WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:05.000 For members only. Golf Smarter number three hundred and sixty eight, 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.160 published on January twenty nine, twenty thirteen. 3 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:13.599 Welcome to golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:17.239 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:23.280 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets Old. Our 6 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:28.160 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:31.839 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.200 The first time I ever tested this, and I didn't 9 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:35.840 really know what I was doing at the time, but 10 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.520 I was giving a lesson and we were talking about 11 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:40.280 what makes the ball break more and what makes the 12 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:41.880 ball break lesson the guy looks at me because you 13 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.000 know what, I would really like to know exactly how much. Yeah, 14 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:46.640 I know what breaks more, but what does that mean? 15 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.880 Does that mean three feet or two feet or twelve inches? 16 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.359 So I basically use the same computer software that does 17 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:55.159 the line for TV, and I just had to spit 18 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:56.640 out all these numbers, and I took it out and 19 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.399 tested it, and I only did basic average two percent slow. 20 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.719 And I went out and played eighteen holes and I 21 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:04.640 think I had eleven putts on the front and fourteen 22 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.159 putts on the back, and I had never ever been 23 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.719 below thirty putts. I never made anything outside ten feet. 24 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:11.959 I think I made two or the three putts outside 25 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:14.799 fifteen feet. I made a lot more five six seven footers, 26 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.760 and I remember just thinking, Wow, there's really something to this. 27 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:19.680 I don't really understand it yet, I don't really know 28 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:21.640 how to use it yet, but just the first time 29 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:24.040 I ever tried it, I could not believe how much 30 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:26.719 better my putting was, just knowing what the proper. 31 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:35.239 Break was, how the aim point putting system works. With 32 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:40.079 Mark Sweety, this is Golf Smarter. Welcome back to Golf 33 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:41.480 Smarter for members only. 34 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:41.799 Mark. 35 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.640 Yeah, thanks Fred, and thank. 36 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.280 You again for agreeing to come in for part two 37 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.319 of this, because you know, we talked about the history 38 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:50.560 of it, how you got it started, and what you 39 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.000 did with it. But now, like, what's in. 40 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.799 It for me? Dude? What's in it for me? What's 41 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:55.719 in it for you? 42 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:57.000 As a golfer. 43 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.519 As a golfer, you and I are kind of the same. 44 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.200 You know, we're both we don't play enough golf. We're amateurs. 45 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.680 I didn't come from the golf industry. What's in it 46 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:09.759 for us is that you can actually learn very easily 47 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.240 how to actually regreens. And you know, one of the 48 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.879 big problems I actually my inspiration for starting all this 49 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:17.759 was I went to my instructor at the time and 50 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.520 I was, you know, a terrible putter, and I just said, 51 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.080 how do you learn to regreens? And his answer was, well, 52 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.479 just do it a lot and you'll get better. And 53 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:25.759 the thing that went through my head. 54 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:27.080 This is the age of technology. 55 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.919 Yeah, at the time, I was probably you know, mid thirties. 56 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:32.759 I was like, I don't have a lot of time. 57 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.800 I was like, if I play once a week, it's 58 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.280 a great week. I don't have time. And I know, 59 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.560 you know tour players who are forty and they still 60 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.319 don't understand greens. How do I ever possibly think I'm 61 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:45.840 going to get this? And it just completely, you know, 62 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.439 frustrated me. And you know, my technical side is when well, 63 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.800 that's not good enough. It can't be that difficult. It 64 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:53.360 just can't be that difficult to figure out. 65 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:54.840 When you said you were in your mid thirties, you're 66 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:56.319 talking about your age or your handicap. 67 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:03.120 My age. Yes, I didn't start playing golf at five 68 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.080 like most tour players, you know, I started golf at 69 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.000 the thirty or late twenties, and I was like, I 70 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:11.120 just that just doesn't work for me, don't. I don't 71 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:12.719 accept that, do you. 72 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:17.120 So let's let's pursue this. How does this work? How 73 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.120 is this going to make me a better putter? And 74 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.840 then we have a long No one simple, I want detail. 75 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:24.439 We have a long time to talk about this. Let's 76 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:25.159 get into detail with. 77 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:29.000 This, okay. So reading greens is very simple because there's 78 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.199 a few factors that completely control break, or at least 79 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:36.400 ninety seven ninety eight percent. Break is controlled by gravity. 