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One of the things I mean, 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: I'm incredibly lucky to work with tour players that play 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: golf for a living, and it's trying to figure out 20 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: how to share that experience of what goes on at 21 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: the elite tour level and how that can help all 22 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: of you with your golf game. So I wanted to 23 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,919 Speaker 1: talk this week about putting and a couple of things. 24 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: I did an outing a couple of weeks ago in 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and like a lot of the outings, you 26 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: stand on a hole and I had to play the 27 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,199 Speaker 1: tenth hole, which is par three, about one hundred and 28 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: thirty five yards, nothing fancy. There were about fifteen groups, 29 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: so I think there are right around thirty players. But 30 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: what I found really interesting was everybody got to the 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: green and you could choose a putt the closest pot. 32 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: Everybody get to putt from that one. I think a 33 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: lot of people have played outings like this, played scrambles 34 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: like this. So the putt that we tended to use 35 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: it was around a twenty foot pot. So the idea 36 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: behind this to keep pace of play going. We found 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: an uphill pot with a little bit of left to 38 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: right slope to it, about twenty feet, and if you 39 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: hit your shot on the par three and nobody got 40 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: inside of twenty feet, everybody put it from the same place. 41 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: So I got to watch thirty golfers of all different levels, 42 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: some juniors, some senior golfers, some regular golfers, some good players, 43 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: weekend warriors, just kind of a cross section of regular, 44 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: non elite professional golf, and the majority of I mean 45 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: it's par three. Yeah, some people hit some really good 46 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: shots and had some butts from you know, six feet, 47 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: eight feet, ten feet, but the majority of people missed 48 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: the green or hit it outside of twenty feet. So 49 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: the majority of the people I'd say, probably ninety percent 50 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: of the groups that went through we putted from this 51 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: twenty foot pott up the hill breaks a little bit 52 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: from right to left, and watching that process and watching 53 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: how everybody kind of evaluated that process. First of all, 54 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: out of the twenty i'd say, out of pretty much 55 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: everybody that went through that hole that putted this twenty 56 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: foot put not one person did a three sixty around 57 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: the hole. Everyone tended to look at the putt from 58 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: the down the line angle, and I'd say the majority 59 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: of the putts that I saw on that green that 60 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: day were left sure didn't have enough break. The speed 61 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: was wrong. And so what I'm getting at is people 62 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: tend to dramatically underread putts and it's important when you've 63 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: got a putt, you can make that putt at any speed, right, 64 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: at any speed that you want. But what I think 65 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 1: I see more and more is players they don't play 66 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: enough break, so the speed is never going to be consistent, 67 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: and the speed's never really going to be make speed. 68 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: Most people, it's up the hill twenty feet breaking from 69 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: left to right, five feet into the pot. I'm standing 70 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: behind the hole. I can tell that the ball isn't 71 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: going to go in right. I can tell that it's 72 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: never got a chance to go in because the speed's 73 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: just wrong. So I think golfers in general are obsessed 74 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: with I talk about this in the full swing all 75 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: the time. Golfers, in my opinion and in my experience, 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: are hyper focused on the curve and the direction of 77 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: the golf ball he's curving. They're not focused on the 78 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: contact when we get to the putting green. Golfers are 79 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: obsessed with the line. They put the line on the ball, 80 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: they adjust the line on the ball, but I think 81 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: they don't really think about speed. And I was lucky 82 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: enough in two thousand and five to work at the 83 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: Austin Golf Club, just outside of Austin, Texas. Ben Crenshaw 84 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: designed it. He was a member there. It was a 85 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: core Crunchhaw course and Ben was there a lot, and 86 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: I got to spend a lot of time with him, 87 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: and he basically just putt it a lot. He would 88 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: play a lot, but he would put a lot, obviously 89 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: as being one of the greatest pure putters of all time. 90 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: But he said something to me that's always stuck with me, 91 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: and he said, if your putts always have the right speed, 92 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: how far away from the hole are you ever really 93 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,799 Speaker 1: going to be? And so, what I think most golfers 94 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: do is they're hyper hyper focused on the line, on 95 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: getting the read right, but they don't ever think about 96 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: the speed of the putt. And I think when I 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: look back at my teaching and when I look back 98 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: at working with players on their putting, and I look 99 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: at it kind of across the broad landscape of instruction, 100 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: I think we as instructors and golf coaches and teaching pros, 101 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: we've actually taught golf backwards, right. We teach the stroke first, 102 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: we teach the mechanics first, and that's normally from three 103 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: to five feet, and we work on the line. Most 104 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: putter studios when you're putting indoors. If you ever go 105 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: to work with someone on your putting and they have 106 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: an indoor putter studio, you're gonna spend a lot of 107 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: time working on your stroke, looking at the mechanics, looking 108 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: at all those things. And I just I think we're 109 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: doing it backwards. I think we were learning putting backwards. 110 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: You really should go to the putting green and work 111 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: on speed first and then work on your stroke, because again, 112 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: as Ben Crenschall said, putts always have the right speed. 113 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: How far away from the hole are you ever going 114 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: to be? So I've talked about this on the pod before, 115 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: but I think most golfers, if they do put poorly, 116 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: they're going to go immediately to stroke mechanics and putt 117 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: that way. And so you got to work on your 118 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: speed and the last couple of you know, DJ hasn't 119 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: put a grete this year, and we've been working a 120 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: lot on a stroke. But at times his speed control 121 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: can get a little bit off. He can leave putts short. 122 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: So last week had a chance to win, finish third 123 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: finished I think one shot out of a playoff. Speed 124 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: was really good last week and we worked a lot 125 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: on that. So the first day shot sixty two and 126 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: made one hundred and twenty feet worth of putts. Had 127 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: twenty four putts, twelve one putts, sixty two puts no 128 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: three putts. His birdie conversion rate was sixty seven percent. 129 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: And just to kind of put that into some sort 130 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: of context, the week before when didn't necessarily have that 131 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: grade of a week, putting wasn't anything special. And so 132 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: when I'm looking at the stats and I'm looking at, 133 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, what player's doing. So we look at the 134 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: final round on Sunday in Chicago, DJ shoot seventy two. 135 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: Bertie conversion rate was seventeen percent, twenty five putts, nine 136 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: to one pots, eight two putts, fifty five feet of 137 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: puts that he made. Now, yes, there's ball striking that 138 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: goes in there, but my point behind that is DJ 139 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: at time, he likes to dye his putts in the hole. 140 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: That's just kind of the way he sees everything. He 141 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: likes to kind of if it's a right to left pot, 142 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: if it's the left to right putt, he wants it 143 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: kind of dying into the hole. And at times his 144 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: speed can get off. At times I think he can underread. 145 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: So last week, what I did was just set up 146 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: a very very basic putting drill, one that I think 147 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: can be really really helpful regardless of what level of 148 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: putter you're at. But stood at the hole, took three 149 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: steps away from the hole, put a tee down, and 150 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 1: then put five te's down. So three steps, four steps, 151 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: five steps, six steps, seven steps. He doesn't like to 152 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: work on his distance control on flat pots. He likes 153 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: to have them break. So found a pot that had 154 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: a little bit of break to it and just said, listen, Okay, 155 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: you start at the first t If you make it, 156 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: you go back, and then if you miss, you get 157 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: one step forward. Okay, so you go back to the 158 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: tee that you started on, and if you miss at 159 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: the first tee, you stay there until you make it. 160 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: And what it does is I think it gets him 161 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,359 Speaker 1: out of thinking about his stroke and thinking about his mechanics. 