1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: For members only. Golf Smarter number three hundred and eighty three, 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,679 published on May seven, twenty thirteen. 3 00:00:07,879 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 2: Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,559 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:22,600 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our 6 00:00:22,719 --> 00:00:27,480 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,160 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 3: You can make every put if your definition of making 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,200 a putt is getting it started just the way you 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,359 want it, and if you do, that's all you can control. 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,719 After that, all you can do to root for it. 12 00:00:41,719 --> 00:00:44,439 It's like a relay race. Fred. In a relay race, 13 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:46,719 what is your job? You have a two person race, 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,520 and you go first. Your first job is to run 15 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:51,920 your leg of the race the best you can. That's 16 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,079 your stroke in putting. Once the putter head gets to 17 00:00:55,119 --> 00:00:57,640 the ball, that's the same thing as your hand off 18 00:00:57,679 --> 00:01:00,960 of the baton. After you've handed off the baton, that's 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,520 your transfer of energy from the potter head to the ball. 20 00:01:03,759 --> 00:01:06,079 All you want to focus on is making a good handoff. 21 00:01:06,239 --> 00:01:08,760 What happens if you're looking at the finish line. While 22 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,359 you're trying to hand off the baton, it's gonna be 23 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,680 a bad handoff. Maybe you'll drop it. And what if 24 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,319 you don't trust the person and you don't let go 25 00:01:16,599 --> 00:01:18,879 after you hand off the baton, you keep running along 26 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,519 with them and hold the baton. That's not gonna help them. 27 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,439 If you hand off the baton but you don't trust 28 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:25,719 them and you give them a shove towards the finish line, 29 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,079 that's not going to help them either. The off that's 30 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,760 exactly your partner in this relay races the ball. All 31 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:34,680 you want to do is make a good handoff and 32 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,640 get it started. After that, it's the ball's job to 33 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:38,200 find the hole. 34 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: That's the secret to it in Golf's game within the game. 35 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,359 Part two with Doctor Joseph Parent. 36 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: This is Golf Smarter. 37 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only, Doctor Joe. 38 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: Hi, Fred, great to be with you again and again. 39 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,719 Speaker 1: I really appreciate the additional time that you're providing for us, 40 00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:04,599 all because you have an Eastern wisdom about you that 41 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,680 we like to bring with us to the golf course 42 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,719 every time. Thank you, that was not patronizing. I really 43 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:11,280 believe that. 44 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:14,759 Speaker 3: Well, we've been doing this for a long time and 45 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,199 I appreciate it. 46 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, we have as do. I all right, this new 47 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,560 book really really good. You know, if I can just 48 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,039 do a podcast on putting every single week, I would 49 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:30,800 because I find it to be so important. I mean, 50 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,080 it's got to be right because even on the scorecard 51 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,479 they give you two strokes, you know, for. 52 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 3: True, that's true when you think of what the you 53 00:02:39,039 --> 00:02:42,240 know what par is, it's how many shots. 54 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: It's thirty six shots on the course and thirty six 55 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:46,840 on the putting green. 56 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,479 Speaker 3: How many shots it would typically take to get to 57 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,520 the green plus two for putting right, So that's half 58 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,159 year round, right exactly. 59 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: So you know, but because of my attention issues, I 60 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:02,039 couldn't do a podcast on putting every week. I got 61 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,080 to vary the topics or I'd go out of my mind. 62 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,719 Speaker 3: Absolutely. Well, there's a lot, there's you know, there's a 63 00:03:07,759 --> 00:03:10,639 lot more to golf to it than than just putting. 64 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,680 But but it really is where the mental game comes 65 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,159 in the most. And that's what I end up working 66 00:03:17,199 --> 00:03:20,039 with students the most on is short gaming putting. 67 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,159 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean we've had people from U and 68 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:25,560 I've I've always wanted to get You mentioned doctor Craig's 69 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,560 Craig Farnsworth because I just recently we did a show 70 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:33,439 on Lakina the JD the general manager there, he was 71 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:36,199 on the show. I played around down there, and I 72 00:03:36,199 --> 00:03:39,520 would love to get doctor Craig on. And we have 73 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:43,120 We've talked about aim point, We've we have Jeff Mangum. 74 00:03:43,199 --> 00:03:47,080 So we talk a lot about putting because it is 75 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,400 so critically important and I think one of the things 76 00:03:50,479 --> 00:03:55,319 that more I see more people struggling with than anything 77 00:03:55,599 --> 00:03:59,280 is reading the greens. Do you hold the putter in 78 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:01,599 front of your and try to make it, you know, 79 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:05,840 a plumb bob line, or do you you crawl around 80 00:04:05,879 --> 00:04:09,000 on the ground and you know, do these bizarre positions 81 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:15,080 and reading the greens is is probably harder than stroking 82 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:15,479 the ball. 83 00:04:16,879 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I have a particular approach to reading 84 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:23,759 greens that I think is very very helpful. And then 85 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,399 then I have something in the in my routine that 86 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,600 lets people get better at reading greens as they play. 87 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:35,560 I think that's the really special thing that I offer. Yeah, 88 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:40,920 but the starting perspective is I like to quote Jack 89 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,279 Nicholas who said, I start reading the green from fifty 90 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,279 yards away, and that is looking at the overall lay 91 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,279 of the land. I start even sooner than that. I 92 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:52,439 start before I go out for the round. If it's 93 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,639 a new course, I go to the pro shop and 94 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,800 I ask somebody there is there any Is there any 95 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,879 direction that almost all the greens in the course tend 96 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:07,000 to break towards. For example, out in you were talking 97 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,120 about Lakinta out in the Coachelli Valley with palm desert 98 00:05:10,199 --> 00:05:14,319 and palm springs, everything breaks towards the east. They say 99 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,839 towards India, which is the farthest east town in the valley, 100 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,480 but it's actually breaking towards the salt and sea, this 101 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:24,160 very low body of water out east of the valley. 