80 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.319 Gravity is a consistent force everywhere in the world. Everywhere 81 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.400 you go, it's always the same. And so if you 82 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.080 understand a few basic rules, you can very very accurately 83 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:48.159 predict what the ball is going to do ahead of time. 84 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:50.800 So it's really you know, if you think about high 85 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.400 school physics, If you hold a ball up at your 86 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.039 shoulder and you drop it, how long is it takes 87 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.039 hit the ground? Well, it takes about a half a 88 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.719 second every time you do it. Everywhere in the world. 89 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.000 If I hold both my arms out at shoulder height 90 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:02.479 and drop two balls, they hit the ground at the 91 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.800 same time. There's no question whatsoever, that that's always what's 92 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.159 going to happen. Now, for some reason, you get on 93 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.400 the putting green and people say, yeah, but the ball 94 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:15.560 breaks uphill in Indio in palm desert. Well, no, it's 95 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:18.000 to think about what you're saying. If you actually think 96 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.519 the ball breaks uphill, what you're saying is gravity. The 97 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.240 force of gravity reverses. 98 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.720 Itself in palm desert. That makes sense, and. 99 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:27.680 Palm does that make sense? Or wherever you go, And 100 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.399 you know, it's just not possible. It's physically impossible for 101 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.639 gravity not to have the same effect. And you know, 102 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.480 some very intelligent people will say, yeah, but it's a 103 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.480 little bit different in certain parts of the world. Yes, 104 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.160 it's minutely different, but not enough for us to tell 105 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.560 the difference putting a ball. So anyway, long story short, 106 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.279 is the first thing we do is we just teach 107 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.759 golfers here's what controls break and believe it or not. 108 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.600 I've asked that question to just about every student I've 109 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.519 ever had, and everybody from new golfers, the tour players, 110 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.800 and maybe one in two hundred people will give you 111 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.759 a fairly close answer, maybe one to two hundred, and 112 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.079 tour players even at tour player level. You say, what 113 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:11.240 causes break? They don't really know. I mean they know, Yeah, 114 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.800 it's slope and it's gravity, but that's that's where it ends. 115 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:17.680 There's nothing more specific than that. And that's not enough information. 116 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.639 I need to know more information. Yes, I know, if 117 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.000 their slope, the ball may or may not break. It 118 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:24.680 may break a little, it might break a lot. But 119 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.519 that's not good enough. I need to know from I 120 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.199 have a ten foot putt, is a break one inch 121 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.439 or or thirty six inches? How do I know that? 122 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:33.920 And so what we do is we just start off 123 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:35.839 in the beginning, Well, what causes break? Well, if the 124 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.800 ball is tilted to the side, then it's going to 125 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.279 fall to the side. So literally, just imagine taking a 126 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:42.959 ball and tilting it to the left. What's it going 127 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:44.319 to do. It's going to roll to the left. 128 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:45.920 Wait a minute, what does that mean? Well, how do 129 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:47.519 you mean tilt a ball to the left. 130 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:51.680 Well, imagine if you put a ball on a table, okay, 131 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:53.560 and you just tilt the table to the left, the 132 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:54.920 ball is going to roll to the left. 133 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:58.600 Okay, not the ball, but the where the ball is sitting. 134 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.319 Well, yes, yeah, the ground that the surface of the 135 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.439 ball is touching and it's tilted to the side, then 136 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:06.720 the ball will roll off to the side. Okay, And 137 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:08.879 that's it. That's what break is. Break It fundamentally is 138 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.920 just the ball falling sideways. So you can tilt the 139 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.839 ball forward or backwards, like if you're going straight up 140 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.600 the hill or straight down a hill, in which case 141 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:19.959 it might go faster or slower. But it's not breaking, 142 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.879 is it. It's it's it's rolling straight. The minute I 143 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.240 tilt the ball or the surface to the left or 144 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.720 to the right, it will the ball will fall to 145 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:29.079 the side. 146 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:34.240 But how do you determine how much? Okay? 147 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:35.839 So that's the next piece. So the first part is 148 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.920 why does the ball break break being defined? Has the 149 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:43.160 ball falling sideways or laterally? Well, it falls the side 150 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:45.800 because it's tilted to the side. Well, how much tilt 151 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.240 there is and how long the ball is rolling determines 152 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:52.240 exactly how much break there is. Okay. So if you 153 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:54.959 tilt the ball forty five degrees to the left and 154 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:57.199 let it roll for two seconds, it's going to break 155 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.720 x amount. And that's just math. It's just pure your physics, 156 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.720 you know, high school physics. A ball rolling down an 157 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.959 inclined plane will roll a certain distance or break a 158 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:09.959 certain amount. So now that sounds complicated, but the way 159 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.000 it actually works as a golfer is very simple. There's 160 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.319 three things I have to know to exactly predict break. 