.039 working at Harvard to cure Alzheimer's disease. You want to 184 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:07.000 know how you reach for a cup of coffee, how 185 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.519 you throw a pair of socks in a bucket, how 186 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.000 you put a basketball in the hoop, and how you 187 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:17.320 put a ball into a hawk. Okay, that's big picture stuff, 188 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:22.480 and I'm the guy, the only one ever, and it 189 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.799 probably won't be anybody else ever, because there's a lot 190 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:33.200 of work. Thirty five years. I have probably three hundred 191 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.639 brain books in my house. There are five hundred that 192 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:41.960 I've read, and then there's about two thousand neuroscience articles 193 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:46.000 that I've digested and stored in my computer and read 194 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:53.000 occasionally and write articles about it. I write two articles 195 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:58.840 a day for the past forty two months, every day 196 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:04.200 them every week forty two months is one thousand, two 197 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:08.240 hundred and so many days sixty one, two hundred and 198 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:13.519 sixty days in a row. Two articles a day, maybe 199 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:16.879 one out of eight of those of brain science articles. 200 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.080 Right now, the count of how many articles I've written 201 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:25.679 on that, on putting science is two thousand, five hundred 202 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:30.639 and sixty five articles in forty two months. That doesn't 203 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:35.440 count the book I wrote, the other formal articles I 204 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:39.679 hand out like candy, or the approximately fifty to one 205 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:45.639 hundred videos that I've made. This is daily article writing. 206 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:54.919 I wrote two articles today on on how vision works 207 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:59.559 when you imagine things and whether that's good or bad? 208 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.799 Stuff like that, How that applies to reading a putt? 209 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.399 Why the obsession with the brain science and putting? 210 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:20.600 When I started all this research back in nineteen ninety, 211 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:24.559 which was ten years of research before I even started teaching. 212 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:30.080 Who does that I do ten years? I don't know 213 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.679 anybody who's done or even up in their mouth in 214 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:38.519 charts fifty bucks. But anyway, I did ten years and 215 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:43.200 five of that was literary or literature research on what 216 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:47.399 has already been said and written in golf about pain. 217 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.320 And that's a five year project just to find it 218 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:56.559 and then go get it and read it. And what 219 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:01.279 you find out is that before you start reading all 220 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.519 that mass of information to fill your brain with what's 221 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.080 good and bad, you do a logger thing. You clarify 222 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:16.399 why you are reading anything, any book or art. And 223 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:19.120 to do that you have to invite a martian down 224 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.000 to watch a golfer putt on the green and then 225 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.879 ask him what are the skills? And the martian says, 226 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:30.799 he reads the putt, he aims the start line of 227 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:35.159 the read, he puts straight, and he puts a pace 228 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.519 control or else he doesn't do as good as he misses. 229 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:44.240 But those are four skills reading, aiming, stroking touch. Right now, 230 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:50.279 with that templating mind, then you sort all the literature 231 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:56.360 into big buckets, one big fifty five gallon barrel for reading, aiming, 232 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.440 stroking touch, and then you turn the lights on, get 233 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:03.639 your coffee, start reading one bucket at a time, and 234 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:08.519 then you get the shock, the big shock. The reading 235 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.000 bucket has one book down at the bottom, and that's it. 236 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:18.000 There's a guy in ha Templeton, the Air Force, Lieutenant 237 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:22.679 colonel road Book. He spent a year or two. He 238 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:27.200 commandeered the whole Air Force golf course and he stretched 239 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:31.639 strings across the top of every green, and then he 240 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:35.399 measured down and he made a topographic map with maybe 241 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:41.159 ten inch squares. Then he did scientific experiments, and then 242 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:46.799 he did engineering experiments, and then he did physics research 243 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:50.799 on how ball's curve on slope. And then he made 244 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:54.600 a set of charts. If you're standing here, there's a 245 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.600 fall line, or what he called the zero brake line. 246 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:02.039 And if you're standing if that imagined to be six twelve, 247 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.240 you're standing at seven o'clock. That's going to break left 248 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:09.720 to right, and he'll tell you how many inches above 249 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.119 the center of the cup to aim on the zero 250 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:16.000 break line. He wrote a whole series of charts about that. 251 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.319 That's the only book in the whole history of golf 252 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:21.640 ever written about how to read the putt. And it's 253 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:27.680 only Matt all right now. Doctor Gary Wyron wrote the 254 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:31.880 PGA Manual of Instruction nineteen eighty six, and he's an 255 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:35.839 educational psychologist, so he has a little academic background. He 256 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:38.480 restarts reading before he wrote the manual, and he said, whoop, 257 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:44.200 nothing here but this guy from Texas, and he admitted 258 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:47.319 that he didn't know anything about putting, so he quoted 259 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:51.960 the guy in the manual. And that's all he did 260 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.359 for reading putts in the manual. I've met tens of 261 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:01.400 thousands of PJ of America people that took the train, 262 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:07.799 and not a single one of them remembers the name Templeton. Wow, Okay, 263 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:13.519 Now I set up a guy teaching petting using Templeton's system. 