Speaker 1: For members only. Golf Smarter number three hundred and eighty three,
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Speaker 3: You can make every put if your definition of making
a putt is getting it started just the way you
want it, and if you do, that's all you can control.
After that, all you can do to root for it.
It's like a relay race. Fred. In a relay race,
what is your job? You have a two person race,
and you go first. Your first job is to run
your leg of the race the best you can. That's
your stroke in putting. Once the putter head gets to
the ball, that's the same thing as your hand off
of the baton. After you've handed off the baton, that's
your transfer of energy from the potter head to the ball.
All you want to focus on is making a good handoff.
What happens if you're looking at the finish line. While
you're trying to hand off the baton, it's gonna be
a bad handoff. Maybe you'll drop it. And what if
you don't trust the person and you don't let go
after you hand off the baton, you keep running along
with them and hold the baton. That's not gonna help them.
If you hand off the baton but you don't trust
them and you give them a shove towards the finish line,
that's not going to help them either. The off that's
exactly your partner in this relay races the ball. All
you want to do is make a good handoff and
get it started. After that, it's the ball's job to
find the hole.
Speaker 1: That's the secret to it in Golf's game within the game.
Part two with Doctor Joseph Parent.
Speaker 2: This is Golf Smarter.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only, Doctor Joe.
Speaker 3: Hi, Fred, great to be with you again and again.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the additional time that you're providing for us,
all because you have an Eastern wisdom about you that
we like to bring with us to the golf course
every time. Thank you, that was not patronizing. I really
believe that.
Speaker 3: Well, we've been doing this for a long time and
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have as do. I all right, this new
book really really good. You know, if I can just
do a podcast on putting every single week, I would
because I find it to be so important. I mean,
it's got to be right because even on the scorecard
they give you two strokes, you know, for.
Speaker 3: True, that's true when you think of what the you
know what par is, it's how many shots.
Speaker 1: It's thirty six shots on the course and thirty six
on the putting green.
Speaker 3: How many shots it would typically take to get to
the green plus two for putting right, So that's half
year round, right exactly.
Speaker 1: So you know, but because of my attention issues, I
couldn't do a podcast on putting every week. I got
to vary the topics or I'd go out of my mind.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Well, there's a lot, there's you know, there's a
lot more to golf to it than than just putting.
But but it really is where the mental game comes
in the most. And that's what I end up working
with students the most on is short gaming putting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean we've had people from U and
I've I've always wanted to get You mentioned doctor Craig's
Craig Farnsworth because I just recently we did a show
on Lakina the JD the general manager there, he was
on the show. I played around down there, and I
would love to get doctor Craig on. And we have
We've talked about aim point, We've we have Jeff Mangum.
So we talk a lot about putting because it is
so critically important and I think one of the things
that more I see more people struggling with than anything
is reading the greens. Do you hold the putter in
front of your and try to make it, you know,
a plumb bob line, or do you you crawl around
on the ground and you know, do these bizarre positions
and reading the greens is is probably harder than stroking
the ball.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I have a particular approach to reading
greens that I think is very very helpful. And then
then I have something in the in my routine that
lets people get better at reading greens as they play.
I think that's the really special thing that I offer. Yeah,
but the starting perspective is I like to quote Jack
Nicholas who said, I start reading the green from fifty
yards away, and that is looking at the overall lay
of the land. I start even sooner than that. I
start before I go out for the round. If it's
a new course, I go to the pro shop and
I ask somebody there is there any Is there any
direction that almost all the greens in the course tend
to break towards. For example, out in you were talking
about Lakinta out in the Coachelli Valley with palm desert
and palm springs, everything breaks towards the east. They say
towards India, which is the farthest east town in the valley,
but it's actually breaking towards the salt and sea, this
very low body of water out east of the valley.