102 00:05:25,079 --> 00:05:28,480 When you go to Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades 103 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:32,040 where they have the Los Angeles Open, everything breaks towards 104 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,240 the sixth green and the seventh tee, that corner of 105 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,040 the golf course away from the clubhouse, which is way 106 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,600 up on a hill. So you want to know the 107 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:46,160 overall lay of the land and any particular major direction 108 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,519 that the course. We just were at the Masters. Every 109 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,680 putt breaks towards Ray's Creek at the Masters. And if 110 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,079 you know that it helps. It makes a difference in 111 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,639 how you read the putts. So you start before you 112 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,680 even get on the course. So what's the overall landscape? 113 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,120 Are there mountains in one direction? Is the ocean in 114 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:09,079 one direction? Then you come in closer, and then you say, okay, 115 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,480 for this particular green, where is the high point around 116 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:17,040 the green? Is there? You know? Is there a creek nearby? 117 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,639 Is there a pond to one side? And look around 118 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,160 the edge of the green where there are bunkers. Golf 119 00:06:24,199 --> 00:06:27,720 course designers don't They don't want the water to run 120 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,680 through a bunker when it's draining off the green, So 121 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,439 the drain place will be a place away from the bunkers. 122 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,959 And not only that, wherever you have a bunker, people 123 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,759 have been hitting sand out onto the green, so they've 124 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,680 essentially been top dressing it every day. And the level 125 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,360 of the green near the bunkers gets a little bit higher, 126 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,120 So know that balls are going to break a little 127 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,480 bit away from the bunkers. So this way you go 128 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,959 from outside to end and then you get and then 129 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,879 you start looking at the area around your putt. But 130 00:06:57,959 --> 00:06:59,920 you take all these other factors into account. 131 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: First, how often when you have gone into the pro 132 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,439 shop and asked them about the general direction of where 133 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:11,199 balls will will break towards. Have they ever said the 134 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,199 sprinkler drain the drainage? I mean because when I've I've 135 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,000 talked to golf course architects and asked him about that 136 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,839 kind of thing, and they said, it's always gonna there's 137 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:23,160 no such thing as a flat green because it's gotta 138 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,319 it's got a drain and it's gonna drain too, you know, 139 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:29,959 I mean, do they do they make the drainage in 140 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:30,879 that same direction? 141 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,839 Speaker 3: Is oh? Not necessarily not. It doesn't necessarily match the 142 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:42,399 overall Yeah, slope of the of the golf course. Every holes, 143 00:07:42,519 --> 00:07:45,680 every hole is different in that way. So so the 144 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:50,199 way that it's designed, it doesn't necessarily match. But you 145 00:07:50,279 --> 00:07:55,519 have to take all these factors. It's almost like vectors 146 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:58,800 or arrows that you say, well, i've got some of 147 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:01,560 it going in that direction, and then there's this counter 148 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,879 force going in this direction. Oh, you know, I think 149 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,120 they even out and it's really going to be straight. 150 00:08:06,959 --> 00:08:10,360 So you can work with that. But the most important 151 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:14,519 thing is once you've read the green, and once you've 152 00:08:14,519 --> 00:08:17,879 read your putt, you make a commitment to get it 153 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,680 started on the line that you saw. And if you 154 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,439 roll it on the line and it doesn't do what 155 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,800 you thought, this is where learning can come in. And 156 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:28,879 this is what I teach in the book How to 157 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,639 Make Every Putt. I talk about the post shot routine, 158 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:37,240 which is if after your putt, you made your putt, 159 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:39,799 it got started and going okay, this should turn out 160 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,759 really well, and then it turns either in the opposite direction, 161 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,759 or it doesn't move the way you thought it would, 162 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,840 or it goes way past where you thought or way 163 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:52,639 short of where you thought. Then you say, huh, okay, 164 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:55,559 I hit the putt that I thought was going to 165 00:08:56,639 --> 00:08:59,360 get to the hole, but it went a different direction. 166 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:06,559 Didn't I see about the slope or the grain or 167 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,080 the direction of the break or what did I see 168 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,039 that wasn't there? And I have what's called I have 169 00:09:14,159 --> 00:09:18,840 you be what's called the objective detective. So you drop 170 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:22,960 your emotion about having missed the putt and you say, okay, 171 00:09:23,399 --> 00:09:27,000 I'm over that. Now what can I learn from this? Okay? 172 00:09:27,039 --> 00:09:28,960 I thought it was going to keep breaking and it 173 00:09:29,039 --> 00:09:33,799 straightened out. Okay, I see, So that means the fall 174 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:36,799 line was kind of in this direction. I need to 175 00:09:36,919 --> 00:09:40,200 remember that, so that I just put to the fall line. 176 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,519 I don't think it's going to break across the fall line. 177 00:09:42,879 --> 00:09:45,799 And I talk about that in a chapter called Rivers 178 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,360 and Fountains that talks about the pattern of how putts 179 00:09:49,399 --> 00:09:51,080 break uphill and downhill. 