162 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: He thinks like most golfers, they think about their stroke 163 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: mechanics a lot, which are hugely, hugely important. Right, But again, 164 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: this is that battle between technique and execution, So there 165 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: is going to be a struggle involved because you're trying 166 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: to match the speed to the line. But it is 167 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: a make drill and so DJ, we spend a lot 168 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: of time on Tuesday, on Wednesday, on Thursday. We did 169 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: this drill every single day and there were sometimes he 170 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: got through this drill in half hours, sometimes took in 171 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: forty minutes. Sometimes it took them longer. And then we 172 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: also did it in the warm ups Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 173 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: So yeah, he hit it good on the first day 174 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: last week in Indianapolis. Yeah, I mean, you can't shoot 175 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: nine under and hit it bad. But he putted probably 176 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: had one of his best putting performances top five putting 177 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: performances of this year, of this season, and twenty four putts. 178 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: And to me, it's the amount of feet of putts 179 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: that he made, one hundred and twenty whereas the week 180 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: before on Sunday, I mean, he's in the fifties, he's 181 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: not making a lot of putts. So the speed control 182 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: got better, and the putts, my dad always says, the 183 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: great putters have their putts have the go in look. 184 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: And so what I started to notice when we started 185 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: to do this drill was one DJ's speed was better. 186 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: He was getting the ball to the whole more consistently. 187 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: His potts started to have the go in. Look. But 188 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 1: because it was a make drill, the focus was again 189 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: out of thinking about technique, out of thinking about soaked mechanics. 190 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: You know what his putter was doing, it was making it. 191 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: So he started the he started three steps away from 192 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: the hole, missed one, made it, went back, then missed 193 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: and had to come back. So it's that moving back, 194 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: moving forward. But the shorter the potts on this drill. 195 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: So you've got a three your three steps away from 196 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: the hole, four steps away from the hole, five steps 197 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: away from the hole. Six. But once you start to 198 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: get further away from the hole and you miss, you're 199 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: then getting closer to the hole. But the closer he 200 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: got to the hole, the longer this drill took. You 201 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 1: could see he's like, okay, now I'm all the way 202 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: back at the beginning of the drill, I just got 203 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: to kind of the fourth you know, the fourth pot. 204 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: Then I missed, and I missed the third one, and 205 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: then I went back. So now going back, you could 206 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: see that he felt like, Okay, now I've got to 207 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: really zone in and start to just try and make 208 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: these pots. So that three step put away from the hole, 209 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,079 Speaker 1: you could see that when he got all the way 210 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: back to the beginning of the drill because he missed 211 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: from further out. He was like, Okay, let me just 212 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: go ahead and knock this one in. And what I 213 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: noticed was his stroke got a little bit freer. He 214 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: just started to putt better because he's putting, he's not 215 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: doing one specific task. He's not just working on technique, 216 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: stroke mechanics from three feet and so on. The golf course. 217 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: Once the tournament started, I mean really really did improve, 218 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: and we saw some really good improvements in you know 219 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: what was going on when we got away from the 220 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: hole and the longer potts, which that's what you want 221 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 1: to try and do. You want to try and hut 222 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: better from longer range because you're not going to hit 223 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: it super super close all the time. And even the 224 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: best players in the world don't hit it perfect right. 225 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: They're going to have issues from speed, from the variety 226 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,959 Speaker 1: of slope on the green, from the imperfections of the green. Right, 227 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: there's spike marks, there's footprints, there's indentations in the green. 228 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: But again, if you're only trying to make it, if 229 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: you're only trying to focus on that, I think that's 230 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: a great way to I would like to see players 231 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: start that way what everybody does. It's a generalization, but 232 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: the majority of the people that I see, and I 233 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: see this on the PGA Tour, I see this on live. 234 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: I see this DP Asia, LPGA, college golf, high level, 235 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: junior golf, high school golf. If people go to the 236 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: putting green, they start putting short putts first, and switch 237 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: it up. If you're not putting great, and if you 238 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: feel like you're leaving strokes out on the golf course 239 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: because the putting's not great, start with longer putts. Just 240 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: don't go set up that three foot drill, that five 241 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: foot drill. You know, a bunch of balls around the hole. 242 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: Take this tea drill, walk three steps out, put a 243 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: tea down a three, four, five, six, seven. You