161 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.800 I have to know how long the putt is, five, ten, 162 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.040 fifteen feet, whatever, how the length of the putt. I 163 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.160 have to know how steep the slope is that I'm 164 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:25.560 putting across. And then finally I have to know what 165 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.800 angle I'm putting across the slope. And you can do 166 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.759 all those in five to ten seconds. Literally, just distance 167 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:34.800 is easy. I walk up to the putt, it's fifteen feet, okay, 168 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:36.439 no problem. Now what do I have to do? I 169 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:39.399 have to find the true direction of the slope. I 170 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.800 have to estimate how steep it is, which is actually 171 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.319 much easier than people think. And then I simply look 172 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.240 at the ball and see what angle it's rolling. Is 173 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.360 it rolling straight up the slope or is a rolling 174 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.839 ninety degrees directly across the slope. And then those three 175 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:57.759 things translate into a specific break amount. So, for example, 176 00:07:57.959 --> 00:07:59.879 I'm ten feet across an average slope, it's going to 177 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.079 be six inches fifteen feet It's going to break twelve inches. 178 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.040 It's just pure math. 179 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.199 Well, what is that formula that you said six inches? 180 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:12.279 Well, the formula, the formula, the actual formula is very complicated, 181 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.600 but you, as a player, you don't need to know that. 182 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.319 So what we do is we give you basically a 183 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:18.839 chart where you just look up. It looks like a 184 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:21.879 clock face. Roughly, you just say, here's my ball. I'm 185 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.839 putting twenty feet across this slope at at ninety degrees, 186 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:28.959 so directly across the slope. If it's a flat slope, 187 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.279 it'll break seven inches. If it's an average slope, it'll 188 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:35.000 break seventeen inches. And you're literally just looking up the number. 189 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.679 You're not doing any math yourself at all. It's just 190 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:40.600 pre printed. It's like me saying, here's a chart. If 191 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.639 you drop the ball from three feet, it'll take x 192 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:44.399 amount of time. If you drop it from ten feet, 193 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.639 it'll break y amount of time. It's just a look up. 194 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.759 So the skill as a golfer is finding slope. It's 195 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:52.879 really just all about finding slope. Because if I can 196 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.120 find the slope, in other words, which way is it 197 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:59.080 pointing and how steep it is, then the break is 198 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:02.480 just plug in play. It's very very straightforward if you 199 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.600 can find slope. So the biggest thing we teach is 200 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:05.840 here's how you find slope. 201 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:11.240 And then you come across a long putt with multiple breaks. 202 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.320 Then you just break it up into pieces. So if 203 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:16.159 I have a double breaking putt, I'll break it up 204 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.840 into let's say two to three pieces and just read 205 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.559 each piece and add them up. And even that, I 206 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:24.639 mean I could, I could. You know, I could read 207 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.000 a seventy foot putt in thirty to forty seconds, I 208 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.320 mean down to the inch, no matter, no matter how 209 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:32.080 many slopes are involved. 210 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.120 How good have you become at putting since you've started this? 211 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:44.559 Well, the first time I ever tested this, and I 212 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.360 didn't really know what I was doing at the time, 213 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.600 but I was giving a lesson and we were talking about, well, 214 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:51.679 what makes the ball break more? And what breaks the 215 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:53.559 makes the ball break lesson? He looked, the guy looks 216 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:54.799 at me and goes, you know what I would really 217 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:57.639 like to know exactly how much? Like, Yeah, I know 218 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:59.360 what breaks more? But what does that mean? Does that 219 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:04.360 mean feet or two feet or twelve inches? So I 220 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.559 basically used the same computer software that does the line 221 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.559 for TV, and I just had it spit out all 222 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.120 these numbers, and I took it out and tested it, 223 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:12.600 and I only did one slope, So I just did 224 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.200 a basic average two and a half. I think it's 225 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.559 a two percent slope. And I went out and played 226 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:21.639 eighteen holes, and I think I had eleven puts on 227 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.679 the front and fourteen puts on the back. And I 228 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.000 had never ever, ever been below thirty putts, and I 229 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:29.279 never made anything outside ten feet. I think I made 230 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:32.840 two or three puts outside fifteen feet, made a lot 231 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:36.519 more five six seven footers, And I remember just thinking, Wow, 232 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.399 there's really something to this. I don't really understand it yet. 233 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:41.440 I don't really know how to use it yet. But 234 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:43.759 just the first time I ever tried it, I could 235 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.320 not believe how much better my putting was. Just knowing 236 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.519 what the proper brake was. How much should this ball break? Well, 237 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.279 if you ask most people, they just go, I don't know, 238 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:54.360 you know, I'll just look at it and take my 239 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.200 best gass. Well, there's actually a very very clear formula. 