Green reading with your eyes

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The first pillar of perfect putting is the ability to read a green and the

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ability to read a green simply means

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I'm going to be able to predict what the ball is going to do after I hit it

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Okay, if you can't predict what the ball is going to do and what line you need

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to start the ball on

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Then being able to start it on the right line with the right speed doesn't

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really matter

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So as you can see I've got about a 20 foot putt lined up here or set up here

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I'm going to walk you through the steps that I've I've seen with

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Consisting good amateurs some tour players

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This is a very easy and repeatable process that you can do to get a good idea

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of what the putt is going to do with practice

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You will become you will become more proficient you'll be able to do this

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faster

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But at first walk through each step and make sure you get it right

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so the first step to reading a green is you're going to start from behind the

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ball and

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You can really only see

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Either up or down. I can't see in three dimensions too well

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So I can't tell the depth or whether it's uphill downhill all I'm looking for

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from back here is

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Essentially which side's higher so on this particular putt this right mound

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over here is the highest point and it's funneling down

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This way so I can say that the right side is higher and now

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I'm going to walk to halfway between these two halfway between the ball and the

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hole on the low side

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Because it's always easier to look into a slope than it is to say look down a

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slope

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you'll be able to see with greater sensitivity looking into the face than down

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the face so

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Here I'm looking into the face and it looks like it's fairly level if anything

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the hole is slightly above the ball

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So from this particular view

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I'm scanning with my eyes and I'm feeling with my feet to see if it's going to

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be an uphill or a downhill putt

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So I already know it's going to be a little bit right to left and now I know it

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's going to be a little bit up-till

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Especially towards the end

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So for the final view I'm going to come behind the hole and

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Look back at the ball knowing that the ball is going to be funneling from this

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view

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I'm really studying the last four to six feet of the putt

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So the last 25% the last four feet

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That's where the majority of the break is going to happen because the ball will

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be moving the slowest

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So I'm I'm really trying to get an idea of where the fall line is

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Or where the ball would cross if it was going at almost zero miles an hour

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So for this particular putt, it's going to be crossing somewhere on this line

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right here now

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what I'm going to do is

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I'm going to from behind the hole

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I'm going to trace back with my eyes

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what line I think would get it there and then I'm going to have a snapshot in

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my mind of where that ball needs to

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Start in order to finish where it's going to end up hopefully in the hole now

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One particular thing which I mentioned in or which I will mention in the

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Distance control or how to hit the proper pace is I like to pace my putts

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Because that gives me an idea of how far back I need to take the putter so

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One two three four five six seven

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So this is about a seven pace putt which is pretty much as you'll see when we

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get to that part my outer thigh putt

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So on this particular green

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At this particular time, it's about going to it's going to be roughly my outer

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thigh now

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I've got my line I lined it up for where I think this ball should start and now

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if I read it correctly and if I hit the proper speed putt

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then

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Shouldn't end up pretty close to the hole

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So not perfect, but I left myself on the high side

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Definitely had the the feel of it just need a little bit more practice. So

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those are the steps for reading a green

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You can go through and remember behind the ball to see left or right

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From the low part to see up or down and then behind the hole to study the last

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four feet

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Those are the real three key places to look whenever you're assessing a green

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or reading it