180 00:09:51,799 --> 00:09:53,639 Speaker 1: Excellent is that one of the chapters that has a 181 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,480 QR code that we can see a video as well. 182 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 3: That is in how to make every put in the 183 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,879 section on reading Green is a chapter called Rivers and Fountains, 184 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,440 and there is a QR square or code that you 185 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,919 can scan in to your device or smartphone and it'll 186 00:10:11,919 --> 00:10:15,159 take you to a video that I demonstrate, and you'll 187 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,960 see a downhill putt that is cur curving, curving and 188 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,919 then straightens out and doesn't keep curving, which is what 189 00:10:23,039 --> 00:10:26,120 downhillputs tend to do. Once they like a river, once 190 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:28,799 it finds its fall line straight down towards the ocean, 191 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,960 it just goes straight. And then uphill putts they might 192 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,360 go straight, but like a fountain, the water in a 193 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,480 fountain wants to turn around and go back to the 194 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:41,559 earth any direction it can. Uphill puts straight, straight, straight, 195 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,679 and just before they get to the hole, they break 196 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,559 across and curve away in front, so you need to 197 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,840 be able to recognize that pattern and read the green 198 00:10:49,919 --> 00:10:50,120 for that. 199 00:10:56,799 --> 00:10:59,759 Speaker 1: Well, let's stay on that. Section two. Those are the 200 00:10:59,759 --> 00:11:02,840 bread from the new book How to Make Every put 201 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:08,240 by Doctor Joseph Parrot, and it starts with the secret 202 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,279 to reading greens, the lay of the land, take the 203 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:16,080 high road. You talk about putting a scorecard over half 204 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:16,519 the hole. 205 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 3: That's right now. 206 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,879 Speaker 1: That that intrigued me. I've never heard of that before. 207 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:22,960 Give me the details on that one, because I thought 208 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,840 that was really fascinating. 209 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,519 Speaker 3: Okay, well, you know, if you're looking at the whole 210 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:32,879 golf hole, you don't get to focus on the high 211 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:35,200 side quite so much. So let's say you have a 212 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,320 right to left breaking putt and you're gonna put it 213 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,480 up the hill and it's going to come back down 214 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:44,679 and go in the right side of the hole. That's 215 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,879 the place you want to be looking at for your read. 216 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:50,399 So you cover the bottom half of the hole with 217 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:51,240 a scorecard. 218 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: You say, I need to define bottom here are you talking. 219 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 3: About edge of the lower the edge of the scorecard. 220 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,960 I'll try to describe it as I do in the book. 221 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:05,720 The edge of the scorecard points straight across the center 222 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,440 of the hole and points straight at your ball. Okay, 223 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,440 so if it was a dead straight putt, you would 224 00:12:13,639 --> 00:12:17,759 hit right. The ball would hit right at the place 225 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:21,039 where the scorecard is at the front edge of the hole. 226 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,200 But you're looking at breaking putts, so the high side 227 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,200 will be open, the low side closed by the scorecard. 228 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,279 Speaker 1: And the advantage of this. 229 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,759 Speaker 3: The advantage of it is you see yourself trying to 230 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:41,279 put it in the high side, the effective center of 231 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:45,240 the hole shifts up to the high side of the hole, 232 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,960 and you say, that's where I want the ball, crossing 233 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,559 the edge up there, and that gives you more room. 234 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,960 And you know, Bobby Jones talked about this nearly one 235 00:12:55,039 --> 00:12:57,679 hundred years ago. He says, you know, a ball turning 236 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:00,759 towards the hole is much more likely to go in, 237 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:03,240 and that means coming from the high side, then a 238 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,240 ball turning away from the hole. And once it turns 239 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:08,480 away from the hole and rolls down the low side, 240 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,320 every inch it rolls it takes it farther from the hole. 241 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,840 So if you roll a couple of puts at the 242 00:13:13,879 --> 00:13:16,679 same pace, and one curls around the hole above it 243 00:13:17,159 --> 00:13:20,080 on the high side, and one misses the hole below it. 244 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:24,159 The putt that misses the hole below the hole is 245 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,519 going to roll a whole lot farther away. I mean, 246 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,759 that's why they call the high side the pro side 247 00:13:28,799 --> 00:13:31,120 and the low side of the hole the amateur side. Sure, 248 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,240 there's a reason for it. It's better try to play 249 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:37,960 as much break as you possibly can and still have 250 00:13:38,039 --> 00:13:40,679 the ball trickle in just into the top side of 251 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:42,120 the hole, the high side of the hole. 252 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: How do we amateurs misread it in the sense of 253 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,879 not giving it enough break? 