Ultimate Start Line Station

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This drill is the ultimate start line training station.

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So we're going to focus in on start line.

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There are three skills to being a really good putter, controlling speed,

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reading the green,

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and start line, or starting the ball in the intended line.

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So what I'm going to do here is I've got a yardstick that has a hole in it.

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What I'm going to do is I'm going to use the hole to place the golf ball,

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and I'm going to place the golf ball with a thick black line, or in this case

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blue or red,

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but basically with a thick line going around the circumference of the ball.

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You can either do this with the piece of PVC pipe, or they sell a little sten

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cils,

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or you can order them online, but the line is a really good diagnostic

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to how well you're controlling the putter face, how well you're getting square

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role end over end.

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So what I've got here, the ball is straight up and down on top of the

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ruler, now we're the meter stick, and I'm going to use a meter stick because I

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want to commit

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to a line. So I'm going to make a little adjustment here, come back.

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So I've now aimed this meter stick where I want the ball to start, and the ball

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is straight up and

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down. So if I hit a good put, the ball is going to roll end over end, and if it

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rolls end over end,

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we can see a little bit of a wobble in that one. So it wasn't quite perfect,

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but I also saw a little

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bit more of the break. So this is going to help me commit to a line, and then

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once I commit to a

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line, I'm going to forget about that, and I'm just going to train rolling the

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ball end over end. So

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that one rolled a bit more end over end. If that happens, you'll see one line,

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and you'll see that

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that tracked in towards the golf ball. Here's a handful of videos showing this

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common trend

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that a lot of golfers, over 90% of golfers on tour, will use a line of some

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sort on the ball,

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and here's a bunch of them rolling it end over end, especially on these shorter

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putts.

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After seeing those examples, you're probably, you bought in that, okay, I want

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to get the ball

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rolling end over end. This is really coming down to my putter face control. If

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I tend to have more

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of a cut stroke, or more of a hook kind of flip stroke, that will tend to cause

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the ball to

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launch and spin, and so the ball won't go end over end. So here you'll see if I

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have the putter face

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open and cut across. Yes, I can hit the putt where it goes online, but you can

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see that that did not

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roll very well. It's going to be really difficult for me to be a consistent put

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ter, both in terms of

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start line as well as distance control, if the ball is not rolling end over end

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. So that's why

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this is one of my kind of go-to ultimate diagnostics for just seeing how good

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all that hit a little

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something midway and kicked it left. It was rolling end over end, it was a good

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stroke. We'll try one

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more time, although I think that ball is now in the way, so we'll just hit

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through it. So that's

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rolling end over end, boom, right in the center of the cup. Quick little demo.

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We've got the line

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straight up and down. We're going to try to match it, and then we're going to

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try and roll

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ball end over end.