264 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.759 His name is Michael Shy. He's from California and he 265 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:24.359 was the Chambeau's coach for a long time. All right, 266 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:29.519 So that's one bucket there ain't nothing in there. The 267 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:34.079 aiming bucket has a little bit about get behind the 268 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.160 ball and use your dominant eye and get behind the 269 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.920 ball and aim the line on the ball, and very 270 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:47.000 little else. Well, there's nothing about how to stand beside 271 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:50.799 the ball and look at a putterface and say, where 272 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:55.160 does that putterface? Ninety degree aim? Go and point at 273 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:59.079 a grass blade twenty three feet away. There was a 274 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:03.920 trick in the fifth and the sixties that nobody today remembers, 275 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:09.039 but it accidentally got it kind of right. But I'm 276 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:12.000 the originator of aiming beside the ball, and I'm the 277 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:16.160 only person that even teaches it. All right, So that's 278 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:17.000 the aim bucket. 279 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:20.759 Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, aim beside the ball. 280 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.680 Yeah, you look at a butterface. You got to know 281 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.079 whether you pointed it correctly at the target. Okay, I'm 282 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:31.799 another one does how to teach it. I checked nobody else. 283 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:39.759 I created that. Okay, Now for the stroke, everybody's got 284 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:43.440 an opinion, just like everybody's got a mouth or another anatomy. 285 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:47.920 Yeah right, right, another forty thousands on the stroke. All right, 286 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:51.119 So forget that bucket. There's a bunch of snakes crawling 287 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:58.920 out of the bucket, toutch bucket. Nothing, there's a sticky 288 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:01.799 way down to the bottom of the bucket. From twenty 289 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:06.240 and ten the ABC broadcast of the British Open from 290 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:11.680 Paul Aisinger watching Tiger Woods. The sticky says, look at 291 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.839 that tiger's touch. You can't teach that. You can't learn that, 292 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:20.720 you have to be born with that. That's the only 293 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:25.559 thing in the whole touch bucket history of golf I checked, 294 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:31.319 all right. Now, when you do that five years of 295 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:33.920 research and you organize all the literature and then you 296 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.160 read it one bucket at a time, you look at 297 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:43.240 golf teachers as kind of dumb. That was from eighteen 298 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:49.319 thirty to two thousand and eight, so that's like seventy 299 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:55.400 one hundred and seventy eight years of research nothing all 300 00:20:55.480 --> 00:21:00.480 right now. At that point I sat about saying, I'm 301 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:02.720 still going to learn how to do it, and I'm 302 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:07.119 going to look in scientists scientifically. What would I need 303 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.759 to know to figure out how to read a putt, 304 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:13.200 how to aim a putter, how to stroke it where 305 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:17.119 you aim, and how to do pace control and everything 306 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:21.359 that I kept thinking about. The words were perception and movement, 307 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.119 And then I said Okay, well, let's study perception and 308 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:32.200 movement in the context of putty. So what you end 309 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:35.640 up with is there's an assortment of science that you 310 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:39.759 need to apply to the skills of putty or the 311 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:44.720 tasks of putting. One is brain science and one is physics. 312 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.079 Then you have to understand something about greens and grass, 313 00:21:51.359 --> 00:22:01.880 and then you have to understand something about human anatomy, perception, brains, physics, movement, 314 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:05.880 all those and I got busy. I'm a busy little 315 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:09.640 obsession conupposed to be, and I've been studying those sciences. 316 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:14.400 I already had fifty years of Okay, now I've got 317 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.319 fifteen thousand books in my house. If you want to 318 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:20.839 challenge me on that, I got fifteen thousand books in 319 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:28.000 my house collecting death, and I got twenty this week. Yes, 320 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:35.440 all right, But when you apply these sciences, you end 321 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:39.640 up saying, man, God, people really need to learn something. 322 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.240 For example, how do you read a putt? If you 323 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:50.319 ask any professional player on the PGA tour, tell the 324 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.880 thirteen year old kid what to do when you read 325 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:59.920 a putt, they got nothing. Nothing. I just watched the 326 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:06.920 big video by Scottie Scheffler yesterday on Golf Digest where 327 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:09.519 he's he and his coach Rick Smith and Dallas are 328 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:13.000 talking about how to read it put and it basically 329 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:17.279 was stand here, stand there, feel something and steady green. 