WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.560 --> 00:00:08.560 Hi, This is Charles Probot from Boca Raton, Florida, and 2 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.039 I play at the Boca Ratone Resort and Club. 3 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:14.000 This is called. 4 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.559 Smarter Number ninety eighty. 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:20.280 Joy the podcast. If you go to ask a touring 6 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:24.000 pro do you misread greens that cause miss putts? Their 7 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:27.600 typical answer is going to be occasionally, but not often, 8 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:30.879 And then other pros will reply, you know, I never 9 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:33.679 miss reading green because I work harder than all others. 10 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.840 That translation to that answer is I memorized each putt 11 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:42.479 for each tournament four days times four pin placements, times 12 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:46.759 four directions times eighteen holes. So there's some brainwashing that 13 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:49.640 goes on into their head, this kind of green reading 14 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.840 brainwashing that continues to this day. And frankly, I don't 15 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:58.200 blame the tour pro for succumbing to this brainwashing since 16 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:02.079 you're standing over putts with zero confidence. If you don't 17 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.879 have confidence in your green read, that will affect your 18 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:06.400 putting stroke negative. 19 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:16.079 Egos. The Expert green Reading operating system that's based in 20 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:22.560 math with surveyor Andrew Walters. This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, 21 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.840 tips and insights from great golf minds to help you 22 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.640 lower your score and raise your golf IQ. 23 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.120 Here's your host, Fred Green. 24 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:33.879 Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast. 25 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.599 Andy, great to be here, Fred. 26 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:41.519 Congratulations, you're the first episode of our twentieth year. We've 27 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:46.079 just completed nineteen years of the podcast. Wow, and this 28 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:50.120 is our first one. Yeah, so nine and eighty and. 29 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.719 Then when they were doing podcasts that far back. 30 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:59.799 That was the problem nobody did. But I love to 31 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:02.680 talk talking about all the way back. I've always loved 32 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.200 to talk about putting because there's always one more thing 33 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.240 we can learn. And I think the most important thing 34 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.159 is they don't all drop, no matter how good you are, 35 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:14.639 they don't all drop, right, or do they? 36 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:19.639 Well, I would argue with that it was ten feet 37 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.599 that should all drop, especially for a tour pro because 38 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.159 they're the best of the cream of the crop. 39 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:31.199 Yeah, but the percentage of even the tour pros from 40 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.800 ten feet is what about fifty percent? 41 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:39.680 And guess what, Fred, that's all going to change? Why 42 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:46.879 Because Egos Expert Green Reading operating system is pure math. 43 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:52.599 It is it's infallible in a sense that if you 44 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:58.360 do something wrong, it can be corrected. And tour pros 45 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:03.960 take two thousand green reads around in a season, which 46 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.520 is what the book and other things I said. And 47 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.840 you can imagine how much expertise they're going to have 48 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.520 with that many green reads, and how good they're going 49 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.039 to get. And if they ever have a problem, they 50 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:19.879 just give me a holler and then we go to 51 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.599 that exact spot and I'll show them what they did wrong, 52 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.199 because it's math based, math pace. 53 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.479 And is that your background is the math based not 54 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:31.479 the golf base. 55 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:37.680 Exact side of it exactly? Well, of course they intertwine. Sure, 56 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:42.560 my background is where, Oh I had this eight foot 57 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.919 putt that I had money on. You know, they had 58 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.159 a five dollars nassau. I make it. I went twenty 59 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.719 five dollars eats, money for the kids and all that 60 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.560 sort of stuff. Now I've had this putt. I mean, 61 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:57.759 I've been playing this eighteenth green for fifteen years and 62 00:03:57.840 --> 00:03:59.680 I had said, oh, that's going to do a little 63 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:01.960 slight left break and I hit it and it fell 64 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.639 off the table like it broke like it broke off 65 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:07.520 the table to the right, and I go, whoa, So 66 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:10.240 I walk off the green. I'm all mad. We'll find 67 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:13.680 somebody to teach me green reading expert green reading, Well, 68 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:18.480 who would that be? Somebody that knows topography, land contours, maps, 69 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:24.399 ground ground slope. While beinging to realize as a civil engineer, 70 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.519 professional engineer, that's what we start with every project that 71 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:32.439 we start, A bridge, a building, a road, it's all. 72 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.079 It's all ground slopes and all of that. Then I 73 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.399 began to realize I was the expert. So I sat 74 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.639 down and I figured it out. And I haven't misread 75 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:42.720 a green since. 