254 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 3: Well, almost always that's the most common thing. And I 255 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,799 think that the way they describe putts on TV actually 256 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,639 is misguiding. And they say, I think it's just going 257 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,919 to you know, it's one cup out or two balls 258 00:14:06,919 --> 00:14:10,559 out to the right. It's really usually much much more 259 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,639 than that, but that's how they describe it. I was 260 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:18,039 once at the Masters coaching VJ and we were standing 261 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,600 on the green and he was putting this on the 262 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:25,480 practice screen on a very severely sloping part, and I 263 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,559 said to his caddy, you need to tell him to 264 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,720 aim at this spot because that's really how much break 265 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:35,679 is going to happen here. And he says, there is 266 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,039 no way that I'm going to tell VJ that there's 267 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,159 two and a half feet of break on a four 268 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:46,960 foot putt, But there was. It was really true. Wow, 269 00:14:47,279 --> 00:14:49,279 I said, then just tell him to play enough break 270 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:53,440 for it to fall in the absolute top of the hole. 271 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:55,879 And that worked for him. 272 00:14:56,279 --> 00:14:56,799 Speaker 1: Interesting. 273 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,159 Speaker 3: So what happens for amateurs is they aim, you know, 274 00:15:02,279 --> 00:15:04,279 one or two balls to the right of the hole, 275 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,559 but then when they make their stroke, they push the 276 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:11,080 putt out towards the break or pull it across and 277 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:14,000 give it more break, and then they think they did 278 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 it right, and that's just going to be very inconsistent. 279 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,960 What I would like you to do is read plenty 280 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,679 of break and hit a straight putt right at the 281 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:29,600 point where you know that you're aiming for that amount 282 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,000 of break. Then if you've played too much break, it's 283 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:39,480 easier to gear down than it is to aim higher. Yes, 284 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:42,080 so that's one of the exercises I give. I say, 285 00:15:42,519 --> 00:15:46,440 aim way up high, aim for tons of break, and 286 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:49,080 see that it only gets within a foot of the hole. 287 00:15:49,559 --> 00:15:52,080 Then gear it down a couple of inches. See where 288 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,559 that ends up. And that'll help you see how much 289 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,240 break you can play and still get to the hole 290 00:15:58,519 --> 00:16:00,279 and that's the ideal amount that you one. 291 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is just a personal preference 292 00:16:04,159 --> 00:16:06,639 thing or it's something that should be taught this way. 293 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,440 It's just an individual When I when I'm looking at 294 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,279 the line, uh unputting and someone says, yeah, it's just 295 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,080 like one one cup to the right, you know, I don't. 296 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,559 I don't aim it for that spot. 297 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 3: You know. 298 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: At the whole what I try to visualize is the 299 00:16:27,159 --> 00:16:29,919 entire line. And we talked about this earlier, the entire 300 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,879 line that the ball will roll on, and I look 301 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:35,679 for the apex. I look for the point where I 302 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:38,759 think it's gonna be the highest spot and then it's gonna, 303 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,240 you know, then start going back towards the hole. So 304 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,679 I kind of putt to that way, to that direction. 305 00:16:45,279 --> 00:16:48,879 Speaker 3: I think that that's good. Uh. One of the dangers 306 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:52,519 of that is if you if the apex is near you, 307 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:55,919 you may not hit it hard enough. So again, you 308 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,039 do want to see the whole thing. You don't need 309 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:00,919 to see you see, you don't need to see the 310 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,319 apex particularly. You can see that, but that's part of 311 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,400 the whole path that the putt's going to take, the 312 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,000 whole line that it's going to roll on And the 313 00:17:10,039 --> 00:17:12,279 most important thing you want to say is well, for 314 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,000 it to get up to that apex where what direction 315 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:17,240 does it need to start in? You might not be 316 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:19,759 aiming straight at that apex point because it may break 317 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:21,880 a little bit before it gets to that high point. 318 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,039 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean if it's going to round off, 319 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:27,160 it's definitely not exact. I can't go right to it 320 00:17:27,759 --> 00:17:28,640 a right angle turn. 321 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 3: It is not so. And you may be actually aiming 322 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:35,440 further out than that apex point. But you want to 323 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,519 see the whole path and then see what the first 324 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,079 foot of the role is and set your putter face 325 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,240 perpendicularly to that first foot, and then you roll a 326 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:49,799 straight putt in that direction. The only question is how 327 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:52,000 big a stroke you make. But you make the same 328 00:17:52,039 --> 00:17:54,960 stroke every time, and you roll it where the putterface 329 00:17:55,039 --> 00:17:58,960 is pointing every single time, no pushing, no pulling ever. 330 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: In your eyes directly you will? What about your eyes? 331 00:18:05,079 --> 00:18:07,480 Let let me let you answer the question instead of 332 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,279 trying to lead you with it. Your eyes. 333 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:14,599 Speaker 3: Tell where you can tell where your eyes are just 334 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,680 by you know, take your putter stance and then then 335 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:19,920 use two fingers to hold the tip of your putter 336 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,079 and look down the shaft and see where it's pointing. 337 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,000 Is it pointing straight at your at at the ball 338 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,880 or are you most most putters, most golfers are way inside. 