240 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:00.399 And I don't like to use the word formulacause you're math, 241 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.679 but there's a very clear relationship between slope and break, 242 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:05.519 and so if you understand the slope. The brake is 243 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:10.519 very simple because I basically just you know, the software 244 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.480 will the physics engine will tell you what the break is. 245 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:15.919 This pre printed chart we have to I'll just tell 246 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.240 you this putt will break twenty inches, this put will 247 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:21.360 break six Ince is based on how long the putt is, 248 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:23.879 how much slope, and finally what angle you're putting across 249 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:24.480 the slope. 250 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:28.399 Are there no other X factors involved? I would think 251 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:32.559 that there are numerous. Well, there are factors involved actors. 252 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.600 So green speed is very important, so you have to. 253 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:35.840 Do right first. 254 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:40.000 One important so as green speed gets faster, the ball 255 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:44.159 breaks more. So for example, if I asked you, why 256 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.759 does a plot break more at stimp twelve then doesn't 257 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.039 stamp eight? What would you say? Because this. 258 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:51.480 It's moving faster. 259 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:53.759 The ball's moving faster. 260 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.080 Right, do that again? 261 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.879 What so the green ball, a putt on a fast green, 262 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.360 breaks more than a putt on a slow green. Okay 263 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:06.639 A right, So part of you know our education is 264 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:09.639 well why is that? Yes, we all kind of experienced that, 265 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:10.240 but why. 266 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:13.039 I'm not going to answer. 267 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:17.440 I'm going to let you do that the answer is simple, 268 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:20.639 because the ball is rolling for longer the ball, putt 269 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.840 takes more time. So anything that increases the time of 270 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:27.600 a putt increases the break. So what increases time green 271 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:30.320 speed changes the time of a putt. The length of 272 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.320 the putt changes the time of the putt. How hard 273 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:33.960 you hit the putt changes the time of a putt. 274 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.399 But it's all really boils down to time. So you're 275 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:38.639 just you're tilting the ball sideways and you're rolling it 276 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:43.039 for a certain amount of time, and that equals break. Okay, 277 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.519 so how do we use that. We set the green speed. 278 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.840 Let's say it's running ten today, okay, so our green 279 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:52.200 speed's ten. The only the biggest other factor is really wind. 280 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.360 I mean, yes, there's pitch marks and potential imperfections to green, 281 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:59.080 but there's nothing you can do about that anyway. It's 282 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.759 completely out of your control. So what we do is say, 283 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:06.200 here's how much the ball should break. The imperfections you 284 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:09.759 can't control them anyway, and in my experiences, they rarely 285 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.159 really cause you to miss a putt. They might deflect 286 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:15.519 the ball a little bit, but it's not enough that 287 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:17.440 you can really get worked up about it. 288 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:23.960 And when I learned this method, this system, what do 289 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:25.159 you call it a method or a system. 290 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:28.120 I call it. 291 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:29.039 I'm sorry you what. 292 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:32.759 I've called it both before. Yeah, it's it's it's a method, 293 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:34.919 but it's also really a curriculum. I mean, there there's 294 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.960 a that says here A plus B plus C equals break. 295 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:40.279 But but it's you know, any point is more than 296 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:44.879 just the method it's teaching you. It's really it's a curriculum, 297 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.759 like any subject in school's a curriculum. How much do 298 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:49.360 you want to know about green reading? We can do 299 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:52.240 everything from very basics. Here's how much you know a 300 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.600 ten foot putt breaks to really understanding you know, the 301 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:58.279 underlying geometry or break, which gets you know, kind of 302 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.039 PhD level. But you can take it as far as 303 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:04.399 you want to take it, you know, like like you know, 304 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:07.720 like finance or like geometry or like you know, art history, 305 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.679 whatever it is. You can go as deep as you want. 306 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.519 But you really only need a couple hours to have 307 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.480 a really pretty fundamental understanding of break and to be 308 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.000 able to use it as a player. 309 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:21.279 And how do you use it as a player? I mean, 310 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.639 do you do you when you're on the course, how 311 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:26.360 do you use it? 312 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:30.440 So the process is this, you have a putt. First 313 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.519 question is how long is the putt. You can determine 314 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.360 that just walking up to it. Some people walk their 315 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:38.399 putts off, which is fine, but just you need to 316 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:41.080 have some pretty good estimation of how long the putt is. 317 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.320 So you do that walking up to the putt. And 318 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.840 then my process is is, let's say have a twenty 319 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.240 foot putt, you walk up to it, and you find 320 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.519 the slope using your feel. So we use very very 321 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:54.559 little vision in our Green rating. Use vision for how 322 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.279 long the putt is, and you use vision