When you go to Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades
where they have the Los Angeles Open, everything breaks towards
the sixth green and the seventh tee, that corner of
the golf course away from the clubhouse, which is way
up on a hill. So you want to know the
overall lay of the land and any particular major direction
that the course. We just were at the Masters. Every
putt breaks towards Ray's Creek at the Masters. And if
you know that it helps. It makes a difference in
how you read the putts. So you start before you
even get on the course. So what's the overall landscape?
Are there mountains in one direction? Is the ocean in
one direction? Then you come in closer, and then you say, okay,
for this particular green, where is the high point around
the green? Is there? You know? Is there a creek nearby?
Is there a pond to one side? And look around
the edge of the green where there are bunkers. Golf
course designers don't They don't want the water to run
through a bunker when it's draining off the green, So
the drain place will be a place away from the bunkers.
And not only that, wherever you have a bunker, people
have been hitting sand out onto the green, so they've
essentially been top dressing it every day. And the level
of the green near the bunkers gets a little bit higher,
So know that balls are going to break a little
bit away from the bunkers. So this way you go
from outside to end and then you get and then
you start looking at the area around your putt. But
you take all these other factors into account.
Speaker 1: First, how often when you have gone into the pro
shop and asked them about the general direction of where
balls will will break towards. Have they ever said the
sprinkler drain the drainage? I mean because when I've I've
talked to golf course architects and asked him about that
kind of thing, and they said, it's always gonna there's
no such thing as a flat green because it's gotta
it's got a drain and it's gonna drain too, you know,
I mean, do they do they make the drainage in
that same direction?
Speaker 3: Is oh? Not necessarily not. It doesn't necessarily match the
overall Yeah, slope of the of the golf course. Every holes,
every hole is different in that way. So so the
way that it's designed, it doesn't necessarily match. But you
have to take all these factors. It's almost like vectors
or arrows that you say, well, i've got some of
it going in that direction, and then there's this counter
force going in this direction. Oh, you know, I think
they even out and it's really going to be straight.
So you can work with that. But the most important
thing is once you've read the green, and once you've
read your putt, you make a commitment to get it
started on the line that you saw. And if you
roll it on the line and it doesn't do what
you thought, this is where learning can come in. And
this is what I teach in the book How to
Make Every Putt. I talk about the post shot routine,
which is if after your putt, you made your putt,
it got started and going okay, this should turn out
really well, and then it turns either in the opposite direction,
or it doesn't move the way you thought it would,
or it goes way past where you thought or way
short of where you thought. Then you say, huh, okay,
I hit the putt that I thought was going to
get to the hole, but it went a different direction.
Didn't I see about the slope or the grain or
the direction of the break or what did I see
that wasn't there? And I have what's called I have
you be what's called the objective detective. So you drop
your emotion about having missed the putt and you say, okay,
I'm over that. Now what can I learn from this? Okay?
I thought it was going to keep breaking and it
straightened out. Okay, I see, So that means the fall
line was kind of in this direction. I need to
remember that, so that I just put to the fall line.
I don't think it's going to break across the fall line.
And I talk about that in a chapter called Rivers
and Fountains that talks about the pattern of how putts
break uphill and downhill.
Speaker 1: Excellent is that one of the chapters that has a
QR code that we can see a video as well.
Speaker 3: That is in how to make every put in the
section on reading Green is a chapter called Rivers and Fountains,
and there is a QR square or code that you
can scan in to your device or smartphone and it'll
take you to a video that I demonstrate, and you'll
see a downhill putt that is cur curving, curving and
then straightens out and doesn't keep curving, which is what
downhillputs tend to do. Once they like a river, once
it finds its fall line straight down towards the ocean,
it just goes straight. And then uphill putts they might
go straight, but like a fountain, the water in a
fountain wants to turn around and go back to the
earth any direction it can. Uphill puts straight, straight, straight,
and just before they get to the hole, they break
across and curve away in front, so you need to
be able to recognize that pattern and read the green
for that.
