WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:05.080 For members only. Golf Smarter number three hundred and eighty nine, 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:07.719 published on June eighteen, twenty thirteen. 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:12.919 Welcome to golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.559 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:22.559 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our 6 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:27.440 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.120 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.240 But now we're getting into the green reading, which is 9 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.039 an important factor because in the green reading again, we're 10 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:38.320 talking about three major areas. What's the speed of my putt? 11 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.119 And what's the slope of my putt? Am I efficiently aiming? 12 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.920 Am I efficiently making a ball to roll end over end? 13 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:44.560 Two feet? 14 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.280 Straight? Two feet and straights? Am efficiently aiming? Now? How 15 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.479 do I read the green? So? How do I read 16 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:51.920 the green? Is as I decide what the speed of 17 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.880 this green is slow, medium, or fast or super fast. 18 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.560 We assume that all greens are two degrees of slow, 19 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.560 which quite frankly is probably true on an app two 20 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:01.600 degrees around. 21 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:03.799 I have two degrees I know when you have multi 22 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:04.400 level greens. 23 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.280 Right, I'm looking at the hole. I'm standing around the 24 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.239 cup because keep in mind, the last five feet in 25 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:10.840 my puttet are the most important aspects. As the ball 26 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:13.519 slows down, that's when gravity has its bigger effect. So 27 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:15.599 when I got a thirty foot pott, the first fifteen 28 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:17.760 or twenty feet of that are important, but not as 29 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:20.640 a massively important to the slope. The most important areas 30 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:22.480 that sloping area around the hole. 31 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.319 Breaking down the details of vector putting are two with 32 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:32.120 John Grunt. 33 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:34.079 This is Golf Smarter. 34 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:38.040 Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only. John. 35 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:39.439 Yeah, great to be here. 36 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:42.840 I'm glad that you're still here. All right. I want 37 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:44.640 to pick it right back up where we were on 38 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.680 stag right, and to redefine stagg. It's kind of your 39 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:49.159 method of. 40 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.879 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a methodology that I think that 41 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.359 are four principal areas that good putters are always involved in, Okay, 42 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.719 as being speed, speed t two feet and straight two feet. 43 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.519 And straight aim for a and G is green reading. 44 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:04.400 That's correct, all right, So. 45 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.120 Let's talk about do we do we fully finil one? 46 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:08.919 One thing I need to add about the speeds see 47 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.719 is important in that based on the new technologies of 48 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:17.080 green reading which vector and and aim point involve, which is, 49 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.599 you know how how a ball travels over over distance 50 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:25.159 in time and friction and uh, slope and all those 51 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:28.599 things that are involved, which which are derived from mathematical 52 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.800 equations to help you read putts. Okay, now that sounds 53 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.039 very complicated and and uh, but both of them have 54 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.759 done a better job of breaking it down so that 55 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:39.639 you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure 56 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:43.080 it out. But I found vector to be a little 57 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:47.080 bit more simple for myself. But one of the components 58 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.159 is the speed, And both of them kind of agree 59 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:55.199 that about twelve inches past the past the whole is 60 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:00.719 what they equate into their their algorithms to to at 61 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:06.719 the appropriate point or the appropriate aim alignment to make 62 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.639 your putt. So what this means to the average golfer 63 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.479 is if I roll a ball one inch past the 64 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:16.479 front edge of the cup, I'm gonna I have a 65 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.240 better chance of my ball going in than if I 66 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.039 roll it by fourteen inches. Okay, the faster the ball 67 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:28.280 comes to the hole, then the less surface space I 68 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:31.319 am using of that cup from a gravity standpoint for 69 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.960 that ball to go in. So that once I start 70 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:37.520 getting past about two feet, the chances of my ball 71 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:40.599 going in the hole unless it hits dead center are 72 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:42.360 becoming very slim, and. 73 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:44.080 It might even just hit the back of the cup, 74 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:45.439 pop up exactly. 75 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.479 That's at about two and a half feet. That's pretty 76 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.039 much the equation. Okay, so once you get to three 77 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.479 feet past the cup, you know, the idea of never up, never. 78 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.479 In is I don't know what that means. 79 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:59.000 Well, if I never got the ball to the hole, 80 00:03:59.039 --> 00:03:59.919 it would never go in. 81 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:03.599 Oh well, of course, okay, one hundred percent of butts 82 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.680 that are short, Well I'll here's my other say, one 83 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:08.719 hundred percent of the puts that are too fast don't 84 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:10.639 go in either. Well that makes sense. 