330 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:26.240 The USGA agronomists have been warning golfers that they got 331 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.839 reddy grain in almost everywhere except deepest, darkest South Florida. 332 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:38.799 Since nineteen eighty eighty one, there was a sea change 333 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:43.000 in golf for greens. Different way to build greens so 334 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:47.640 they have healthier grass, healthier root systems, different ways to 335 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.599 mow them and take care of them, birdy cutting, top 336 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:54.839 dressing and criss cross mowing and all that, and better 337 00:23:54.960 --> 00:24:02.920 equipment for mowing the Toro triplex mowers, better care of greens, 338 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:08.480 and that system of lower mowing got it below the 339 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:13.599 height where grain actually matters. And the system of crisscross 340 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:16.799 cutting and verty cutting and top dressing got rid of 341 00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:21.039 grain also, so grain just doesn't have a chance to 342 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:26.799 matter today. And the USGA agronomists have been worning golfers, 343 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:33.799 especially Johnny Miller on NBC, always yacking about the grain. 344 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:38.839 These turplo pros actually believe in the grain on the green. 345 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:44.559 Now it's possible to scrape it, but it's not big 346 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:49.279 enough to matter. Now. What confused them, I think is 347 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:55.160 that the fringes are sharply downhill and longer grass, and 348 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:57.839 they have fringe and if you chip into the grain 349 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:02.359 from the fringe, you killy it. And then they get 350 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:07.079 on the green and they confuse that fringe grain with 351 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:10.400 believing in the grain on the green, when it's really 352 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:17.440 just faster green speed downhill, slow green uphill. So I 353 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:21.599 watched Scottie Scheffler and Rick smith yacking about the grain, 354 00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:24.400 and I'm going that ain't how you read to put. 355 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.039 Then you close, you see where the fall line is. 356 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:34.839 You appreciate the steepness of the slope, You appreciate the 357 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:39.480 green speed. And these words are appreciate. That's what brains do. 358 00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:44.200 They don't look for numbers, and they appreciate that. And 359 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:47.200 then if you put the bass speed in your mind, 360 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:54.400 your brain actually predicts the curve, literally predicts the very 361 00:25:54.559 --> 00:26:02.839 curve that matches the actual physics. Soanes predict physics. All right, now, 362 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:05.119 let me speed this up to you to put a 363 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:07.400 nail right in your forehead right there. 364 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:08.799 Don't heard me? 365 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:15.599 Why animals have brains to predict the world's physics because 366 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:20.160 animals move and plants don't move. Animals have a brain 367 00:26:20.279 --> 00:26:23.519 and plants don't have a brain. And the main purpose 368 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:28.160 that animals have brains is moving is dangerous, and they 369 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:31.720 have to match the physics of their limb motions to 370 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:35.079 the actual requirements of the external physics of the world 371 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:39.839 or they're dead. Okay, now that's the sentence that nobody 372 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:45.400 at Harvard can actually say. They don't get that. The 373 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.920 top neuroscience guy for the brain sense of movement is 374 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:54.599 a French guy named Elaine Beethols. And I've read his books. 375 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:58.599 I'm upseessing compulsive, and I'm way out there. He does 376 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:02.440 not get what I just told you. It's not in 377 00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:06.440 his book. I know what's in the brain, and I 378 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:08.400 know why, and I know how it got there, and 379 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:13.799 I know what it means for paying brains prevent you 380 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:17.799 from running your hogwart little face into the wall of 381 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:24.000 hogwart station. That's magical because nobody can actually do it, 382 00:27:24.039 --> 00:27:29.559 because their brain will stop you. You can't do it. 383 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:36.039 And so for touch control, if you imagine putting past 384 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:40.480 the little hole down downhill on the green is running 385 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:44.839 your faces into a wall, and you imagine pain and injury. 386 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:47.960 Your brain will give you the tank of gas that 387 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:52.759 will not go past it, and then you can't. You 388 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:56.359 load the tanky gas with one tempo and you spend it, 389 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:01.599 and that vigor of the load is preloaded into the 390 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:05.119 muscle that makes your backswing so that it does not 391 00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:07.960 go too big. No such thing as too big of 392 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:09.440 a backstroke when you're athletic. 393 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:20.319 I don't you know. I've been told I overthink it. 394 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.880 The only equipment you've talked about so far in putting. 395 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:29.799 Is lawnmowers. 396 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:33.960 You've not seen anything else about the equipment that we use. 397 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:40.319 That's because golf people are really wacky nuts by the 398 00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:47.880 marketing of putters. Putters don't matter if it's a flat 399 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:50.279 slab at the end of a stick. What's different from 400 00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:54.160 this one to that one? Well, maybe he'll toe waiting, 401 00:28:55.160 --> 00:29:00.440