Speaker 1: Well, let's stay on that. Section two. Those are the
bread from the new book How to Make Every put
by Doctor Joseph Parrot, and it starts with the secret
to reading greens, the lay of the land, take the
high road. You talk about putting a scorecard over half
the hole.
Speaker 3: That's right now.
Speaker 1: That that intrigued me. I've never heard of that before.
Give me the details on that one, because I thought
that was really fascinating.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you know, if you're looking at the whole
golf hole, you don't get to focus on the high
side quite so much. So let's say you have a
right to left breaking putt and you're gonna put it
up the hill and it's going to come back down
and go in the right side of the hole. That's
the place you want to be looking at for your read.
So you cover the bottom half of the hole with
a scorecard.
Speaker 1: You say, I need to define bottom here are you talking.
Speaker 3: About edge of the lower the edge of the scorecard.
I'll try to describe it as I do in the book.
The edge of the scorecard points straight across the center
of the hole and points straight at your ball. Okay,
so if it was a dead straight putt, you would
hit right. The ball would hit right at the place
where the scorecard is at the front edge of the hole.
But you're looking at breaking putts, so the high side
will be open, the low side closed by the scorecard.
Speaker 1: And the advantage of this.
Speaker 3: The advantage of it is you see yourself trying to
put it in the high side, the effective center of
the hole shifts up to the high side of the hole,
and you say, that's where I want the ball, crossing
the edge up there, and that gives you more room.
And you know, Bobby Jones talked about this nearly one
hundred years ago. He says, you know, a ball turning
towards the hole is much more likely to go in,
and that means coming from the high side, then a
ball turning away from the hole. And once it turns
away from the hole and rolls down the low side,
every inch it rolls it takes it farther from the hole.
So if you roll a couple of puts at the
same pace, and one curls around the hole above it
on the high side, and one misses the hole below it.
The putt that misses the hole below the hole is
going to roll a whole lot farther away. I mean,
that's why they call the high side the pro side
and the low side of the hole the amateur side. Sure,
there's a reason for it. It's better try to play
as much break as you possibly can and still have
the ball trickle in just into the top side of
the hole, the high side of the hole.
Speaker 1: How do we amateurs misread it in the sense of
not giving it enough break?
Speaker 3: Well, almost always that's the most common thing. And I
think that the way they describe putts on TV actually
is misguiding. And they say, I think it's just going
to you know, it's one cup out or two balls
out to the right. It's really usually much much more
than that, but that's how they describe it. I was
once at the Masters coaching VJ and we were standing
on the green and he was putting this on the
practice screen on a very severely sloping part, and I
said to his caddy, you need to tell him to
aim at this spot because that's really how much break
is going to happen here. And he says, there is
no way that I'm going to tell VJ that there's
two and a half feet of break on a four
foot putt, But there was. It was really true. Wow,
I said, then just tell him to play enough break
for it to fall in the absolute top of the hole.
And that worked for him.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 3: So what happens for amateurs is they aim, you know,
one or two balls to the right of the hole,
but then when they make their stroke, they push the
putt out towards the break or pull it across and
give it more break, and then they think they did
it right, and that's just going to be very inconsistent.
What I would like you to do is read plenty
of break and hit a straight putt right at the
point where you know that you're aiming for that amount
of break. Then if you've played too much break, it's
easier to gear down than it is to aim higher. Yes,
so that's one of the exercises I give. I say,
aim way up high, aim for tons of break, and
see that it only gets within a foot of the hole.
Then gear it down a couple of inches. See where
that ends up. And that'll help you see how much
break you can play and still get to the hole
and that's the ideal amount that you one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is just a personal preference
thing or it's something that should be taught this way.
It's just an individual When I when I'm looking at
the line, uh unputting and someone says, yeah, it's just
like one one cup to the right, you know, I don't.