85 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.680 Okay, So so you know, so speed becomes an essential 86 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:19.879 component and how much speed we have, so how we 87 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.319 plan to hit every put is important and the speed 88 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.720 as a major factor. I use more of the hole 89 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:28.600 if I have proper speed than I do if I 90 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:29.800 have the improper speed. 91 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.519 So you're cutting out if you have too much speed, 92 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:36.519 You're saying that you're eliminating a lot of the hole. Right, 93 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:38.319 And not only is the place where the ball is. 94 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:39.800 Going not only if you don't have the proper If 95 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.000 you don't have the speed that's based upon your reed, 96 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.680 then you can't hit the putt appropriately. So one of 97 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.920 the aspects of speed that's really important, which is very 98 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:49.839 profound to me, and once I started looking at it, 99 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:53.279 was my first component of after I've hit a putt, 100 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.639 in analyzing the putt that I hit or or evaluating 101 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:58.240 the putt I hit, is that I have the right speed. 102 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.120 That's more almost more sportant to me than the line, 103 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:05.720 because what I want to reduce for everybody, and especially 104 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:07.839 the higher handicap golfers, but even golf pros, we want 105 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:11.519 to eliminate three putts. So really, really, for most people, 106 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.560 their problem isn't that they misread the putt by ten feet. 107 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.959 They just mishit it by five feet, you know what 108 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.240 I'm saying. So generally our speed is as a big 109 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:23.319 a factor. I mean, the chance of having a putt 110 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.439 that breaks three to five feet is less often than 111 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:28.759 a putt that maybe break eight to twelve inches that 112 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.759 we just had the wrong speed on. So speed becomes 113 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.480 a much more a very important component of becoming effective 114 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:37.319 at putting, or become what I call functional. 115 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.120 When I play over at the nine hole course down 116 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.079 the road, here, which we've talked about before at McGinnis, 117 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:44.839 and you teach there. 118 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:45.399 Yeah. 119 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.279 And I play with somebody who's new to the game 120 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.079 or has been playing long. I always love to ask them, 121 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.120 you know, on putting, what is more important? Speed or 122 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.519 distance or direction? 123 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:57.879 Speed or direction? Right? 124 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.199 Distance or direction? Yeah, And they're like, oh, direction, it's 125 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.680 really important. It's like, yeah, well, let me let me 126 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:05.920 show you something here. And so you just hit a 127 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.279 ball right at the hole but goes eight feet past 128 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.600 or you hit a ball at the exact right speed 129 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.439 but it's twelve inches wide. I'd much rather have that 130 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:15.399 one correct. 131 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.600 And and you know, it's I think it's part of 132 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:19.319 the bigger thing is people because if their first thing 133 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.319 is hitting the ball and they just can't get it 134 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:23.279 to go where they want. But most people, if I 135 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:24.959 hand them a potter and say here's a twenty foot 136 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:26.439 pot I can kind of get them within a few 137 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:28.959 seconds to get that ball moving towards the target within 138 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.240 within some sort of efficiency. 139 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:32.079 Right. 140 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.040 But the thing that they have, over a period of time, 141 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.120 they have a tough thing of doing is getting their 142 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:38.639 speed consistent. And that's a challenge that's a hard thing 143 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.199 to Yeah. So so the first part is stagg is speed, 144 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:43.240 and the next part is two feet and straight. 145 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:44.879 Okay, tell me that means well. 146 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.399 Two feet and straight is is you've seen. You might 147 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:49.399 have seen this now with a lot of PGA Tour players. 148 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:51.800 But again it's this relationship to the target concept that 149 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.199 I like to share with people. If you put a 150 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.800 line on your ball, and if I if I hit 151 00:06:57.839 --> 00:06:59.759 that ball, if I put that line directly at the 152 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.560 top of the apex of the ball, which is directly 153 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.040 on the line I want to hit it. If the 154 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.319 green is relatively smooth and I make good contact in 155 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:10.920 the direction that line is going, the ball will roll 156 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:12.800 end over end and I'll see it. I'll see a 157 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.040 direct line that's going end over end. If I've made 158 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.319 a stroke where the ball is wobbly, if I haven't 159 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.839 made solid contact, if my face doesn't match up to 160 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.319 where my intention of that line is, then I'll see 161 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:26.839 a wobbly line. So what I want to do is 162 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.920 I want to make sure that my student make sure 163 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:33.279 that ball is rolling end over end towards his intended target. 