WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:05.120 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 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 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 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 This is Golf Smarter. 37 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.680 Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only, Doctor Joe. 38 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.840 Hi, Fred, great to be with you again and again. 39 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.719 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 That's right now. 206 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.879 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 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 You say, I need to define bottom here are you talking. 219 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.440 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 And the advantage of this. 229 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.759 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 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 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 Interesting. 273 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:02.159 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 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 You know. 298 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.960 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 That's quite possible, I don't know. 368 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:02.559 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 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 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 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 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