could 244 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: do this however long the putting green is right, and 245 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: it's a make drill. So if you make it, you 246 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: go back. You miss, you go back to where you 247 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: just were, and I think you'll be surprised at the 248 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: stroke will get freer because you're trying to make putts 249 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: as opposed. The goal of this drill is to make 250 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: the putt. And I think a lot of putters and 251 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: I think tour players can get into this as well. 252 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: They're trying to not miss it right. They're trying to 253 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: make sure that they do everything in the read and 254 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: the aame point and walking around and making sure the 255 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: line's pointing the right way whatever. All of that is 256 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: about trying, in my opinion, to try and make sure 257 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: you don't miss it, try and make sure that you 258 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: don't do something or don't miss something in the reed 259 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: or look at it from a different angle, but making 260 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: sure that you've got the read correct. So I think 261 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: most golfers are trying to become great technical putters. They're 262 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: trying to have a good putting stroke, and they never 263 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: really think about speed at all, and if they do, 264 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: it's kind of bs right. They just they hit a 265 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: couple of long ones, but they don't really spend a 266 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: lot of time in focusing on what it's doing, you know, 267 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: going out on the golf course and watching DJ. Last 268 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: week on Friday, nine under the first day. The putting 269 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: got a little bit worse as the week got on, 270 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: So sixty four on Saturday, and what was it, eighty 271 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: feet of putt from one hundred twenty, so forty four 272 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: percent of thirty chances he made so his birdie conversion 273 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: rate sixty seven when he shot sixty two and forty 274 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: four percent when he shut sixty four, twenty seven potts 275 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: nine to one pots, nine two pots, no three pots. 276 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: So that's progress, right, you can see that progress. And 277 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: then Sunday the last round with a chance to win 278 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: again the encouraging thing for me, and looking at the 279 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: stats for DJ last week, no three pots for the week, right, 280 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: twenty seven pots. That's good, I mean, that's solid. And 281 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: then Sunday thirty eight percent, So sixty seven percent of 282 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: his birdi conversion rate when he shut sixty two thirty 283 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: eight percent, but thirty puts on Sunday sixty two feet 284 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: of putt, sixty one potts, twelve two pots, no three putts. 285 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: So the positives are no three pots because a lot 286 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: of times DJ's three pots come from leaving his first 287 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: pot short. You know, he's got a putt from thirty 288 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: feet and he leaves it five feet short because he 289 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: doesn't want to run it past. He's worried about running 290 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: it too far. But what his brother and I aj 291 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: Is Caddy are always saying, listen, if the ball doesn't 292 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: get to the hole, it never really has a chance 293 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: to go in. But a lot of times it's funny. 294 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 1: He'll he'll make a pot on the putting green from 295 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: twenty feet. He'll be putting from a twenty foot pott. 296 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: He'll be leaving it short. He'll be leaving it short, 297 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: and then it'll hit one that goes in, and it's funny. 298 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: He'll say, Man, see what that How hard that went in? 299 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: If that misses the hole, I've got six feet coming back. 300 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: But AJ and I are saying, but you didn't miss it, right, 301 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: it went in the hole. And I think it's getting 302 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: into the mindset of trying to make potts, and I 303 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: think any of these drills. Chris Ventura, who plays on 304 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: the PGA Tour, went to Okahoma State University, was on 305 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: the national championship team with Victor Hovelin and Matt Wolf. 306 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: I did some work with Vic helped him get to 307 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: the PGA Tour. But I mean, Chris vent Tura, he's 308 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,239 Speaker 1: one of them. I mean, he's got a great stroke, right, 309 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: I mean, he's a really really good putter, and he's 310 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 1: got a drill that he does where he starts at 311 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: the hole and he goes one foot away from the 312 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: hole and he's got two pots to make the one footer, 313 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: he makes it, he goes to two feet, makes goes 314 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: to three feet. So the idea behind that is you've 315 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: got two pots and you're going to start one foot, 316 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: two foot, three foot, four foot, five foot. I mean again, 317 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: you could go as far back away from the hole 318 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: as your putting green could allow you to do right 319 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: space wise. But he