Video Analysis - Start Line

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Welcome back offers. So now we're going to take a look at analyzing your video

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for the

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sole purpose of looking at the start line. So we're going to look at some of

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these things

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you can see from the face on and down the line but I think one of the best

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views to get

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is overhead. Now most tripods will have adjustable legs so basically all you

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have to do is set

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up your tripod so that it's shooting straight down on top of the golf ball and

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you'll end

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up getting a view that looks very similar to this. So when you're looking from

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above you

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can either do it with just an alignment stick or you can use one of these

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templates. There's

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a number of different ones that one's from Visio but Craig's Farnsworth site

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they have

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one as well. There's a couple different ones that work pretty well. This can

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just give

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you a reference or a check to see how much face rotation you might be having

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but you can

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always look at it just using this overhead compared to the target line if you

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're in a

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pinch. So what you'll see here is this is kind of the setup and then at the top

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of the swing

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I can take a little frame and look and you can see I might have had that just a

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touch

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open and maybe just a touch closed. So perhaps I need to work a little bit on

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controlling

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the putter face in the takeaway. That can be one of my issues. I'll open the

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face up

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a little bit more and then I get a little faster closing and I can tend to hit

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some

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poles if I do that. But this is the simplest way for me to diagnose what's

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going on with

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my stroke as far as a face rotation. You'll see that it's a little trickier to

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see on

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the down the line compared to this overhead. The tricky thing the overhead is

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just getting

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used to the setup with a tripod. Sometimes you have to put a little anchor

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weight on

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that longer leg. So if I jump back sometimes you might have to put a little

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like rest something

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on top of that back leg in order to counterweight it but once you get that

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figured out it takes

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a few minutes to set up. Okay the other way that you can do it is by looking at

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the ball

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roll close up. So getting the tripod really low and really close to the golf

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ball there.

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This will give you a good look at the putter face compared to the golf ball

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especially

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if you use a line on the golf ball which I highly recommend if you're doing

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this golf

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ball roll analysis in a close up fashion like this. So the other one that I

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like to look

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at is the down the line kind of close up especially if you're using a line on a

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golf

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ball kind of like this. And especially if you don't have one of those putting

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templates

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this can often be easier to see the overall path and face rotation rather than

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just looking

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overhead if you're not used to it. This is also really quick and easy to set up

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either

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with a tripod or with somebody holding the putter. So compared to where it is

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here at

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start if I was to have a line on the toe of the putter or just on the outside

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you'll

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see the stroke where the putter comes slightly in to back out to slightly in

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with just minimal

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face rotation that's occurring mostly because of the putter moving along its

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arc as opposed

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to independent twisting. And you can get a really good sense of pull versus

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push tendencies.

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If you do a handful of these you'll see compared to your intended start line is

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the ball starting

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more left or more right. You can back that up and figure out if it's more of a

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stroke

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alignment or face rotation issue. If you don't want to take the time to use the

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close up view

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that we had here then from down the line you can at the very least draw a line

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on the

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outside of the toe to kind of get the general shape of the arc whether it's

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outside and

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inside. The path doesn't have a huge impact on start line but I find that has a

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big impact

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on your ability to control the putter face. So getting a putter face that

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matches up is

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important for controlling your start line. So looking at alignment looking at

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turn versus

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tilt and then really digging into the putter face to see how it's moving is

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going to be

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your go to recipe for solving your start line issues when you're analyzing your

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own swing

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and learning how to be really good at diagnosing why you might have either a

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pull or a push

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or bias to your stroke.