164 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:35.439 If he's doing that, then there's a certain amount of 165 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.839 efficiency lack of side spin with that club face in 166 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:41.839 the target, and that's kind of what I'm after. All 167 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.560 good putters do that very effectively. One of the drills 168 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.800 I have that you'll see during this that I could 169 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.600 show I show my students is I actually have them 170 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:56.839 put off a three foot steel ruler, right okay, And 171 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.399 I usually make it only two feet. I give him 172 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.000 a foot behind the ball, and I give them two 173 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.560 feet extending out with the line in the middle of 174 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.079 that ruler on the ball, so that when they hit it, 175 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.240 it's going to roll off that ruler and go straight 176 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:12.720 for two feet. Because the in the end, I believe 177 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.519 that every put in golf is straight. 178 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:17.079 When it leaves the club face. 179 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.720 No, every putt is straight. Gravity pulls it. I don't. Oh, 180 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:25.399 So I plan to hit every put straight and I 181 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.480 and I let gravity take care of itself. 182 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:29.839 And that's where the break is, right, okay. 183 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:33.879 That's where gravity and friction could be. Could be some 184 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.200 grain involved, but either gravity or grain or wind could 185 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.080 be a little bit of wind involved less less often 186 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.240 on that issue. But I let the break happen. I 187 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.080 hit it on a point that I have predetermined, and 188 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.879 I hit it straight, and I let those things happen. 189 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.120 And that's most people see it in straight lines. They 190 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.519 don't see in curve lines. Most people see, you know, uh, 191 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:00.519 in that sort of dimension more effectively. So I find 192 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.279 that if I can get a putt a student to 193 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:06.840 hit a putt two feet and straight, then from a 194 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:12.279 from a mechanical standpoint, he's on track right and and 195 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.480 and could we always improve our efficiency of our putt. 196 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.000 I can put you on a SAM putt lab, I 197 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:18.840 can put you on some other technology out there and 198 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:23.600 probably find that, yeah, it could be slightly better. And 199 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.159 that involves a lot of different variables in the stroke, 200 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.279 the pace, in the time of your stroke, the distance, 201 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:30.279 the speed of which you go back and forwards, the 202 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:34.519 consistency of that, all these other things. But primarily, if 203 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:38.240 a putt, if a guys are women, young men, old men, 204 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.200 all whatever a golfer is getting that ball to roll 205 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.399 end over end, then we're on the right track and 206 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:44.879 we don't need to spend too much time there. 207 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:46.679 Oh okay, so. 208 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.080 Two feet and straight is a double combo. It's a 209 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:53.120 it sort of solves, it's sort of a it's sort 210 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.840 of a thermometer or or sort of a check for 211 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.879 his mechanical aptitude abilities to hit the putt. But it's 212 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:03.559 A also helping me define, helping them see it's more 213 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.480 simple to hit a putt just straight and let the 214 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:06.159 break happen. 215 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.679 I can't wait to get back to G and stag. 216 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.279 But we're up to A and now A is for 217 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:23.519 aim right now. The fact is that it's our relationship. 218 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:25.960 The target is often determined by our aim. But I 219 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.519 have seen over the years all sorts of odd aiming 220 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.440 with their body. I've seen guys stand more open. I've 221 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.519 seen great putters Bobby Locke stand to look closed and 222 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:36.600 make hit great putts. 223 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:39.200 When you say open and close, you're talking about. 224 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:43.519 Body alignment, right. But but the one thing that's pretty 225 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:50.480 tried and true is face alignment to the intended target. Ironically, 226 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:53.240 which I always thought was the best putters will be 227 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.840 best aligned with their club face. Well, the truth is 228 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:00.440 is that even the best putters don't aim exactly perfect 229 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:04.559 to their line, their intended line, but by impact time 230 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:10.039 they are perfect. Okay, But my contention is that if 231 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:13.919 I can get my students more efficiently lined up with 232 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:18.559 their club face to their intended line of target, they 233 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:23.200 have a better chance of repeating a higher quality of putt. 234 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:25.519 But that's the basic truth with every club in your hand, 235 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.080 as long as the club face is square at impact, 236 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:29.519 correct at impact. 