1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: It's the Son of Butcher podcast. I'm your host Claude 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: harmon solo episode of the pod this week and wanted 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: to talk about putting. I think it's a very very 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: important part of the game. But I also think it's 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 1: a part of the game that at times is seen 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: as incredibly complex, and it is. It is a complex 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: skill set. I've had Phil Kenyon on the pod before. 8 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: If you haven't listened to that one, go check it out. 9 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: I think fills one of the best in the game 10 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: and in putting. He works with some of the best 11 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: players in the game, and he is a master, in 12 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 1: my opinion, as an instructor as a coach at making 13 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: players better at putting. But I just wanted to give 14 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: a really simple brief observation on Yes, what I know 15 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: is a complex problem, but I've had some success recently 16 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: with some players in getting them to think about it differently. 17 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: And the thought process is, ask yourself when you're putting, 18 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: are you trying to make putts or are you trying 19 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: to not miss putts? And I'm talking putts from any 20 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: distance five feet, ten feet, fifteen, five, thirty thirty five 21 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I asked my dad, Butch Armon. I asked 22 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: him once what type of putter he was when he 23 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: played the tour, and he said he felt two things 24 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: held him back from having a better PJ Tour career. 25 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: His attitude his temper, which he said got the better 26 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: of him. He said he struggled to control that like 27 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: a lot of players do. And he said putting. He 28 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: didn't feel like he was a great putter and felt 29 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: like if he could have made more putts, he would 30 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: have had a better career. That is something that I 31 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: hear from a lot of players, from the average recreational golfer, 32 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: two players trying to play at the competitive level. I 33 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,839 Speaker 1: need to put better. And I asked my dad once. 34 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: We were talking about putting, and my dad when he 35 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: worked with Tiger Woods, they used to have this this 36 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: game that they would play on the night or the 37 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: late afternoon of every major. So on Wednesday afternoon, wherever 38 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: they were, they would have a putting contest. Augusta, the 39 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: US Open, the PGA, the British And this is kind 40 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: of peak tiger Woods, right two thousand Tiger, you know, 41 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: the Tiger Slam, all the tournaments he was winning, all 42 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: the putts that he was making. I think Tiger Woods 43 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: is probably one of the best pressure putters of all time. 44 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: In the same vein of Jack Nicholas, it seemed like 45 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: Tiger and Jack made all the putts they needed to 46 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: make at the times they needed to make them. The 47 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: puts for Paul, the puts for birdies, and we've seen 48 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: that from Tiger's career. So Tiger and my dad would 49 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: have a putting contest. And my dad has a very 50 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: very old school kind of risty stroke, you know, tons 51 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: of weight on his left leg, a lot of forward press. 52 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: He played on greens growing up in you know, the 53 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: fifties and the sixties that weren't the greens that we 54 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: have now, so you had to hit the ball. And 55 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: his stroke has a lot of hit. It has kind 56 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: of a lot of what we would call pop to it. 57 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: We put them on, you know, we put a line 58 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: on the ball, get him to try and roll the 59 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: ball straight. He can't do that. I've had him on 60 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: Sam before. Consistency is off the charts, but the stroke 61 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: is not something that would be technically perfect. The putter 62 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: that he uses, he's always used a bullseye type putter, 63 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: and he had Scottie Cameron make him a bulls eye 64 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: type putter, so he also likes his putters to be very, 65 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: very heavy. But he's a very good putter, has been 66 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: his whole career. And I watched a lot of these 67 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: putting competitions with Tiger and my dad at Major's, and 68 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: I watched Tiger beat my dad. Yeah, a lot of times. 69 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: But I watched my dad beat Tiger in a make 70 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: him putt game to where the only job was to 71 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: make it, so if you made it, you were one up. 72 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 1: If you didn't make it, you're even. And I'd watch 73 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: my dad sometimes run the table on Tiger and Tiger 74 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: but always said, man, I don't know how you're beating 75 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: me with that shitty putting stroke. And my dad would say, well, 76 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: you're three down. So I asked him once I was 77 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: talking to him about putting. I was on putting Green 78 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 1: and asking him, you know, what do you think about 79 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: when you're putting? And he looked at me with a 80 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: strange look, kind of stations like I don't understand the question. 