339 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,440 In other words, their eyes aren't directly over the ball. 340 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,759 They're they're away from the ball. Uh, and they're reaching 341 00:18:37,799 --> 00:18:40,720 out with the putter. Now, what I found is it 342 00:18:40,759 --> 00:18:44,160 creates an optical illusion. You have less angles if your 343 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,759 eyes are right over the ball, So it creates an 344 00:18:46,799 --> 00:18:51,759 optical illusion. And players tend to aim farther away from 345 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,359 If you're a right handed golfer, they tend to aim 346 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,200 to the right the further away they are from the ball. 347 00:18:58,559 --> 00:19:01,319 So you need to you need to have your eyes 348 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,160 at least near the ball or hang or straight over 349 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:10,279 it in your position. And then the other aspect is 350 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,200 if your eyes are slightly behind the ball, in other words, 351 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,000 away from the hole, it's easier to look down the line. 352 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,440 If your head gets ahead of the ball and your 353 00:19:22,519 --> 00:19:25,640 head is between the ball and the hole, you're kind 354 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,960 of looking back down towards the ball and then over 355 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,799 towards the hole, then back down towards the ball. Get 356 00:19:30,799 --> 00:19:33,480 in there behind it a little bit and you'll be 357 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:35,759 looking down the line and see the ball as well 358 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:36,559 a little bit. 359 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:41,279 Speaker 1: Better and your eyes during the stroke. I know that 360 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:46,000 I tend to have a tendency to like as soon 361 00:19:46,039 --> 00:19:48,680 as the ball. As soon as I make contact with 362 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,920 the ball, my head starts to turn towards the hole, 363 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:52,680 and that kind of strews me up. 364 00:19:53,319 --> 00:19:55,039 Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to take I'm going to go out 365 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:56,640 on a limb, hear Fred, and I'm going to guess 366 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,880 that it starts to move even before you hit the ball. 367 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: That's quite possible, I don't know. 368 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,559 Speaker 3: And I'm going to go out on a limb and 369 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,640 guess that it tends to move slightly before you hit 370 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:12,480 the ball. And that's because we have a human tendency 371 00:20:12,519 --> 00:20:16,680 to anticipate. We anticipate what's going to happen, and we 372 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,880 want to see what's going to happen, so we tend 373 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,359 to move ahead of time. What I'd like you to 374 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,720 do is I don't like to say keep your head still. 375 00:20:25,279 --> 00:20:28,400 That's a little too frozen. I want to say, keep 376 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:32,759 your head steady and keep your whole posture until you 377 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:35,440 hold your finish. And then one of the chapters I 378 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,559 have that's the end of the routine is then turn 379 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,039 your head to track rather than lifting your head up 380 00:20:41,039 --> 00:20:43,200 and lifting your whole body up to turn and look. 381 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,480 So if you leave your body where it is and 382 00:20:46,559 --> 00:20:49,880 just swivel your head on your neck, then it doesn't 383 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,039 move you out of position. But if you lift your 384 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:55,319 whole body up, and it's what's called coming up out 385 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,240 of the pot, that's going to affect your stroke. So 386 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,519 keep your body steady, keep your head steady until you 387 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,200 hold the finish of your stroke. Then turn your head 388 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:06,559 to look. 389 00:21:13,079 --> 00:21:16,599 Speaker 1: What about looking at and looking at the ball versus 390 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,759 looking at the hole while you're putting. 391 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,519 Speaker 3: While you're putting, some people have done that. They try 392 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:26,799 They tried putting looking at the hole, because it's the 393 00:21:26,799 --> 00:21:29,400 same principle that I talked about in the previous podcast. 394 00:21:29,759 --> 00:21:32,559 When you're throwing, when you're playing catch with somebody, you 395 00:21:32,599 --> 00:21:35,359 don't look at the ground. You look at you look 396 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:36,640 at their hand or the glove. 397 00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: Right when you're shooting free When you're shooting a basketball, 398 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,039 you're looking at the rim. You're not looking at the ball. 399 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, can you imagine a basketball player takes a good 400 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,480 long look at the rim, bounces the ball twice, then 401 00:21:47,519 --> 00:21:50,000 looks down at the ground. And then shoots while they're 402 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,599 looking at the ground. Pretty ridiculous, huh, right, that, but 403 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,599 that's what we do when we're putting. So what I 404 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,799 found is that we can look at the hole and 405 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,359 ball at the same time. And here's how you do it. 406 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,319 There are two kinds of visual inputs to your brain. 407 00:22:07,079 --> 00:22:09,640 One is the visual input from your eyes what you're 408 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,440 looking at right now. So for example, you're sitting in 409 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:18,680 the studio looking at your computer right correct, Okay, Now 410 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:24,279 I want you to picture yourself on the green the 411 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,400 last time you were playing getting ready to roll the 412 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,200 put You have yourself pictured. Yes, okay, you didn't have 413 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,400 to close your eyes to do that. But what was 414 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,960 in the forefront of your mind? Was it the computer anymore? 415 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: No? 416 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,319 Speaker 3: No, but you didn't. You didn't lose track of where 417 00:22:39,319 --> 00:22:43,680 you were. See, it's like daydreaming. You you had. Your 418 00:22:43,759 --> 00:22:47,519 memory was the other source of input, visual input into 419 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:49,799 your brain. So here's what we're going to do. We're 420 00:22:49,839 --> 00:22:52,519 going to use that so that we can look at 421 00:22:52,519 --> 00:22:56,000 the hole and the ball at the same time after 422 00:22:56,039 --> 00:22:58,839 you take your address. This is part of in the 423 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,359 section called the best putting Routine Ever. Excuse my modesty, 424 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,839 but I believe that that it's true. The best putting 425 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,000 routine ever, that part of that routine is, after you've 426 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:12,440 taken your address, you take a good long look and 427 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,279 imprint the picture of the of your putt, the distance 428 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:19,519 to the hole, how uphill or downhill it is. You 429 00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:22,640 look at the whole thing for two or three seconds. 430 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:24,680 I like to have a ton of players to look 431 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:29,039 for three seconds at that and imprint that image in 432 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,240 your mind. When you look back down to the ball, 433 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,920 take half a second to bring that image to mind, 434 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,000 to switch foreground and background so that you're using your 435 00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:44,119 memory as and you put into your memory of that 436 00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:47,400 image of that picture, and you roll it into the picture. 