I don't aim it for that spot.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: At the whole what I try to visualize is the
entire line. And we talked about this earlier, the entire
line that the ball will roll on, and I look
for the apex. I look for the point where I
think it's gonna be the highest spot and then it's gonna,
you know, then start going back towards the hole. So
I kind of putt to that way, to that direction.
Speaker 3: I think that that's good. Uh. One of the dangers
of that is if you if the apex is near you,
you may not hit it hard enough. So again, you
do want to see the whole thing. You don't need
to see you see, you don't need to see the
apex particularly. You can see that, but that's part of
the whole path that the putt's going to take, the
whole line that it's going to roll on And the
most important thing you want to say is well, for
it to get up to that apex where what direction
does it need to start in? You might not be
aiming straight at that apex point because it may break
a little bit before it gets to that high point.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean if it's going to round off,
it's definitely not exact. I can't go right to it
a right angle turn.
Speaker 3: It is not so. And you may be actually aiming
further out than that apex point. But you want to
see the whole path and then see what the first
foot of the role is and set your putter face
perpendicularly to that first foot, and then you roll a
straight putt in that direction. The only question is how
big a stroke you make. But you make the same
stroke every time, and you roll it where the putterface
is pointing every single time, no pushing, no pulling ever.
Speaker 1: In your eyes directly you will? What about your eyes?
Let let me let you answer the question instead of
trying to lead you with it. Your eyes.
Speaker 3: Tell where you can tell where your eyes are just
by you know, take your putter stance and then then
use two fingers to hold the tip of your putter
and look down the shaft and see where it's pointing.
Is it pointing straight at your at at the ball
or are you most most putters, most golfers are way inside.
In other words, their eyes aren't directly over the ball.
They're they're away from the ball. Uh, and they're reaching
out with the putter. Now, what I found is it
creates an optical illusion. You have less angles if your
eyes are right over the ball, So it creates an
optical illusion. And players tend to aim farther away from
If you're a right handed golfer, they tend to aim
to the right the further away they are from the ball.
So you need to you need to have your eyes
at least near the ball or hang or straight over
it in your position. And then the other aspect is
if your eyes are slightly behind the ball, in other words,
away from the hole, it's easier to look down the line.
If your head gets ahead of the ball and your
head is between the ball and the hole, you're kind
of looking back down towards the ball and then over
towards the hole, then back down towards the ball. Get
in there behind it a little bit and you'll be
looking down the line and see the ball as well
a little bit.
Speaker 1: Better and your eyes during the stroke. I know that
I tend to have a tendency to like as soon
as the ball. As soon as I make contact with
the ball, my head starts to turn towards the hole,
and that kind of strews me up.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to take I'm going to go out
on a limb, hear Fred, and I'm going to guess
that it starts to move even before you hit the ball.
Speaker 1: That's quite possible, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to go out on a limb and
guess that it tends to move slightly before you hit
the ball. And that's because we have a human tendency
to anticipate. We anticipate what's going to happen, and we
want to see what's going to happen, so we tend
to move ahead of time. What I'd like you to
do is I don't like to say keep your head still.
That's a little too frozen. I want to say, keep
your head steady and keep your whole posture until you
hold your finish. And then one of the chapters I
have that's the end of the routine is then turn
your head to track rather than lifting your head up
and lifting your whole body up to turn and look.
So if you leave your body where it is and
just swivel your head on your neck, then it doesn't
move you out of position. But if you lift your
whole body up, and it's what's called coming up out
of the pot, that's going to affect your stroke. So
keep your body steady, keep your head steady until you
hold the finish of your stroke. Then turn your head
to look.
Speaker 1: What about looking at and looking at the ball versus
looking at the hole while you're putting.
Speaker 3: While you're putting, some people have done that. They try
They tried putting looking at the hole, because it's the
same principle that I talked about in the previous podcast.
When you're throwing, when you're playing catch with somebody, you
don't look at the ground. You look at you look
at their hand or the glove.