81 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: I was like what, and he's like, what do you 82 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: mean what I think about when I'm putting? And I said, yeah, 83 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: what do you think about when you're putting? And he 84 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: said making it. What else are you thinking about? And 85 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, no obviously, and he goes, no, no, no, 86 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: are you thinking about something else other than making it? 87 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: So I had a player recently come in plays on 88 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: the PGA Tour and said he was struggling with his game. 89 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: You know, he'd missed you know, number of fo in 90 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: a row, and you know, I said, listen, what are 91 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: the strengths of your game right now? What are the weaknesses? 92 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: And he said, well, putting's definitely a weakness. I said, 93 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: in what way? He said, well, I just don't feel 94 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: like I can make a lot of pots. We talked 95 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: about his full swing, We talked about a number of things, 96 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: and so did some work on us full swing. And 97 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: I said, well, let's go over to the putting green 98 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: and I want to sell you what's going on with 99 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: your stroke And he said, well, I just don't make 100 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: a lot of pots. And so the natural tendency when 101 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: someone tells you as an instructor, I don't make a 102 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: lot of pots, he is, Okay, I've got an indoor 103 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: putter studio where I can go get him on you know, 104 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: four cameras and we see how the ball's rolling and 105 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: hook him up to Sam and you know, we've got 106 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: the technology, put him on force plates, figure out where 107 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: his weight's at, is he moving around, is he not 108 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: moving around, what's the stroke doing, what's the aim doing. 109 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: You know, we can tear this whole thing apart through technology. 110 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: But what I wanted to do was to see if 111 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: he was a bad putter. So I took two balls 112 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: and I walked four steps away from roughly around twelve 113 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: fifteen feet to start. I think it was left to 114 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: right with some downhill in it. And I said, all right, 115 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: you've got two balls, and the goal is to make 116 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: the pot. That's it. The only goal is to make 117 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: the pott. You have two chances, and if you make it, 118 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: make one of the two, you take another step back, 119 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: so you'd be five steps away to start out. If 120 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: you miss, you stay where you are. So first pott 121 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: I think he hold. Walk back to five feet the 122 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: next pot, and I think just burn the edge or 123 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: lipped out, and they hold the next one. So then 124 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: we walked back to Now we started at four steps away, 125 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: we went to five, got to six, he made another one, 126 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: got to seven steps away from the hole. Hit two 127 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: really good potts. But missed those. So it took a 128 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: step back and everything. But he started laughing and he 129 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,119 Speaker 1: was like, wow, I never see myself make this amount 130 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: of potts. I said, I thought you told me you 131 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: were a bad putter, and he laughed and I laughed. 132 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: And my point behind that is I think a lot 133 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: of players are just trying to not miss potts. So 134 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: when I regonally put the balls down for this player 135 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: and I said, listen, you've get two balls. The object 136 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: from twelve to fifteen feet is out of these two 137 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: balls is to make it. So he had a line 138 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: on the ball. So we had three lines on the ball, 139 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 1: you know that a lot of people draw, so that 140 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: he could kind of get that kind of you know, 141 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: tire look to where he can see how the ball 142 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: is rolling. So he went to line that up, started 143 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: to do his aim point and I said, no, no, no, 144 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: don't line the putts up. Just stand up to it. 145 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: No practice strokes. Take one look at the hole, look 146 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: back at the ball, and put so to try and 147 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: get him to turn his brain off and to take 148 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: the time gap and make it much much smaller so 149 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: that he didn't have a lot of time to think. 150 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: And I think as soon as we took the time 151 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: away from him to where he was going to gather 152 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: all this information, and as soon as we made the outcome, 153 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: just make the pot, I think it really shifted the 154 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: focus and the strokes started to look a lot freer. 