237 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:33.639 But you know, we're also talking with standardizing the address position, 238 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.240 and that's primarily what I'm doing here with the aim. 239 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.799 I don't worry too much about the aim when the 240 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:40.759 impact is taking care of what this ball rolling end 241 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:44.240 over end okay to my intended life. So I can 242 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:46.320 get a guy. Oftentimes I'll get it like a higher 243 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:51.080 you know, low handicapped tour type player, college whatever, really 244 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:53.759 good amateur, and I'll say, hey, get this ball to 245 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:55.399 roll end e rent, and he'll roll it end over it. 246 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:57.480 And then we go to the aiming point and I'll 247 00:11:57.480 --> 00:11:59.799 find that at four feet he's aimed half an inch. 248 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:03.080 I'll outside the cup on a straight pot. Well, how 249 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.320 does that happen? Guess what? The brain's smarter than what 250 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.399 we you know, our brain's out smartness. You know, our 251 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:14.159 visual acuity system is working in a in a dimension 252 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.720 that we don't fully understand. And that's okay, you know, 253 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.679 but I find that if I can improve upon that, 254 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:24.120 then it becomes more simple because he's making some compensation. 255 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.120 If he's starting with an open club face and getting 256 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.039 him back to square. Then he's making some compensation in 257 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.480 his stroke that's not as simple. He's making his his 258 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.639 stroke more complicated or or her stroke more complicated. I 259 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.639 want to make their stroke more less complicated by starting 260 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:42.759 off with a face that is lined up to their 261 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:44.960 intended line. And if we can do that, and I 262 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.279 show them to do that with simply with a sharpieon 263 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.120 a credit card, like I showed you. 264 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:51.639 Yeah, yeah, explain that. 265 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:53.480 Well, what I do is, I like sometimes I can 266 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:56.200 eliminate the credit card, but the credit card kind of helps. 267 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.399 If if I get you, I have you line up 268 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.639 without any without any aids on the ball. I get 269 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.360 you to line up at a spot, say four feet 270 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:06.879 away or five feet away, and when you're lined up, 271 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.039 I remove the ball and I put a I put 272 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:11.200 a I put a credit card up against the face 273 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.519 of your putter. I have you pull away your putter, 274 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:16.919 and then I draw a straight line across that credit 275 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.399 card where your face was. And then I draw a 276 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:23.480 ninety degree angle across that credit card. And then I 277 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:28.360 extend that line with the other aspect which we which 278 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.480 we haven't really talked about, which is a line that 279 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.039 I have above the ball that extends out to about 280 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:33.720 ten feet. 281 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:34.320 And it's about a string. 282 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:38.399 It's a string that's that's on some knitting needles. It's 283 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.879 it's a spongy string that extends on a straight line. 284 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.440 And I and I show you that line out to 285 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:47.039 the hole at ten feet with the ruler underneath it. 286 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:49.360 But I can move that line over and show them 287 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.399 very quickly if I extend the I've now made a 288 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.559 ninety degree angle to that credit card line I made 289 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:57.120 with the sharpie on the green, and I've now made 290 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:58.960 a ninety degree angle. And if that angle is not 291 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.759 pointing towards the t four feet away, then we know 292 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:03.759 you haven't lined up directly to your club face. And 293 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.559 most people, I think, even you, who lined up pretty good, 294 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:07.840 we're about a half an inch off. 295 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.960 Yeah, I think that that's a really really important. 296 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:12.960 And you're a very good at line's. That's a good number, by. 297 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.960 The way, Well, thank you. Well, I've always marked the 298 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.639 line around my ball, and I've always tried to line 299 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.960 that up right, you know, with my target line. And 300 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.039 then when I address the ball now I'm trying to 301 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:29.159 be exactly my feet, my body, everything ninety degree perpendicular 302 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:30.440 to that line. 303 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:32.000 And you see that way by the way, just a 304 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:37.159 little footnote, not everybody sees parallel lines like effectively. So 305 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.159 so Jack Nicholas used to line up a little open 306 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.799 with the ball in front. He's left eye dominated. If 307 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.159 I was to as a little drill that I do 308 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.080 at ten feet or twelve feet, We're all take a 309 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.000 dime and two dimes, and have you line up over 310 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:53.320 one dime and tell me when I'm lined up, and 311 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:55.480 then I put a I stand about two thirds of 312 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:56.879 the way out there, and I put a dime in 313 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:58.200 the middle of it, and I go, is that dime 314 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:00.399 on a straight line to your target? That what you see? 315 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:02.720 And they say yes, And then they stand back and 316 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:04.919 look at it, and that dimes two feet right or 317 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:07.759 I mean two inches right of their line because they're lying. 318 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.279 People don't often see in effective straight lines. You know, 319 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.320 they don't often see effectively as they think they are seeing. 