76 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.680 Wow. Well, oh, so you say you were the expert 77 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.639 because you are a civil engineer. 78 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:57.399 That's correct. Absolutely, you apply math to projects to fix it. Yes, 79 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:04.680 I am a professional civil engineer. Okay, So, and so. 80 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.800 I want to get rid of this myth immediately if 81 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:08.959 in fact it is a myth or it's a fact. 82 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.240 And that is everyone says, oh it always breaks to 83 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.480 the ocean, Oh it always breaks to the mountains. Oh 84 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:18.319 is that or is it just you know? From what 85 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:23.279 I've learned in talking to golf course architects, they tell me, no, 86 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.279 it breaks. It's irrigation. It's all about irrigation, and it 87 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.600 breaks to where the water is going to flow. 88 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:34.399 Uh. All one hundred percent nonsense. Matter of fact, I 89 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.600 teach that you completely ignore any of that stuff. You 90 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:43.879 don't want outside influences to bother what you do, getting 91 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:49.279 the exact break in front of you. So architects. Of course, 92 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:53.000 most of the time you know the the drain flow 93 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.959 of a green is going to be from a mountain 94 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:00.360 to an ocean, but not all the time. So so 95 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.720 it's just total myth. Matter of fact, I found most 96 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:09.319 of all of green reading is voodoo nowadays. You know 97 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:13.000 there there are there are basically four types of green reading, 98 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.600 all right, and all of them don't work. And you 99 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.240 can see it on TV all the time. And these 100 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:24.560 are the professionals speece all the best. And the four 101 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.959 types of green reading is one is staring. You walk 102 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.759 all around it, you look at it. But that's actually 103 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:34.480 what causes the problem. Optical illusions are the only reason 104 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:38.439 you would ever missread a green period. Optical illusions and 105 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:42.240 staring is the actual cause of the problem. The other 106 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.600 way to read a green is somewhat common these days 107 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:51.720 is foot field well, foot feeling. It doesn't work. It's 108 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.759 no math behind it. And the you know I can 109 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:58.279 say that is because you go find an algebra book, 110 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.319 a trig book, a calculus book. Nowhere are you're going 111 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.639 to find in there a chapter on feeling. It's just 112 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:10.040 not going to happen. And then there's map contours, which 113 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.959 have been banned anyway, so math contours are and then 114 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.319 again they have no math either that untrained person can't see. 115 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.480 And then the other way is memorization. So if you memorize, 116 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.360 you know you you have if your tour pro you 117 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.959 have four tournaments, I mean four days of a tournament, 118 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:35.399 four sides of the green, different distances and all that, 119 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:39.959 and and basically it becomes unless you're rain Man or something, 120 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:45.160 it becomes untenable. So you know. So anyway, all four 121 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:51.120 of those ways don't produce any results that egos can 122 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:55.560 do because they have no math. They have you just 123 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.959 can't do it. So we're still in the primitive age 124 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.040 of green reading until of course this comes out. 125 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:06.560 Okay, and how long have you been practicing egos and egos? 126 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:11.720 We should just make clarify what your system is, the 127 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.319 expert green reading operating system. 128 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.439 I've been doing it since nineteen ninety. 129 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:24.959 Okay, so and you haven't. You haven't missed a read since. 130 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.560 That is correct, except except for when I make an 131 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.319 error myself. You know, I don't. I don't play as 132 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.000 often as I used to. So then I got to 133 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:35.919 go back and see what I did, what I what 134 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:36.720 I missed. 