Speaker 1: Right when you're shooting free When you're shooting a basketball,
you're looking at the rim. You're not looking at the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can you imagine a basketball player takes a good
long look at the rim, bounces the ball twice, then
looks down at the ground. And then shoots while they're
looking at the ground. Pretty ridiculous, huh, right, that, but
that's what we do when we're putting. So what I
found is that we can look at the hole and
ball at the same time. And here's how you do it.
There are two kinds of visual inputs to your brain.
One is the visual input from your eyes what you're
looking at right now. So for example, you're sitting in
the studio looking at your computer right correct, Okay, Now
I want you to picture yourself on the green the
last time you were playing getting ready to roll the
put You have yourself pictured. Yes, okay, you didn't have
to close your eyes to do that. But what was
in the forefront of your mind? Was it the computer anymore?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, but you didn't. You didn't lose track of where
you were. See, it's like daydreaming. You you had. Your
memory was the other source of input, visual input into
your brain. So here's what we're going to do. We're
going to use that so that we can look at
the hole and the ball at the same time after
you take your address. This is part of in the
section called the best putting Routine Ever. Excuse my modesty,
but I believe that that it's true. The best putting
routine ever, that part of that routine is, after you've
taken your address, you take a good long look and
imprint the picture of the of your putt, the distance
to the hole, how uphill or downhill it is. You
look at the whole thing for two or three seconds.
I like to have a ton of players to look
for three seconds at that and imprint that image in
your mind. When you look back down to the ball,
take half a second to bring that image to mind,
to switch foreground and background so that you're using your
memory as and you put into your memory of that
image of that picture, and you roll it into the picture.
So you're looking toward the ball, but you're seeing the
hole at the same time, in the same way that
you were just looking toward your computer, but you were
seeing the green that you were putting on. I like it.
It works.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like this a lot. I like that.
Speaker 3: I can. I can.
Speaker 1: I was visualizing doing it while you were saying it.
Speaker 3: I like that. And that chapter has a QR code
at the end. You can scan and it'll show you.
It'll show you the exercise of me standing with a
ball in my hand looking down at a ball on
the ground, I look over at the hole for a
few seconds, I look back down to the ball of
the ground, and then I throw the ball while I'm
imagining and remembering the distance to the hole. Of course,
we used the cut where it went in and then
and then I look back down to the ball and
I do the same thing with the putter and it
does go in. That that's that's one cut. So that
worked pretty well.
Speaker 1: And how many times did you have to do that
shoot until when the ball went in?
Speaker 3: Well, I had to do a few throws. But after
I hold it, then I only did one putt and
it went in.
Speaker 1: It works, So yeah, you opened the Let's talk about
the best putting routine ever. We've built it up quite
a while. Let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Okay. The first step is reading the green and once
you've done that, making a commitment to your read. You
take your practice strokes and you make a commitment to
making the same stroke that you would And I've talked
about this before, as if you were putting to nowhere.
When you warm up on the green, you just roll
the ball till you feel like it's coming off with
an end over end, roll right off the sweet spot
of the putter. That's your stroke. Use that same stroke
every single time. So you commit to your stroke. Make
a few practice strokes if you want. You set the
putter on your line, the putterface perpendicular to your line
behind the ball, and you make a commitment. You say,
I'm done with direction. That's the direction. I am rolling
this ball in with my best stroke. So now you've
taken care of stroke and direction once. Once you've done
that in your setup, now you take your good long look.
This is the really important part. You take a good
long look at the distance of your put You look
back down to the ball. You take a third to
a half a second to bring that image to mind,
and then immediately you roll the ball into the picture
using that stroke. What this does is it gets you
thinking out of thinking about your stroke. You're just reacting
to a target in the same way that a free
throw shooter doesn't want to be thinking about their emotion.
They want to be reacting to the distance to the basket.