155 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: He started to take way less time and his putts, says, 156 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: my dad has said, great putters, their putts always have 157 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: the go in look, meaning when you play with a 158 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: really good putter, like if we go out and we 159 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: walk around a practice round with Cam Smith, you know, 160 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: I think it's one of the best pure putters I've 161 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: ever seen. Cam's putts always look like they're going in. 162 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: Ricky Fowler h when Ricky was in his prime as 163 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: one of the best putters on the PGA Tour, his 164 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: balls always look like they had the go in look. 165 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: And I remember I was at the Austin Golf Club. 166 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: I worked there for a year in two thousand and five, 167 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: and it was Ben Crunchaw's home course, not the Austin 168 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: Country Club where they've played the WGC, but Austin Country Club. 169 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: And I was talking to Ben about putting and he 170 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: said to me, listen, if your putts always have the 171 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: right speed, how far away from the hole. Are you 172 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: ever really going to be And he said he feels 173 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: like most people just fall in love with the line, 174 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: you know, they fall in love with getting the break, 175 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: getting the perfect line, and then sometimes forget to hit 176 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: the pott. So once we got this player kind of 177 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: turning his brain off and just thinking about putting, he 178 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: started to make a lot of putts and he said 179 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: that he rarely thinks about making potts he's And when 180 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: I asked him, I said, listen, when you do a point, listen. 181 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: Lucas Glover talked about a point. Colin Marikal talked about 182 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: this is not a commonversation of the validities of whether 183 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: am point works or it doesn't. I think for some 184 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: players it works, and I think it sometimes it does, 185 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: and if it does, for you use it. I think 186 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: you can use aim point in a way that doesn't 187 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: take a long time, that you don't have to be slow. 188 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: But my point behind all of this is this player 189 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: who told me he was a really bad putter and 190 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: who was trying to play golf per a living, wasn't 191 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: trying to make putts. He was just trying to not 192 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: three putt. So when I asked him, what are you 193 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: doing with the aim point, with the line on the ball, 194 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: with the multiple lines on the ball, with lining it up, 195 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: with going and going through your whole routine, all the 196 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: practice strokes, how slow everything is, and then you're not 197 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: making pots. What are you doing? Why are you going 198 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: through that process? And he said, well, I want to 199 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: make sure I get all the information so that I 200 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: don't miss anything that could help me from not missing it. 201 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: And I just said, no, I understand all that, but 202 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: why not shift the focus After you do all that, 203 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: after you do all your mechanical stroke work, after you 204 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: do all your you know, green reading, you're in information gathering. 205 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: Why not then say, okay, I've prepared for the test, 206 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: let me go take the test. And when you pot, 207 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: there's two outcomes. The ball's either going to go in 208 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: or the ball isn't going to go in. And in 209 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: talking to my dad, when he was like, listen, why 210 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: would you waste any time on trying to not miss it? 211 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: Shouldn't your focus be one hundred percent on doing everything 212 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: you possibly do to make it? And so I just 213 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: think so many players are struggling with putting, They're struggling 214 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: with speed, they're struggling with distance control, They're struggling with 215 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 1: a lot of things. But I think there are a 216 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: lot of people listening and a lot of people that 217 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: I see putting that they're not trying to make putts. 218 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: They're just trying to not miss putts. And I think 219 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: the headspace that you get into as a player if 220 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: all you're trying to do is to not do something, 221 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: there's no positive feedback you're building with yourself. There's no 222 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: trust that you're building with yourself. So don't be afraid 223 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: to yes, work your mechanics. I've always thought that as instructors, 224 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: we've kind of worked putting backwards, right. You know, even 225 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: with beginning golfers, we work on trying to build the 226 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: stroke first, and to try and make the stroke from 227 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: three feet five feet, t's in the ground, chalk lines, 228 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: all these you know, putting templates, gates, you know, all 229 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: of the stuff that we do to try and make 230 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: sure that we could control how the ball is rolling 231 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: and to make sure that the ball is rolling the 232 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: correct way. Right in air quotes, the correct way, there 233 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: isn't a correct way. So as I said to this player, 234 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: I said, listen, there are so many different ways you 235 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: can make putts right. There's so many different speeds that 236 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: you can make putts. And then we did this drill 237 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: to where we got on some crazy slopes right, some 238 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: insane left to right slopes, some insane right to less ups. 239 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: We had some where we were putting basically as much 240 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: downhill as we can. And again we started off four 241 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: steps away from the hole. You had two opportunities to 242 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: make