135 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:41.279 Up, So that then we're then we're just talking about 136 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:42.519 distance control. 137 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:50.240 And speak control. The two or a perfect late read 138 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.879 is for a put that. Yeah, a perfect aim line 139 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.600 is a putt that goes in at the speed that 140 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.440 you want it to go in. Do you want to 141 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.000 diet in the hole? Do you want to ram it 142 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.320 into the hole? Or do you want to have it 143 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.600 if it has a cellophane top on top of it, 144 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:12.080 it'd go twelve inches past. So speed and aim and 145 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:18.320 are tied together. They're married together. So EGOS will give 146 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:23.000 you that exact line for any way you want to 147 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.360 hold the putt. And it's all done on calibration at 148 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:29.960 the practice screen, which is detailed in my book. 149 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.039 Okay, uh, and again tell everyone the name of the 150 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:35.320 book so we can find it. 151 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.320 That's a good good point. 152 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:42.360 Do you not remember the name? 153 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:50.720 Well, come on Math and Analysis Green Rating Methodology on 154 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:58.159 the PGA Tour today and tomorrow veos. 155 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:07.799 Okay, it available exactly, and I'll put that in the 156 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:12.200 show notes. And what is it available on Amazon or wherever? 157 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:12.879 Get books? 158 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:18.200 Okay, Amazon, Amazon, Kindle and it's twenty seven books for 159 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:19.759 a lifetime skill. 160 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.000 I like to say, yeah, well, then that's a worthwhile investment, 161 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.559 I would think, especially if your frustration is there and 162 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.679 everyone has room to become a better putter. So, you know, 163 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.159 we can talk about the hardware all we want, but 164 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.320 until you learn how to read a green, it really 165 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.039 doesn't matter what the hardware is. Sometimes that's right. 166 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.519 If you haven't read the green read properly, you're putting 167 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.080 stroke matters not right. 168 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:50.200 And that would be where you start, as long as 169 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:52.440 you can get on the starting line that you intend. 170 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.279 At the speed you intend. 171 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.360 At the speed the line and the. 172 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:01.399 Speed speed because they are married together. And my contention 173 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.279 is tour pros one hundred and fifty five t off 174 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.559 every weekend and they're the best in the world. And 175 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:12.879 it's my contention that those tour pros can do that. 176 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.600 They can hit the ball where they want to at 177 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:19.240 the speed they want to all the time, or they 178 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:21.879 wouldn't be the top one fifty five in the world. 179 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:30.759 Andy, tell me about the people that you've worked with. 180 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.960 Have you been working with PGA tour pros or college 181 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.559 players or corn fairy? You know, the guys trying to 182 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.000 get their way up to the tour. 183 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:44.240 That's a great question, and it's a kind of a 184 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.600 little bit of a long answer. 185 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:47.840 And taking time. 186 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:56.039 And I have talked to a bunch of people about it, 187 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.480 including some teachers and stuff like that. But what I'm 188 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.720 finding is that there is a tremendous bias out there 189 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:09.480 about green reading, and when you present something that you 190 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.559 say is going to work, there's a tendency that they 191 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.360 don't believe it. But I've done it to some tour 192 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:20.360 pro teachers, doesn't matter if I name maybe Derek u 193 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:25.120 Wada and you know he absolutely gets it and loves it. 194 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:31.519 Another one is Blair Philip another work with Barney Adams 195 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.759 and you So I've get some X tour pros that 196 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:40.200 just absolutely get it because again they're mathematically inclined. But 197 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:44.159 if you go if you go to ask a touring pro, 198 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.240 for example, you know, do you misread greens that cause 199 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:51.879 miss putts? And you know their typical answer is going 200 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:56.039 to be occasionally but not often, all right, And then 201 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:59.720 other pros will will reply, you know I never misread 202 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:03.200 because I work harder than all others. Well, it took 203 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.120 a while, but that translation to that answer is I 204 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:11.519 memorized each put for each tournament four days times four 205 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.600 pin placements, times four directions times eighteen holes. So there's 206 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.000 some brainwashing that goes on into their head, and I 207 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.279 call it this kind of green reading brainwashing that continues 208 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.919 to this day. And frankly, I don't blame the tour 209 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:33.960 pro for succumbing to this brainwashing since you're standing over 210 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:38.919 putts with zero confidence. If you don't have confidence in 211 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:42.399 your green read that that will affect your putting stroke negatively. 