Troubleshooting Putting Overview

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Okay golfers, here we are with the fifth class here, we're going to talk about

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troubleshooting.

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So three big skills, where can they go wrong?

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Keep in mind the putting benchmark.

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So as a general rule, I say make everything from three feet and in roughly 50%

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of around

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your eight footers, make one in four of kind of your 10 to 20 footers and then

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never put

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a three putt from inside of 30 feet.

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So with the longer putts, getting them, or if you're struggling with the longer

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putts

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and the medium putts, then it's primarily working on speed control and green

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reading.

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If you're struggling more with the shorter putts, then it's probably green

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reading as

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well as start line, but even more just start line.

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So by having these benchmarks, it might help you to prioritize what it is you

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need to work

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on.

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There's only a handful of things that can really go wrong with your putting

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stroke.

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You can look at it as far as skills or just assessing your overall stroke.

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For looking at skills, we've got your face control, your path control, and your

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speed

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control or tempo acceleration.

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So with the face control, I want to start at the wrist and make sure that I'm

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not seeing

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any crazy wrist action changes and then move on to the hips, making sure that I

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've got

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my lower body stable, especially if I'm struggling with some of those.

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I tend to find hip action shows up in either missing a lot of three footers or

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having speed

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control issues on my 15, 20 footers.

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And then lastly, so if the wrists are okay and the hips are okay, then lastly

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what's

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going on with the shoulders, but those are kind of the three big buckets if you

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're struggling

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with the face control drills.

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You want to look at your video and really assess what's going on there.

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When it comes to path control, I'm going to reverse the order.

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I'm going to focus on the hips and the shoulders, kind of get the pivot under

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control.

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And then I'm going to look at the wrist, but the wrist will have a big impact.

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So all three of those can cause you to have a big path issue.

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If you remember, the main issues that we will see putting stroke wise would

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either be the

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putter face is twisting independently, the putter is not traveling, the putter

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is kind

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of traveling either linearly or kind of having some of this float, basically it

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doesn't have

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a consistent suspension point just in front of your spine or the whole pizza is

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turning.

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That usually happens more from the pivot than the arms, but could go from

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either level

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shoulder turn or too much hip action.

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And then lastly, instead of the putter swinging, I'm either guiding it or over

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accelerating

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it.

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So I'm either pushing it, kind of like a battering ram or I'm guiding it where

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I'm not letting

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it swing.

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Both of those can be big problems for speed control.

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So with the, so we covered the face and the path now for tempo, we're going to

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look at

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the hips, we're going to look at the arm extension and we're going to look at

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the relationship

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of backswing to through swing.

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Am I getting equal tilt or am I kind of bringing it back with arms on one and

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tilt on the other?

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Those can cause some issues.

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So we've got kind of videos in this section related to the main problems that I

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see with

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each one of those core issues.

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Now if I'm just looking at my stroke and there's some things that I don't like,

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like let's

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say I'm seeing a lot of, sorry, I'm seeing a lot of wrist movement and I've

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tried some

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single arms, I've tried some wrist drills.

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Look at the pressure points, look at where your fingers are actually applying

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pressure

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and make sure that they have some opposing pressure and enough force to prevent

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the putter

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from rotating.

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Got drills that kind of help you with that.

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If you're looking at the, you're putting stroke and you're seeing some funky

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stuff with your

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arm motion, any of these combinations.

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You want to look to see if the arm spacing is changing, that can be wrist

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action.

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You want to look to see if the spacing between the elbows and the body is

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changing a lot,

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that can be more independent shoulder motion instead of kind of your rib cage

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and your

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shoulder blades or if you're looking and you're seeing kind of twisting and

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straightening

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either in both one direction or the other.

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So if there's something funky in your arm motion, I would work from the club

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backward

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or I would work from the wrist motion to the shoulder motion or to the arm

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motion to the

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shoulder motion.

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And then lastly with the pivot drills, there's only a handful of big pivot

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problems.

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Either the lower body moves too much, either laterally or rotationally, so

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working on that

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lower body's ability or the upper body tends to kind of move too much.

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The classic kind of high handicap bad putting stroke is if I got set up like

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this, then

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there's going to be more of a drag the putter back and then there's going to be

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a rotation

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and an arm extension on the way through and a little bit of a wrist flip.

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So it'll kind of look kind of like that, has that classic look of kind of

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turning and chasing.

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So the shape of the pizza gets off, the suspension point gets off and usually

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the acceleration

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rate is slow to fast, that causes the whole host of putting consistency

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problems.

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But this gives just a little quick framework for when you're assessing your

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putting stroke

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to figure out where you can improve on either your start line or your speed

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control.

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If you're doing pretty well in practice and you're struggling on the course,

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then I find

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there's a couple of questions you want to ask yourself to zero in what's going

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on.

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You first want to ask yourself, did you hit the putt that you wanted, but it

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didn't go

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in?

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If that's the case, I hit the putt exactly how I wanted, then it's more of

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working on my

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green reading.

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So ladders, clocks, refining, maybe trying feet, maybe trying eyes, refining

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how I read

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the green.

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But if I had a putt and I missed my start line or I missed my speed or both, I

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would probably

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start with improving the start line so that at least you can make most of your

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putts inside

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10 feet and then work on speed control so that you can make more of your 10 to

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25 footers

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and lag your putts from 30, 40, 50 feet inside three or four feet.

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So that's kind of the hierarchy for if it's breaking down primarily on the

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course.

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In general, with every putt, you're just trying to figure out, did I miss the

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putt because

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of my read, my aim, or my stroke.

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So last section here, let's look at building a training plan.

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So even if you're going to spend 10 minutes or 15 minutes putting, you still

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want to have

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a plan.

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I think there's kind of four big parts to a good putting practice.

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You're going to do something to dial in mechanics.

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So whether that's working on posture, setup, chopsticks, working on stroke

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mechanics,

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you're going to do something for a little bit to dial in mechanics.

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Then you're going to apply your mechanics to either short putts and working on

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start

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line or longer putts and working on speed control.

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Once you've refined whatever your main skill is for that day or if you've

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worked on both,

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then you want to try and put yourself in some game like situations to see how

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you respond

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to a little bit of stress.

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One of my favorites was always the Ring of Fire where you had to make eight,

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three footers,

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four footers, five footers in a row.

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I guarantee you on that last five footer, it's taken about 10 to 15 minutes to

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get through

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that game.

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On that last putt, you're going to start feeling some pressure and so that's

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going to help

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you see how you're going to respond on the course when you start having a

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little bit

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of doubt.

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This is the system I like to use.

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I think hopefully this program helps you learn how to be your own coach and how

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to assess

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your putting stroke and really get laser focused on the one or two things that

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are causing

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you to struggle.

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If you're not sure if you're struggling, compare your benchmarks to those

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toward putting data.

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Again, I think that anybody can get to a single-digit level of putting, but it

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takes a lot of work

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to get down into the actual toward numbers.

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Again, if you have any questions, comment below, otherwise check out all the

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videos

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on the right related to the three big skills and how you can master being your

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own putting

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coach using the Golf Smart Academy system.