does a very similar drill to 320 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 1: where you've got two chances from each spot, right. So 321 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: you can do this with t's, you can do this 322 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: with coins, you can just do this with steps, whatever, 323 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: But the two ball drills where you've got two chances 324 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: to make it, I think it's a really good kind 325 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 1: of learning exercise for you because obviously you're you've got 326 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: two chances to make the pot, so you're going to 327 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: learn from the first pot if you miss it right, 328 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: did you hit it hard enough? Did you not hit 329 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: it hard enough? Did you play enough break? Did you 330 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: play too much break? Right? So that's another really really 331 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: good one. But it's very easy to just focus on 332 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: the line and not really focus on the speed at all. 333 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: So maybe change up your routine. Maybe start with long 334 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: pots from twenty to forty feet and walk them out 335 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: and go online and figure out, you know how many 336 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: steps away from the hole, but you know, start by 337 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: walking out ten paces away from the hole rather than 338 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 1: throwing down balls right around the green. One of the 339 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: things that's going to give you a good gauge on 340 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: is the speed of the greens. Most horses hutting green 341 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,479 Speaker 1: might be a little bit slower than the actual greens, 342 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: but I do think that you can kind of get 343 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: a good idea of, you know, how the greens are 344 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: running that day, and you want to try and get 345 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: that before you get out on the golf coast because 346 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: what normally tends to happen with golfers when they play 347 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: is if they do go to the putting green, they're 348 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: putting short putts, short butt short spots in their warm 349 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: ups and then they go out on the golf course 350 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: and unless you hit it. So let's say your warm 351 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: up is doing kind of a three to five foot 352 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: drill around the hole where you kind of, you know, 353 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: make that circle around the hole with the golf balls 354 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: and you've got to make them all and you kind 355 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: of go around and stuff, and if you do that, 356 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: you feel pretty good about your putting. Right you'd say, okay, yeah, 357 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: you know, I'm putting pretty good. You know, I just 358 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: made you know, a bunch of three footers or five 359 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: footers and stuff like that. But unless you on the 360 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: first hole hit it to three feet or five feet, 361 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: you're probably going to have a putt from long range 362 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: on the first hole unless you knock the flag down. 363 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: Proximity of the hole is a stat that they keep 364 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: on tour, and you know, the best players in the 365 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: world who win that are kind of in that thirty 366 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: to thirty three foot range, right So the best ball 367 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: strikers in the world, the best golfers in the world, 368 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: the person who's the best at proximity of the whole 369 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: with their iron shots cumulative for the years right around 370 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: always kind of right around that thirty one thirty two, 371 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: thirty three feet range. So you're going to have a 372 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: lot of mid to long range putts. And if you 373 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: can go to the putting green before you go out 374 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: and say, Okay, I'm going to start from twenty feet 375 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: or thirty feet or forty feet and I'm going to 376 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: put some putts from that distance and kind of figure 377 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: out what my speed's like that day, how the greens 378 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: are rolling as opposed to going technique. Stroke mechanics. First, yeah, 379 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: you need to work on your stroke right, and how 380 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: you're stroking the ball with your putter right, what your 381 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: stroke looks like, whether you're taking it too much on 382 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: the inside, too much outside, dcel whatever, That will have 383 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: a dramatic effect on how you put and becoming a 384 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: better putter. But if you can focus, I mean, in 385 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 1: an ideal world, I think speed should be sixty percent 386 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: of your putting and your and forty percent should be mechanics. Now, 387 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: if your mechanics are really really bad, you can switch 388 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: that ego, sixty percent mechanics seventy percent mechanics because your 389 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 1: stroke isn't great. But you do need to put the 390 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: work in distance. And you just got off the golf 391 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: course here in Indiana. In India, I'm here in Detroit 392 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: this week. I can't even keep track of This is 393 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: week three of the last three live events, so my 394 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: brain's kind of fried. We're in Detroit this week and 395 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: DJ came out. We had some balls today, short game stuff, 396 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: and then we went over and did some mere work. 397 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: Wanted to make sure that his eyeline was really good, 398 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: and I set up a drill and I was like, 399 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: all right, we got five potts started three feet away. 400 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: It probably took him today about almost forty five fifty minutes, 401 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: almost an hour, and I was blown away at how 402 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: many good potts that he was hitting that weren't going 403 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 1: in that we're lipping out, that were just burning the edge, 404 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: that looked really really good. And you could see that 405 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: it was a struggle. It's a drill that he doesn't like. Right, 406 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: he got out to the fourth pot and he was like, 407 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: if I make this one, I'm done with the drill. 408 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, we're we're doing this until you make 409 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: the fifth pot, right, And he would get out to 410 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: the fourth and then he would go back to the 411 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 1: third and then he'd hit a really good shot and miss, 412 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: and then go back to the second tea and then 413 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 1: miss there and then have to start the drill over. 414 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: The amount of times, you know, in that almost fifty 415 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: minutes that he had to start, you know, the drill 416 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: over from the beginning were a lot. But again, he's 417 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: learning how to pot. And what I saw was halfway 418 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 1: through the drill, he hit a couple of really really 419 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: good pots, you know, kind of at the second tea 420 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: and the third te which got him to the fourth tea, 421 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: and he said, you know, I just kind of lighten 422 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 1: my grip pressure, kind of relaxed my forearms a little 423 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: and let the putter flow a little bit more. And 424 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: it's funny that he mentioned that because I could see 425 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 1: that in his stroke. So it's a basic drill, but 426 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: it's definitely one that I think can help. And focusing 427 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: on speed. Yes, stroke mechanics hugely important, just like having 428 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: a good golf swing is hugely important to lowering your score. 429 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: So having a good golf swing, having a better putting 430 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: stroke will definitely help your scores improve. But you have 431 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: to be able to go out and execute. And if 432 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: your putting stroke is really really good technically, if your 433 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: technique and the way that you use the putter is good, 434 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: what's going to happen the further you get away from 435 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 1: the hole. And I definitely think that is something that 436 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: I think for everyone listening, the majority of you, if 437 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: your speed improved, and again using that and crunch all line, 438 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: if your putt always has the right speed, how far 439 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: away from the hole is it ever really going to be? 440 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: And I think because players don't practice speed, they have 441 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: a hard time on putts that break a lot on 442 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: slopey greens, on fast greens, on slow greens, on putts 443 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: that you have to have really really good speed on 444 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: getting the ball to the hole. That's the one thing 445 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: I noticed in doing this drill with DJ last week 446 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: and this week is the amount of putts that he's 447 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 1: leaving short. He's not leaving putts short anymore. Right we're 448 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: on the golf course from twenty feet, from thirty feet, 449 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: sometimes he'll leave it short, it won't get to the hole. 450 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: But by doing this drill, you know, we go sixty 451 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 1: two on the first day, sixty four on the second day, 452 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: and then sixty seven in the last round, and made 453 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty feet of putts first day and 454 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: on the last day he's right around that kind of 455 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: fifty to sixty mark. So the score reflects that. But 456 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 1: encouraged by the fact that because we worked on speed control, 457 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: because we worked on distance control, no three putts for 458 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: the week. That's a win for us. And if you 459 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 1: can three put less, your scores are going to improve. 460 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: You're going to make more putts. And by practicing more 461 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: putts from distance, I think you're also going to make 462 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 1: more fifteen to twenty footers for par when you need to. 463 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: So just something to think about and something that I 464 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: think can help you improve your scores. Thanks everyone for listening. 465 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: The Live season is about to end, the PGA Tour 466 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: season is about to end, and I am looking forward 467 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: to the off season and I can get back to 468 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 1: my real job, which is giving golf lessons to normal people. 469 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: Son of It, which comes to you almost every week. 470 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: Thanks everyone for listening.