it. And watching this player go from someone who 243 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: was self confessed a bad putter, who didn't like his stroke, 244 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: who said he didn't make any putts, to giving him 245 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: very very difficult putting tasks, and the goal being all 246 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: you're trying to do is make it. And I think 247 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: what I was trying to do is to get the 248 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: stroke to be a little bit freer, but to also 249 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: help this player just turn his brain off and just 250 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: pot react. What you see, if we gave you a 251 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: ball from thirty feet and told you to roll two 252 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: balls underhanded on the ground, I mean, and just said, hey, 253 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: roll them to the hole. I would just roll the 254 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: first one, and then I'd react to what the first 255 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: one did, and then I'd ad just off the second one. 256 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: I wouldn't really think about my arm. I wouldn't really 257 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: think about the motion of my arm. I wouldn't think 258 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: about where I was holding the ball, whether it's a 259 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: lot in my thumb or my index finger. And I 260 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: wouldn't think about my release point or any of that. 261 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: I wouldn't think about how I was standing or where 262 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: my arm position was. I would just roll the balls 263 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: towards the hole. I would react. And so I think 264 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: most players when they put poorly, they have a bunch 265 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: of three putts, have you know, thirty three thirty four pots, 266 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: and they put poorly, the first thing they do is 267 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: come back to the putting green and set up drills 268 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: and work on mechanics. And so I think in the 269 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: past we've tried to have players have perfect strokes and 270 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: then work on speed and green reading and feel and 271 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: touch secondly, and to be honest, a lot of times 272 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: you don't even work on it because you're spending so 273 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: much time in mechanics. So this goes back to the 274 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: constant theme that I'm talking about on the pod is 275 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: the technique part in the execution part. The three DP 276 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: tour Iron utilizes three D printing technology to unlock a 277 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 1: new realm of performance printed from three to sixteen stainless steel. 278 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: The three DP Tour delivers the shape and feel of 279 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: a player's blade with the stability and forgiveness of a 280 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: game improvement iron, the most forgiving blade shape on the market. 281 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: This one of a kind iron combines tour level precision 282 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: with the ultimate consistency that aspirational golfers desire. Yeah, I 283 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: asked Brad Faxon. We're with the Open Championship one year 284 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: in the early two thousands, and facts, great putter. That's 285 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: kind of what he's known for, you know, helps Ry 286 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: McElroy with his putting. And so I asked him we 287 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: were out of major. I said, listen, what do you 288 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: think about? Same question I asked my dad, what do 289 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: you think about when you're putting? And he said, well, 290 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: what I try and do is after I gather all 291 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 1: the information, right after I do my green reading and 292 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: kind of figure out what I'm going to do and 293 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: figure out what the game plan, how the putt is breaking, 294 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: whether it's uphill downhill. He said, once I get over 295 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 1: the pot, if I find myself starting to think about 296 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: my stroke or my brain starting to turn on, I 297 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: kind of back off, step out and start over again. 298 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: Because when I'm standing over a putt, I just kind 299 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: of want to be blank and not thinking about anything. 300 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: And so I think if you're struggling with putting, if 301 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: you're struggling with speed, and you're struggling with three putts, 302 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: I think this is a really good drill to just 303 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: get you out of Okay. The object is I'm just 304 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: trying to make it okay. From you know, you could 305 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: do this in even numbers ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty 306 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: twenty five, thirty three five. So start at ten feet, 307 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: you get two opportunities to make it. If you make it, 308 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: you go back to fifteen feet. If you miss one 309 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: of the two at fifteen feet, you go back to ten. 310 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: And then you just keep trying to see how far 311 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: away from the hole you can be. And I just 312 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 1: am fascinated that all of a sudden, the balls start 313 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: to get to the hole in putting. And this is 314 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: going to sound very very basic, but if the ball 315 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: doesn't get to the hole, it never has a chance 316 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: to go in. That might sound like an incredibly simplistic, 317 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: kind of cliche type statement, but if you think about it, 318 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: if you've got a twenty foot pot and the ball 319 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: doesn't get past the hole, it doesn't get over the 320 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: front edge of where the cup is. If you don't 321 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: have enough speed for that to happen, it's very hard 322 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: for the ball to go in. So when I was 323 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: in Singapore a couple of weeks ago and DJ played 324 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: really well, we were out on the golf course practicing. 