320 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.039 So what they actually see and what's actual reality aren't 321 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:19.360 often the same. But what you've done, and by putting 322 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.360 a straight line on the ball and using the string 323 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:24.360 drill and using the ruler, you can kind of retrain 324 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.679 yourself to see lines that are our actual straight lines 325 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:29.639 and it's such a. 326 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.320 I think, a critically important drill to do for yourself, 327 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:37.120 because you know, I mean, it blows my mind that 328 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.039 people don't even stand behind the ball to make it. 329 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.360 They just step up to the ball and think that 330 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.240 they're lining it up. And then then then I fall 331 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.559 over laughing when they you know, they hold their club 332 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:48.879 up with their shoulders and like, okay, yeah, I'm lined up. 333 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.240 It's like, you know, I was standing behind you when 334 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.320 you were trying to do that. Right, You're about, you know, 335 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.559 twenty two degrees away from what you're really aiming at, 336 00:15:57.559 --> 00:15:59.000 but you think you're there. 337 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:03.039 Right, you know, keep in mind that our brains has 338 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.720 the optical system is an amazing and I've only touched 339 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:09.639 a little bit on the surface of my research lately. 340 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.559 But when we stand behind the put, we're looking at 341 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:16.320 it with our eyes hopefully level to the terrain, and 342 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.639 that's how we're taught to see depth, perception and things. 343 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:20.840 But then all of sudden we get up the ball 344 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:23.159 and now we're looking sideways. And then finally when we 345 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.240 look at the ball, we're not even looking at the target, right, 346 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.720 So what are we looking at and what are we doing? 347 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.159 And so having these aids and training ourselves to do 348 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:35.919 this is you'll see golf pros doing this all the time. 349 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.240 That again, these are one of the things I learned 350 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:40.360 as kid. Why why do guys put chalk line on 351 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:42.519 the ground all the time When I was a kid, Gosh, 352 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.200 they had this chalk line out there. One of the 353 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:46.159 things I did is spent I spent a lot of 354 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:47.799 time in motel rooms when I was traveling as a 355 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.320 kid as a young man. And one thing I would 356 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.320 do is I'd kind of line up. I'd put my 357 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.080 rear end up against the wall. I'd find a flat 358 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:58.039 wall in the hotel room, and i put my rear 359 00:16:58.120 --> 00:16:59.440 end up against the wall, and I'd drop a ball 360 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.360 underneath my left eye, and I'd mark that spot, and 361 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:04.839 i'd measure that spot from as a distance from the wall, 362 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.200 and then i'd measure that distance down ten twelve feet away, 363 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.400 and then i'd put a ball, and I'd put two 364 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.000 coins down there, or a ball marker or something, and 365 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.759 I are teas or something, and I would put. I 366 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.079 would put my ball where I'd drop the ball underneath 367 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.799 my eye, and then i'd put and so my body 368 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.559 both both cheeks would be touching the wall, So now 369 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.720 I'm parallel and then I'd have it over that ball, 370 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.599 and I'd train my body to be parallel to my 371 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:32.440 target and to see that line parallel to me and 372 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:34.400 what it feels like and what it feels like to 373 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:37.319 be in that moment. Again, golf is just a golf, 374 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:39.480 is not around a golf. It's a collection of moments 375 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:44.160 that equal around. So the quality of those moments equal 376 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:47.279 the quality of the round. So how can I enhance 377 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.880 the quality of that moment? Again, it's the relationship to 378 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.799 my target. And again STAG is just a constant evolution 379 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.400 of developing and of developing the quality of that relationship 380 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:00.839 to that target in that moment. And keep in mind 381 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.960 that we're playing this on a big piece of property 382 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:08.359 where elevation changes and the light changes over the course 383 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:10.960 of the day, and the weather changes, and all these 384 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.559 things are constantly changing, and so it's a challenge to 385 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.480 be constantly re evaluating my relationship to a target in 386 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:24.000 spatial terms. And the air at one hundred and fifty yards, 387 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.200 it's acceptable to hit it ten feet long or left, 388 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:28.720 but it's not acceptable to hit at ten inches right. 389 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:34.240 At twenty feet it greatly affects my round, you know, 390 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.319 or even at five feet to be five inches right 391 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.519 or three inches right or a half inch right. If 392 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:39.960 I don't have the right speed, I get to use 393 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.200 a lot of the whole four to quarter inches basically 394 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:44.400 is I think a diameter of a hole. I'm thinking 395 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.480 real quicker it's but right along that four point twenty 396 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:51.799 five is the width the behole, and I get to 397 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:53.319 use if I have the right speed, I get to 398 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:58.319 use all of that. Right, So all these factors again, 399 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:01.920 speed two feet in stea right, aiming four point four 400 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.559 point twenty five, So I get to use all of 401 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:07.799