Roll It Down The Meter Stick

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The start line drill is roll it down the meter stick.

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So I highly recommend practicing this at home.

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But if you're using a meter stick that you've put tape on to calibrate your

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distances, then

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one other great way that you can use it is if you get one of the meter sticks,

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that's

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A metal, so it's hopefully not going to warp too much.

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And then B has a hole in the end.

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You can get the ball to sit in the hole pretty easily.

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The key here is hopefully you're practicing on a pretty flat surface.

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So hardwood that's level is much easier than say carpet or this green.

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I'll be impressed if I'm able to do this too many times here on the green

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because we got

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some slope and a little bit of, or this is pretty close to a flat putt, but we

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've got

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a bit of wind.

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And when there's a little cushion underneath, if it gets off the center, it

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actually speeds

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up how quickly it goes off of the meter stick.

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That makes sense.

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So this is a great way for working on your face control.

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You know, I like the one where you're hitting two balls to see if they, so that

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was led

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a little bit more with the heel.

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You're hitting two balls to work on face control.

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But this is a great way for working on face control in more of a relationship

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to a target.

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So now I'm imagining, let's see if I've got that straight.

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I'm going to basically roll this with as slow a speed as I can down this meter

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stick.

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I wouldn't say easy, but it's easier to roll it down the meter stick if you

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have a lot

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of pace.

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You saw that rolled pretty well.

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But if I do that same thing, oh, I'll save that one, I thought it was going to

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roll off.

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If you do it slower, then you've got a decent chance of it rolling off the

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meter stick if

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it gets a little off.

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Today's a good putting day.

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I'm controlling my start line pretty well.

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Usually those are the days that I don't read it as well, though.

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It's just a little tendency.

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So this can help you work on, if you can roll a meter stick, then that means

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that unless

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you misread it, you should never miss a putt inside three feet.

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And you should be able to control your start lines on virtually any putts.

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If you can do this at slow speeds, then I would, I'm fine with working on a

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little bit further

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speed because some people, the way that they create power tends to either cause

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the face

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to get open or cause the face to get shut.

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So testing at a different speeds can be helpful.

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But basically, if the face gets a little bit off, you'll see that it rolls off

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one side

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or the other depending on if it was more of a push or a pull.

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So this can help you with a diagnostic, if you're not quite sure how well you

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're controlling

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the face or what your tendency is.

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If you did 10 putts and seven of them fell off to the right or eight of them

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fell off

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to the left, then you could identify your neutral face control tendency.

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I pull more putts or I push more putts.

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If you do 10 putts and eight of them roll straight down the stick, then start

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line's

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not your biggest concern.

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I'd work on green reading and speed control.

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So this is a great way to dial in your ability to make those short putts at

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home as long

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as you have a metal meter stick as well as a flat surface to practice on.