212 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:48.639 So that brainwashing is there. So I have that bias 213 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.279 that I have to overcome when I show them that 214 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:58.759 it'll actually work, and that's been very difficult to do. 215 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.919 And that's why I'm in the middle of a topic, 216 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:04.320 you know, trying to get it in front of a 217 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:08.919 guy like Bryson, who I know has mathematical proclivity and 218 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.000 will literally, you know, when I get halfway through a 219 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.240 twenty minute demo, he's going to come and grab me 220 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:18.639 and thank me, as did Blair, Philip and a couple 221 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:25.159 other gentlemen that I know of, because they just get it. 222 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:33.639 So that's I guess back to your question. Yeah, I have, 223 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:39.559 but unfortunately most young expiring collegiates and everything, and even 224 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:43.159 tour pros themselves say, if I don't see it being 225 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:48.679 used on TV, I'm not going to get involved. And 226 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:53.240 it's an incredible bias that I had no idea existed 227 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:55.679 until the years I started getting into this. 228 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:01.240 Yeah, and I've had I've come across that so much myself. 229 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:06.679 I recently went, yeah, I in a sense that you 230 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.600 know here as we talked about this. I've interviewed hundreds 231 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:13.360 of golf instructors, and I've learned a lot from the 232 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:17.639 golf instructor perspective. But when I go out to play 233 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:21.120 with some people at a country club who play every 234 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:23.279 week with the same four guys in the same course 235 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.039 every week, and I start sharing some of the things 236 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:29.519 I've learned, They're like, Nah, yeah, no, doesn't exist. Yeah, 237 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.399 you're wrong. I don't see it. So I get I 238 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.240 get feel like I'm banging my head against the wall 239 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.919 sometimes too. That's why I pretty much just like to 240 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:43.159 ask the questions and learn from people like you. 241 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:48.159 Well, I again, the people with mathematical privity. I've developed 242 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.120 a putter that you use with the system. It's a 243 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.840 surveying instrument putter, and I've sold five hundred of those 244 00:15:54.879 --> 00:16:00.639 putters worldwide, all right, So they're people that get it, 245 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:05.000 and it's just unfortunately I don't have anybody on the 246 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:10.919 tour pro circuit yet that will do it and use it. 247 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.480 But I'm totally convinced if I can get somebody out there, 248 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:18.919 it's going to take their pprs down into the twenty 249 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.799 sevens or maybe even lower, which is always top five. 250 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.799 And from there, I'm convinced it's going to go viral. 251 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:29.840 And especially a tour pro because he's, as I explain 252 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.600 in my book and all, he's going to get ten 253 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:36.360 more looks at making Birdie. This is with the average 254 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:40.440 tour pro, you know, and making Birdie. Then he has 255 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:47.480 now with using egos, especially with taking two thousand egos 256 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.559 Green reads in this season, how expert he's going to get. 257 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:54.440 And then the other thing is, you know what, even 258 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:56.039 if a tour pro doesn't even want to do it, 259 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.080 because I don't see John Daily doing doing this, and 260 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.080 I don't see Bubb Watson do it, So why don't 261 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.039 you just tell you caddy to do it? All right? 262 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.799 So the caddy becomes really really good at it, so 263 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.720 and I think the he'll he'll start to have trust 264 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.559 in his caddy as the ball disappears all the time, 265 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:22.160 you know, So there's that option as well. But it 266 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.920 just hasn't happened yet. So I'm hoping it will happen, 267 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:27.960 you know, in my lifetime. 