437 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:52,400 So you're looking toward the ball, but you're seeing the 438 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,559 hole at the same time, in the same way that 439 00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:57,160 you were just looking toward your computer, but you were 440 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,079 seeing the green that you were putting on. I like it. 441 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:01,400 It works. 442 00:24:01,559 --> 00:24:03,759 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like this a lot. I like that. 443 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 3: I can. I can. 444 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,759 Speaker 1: I was visualizing doing it while you were saying it. 445 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 3: I like that. And that chapter has a QR code 446 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,400 at the end. You can scan and it'll show you. 447 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,559 It'll show you the exercise of me standing with a 448 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:21,079 ball in my hand looking down at a ball on 449 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,359 the ground, I look over at the hole for a 450 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,680 few seconds, I look back down to the ball of 451 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,440 the ground, and then I throw the ball while I'm 452 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:34,240 imagining and remembering the distance to the hole. Of course, 453 00:24:34,599 --> 00:24:38,599 we used the cut where it went in and then 454 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,519 and then I look back down to the ball and 455 00:24:40,559 --> 00:24:42,160 I do the same thing with the putter and it 456 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,559 does go in. That that's that's one cut. So that 457 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:45,440 worked pretty well. 458 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 1: And how many times did you have to do that 459 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,119 shoot until when the ball went in? 460 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,279 Speaker 3: Well, I had to do a few throws. But after 461 00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:54,960 I hold it, then I only did one putt and 462 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:55,519 it went in. 463 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,039 Speaker 1: It works, So yeah, you opened the Let's talk about 464 00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:03,839 the best putting routine ever. We've built it up quite 465 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,759 a while. Let's get into it. 466 00:25:06,319 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 3: Okay. The first step is reading the green and once 467 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:20,400 you've done that, making a commitment to your read. You 468 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:25,200 take your practice strokes and you make a commitment to 469 00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:28,880 making the same stroke that you would And I've talked 470 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,079 about this before, as if you were putting to nowhere. 471 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,559 When you warm up on the green, you just roll 472 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:36,240 the ball till you feel like it's coming off with 473 00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:38,640 an end over end, roll right off the sweet spot 474 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,720 of the putter. That's your stroke. Use that same stroke 475 00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:46,720 every single time. So you commit to your stroke. Make 476 00:25:46,759 --> 00:25:50,079 a few practice strokes if you want. You set the 477 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,920 putter on your line, the putterface perpendicular to your line 478 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,799 behind the ball, and you make a commitment. You say, 479 00:25:56,839 --> 00:26:00,440 I'm done with direction. That's the direction. I am rolling 480 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,519 this ball in with my best stroke. So now you've 481 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:09,039 taken care of stroke and direction once. Once you've done 482 00:26:09,079 --> 00:26:13,079 that in your setup, now you take your good long look. 483 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,960 This is the really important part. You take a good 484 00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:21,039 long look at the distance of your put You look 485 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:23,400 back down to the ball. You take a third to 486 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,759 a half a second to bring that image to mind, 487 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,039 and then immediately you roll the ball into the picture 488 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,400 using that stroke. What this does is it gets you 489 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,200 thinking out of thinking about your stroke. You're just reacting 490 00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:41,160 to a target in the same way that a free 491 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,480 throw shooter doesn't want to be thinking about their emotion. 492 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,160 They want to be reacting to the distance to the basket. 493 00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:52,160 So you're done with stroke, you're done with direction. You 494 00:26:52,839 --> 00:26:56,039 roll it into the picture for your distance. You hold 495 00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:59,680 the finish that keeps your body steady so you don't 496 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,359 come up out of the putt, and if you want 497 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,519 to look, you turn your head to track. It's called 498 00:27:04,519 --> 00:27:07,079 turn the track, and you turn your head to track 499 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,519 without lifting your shoulders up and coming out of your posture. 500 00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:15,119 That's the ideal routine. And then the last part of 501 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:20,160 the best putting routine is learn from it. If it 502 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,319 went in, congratulate yourself on doing your routine so well 503 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,359 if it didn't do what you thought it was going 504 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,720 to do, be the objective detective. Don't get upset, Say 505 00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:33,720 what did I miss about how I read that putt? 506 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,200 Because I made the putt, the ball just didn't go 507 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,160 in the hole, So what did I miss about the read? 508 00:27:39,799 --> 00:27:42,480 And then you look around and you'll get better at 509 00:27:42,519 --> 00:27:44,640 reading every time. 510 00:27:47,079 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: Awesome, And that kind of it brings us back to 511 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,839 separating outcome from process, which is total doctor Joe. 512 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 3: Separating outcome from process, that's the whole thing that golfers 513 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:06,279 most difficulties come from worrying about how the SHOT's going 514 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,799 to turn out, and that affects everything that they do. 515 00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:13,119 When your job is actually just to get the ball started. 