So you're done with stroke, you're done with direction. You
roll it into the picture for your distance. You hold
the finish that keeps your body steady so you don't
come up out of the putt, and if you want
to look, you turn your head to track. It's called
turn the track, and you turn your head to track
without lifting your shoulders up and coming out of your posture.
That's the ideal routine. And then the last part of
the best putting routine is learn from it. If it
went in, congratulate yourself on doing your routine so well
if it didn't do what you thought it was going
to do, be the objective detective. Don't get upset, Say
what did I miss about how I read that putt?
Because I made the putt, the ball just didn't go
in the hole, So what did I miss about the read?
And then you look around and you'll get better at
reading every time.
Speaker 1: Awesome, And that kind of it brings us back to
separating outcome from process, which is total doctor Joe.
Speaker 3: Separating outcome from process, that's the whole thing that golfers
most difficulties come from worrying about how the SHOT's going
to turn out, and that affects everything that they do.
When your job is actually just to get the ball started.
It doesn't matter whether it's putting or driving or anything
in between. You can't determine exactly how the ball is
going to come out. Your job is there at the ball.
It's to get it started. Once you get it started,
that's all you can do. After that, all you can
do is root for it. So, in the same way
in putting, how to make every put You can make
every put if your definition of making a putt is
getting it started just the way you want it, and
if you do, that's all you can control. After that,
all you can do to root for it. It's like
a relay race, Fred. In a relay race, what is
your job? Your job? If you have a two person
race and you go first, your first job is to
run the race of the race the best you can,
and that's that's your stroke. In putting, Okay, once the
putter head gets to the ball, that's the same thing
as your hand off of the baton. After you've handed
off the baton, that's your transfer of energy from the
putter head to the ball. All you want to focus
on is making a good handoff. What happens if you're
looking at the finish line while you're trying to hand
off the baton, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 1: You're gonna miss the person you're handing it off to.
Speaker 3: Problem, it's gonna be a bad handoff. Maybe you'll drop it, okay,
And what if you don't trust the person and you
don't let go after you hand off the baton, you
keep running along with them and hold the baton. That's
not gonna help them. No, if you hand off the
baton but you don't trust them and you give them
a shove towards the finish line, that's not gonna help
them either. That's exactly so you don't want to treat
your your partner in this relay race is the ball.
All you want to do is make a good hand
off and get it started. After that, it's the ball's
job to find the hole.
Speaker 1: Go find a hole.
Speaker 3: Jo describe that when you roll a good putt, people
describe it. They say that putt made it look like
the ball was hunting for the hole. Yeah, don't that's
that's a common expression in golf.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean how many times the ball went
and I'm like, I knew that was going in from
the time I set up. I mean, just I felt it,
I saw the line, I lived the line. It just
I had no doubt this putt was going in.
Speaker 3: We have those moments and they're they're great. And and
you'll notice that when you have those moments, you don't
think about mechanics. Nope, you don't think about your technique.
All you do is you see it and you respond
to it and you get it started, and you go,
my job's done. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then you then you force yourself to try to
recreate that. That's when you when problems begin.
Speaker 3: Yes, trying to recreate that. The only way you can
recreate that is to get better at visualizing, because what
you just described was you saw it going in before
it ever did. And I have a chapter in how
to make every put called already in the hole. That's
what you want to see. You want to see the
ball already in the hole. And then you're just going
up and doing a replay.
Speaker 1: And hear the happy sound.
Speaker 3: You know what, the happy sound doesn't always show up.
The happy sound I want to hear is wow, I
love the way I got that putt started. And if
you say that every time you putt, you're going to
be a great cutter, because if you're not holding a
lot of them, it's just about reading. And you'll get
better at that as long as you keep making the
putt you intend to make, you know.
Speaker 1: Wrapping this up in section seven, it's the title of it.
Sounded familiar.
Speaker 3: Yes, getting better all the time? M h. That's right.
That's what you want to be doing when you're playing.
And that's what the post shot routine that I teach
really does. It helps you get better all the time
because if you didn't make the putt, if you feel
like you know something got in the way, you need
to be able to identify that and make your routine better.