325 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: You know, during the practice round, I was taking an 326 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: alignment stick on whatever putt that he had and just saying, Okay, 327 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to take the alignments that can place at 328 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: one step behind the hole. So that's kind of, you know, 329 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure people have heard that's kind of the safe zone, 330 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: but I said, you've got to get the balls to 331 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: the hole. So you don't want to be reckless. You 332 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: don't want to be hitting putts super super hard, but 333 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: there is a makespeed that putts have when you make them. 334 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: I always think that most players, you can kind of 335 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: see how much, especially on tour, you can see how 336 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: much they stay in their posture putting wise, you can 337 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: kind of tell if they think they've made it or not. 338 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: So if Roy mcroy's got a twenty footer and he 339 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: kind of puts it and he kind of stays crouched 340 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: over stays in his posture and stuff, he's probably gonna 341 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: have a pretty good chance to make it if he 342 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: puts it in halfway, he stands up and out of it, 343 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: or starts walking he knows he hasn't right. So that 344 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: again is to me, part of the go in look 345 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: of what putts look like when they're going in. So 346 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: I think shifting the focus away from technique. Yeah, work 347 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: on your technique, work on your stroke, you know, work 348 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: on all of the things that are available in putting. 349 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: Right now, there are so many different tools, putting mirrors, gates, 350 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: you know, template O Kenyon has his that a lot 351 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: of players use. I think all of that is incredibly important. 352 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: But I think if you're going to do that type 353 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: of work, and however much time you're going to put 354 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: into that type of mechanical work, you should put in 355 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: the same time and just turn your brain off and 356 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: just go to a putting grain and say, okay, it's 357 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: playground and I'm just going to try and play, just 358 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: going to try and pot as opposed to go and 359 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: work on one specific task from five feet right. And 360 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: that definitely has value, But you then have to get 361 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: out of that and say, okay, let me go test 362 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: the work that I've done on my stroke and see 363 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: if I can make any pots, and see if I 364 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: can control my speed, and see if I can control 365 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: what I'm seeing. I think a good rule of thumb 366 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: when you get up to every pot that you have 367 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: before you market. Okay, let's say you've hit an eight 368 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: iron to twenty five feet, walk up to the ball, 369 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: stand behind it. So stand directly behind the line that 370 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: you're gonna put and ask yourself two questions. The first 371 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: question is is this uphill or downhill? Do I see 372 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: it uphill? Does your first impression of this put do 373 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: you think it's uphill or downhill? And then ask yourself 374 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: do you think this putt is left to right or 375 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: right to left? So before you do anything, ask yourself 376 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: those two questions. Get your first kind of reaction. Your 377 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: first instinct is it uphill, downhill, right to left, left 378 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: to right. Then go gather the information if you want 379 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: to do whatever you want to do aime point, go 380 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: stand on it whatever, figure out all that stuff. Hopefully 381 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: you should come back after doing all the information gathering, 382 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: all the data collection, and you thought it was downhill, 383 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: and hopefully it's downhill, and you thought it was left 384 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: to right and it was left right. Now how much 385 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: downhill and how much left to right or right to 386 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: left or uphill that's a different question. But I think 387 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 1: so many players are losing their instincts and their reaction 388 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: as a player, as an athlete, as a human being, 389 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: and they're just waiting to try and gather all of 390 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: this information, and then once the information tells them something, 391 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: then they're going to try and make a stroke to 392 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: where they're just trying to not hit a bad putt. 393 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: They're just trying not to run it too far past. 394 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: They're just trying to tritckle it down there, and there's 395 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: no thought process into trying to make it. I'm not 396 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: telling you to be reckless, right, There's a big difference 397 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: between recklessly putting going at crazy speeds. But if you 398 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: are struggling with putting, shifting the focus to okay, what 399 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: can I do to try and make this pot as 400 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: opposed to what can I do to try and make 401 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: sure I don't miss this pot? I think