516 00:28:13,519 --> 00:28:15,880 It doesn't matter whether it's putting or driving or anything 517 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,720 in between. You can't determine exactly how the ball is 518 00:28:19,759 --> 00:28:22,240 going to come out. Your job is there at the ball. 519 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,640 It's to get it started. Once you get it started, 520 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:27,720 that's all you can do. After that, all you can 521 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,279 do is root for it. So, in the same way 522 00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:35,599 in putting, how to make every put You can make 523 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,279 every put if your definition of making a putt is 524 00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:41,480 getting it started just the way you want it, and 525 00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:45,039 if you do, that's all you can control. After that, 526 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,200 all you can do to root for it. It's like 527 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,960 a relay race, Fred. In a relay race, what is 528 00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:53,200 your job? Your job? If you have a two person 529 00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:57,920 race and you go first, your first job is to 530 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,359 run the race of the race the best you can, 531 00:29:02,599 --> 00:29:07,319 and that's that's your stroke. In putting, Okay, once the 532 00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:09,759 putter head gets to the ball, that's the same thing 533 00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:14,640 as your hand off of the baton. After you've handed 534 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,079 off the baton, that's your transfer of energy from the 535 00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:20,839 putter head to the ball. All you want to focus 536 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,880 on is making a good handoff. What happens if you're 537 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,240 looking at the finish line while you're trying to hand 538 00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:29,000 off the baton, what's gonna happen? 539 00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:31,599 Speaker 1: You're gonna miss the person you're handing it off to. 540 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 3: Problem, it's gonna be a bad handoff. Maybe you'll drop it, okay, 541 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,720 And what if you don't trust the person and you 542 00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:40,160 don't let go after you hand off the baton, you 543 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,319 keep running along with them and hold the baton. That's 544 00:29:43,359 --> 00:29:46,400 not gonna help them. No, if you hand off the 545 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,119 baton but you don't trust them and you give them 546 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:50,680 a shove towards the finish line, that's not gonna help 547 00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:55,079 them either. That's exactly so you don't want to treat 548 00:29:55,079 --> 00:29:57,440 your your partner in this relay race is the ball. 549 00:29:58,359 --> 00:30:00,000 All you want to do is make a good hand 550 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,200 off and get it started. After that, it's the ball's 551 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:05,079 job to find the hole. 552 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: Go find a hole. 553 00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 3: Jo describe that when you roll a good putt, people 554 00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:19,960 describe it. They say that putt made it look like 555 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,519 the ball was hunting for the hole. Yeah, don't that's 556 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,240 that's a common expression in golf. 557 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:27,279 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean how many times the ball went 558 00:30:27,319 --> 00:30:29,440 and I'm like, I knew that was going in from 559 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:32,000 the time I set up. I mean, just I felt it, 560 00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:34,119 I saw the line, I lived the line. It just 561 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,799 I had no doubt this putt was going in. 562 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,759 Speaker 3: We have those moments and they're they're great. And and 563 00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:43,240 you'll notice that when you have those moments, you don't 564 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,880 think about mechanics. Nope, you don't think about your technique. 565 00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:49,599 All you do is you see it and you respond 566 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,720 to it and you get it started, and you go, 567 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,440 my job's done. Yeah. 568 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,359 Speaker 1: But then you then you force yourself to try to 569 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,079 recreate that. That's when you when problems begin. 570 00:31:02,039 --> 00:31:05,279 Speaker 3: Yes, trying to recreate that. The only way you can 571 00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:08,839 recreate that is to get better at visualizing, because what 572 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,319 you just described was you saw it going in before 573 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:14,599 it ever did. And I have a chapter in how 574 00:31:14,599 --> 00:31:18,400 to make every put called already in the hole. That's 575 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,319 what you want to see. You want to see the 576 00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:23,000 ball already in the hole. And then you're just going 577 00:31:23,079 --> 00:31:24,599 up and doing a replay. 578 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: And hear the happy sound. 579 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 3: You know what, the happy sound doesn't always show up. 580 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,279 The happy sound I want to hear is wow, I 581 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:37,119 love the way I got that putt started. And if 582 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:39,640 you say that every time you putt, you're going to 583 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,200 be a great cutter, because if you're not holding a 584 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,039 lot of them, it's just about reading. And you'll get 585 00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:47,759 better at that as long as you keep making the 586 00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:50,640 putt you intend to make, you know. 587 00:31:50,759 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: Wrapping this up in section seven, it's the title of it. 588 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,319 Sounded familiar. 589 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 3: Yes, getting better all the time? M h. That's right. 590 00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:03,039 That's what you want to be doing when you're playing. 591 00:32:03,359 --> 00:32:05,440 And that's what the post shot routine that I teach 592 00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:08,839 really does. It helps you get better all the time 593 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,599 because if you didn't make the putt, if you feel 594 00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:14,960 like you know something got in the way, you need 595 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,079 to be able to identify that and make your routine better. 596 00:32:19,759 --> 00:32:22,240 If you did make your putt but the ball didn't 597 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,440 do what you thought it was going to do, then 598 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,759 you have to work on your read and your judgment 599 00:32:26,799 --> 00:32:30,319 of speed and that can get better. And what I 600 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:34,319 talk about, what I really like, is a chapter called 601 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,839 skills practice versus performance practice. If you want to improve 602 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,160 your putting, there are two aspects to it. One is 603 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,519 skills practice, and that is doing little drills that make 604 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:49,519 you better at each part of putting. For example, if 605 00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:51,720 you want to get better at hitting the ball off 606 00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:55,200 the sweet spot, then you need to put You could 607 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,640 even put contact paper on the face that shows where 608 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,039 the was, but you can you want to roll putts 609 00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:05,680 until they all feel the same. You don't need to 610 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,200 do your full routine for that, you just want to 611 00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:10,759 You can line up putts and roll one after another 612 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,559 after another. Same thing with using the line on the 613 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:16,960 ball to see if you're rolling an end over end 614 00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:21,240 and not hitting a glancing blow. These are all skills practice. 