If you did make your putt but the ball didn't
do what you thought it was going to do, then
you have to work on your read and your judgment
of speed and that can get better. And what I
talk about, what I really like, is a chapter called
skills practice versus performance practice. If you want to improve
your putting, there are two aspects to it. One is
skills practice, and that is doing little drills that make
you better at each part of putting. For example, if
you want to get better at hitting the ball off
the sweet spot, then you need to put You could
even put contact paper on the face that shows where
the was, but you can you want to roll putts
until they all feel the same. You don't need to
do your full routine for that, you just want to
You can line up putts and roll one after another
after another. Same thing with using the line on the
ball to see if you're rolling an end over end
and not hitting a glancing blow. These are all skills practice.
But when it comes to performance practice, you want to
practice the way you're going to be playing, which means
one ball and putting to a hole and going through
your full routine each time. Don't get careless, don't shortcut it.
Do performance practice and give yourself target. So can I
put from from different distances to ten different holes on
the practice screen or from ten different places to one
hole on the practice screen and not three putt? That's
my goal, and I'm going to do my full performance,
my full routine, just the way I would on the
golf course. To do that, that's that's performance practice. Those
are the that's the difference between the two.
Speaker 1: And it all really leads to whatever book you know
you're going to write, whatever book we're going to read,
it's all going to lead back to confidence.
Speaker 3: Confidence. That's what my teacher said, had a favorite expression.
Confidence what every golfer needs and and really putting boils
down so much more to confidence than just about any
other stroke, because it's not that complicated a stroke. And
if you're not confident, then you're going to second guess
your read. That's not going to help you because you're
gonna have doubt about it. Once you have doubt about
your read, you're going to you're doomed maybe push or
pull or be hesitant on your stroke. If you're not
sure about your stroke, you're going to get very If
you're not confident in your stroke, you're going to get
very mechanical, and that's going to take you away. There's
going to be no flow to your stroke. You want.
I have a lot of flow to your putting stroke.
And and if you're not confident about your feel then
you're going to go numb, and you're going to hit
putts with different at different paces, and you're always going
to be guessing and and the sense of well, I'm
not sure what's going on, and the feeling of confidence
is a completely different thing. The other thing is if
you're not confident, then some fear can come in. And
if fear comes in, then you're going to end up
with the word that I don't like to use. So
it starts with a Y, it ends with an S,
and it has four letters. And I have a bonus
chapter at the end of the book in case you
have yes the yips don't. If you get the book,
please do not read that last chapter if you don't
already have them. You don't want to be thinking about it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because you have.
Speaker 3: Them, that last chapter is for you and it will
cure them.
Speaker 1: Well, that is so funny because I was going to say.
The last thing I was going to say to you
was Okay, So is it worth me asking about the yips?
Or is that just a whole nother podcast episode.
Speaker 3: I don't We're not even going to put it on
the podcast, Okay, I don't want everybody listening to it.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, No, then we're not going to do it.
Speaker 3: Special special special code to unlock that podcast unless you
unless you swear that you already have them, you're not
allowed to listen to it because because you don't want
to be thinking about that kind of thing. You don't
want to be thinking about what could go wrong on
the green in any part of your golf game. You
want to be thinking about what you do want to
happen having a positive attitude towards it. So, whether it
happens or not, if you have a positive attitude toward it,
you're going to have a better chance of producing what
you're picturing because, as in one of my chapters in
Zen Golf, you produce what you feel.
Speaker 1: Right right well again, the book is called How to
Make Every Putt, The Secret to winning Golf's game within
the game. Doctor Joseph Parent once again the author of
the amazing Zen Golf and now How to Make Every Putt.
Thanks so much for your time. It's great to talk
to you again, and as always I wish you continued success.
Speaker 3: Thanks Fred, great to be with you. We'll do it
again soon.