that is 402 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: two very very different things. So in DJ's case, DJA 403 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: at times can struggle to get the ball to the hole. 404 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: So in practice rounds, you know, we were putting a 405 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: alignment stick behind the hole and saying, listen, you've got 406 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: to get the ball to the hole. And there were 407 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: a couple of times where he made a couple putts 408 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 1: that would have gone maybe five feet past, but they didn't. 409 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: They hit the hole. And so the reaction was, Wow, 410 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: that would have gone too far past. But my answer 411 00:18:58,640 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: to that was, yeah, but it didn't. It went why 412 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: in the middle of the hole. So if that's putt 413 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: for Birdie, Yeah, if you missed it, maybe it would 414 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: have gone five feet past, but you didn't. You made it. 415 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: And so taking that focus and having the concept of 416 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: a make speed what am I trying to do to 417 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: make this putt? Can really help just it can help 418 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: you play and putt better. It can definitely free your 419 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: putting stroke up. It can get you a little bit 420 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: less tentative. And most of the three putts that I 421 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 1: see in watching recreational golfers you know that I work with, 422 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: and watching players that I work with, you know that 423 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 1: are trying to play, and watching pro ams and watching 424 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: you know, great players putt. So many times people just 425 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: don't get the ball to the hole. So from twenty 426 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: five feet they come up five feet short. That means 427 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 1: it never had a chance to go. In so simple, 428 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: simple game that you can play. Walk four steps away 429 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: from the hole, put two balls down, do it uphill, 430 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: do it downhill, do it right to left, do it 431 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: left to right, and you're trying to see how many 432 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: of the two you're trying to make them right. If 433 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: you make them, take a step back, if you miss, 434 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: come a step forward. But turning the brain off and 435 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 1: getting this idea of trying to make putts can do 436 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: a lot for your confidence, for your speed control, for 437 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: your distance control, and it can do a lot for 438 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: trying to free up your stroke. It's not technique. It's 439 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: in the execution room. It's in the execution button. If 440 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: you need your stroke. If you're doing this and you're 441 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: hitting balls massively offline, you know if they've got a 442 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: lot of cut spin. If you're not hitting something, then 443 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 1: go set up some drills and work on your stroke mechanics. 444 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: But after you've done that, get out of that and 445 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: go just try and putt and uphills, downhills, right to left, 446 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: left to right. But trying to make pots from forty 447 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 1: feet Go put some forty footers and the only thing 448 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: you're trying to do from forty feet is make it. 449 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: And getting into that mindset I think is hugely powerful. 450 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 1: I think it's getting into a really positive mindset. And 451 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: when you've got a pot for Birdie. I mean, if 452 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: you look at the stats on the PGA Tour, players 453 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: make more par putts, it seems like from ten feet 454 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: sometimes than they do for Bertie. Why because the player 455 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: doesn't want to make a bogie. So why are people 456 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: more aggressive on bogie putts than they are on birdie putts. 457 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 1: It doesn't make any logical sense, right, You're trying to 458 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: make both of them, and a birdie putt should be 459 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to take a stroke off your score. 460 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: But you talk to players, you talk to the reaction. 461 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: You see guys make a fifteen footer and sometimes they 462 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: don't even acknowledge it. They make a fifteen footer for bogie, 463 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: fifteen foot for double, you know, for par or fifteen 464 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: foot for bogie did not make a double. The reaction 465 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: is way different. They're much more amped up about making 466 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: a fifteen foot putt for par than they are missing 467 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 1: one from fifteen feet for Bertie. So just something I 468 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 1: wanted to talk about listen. As I said earlier, putting 469 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: is a complex part of the game, right. There are 470 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 1: a lot of things that go into it. But one 471 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,199 Speaker 1: of the things that you can do if you are 472 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: struggling with putting, get out of your head, just go 473 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: pot free, the stroke up, just try and make potts. 474 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: And I'm pretty confident if the goal is to try 475 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 1: and make pots, and the drill is to try and 476 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: make pots, and you're someone that doesn't make a lot 477 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: of potts, I think it's pretty simple. If you're not 478 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 1: making a lot of putts, focus on trying to make 479 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 1: a lot of putts. So Butch comes to you almost 480 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: every week. We will definitely see you next week. 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