615 00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:24,440 But when it comes to performance practice, you want to 616 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,960 practice the way you're going to be playing, which means 617 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,480 one ball and putting to a hole and going through 618 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,759 your full routine each time. Don't get careless, don't shortcut it. 619 00:33:37,799 --> 00:33:41,400 Do performance practice and give yourself target. So can I 620 00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:46,200 put from from different distances to ten different holes on 621 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,839 the practice screen or from ten different places to one 622 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,839 hole on the practice screen and not three putt? That's 623 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,240 my goal, and I'm going to do my full performance, 624 00:33:57,839 --> 00:33:59,839 my full routine, just the way I would on the 625 00:33:59,839 --> 00:34:05,400 golf course. To do that, that's that's performance practice. Those 626 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,119 are the that's the difference between the two. 627 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,760 Speaker 1: And it all really leads to whatever book you know 628 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,199 you're going to write, whatever book we're going to read, 629 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:15,840 it's all going to lead back to confidence. 630 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 3: Confidence. That's what my teacher said, had a favorite expression. 631 00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:26,599 Confidence what every golfer needs and and really putting boils 632 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:30,440 down so much more to confidence than just about any 633 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,800 other stroke, because it's not that complicated a stroke. And 634 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,000 if you're not confident, then you're going to second guess 635 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,440 your read. That's not going to help you because you're 636 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,920 gonna have doubt about it. Once you have doubt about 637 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,280 your read, you're going to you're doomed maybe push or 638 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,920 pull or be hesitant on your stroke. If you're not 639 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,840 sure about your stroke, you're going to get very If 640 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,519 you're not confident in your stroke, you're going to get 641 00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:57,920 very mechanical, and that's going to take you away. There's 642 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,920 going to be no flow to your stroke. You want. 643 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,039 I have a lot of flow to your putting stroke. 644 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:07,159 And and if you're not confident about your feel then 645 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,039 you're going to go numb, and you're going to hit 646 00:35:10,119 --> 00:35:13,239 putts with different at different paces, and you're always going 647 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:18,320 to be guessing and and the sense of well, I'm 648 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,559 not sure what's going on, and the feeling of confidence 649 00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:25,880 is a completely different thing. The other thing is if 650 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,480 you're not confident, then some fear can come in. And 651 00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:32,760 if fear comes in, then you're going to end up 652 00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:36,840 with the word that I don't like to use. So 653 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,280 it starts with a Y, it ends with an S, 654 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,360 and it has four letters. And I have a bonus 655 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,159 chapter at the end of the book in case you 656 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,280 have yes the yips don't. If you get the book, 657 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,320 please do not read that last chapter if you don't 658 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,199 already have them. You don't want to be thinking about it. 659 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,679 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because you have. 660 00:35:57,599 --> 00:36:00,280 Speaker 3: Them, that last chapter is for you and it will 661 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,039 cure them. 662 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,280 Speaker 1: Well, that is so funny because I was going to say. 663 00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:05,840 The last thing I was going to say to you 664 00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:10,440 was Okay, So is it worth me asking about the yips? 665 00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:12,920 Or is that just a whole nother podcast episode. 666 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,119 Speaker 3: I don't We're not even going to put it on 667 00:36:15,159 --> 00:36:18,880 the podcast, Okay, I don't want everybody listening to it. 668 00:36:19,079 --> 00:36:21,039 Speaker 1: Okay, fine, No, then we're not going to do it. 669 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:29,159 Speaker 3: Special special special code to unlock that podcast unless you 670 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,000 unless you swear that you already have them, you're not 671 00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:34,400 allowed to listen to it because because you don't want 672 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,639 to be thinking about that kind of thing. You don't 673 00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:38,719 want to be thinking about what could go wrong on 674 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,840 the green in any part of your golf game. You 675 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,159 want to be thinking about what you do want to 676 00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:48,320 happen having a positive attitude towards it. So, whether it 677 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,199 happens or not, if you have a positive attitude toward it, 678 00:36:51,599 --> 00:36:54,559 you're going to have a better chance of producing what 679 00:36:54,599 --> 00:36:57,719 you're picturing because, as in one of my chapters in 680 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,280 Zen Golf, you produce what you feel. 681 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,599 Speaker 1: Right right well again, the book is called How to 682 00:37:04,599 --> 00:37:07,440 Make Every Putt, The Secret to winning Golf's game within 683 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,119 the game. Doctor Joseph Parent once again the author of 684 00:37:11,159 --> 00:37:14,719 the amazing Zen Golf and now How to Make Every Putt. 685 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,719 Thanks so much for your time. It's great to talk 686 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,679 to you again, and as always I wish you continued success. 687 00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:24,320 Speaker 3: Thanks Fred, great to be with you. We'll do it 688 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:24,880 again soon.