for seeing 323 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.879 what angle you're putting across the slope. But finding this 324 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.759 slope itself is ninety nine percent feel based. So we're 325 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.600 actually a lot of times when we train people as 326 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.759 we shut down their eyes, we make them close their 327 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.440 eyes and find slope only using their sense of feel 328 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:12.639 and their sense of balance. And when you do that 329 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.120 to somebody, they usually find it correctly every single time. 330 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:17.919 The hard part was with using your vision is that 331 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.840 vision is interpretive of slope, so it's trying to figure 332 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:25.759 out slope based on the horizon and buildings and trees 333 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.759 and vertical references, and it's not accurate. So if you've 334 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:31.519 ever been into a funhouse. You know how easy it 335 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.960 is to trick yourself and fall on your face because 336 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:36.960 they take everything and they skew the angles and you 337 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.639 really can't quite figure out what's up and what's down. 338 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:42.720 So we just take out of the equation. We say 339 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:44.120 we're not going to look for slope, We're going to 340 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:46.799 feel slope. And once you've done that, you're ninety percent 341 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:47.480 done with your read. 342 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.200 And so when you're saying now, I'm still I want 343 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.440 to define that when you say feel is like not 344 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:54.639 with their hands. They're not crawling around on the ground, 345 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:55.080 are they. 346 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.720 It's just walking. When you walk, your body is automatically 347 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:01.840 adjusting the slope constantly, otherwise you'd fall on your face. 348 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.679 Right, And you're doing this with your eyes closed. 349 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.600 A lot of times we train with your eyes closed. 350 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:08.159 I mean when you're actually playing, you you know you 351 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.279 don't do it with your eyes closed, But we want 352 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.200 to activate your sense of feel because your body has 353 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.159 a built in. You know, on your iPhone there's an 354 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:19.200 accelerometer which basically tells it if it's tilted left, right, 355 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:21.759 up or down. Well, he has that built in, so 356 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:23.720 you learn it when you're an infant and your mom 357 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.399 puts you down and sits you in a sitting position. 358 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:27.679 You fall in your face or you're fall in the 359 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.879 back of your head, and your body learns how to 360 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.720 keep itself upright. Well. When we're walking around during the day, 361 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.320 we're always walking on tilted surfaces, whether it's your driveway 362 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.639 or the golf course or a staircase, whatever, your body 363 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:46.080 is constantly adjusting to an uneven surface. And it's very, very, 364 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:49.600 very highly developed, and it's largely conscious because we do 365 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.919 it so much. But we can use that same that 366 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:55.879 same sense to find slope on a golf green. So 367 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.960 we teach you is to learn by basically feeling. You're 368 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:01.360 in your feet and you in your your sense of 369 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.680 balance where is the slope. So if you stand across 370 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.680 the slope, you can sense that. If you know your 371 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:09.359 right foot's high and your left pots slow, you can 372 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:11.720 feel that as you turn your body, your feet will 373 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.359 become level. One's not higher than the other. And if 374 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.839 your feet or level, it means you're facing directly into 375 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.119 the slope. So we just teach you how to walk 376 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:23.160 in and align your body straight up the slope. And 377 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:27.039 it's like I said, it's ninety five percent feel We 378 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.880 actually have a training exercise for students where will We'll 379 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:32.480 have them close their eyes and do the entire read 380 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.279 and hit the butt with their eyes clows and their 381 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.559 reeds are as good or better than if their eyes 382 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.599 are open. Wow. 383 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.200 Okay, so you figure out how long? You figure out 384 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.480 the slope through feel, and that's it. 385 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.079 Yeah. Well, so you're basically you're basically just pointing your 386 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.279 toe up the slope. The biggest part is you have 387 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.480 to you have to estimate how steep the slope is, 388 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:59.680 and so let's just say flat, average or steep. Once 389 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:01.839 you do that, you simply look at your ball and 390 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.839 that will show you what angles. It's a little bit 391 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:10.680 harder to describe on verbally, but you can. You can 392 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.960 determine very simply if your if your chest is pointing 393 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:16.000 straight up the slope and the ball is across your 394 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:19.519 right shoulder, that's a ninety degree angle. Okay, So your 395 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.440 your toes are facing straight up, and as the ball 396 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.559 comes across your shoulders, the angle gets bigger and bigger. 397 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.079 So if it's straight across my shoulder, it's ninety degrees 398 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:30.039 across the slope. And then I simply just look up 399 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:32.920 the brake So if I have that twenty foot putt 400 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.559 and I think it's an average slope, and I look 401 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:37.400