268 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:32.400 I hope, I hope it happens for your lifetime as well. 269 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.640 So I am uh and have been for four or 270 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:37.960 five years now a big fan of the lab golf 271 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:44.359 putters that are lie angle balanced versus toe or heel balanced, 272 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.839 and they claim to have a lot of science behind 273 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:57.200 that as well. The putter that you have developed, what 274 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:59.279 makes it unique. 275 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.000 If you were to take I call the putter the 276 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.160 psn I egos, which stands an acronym. I'm big into 277 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:11.839 the acronyms putting and surveying instrument. Instrument is that if 278 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.359 you take your fingers and to put your fingers out 279 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:17.319 like you're pointing, and then put your putter over the 280 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.519 over it and balance it, you'll come to some tow 281 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:25.960 hang on most putters, you know, forty five thirteen degrees whatever. Well, 282 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:29.319 the PS and I egos you can put it in 283 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.039 any direction, the toe point in any direction and it'll 284 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:36.000 just stay there. So it's not a I call it 285 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:39.960 an all balanced putter. You know, there are face balance 286 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:42.559 putters that will if you do what I just said 287 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:45.279 that the face will will be looking straight up to 288 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:50.400 the sky axis. One makes a putter that the it'll 289 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.359 be one hundred percent, or it'll be ninety degrees pointing 290 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:57.640 down at the ground and the lab that way. 291 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:03.759 We don't put that way. 292 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:11.079 All that's true, but the perfect I've sold quite a 293 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.519 few putters just because they love the feel of an 294 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:18.960 all balanced putter. But the tricker with an all balanced 295 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.160 putter is that it becomes a surveying instrument and it 296 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:28.680 doesn't really matter where your toe is pointing. And so 297 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:31.440 that's that's why I sell that. But you can use 298 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.440 your own putter if you just know what position to 299 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:38.279 hold it every time. And I've been doing battle with 300 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:40.920 the USGA, and it says, well, if you mark the 301 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:43.319 putter with a mark slot, you don't put a little 302 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:46.839 dot and center it and all that. But the USGA 303 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.279 has sent me back, Oh, this has been about ten 304 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.440 years of correspondence. He keeps sending back. I don't know 305 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:55.559 that's illegal because you can't put any marking on a 306 00:19:55.599 --> 00:20:00.559 putter other than decorative or to align the face the 307 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:04.920 when you're setting the putter down. So I've been I've 308 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:08.000 been through all that as well. Now the lab putter, 309 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:15.680 that is a little different creature. And I do know 310 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:21.920 an awful lot about putters. I believe that they they've 311 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.720 got a certain angle to the ground, a lie, as 312 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.799 you would say, and they make the putter balanced in 313 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:32.440 that lie, which is the lie where in the swing 314 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:37.839 plane you have. So that's what makes them special. Again, 315 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:40.799 you would have to take that putter and try and 316 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:44.559 find out what when you hold it doing egos, what 317 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:47.799 makes it a true perfect vertical in other ways of 318 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:52.039 surveying instrument, I haven't got one yet, but I've got 319 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:54.640 about every other putter known de mand. 320 00:20:54.640 --> 00:21:07.759 So andy, I'm not mathematically inclined, I may say I'm 321 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:13.640 even math challenged. So how can I make egos work 322 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:16.680 for me? I'm the creative type. 323 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:20.480 Well that's a great question. Then the book goes through 324 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:24.799 the three steps that you just need to do men 325 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:29.319 memorize in order to get into the proper positions to 326 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:31.880 get this angle gap I call it right in front 327 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:36.640 of your eyes on every putt, and the three steps 328 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:41.559 invoke the math that is involved. So I've got two 329 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.000 pages in the book of the actual math tenth grade 330 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:48.720 geometry proven as you were to see by a professor. 331 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:52.599 But you don't need to know that it is. All 332 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.359 you have to do is know how to stand, where 333 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.599 to stand, and how to hold a putter. Just those 334 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:05.200 three things and you can become an expert green reader immediate. 