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So we're going to go through the first-person view of a how to read a green so

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this is step number one

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I'm about eight ten feet behind the ball and I'm crouched down a little bit so

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that I have a little better angle to look

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And from behind the hole from behind the ball. I'm looking for left-to-right

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break

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So it's a little hard to see but there's a little mound over to the right side

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of the green

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That is a little bit higher than the depression to the left or in the middle of

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the green

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So I have an idea that this put is going to break right to left. So now I'm

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gonna

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Stand up out of my little view there and walk to the low side. So I know it's

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going right to left now

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I'm walking halfway between the ball and the hole

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So from this point of view

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I'm going to scan the ground to look to see if the ball is higher than the hole

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or the hole is higher than the ball

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I can see if there's little crowns in between the ball from here

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So this gives me uphill downhill essentially and I can see that it's slightly

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uphill. It's a little hard to tell again

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But the highest point of this whole golf course is way to the left and the

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lowest point is to the right on the screen

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So the whole general green is set up so that it runs from the screens left to

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right

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And now we're walking to the third key

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Vantage point and this is where I'm going to study right around the hole now. I

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already know that the ball is going to come from

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The right side and it's going to be losing speed pretty quickly because it's

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coming uphill

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So that means that it may break a little bit more than if it were downhill

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So it's gonna as it loses speed. It's gonna break a little bit more

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I'm studying around the hole and once I have a good idea of the spot where I

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think is the fall line and where it would cross

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I'm going to kind of almost trace backward imagine the ball rolls out of the

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hole and then up the fall line and

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Then back to the ball

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Essentially when I hit the putt I'm gonna give it speed and the ball is just

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going to react to how gravity is pulling it downhill

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I'm going to get this image in my mind of how that path would look

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So I'm scanning the last four feet or so I'm kind of feeling with my feet

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And now I'm going to pause you can see right here

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I paused right next to the hole and now I'm going to pace the putt so you can

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kind of see that I'm taking more deliberate steps

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If I remember right it was about an eight-paste putt, but you can't see my feet

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. So it's kind of hard to tell

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So now I'm in the the final position

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I'm back in that kind of classic tour pro position where I'm crouched down

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behind the ball

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And now I've got a lot of information from the other couple reads that I'm

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processing in so I'm

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Retracing that line from behind the hole

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To see if it matches what it looks like from here

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And the there's a couple ways to do it because frequently it's not going to

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match up

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You can either split the difference or what I tend to do is I tend to trust

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more the putt that is reading into the slope

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So this is an uphill putt which means from behind the ball. I'm looking into

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the slope and I'm going to have much more

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Sensitivity to subtle changes than if I was looking down a slope or down the

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face of the slope

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So I'm retracing that putt and I'm identifying a spot

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Somewhere around eight inches 12 inches in front of the golf ball on the line

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that I want it to start on and

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So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to line up the golf ball

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At the little depression so you can see I'm I'm looking at my spot while I'm

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lining up the ball

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Unfortunately, you can't see the little fine-tuning I'm doing for the line and

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then I come back to the zoro position

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Now the camera is not in front of my right eye. It's right in the center of my

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head. So

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The putter looks like it's a little off

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I've got my left eye closed at this point because I'm right eye dominant and

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what I'm looking at is I'm

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using the last 10 inches of the putter shaft, which are which is dead straight

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to

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Line up with just next to the line so that I can see really where the ball has

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me lined up

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and this particular case I

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Didn't do the best job of changing my line or adjusting my line. So I'm going

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to do one more go at it

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Step back line it up again and this time it looks like where I wanted to start

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it

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So you could saw you could see that I was aimed a little bit out to the right

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And it's going to be a little bit uphill. So I'm I got a add a little bit to my

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eight-paste putt

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Maybe I'm going to hit a nine-paste putt

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So now I'm going through my pre shot routine which I do from on the target line

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because I have a hard time doing it

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Next to the ball, but you can do it wherever you want

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I do it on the target line further back from the hole and I just take a few

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practice strips to kind of

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Gauge my number. So the last thing in my head is I'm going to hit a nine-paste

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putt

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The lineman is already taking care of because I use the line on the ball. So I

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no longer have to worry about break

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It's now like I'm in the middle of the fairway and I know I've got 150 yards

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Give me my eight iron or my nine iron depending on the situation. So right here

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. I've got my nine-paste putt

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I'm gonna take one last look confirm everything looks good pull the trigger

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And we left it like three inches short. So it was a nine-paste putt

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Maybe with maybe it was a nine net and a third-paste putt but all in all the

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the process works really well

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I got a good read just didn't quite put it in the hole

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So hope you enjoyed this this version of looking at it and going through green

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reading from a first person's

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Perspective like I said at first

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It's gonna be a little tricky going through the steps

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So just you know either haven't written down or kind of have a checklist

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but as you get better at it this whole process only takes about 15 20 seconds

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If you're in a rush what I always say

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You know cuz there's times when you're gonna be playing slow or you there's

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times when you're gonna have that

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You know fast group behind you slow group in front of you

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always check behind always check behind the ball and then

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Walk to the halfway on the low point and get the rest of the information from

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there

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Because then you can walk back and you can get half your half the distance

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paste and then you just double it

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That gives you the number and you'll get a pretty good guess as far as you know

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You'll have the right to left left to right and uphill downhill

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so that's the quick version the one that you got to watch was the full version

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and I hope you enjoyed it and

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