Assessing a fall line

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This video is visualizing the fall line. So when you're working on putting it

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can be helpful to

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kind of take the green and try to convert it into planes that you can predict

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how the ball would

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work around. This is most important when you get inside of let's say 6, 8, 10

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feet even because

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there you're more likely to have a pure planar surface. It's rarely going to be

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that way so

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the green will actually you know have little hills and mounds and valleys and

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things that will make

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it not perform this way but this will get you kind of in the ballpark. So when

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you're working on that

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last four to six feet and you're kind of visualizing this planar surface here's

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how the the fall line

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methodology would work. I've got a sheet of paper here and it's representing

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kind of a

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equidistant circle so let's say this is a four foot circle around the around

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the hole. At whatever

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speed that is doesn't really matter if if the surface is purely planar then

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this is the pattern

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that you're going to see. If there's mounds, if it's a bowl, if it's a saddle

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you're not quite

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going to see the same pattern. But if you're seeing this planar surface there's

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what we'll call the

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fall line or the line of zero break. So the line of zero break would be a

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straight uphill putt or

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a straight downhill putt. Once you've found that it can be easier to kind of

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predict what the rest

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of the hole is going to do or what the rest of the putts would do. When you're

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at 90 degrees so

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when you're at these two you're going to have the greatest amount of break and

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what you'll see is

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it doesn't really matter which side of the hole you're on if this is a truly

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planar surface you're

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going to have the same spot or aim point regardless of if you're the same

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distance away regardless of

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which side you're on. Now the neat thing about the way this works is if you

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have a four foot circle

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all the way around you're going to have approximately the exact same aim point

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regardless of where the

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putt is. So sometimes if you're kind of in this zone here it's hard to tell if

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it's a purely straight

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putt or not. You can use the the methods that I described in the assessing a

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fall line video

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of either trying to find where your hands would be kind of you know push up

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level or

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this would be I'm walking slightly downhill and now I'm walking slightly uphill

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so that

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that low point that midway point would be this fall line. If you're in this

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zone it can be sometimes

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hard to tell if it's truly the straight putt or if it has a little bit of break

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to it. So sometimes

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going to this 90 degree spot and figuring out where the aim point would be on

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along that fall line

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and then coming back to your putt you can visualize it a little bit easier. So

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you're not alone if

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you're having trouble visualizing the fall line this is ultimately what it's

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going to look out

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look like. Again in real practice it's probably going to be something a little

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bit more like that

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where there's a few little hills and valleys that you'll have to feel or

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navigate or visualize but

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using this general representation can help you get in the kind of the right

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vicinity and then with

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enough reps you'll turn that visualization into a real skill that you'll do

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almost

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instinctively as you practice your green reading.