335 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:15.279 Okay, how to stand, where to stand, and the third one, 336 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.920 how to hold the so grip is what you're saying. 337 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:24.599 The grip. Yeah, yeah, how to hold the putter. You 338 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:27.759 have to you have to put a putter out in 339 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:31.279 front of you. And I don't like to use the word, 340 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:35.440 but everybody else does, like you're plumb bobbing. Okay, yeah, 341 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:39.279 so again, and before I get into that, let me 342 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:43.319 just explain what I call plumb bobbing. I mentioned the 343 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:48.039 four ways of green reading. Well, one of those ways, excuse. 344 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.079 Me if it's for me, just take a message. 345 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:55.839 One of those methods is what I consider staring with 346 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:00.119 the putter in front of you, and it is that 347 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:03.240 that's what I call plumb bobbing, because the putter in 348 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:06.160 front of you does absolutely nothing if you don't know 349 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:09.640 all the other steps on how to stand or where to. 350 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:12.200 Stand, let's let's get into it. 351 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:18.440 Love this, okay, let's start with the first The first 352 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:20.920 step is too and let me. 353 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:24.680 And it's how to stand. As you're saying, the first step. 354 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:27.480 The first step is how to stand. So the first 355 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:31.119 step on how to stand is you you need to 356 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:35.480 take a wide stance at which gets your spine perpendicular 357 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:38.640 to the ground slope, all right, And this is where 358 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:41.039 we're going to create an angle gap in front of 359 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:43.920 your in front of your face with the putter and 360 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:48.680 some imaginary lines that you're going to draw. So wide stance, 361 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:53.640 don't tilt your head or your torso or anything in 362 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:56.880 any direction. And you wouldn't know which way to tilt 363 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:03.880 it on subtle slopes anyway, so you can, yeah, here 364 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:08.960 we go. So anyway, that's how to stand. And it's 365 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:12.440 important that you just stand the same way every time 366 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:16.119 so that if there are any quirks about you having 367 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.480 one leg short or another, it'll all come out in 368 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:23.359 the calibration. So that's how to stand. The second thing 369 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:26.759 is where to stand. Well, you need to stand where 370 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:30.440 the ball will break. So when you see people plumb 371 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:32.519 bobbing and the ball is in front of them, that's 372 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:36.519 a mistake right away because you don't put backwards. So 373 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:39.400 you need to go stand up around or just slightly 374 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:43.039 in front of the ball with the ball between your legs, 375 00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:49.599 spread your legs, stand correctly, and that's and that's where 376 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:52.519 you are going to get the read or the slope 377 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.839 of the ground as the ball travels store as a hole. Now, 378 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:58.480 let's say in my book, covers a ten foot putt 379 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.119 to win the US Open. So you go there, You 380 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:03.200 take a stance right in front of the ball, right 381 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:06.640 at the ball, take a read. Then in the minute 382 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:09.319 you take a read, you're going to have an angle gap, 383 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:11.799 and from the practice screen calibration you're going to know 384 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:15.599 exactly where to aim that ball for the speed you 385 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:18.720 like to make the ball. Okay, now the question is 386 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:23.400 will it continue to break that way all the way? 387 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:27.880 Does the slope remain the same. So, since you were 388 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:30.000 going to win the US Open with this ten foot 389 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:32.519 you go up to the hole, right at the hole, 390 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:35.200 with the hole right between your legs, and take the 391 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:38.759 same read, same do everything the same way as you 392 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:42.079 did over the ball, and you look and you see 393 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.000 an angle gap. If it's the same angle gap, you 394 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:47.960 know that the break is perfect. That it'll stay the 395 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:52.000 same and that your read is perfect. If, for example, 396 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:55.440 though you take a read and there is no angle gap, 397 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:58.880 there's a the putter goes right through your first object. 398 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:02.200 You know that it is flattened out at the hole. 399 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:06.200 So you need to adjust, and you need to adjust 400 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:09.559 your aim line a little less, and of course adjusts 401 00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:12.519