The Best Putting Drill

people coming on in nice what up Eric bear with me guys I've I've learned from last week so I've got my phone on personal like hotspots so I can see the live stream on my computer here and get get better interaction and the chats instead of having to turn around all the time so hopefully and then the microphone I have hopefully is much much better to volume off on a computer so I just want to I can see the the live chat over there hopefully we'll let a few more people come in I don't know how's the audio can you guys hear me okay what's up Scott I'm I'm over here just behind the camera here looking for the audio testing it out hopefully that the levels are okay that you guys can hear me all right maybe we'll put that there okay so the alright yeah weather is great it's um it's like 80 degrees here a little humid go right here and look at this get the camera going perfect yeah so I've just got the pun green set up here just on a little drill that I that I do almost every day which is this is a four footer I've got a gate down there I have a tee on the far end of the hole basically is where I'm gonna aim and then I have a gate one foot out from where I'm hitting it from and it's a narrow gate it's just a little bit bigger that ball of tees are down quite low and it's just making sure I start this golf ball on line and I'm working right now on my face through impact so if I'm closing it I'm gonna miss that or if I'm leaving it too far open in the effort to keep it square I'm gonna hit that gate my next tournament is this coming Monday Tuesday yeah I had done of Coral Springs on Sunday so it's the first event of the Florida beat tour they're like fall into winter season so they're launching in Coral Springs this year and this is a tour that's usually around Orlando they're they're gonna be in Coral Springs for their first events I'm really pumped I've been prepping quite hard and getting a lot of work in around the greens getting comfortable Bermuda grass Bermuda rough in particular because this is the time of year where the rough is really is really fluffy and the ball sits down on it so I gotta get on point with with reading lies and using my bounce properly as opposed to a leading edge which is more common way to chip went up on Bermuda or up on rye or Bank wrasse tips for reading grain I always look at the hole so if you look at the hole there's gonna be half of the hole that's smooth like the cut is great and there's gonna be the other half that's kind of like frayed the frayed half is basically the way the grain is going because when you cut the hole when you cut with the grain it's smooth but then when you're against the grain you're gonna see that frayed bit so when you're see that frayed but that's kind of where the putts always gonna die - especially went into the green putting into the grain the grain is more if it has more effect putting down grain has less effect and then another way to read grain is basically dark versus shiny when it's shiny you're putting down grain and when it's dark they're putting into the grain the best practice for putting is what I'm gonna do right now it's this bill of like I said a four-footer get a stick a shaft or whatever set it t up where you're gonna aim it and then a gate here and you can make the gate you can make the gate as narrow or or wide as you want depending on like your ability this is like I said it's just getting used to starting a golf ball online and that's probably the most important thing in funny pressures on now [Music] this is like your block practice with cutting this is really necessary and then from here I'll start getting just variable random putts and make it feel more like the putts I'll get on a golf course [Music] single shot where am i practicing I'm in Fernandina Beach Florida at the club at Northampton my home course here what's up rookie DIY that's a that's a good place to be at home from I actually know Ian's older brother Danny pretty well I've played in a pro-am with him for the last except for this year but three years prior we always go to this trip to curse out and Danny Poulter's are pretty good pretty good dude Chad so James do you follow what I was saying with the putty in there with that drill hey Kumiko what's up man just seeing you up top there [Music] alfred from sweden what's going on man how about that Ryder Cup couple good squeeze in that one i'ma keep rolling some pots you guys can get us just get an idea of exactly what this set is drill is and then another way to really hone it in is you know if you use a line on your golf ball I use the tv5 logo I'll line that up just further visualize what I would do on a golf course cuz I use the line basically on any putt inside 20 feet that's outside 20 feet I just like to look down at white but these short putts I line it up right in the middle of this gate and I make sure I'm starting to put on line and then I have the tee in the distance which is another visual aid for the line but also for when I'm over the ball to see that I can see the line all right guys the the phone overheated don't understand that sitting in the shade so we're back yeah the phone just overheated there we're back we're back now though hold on I bear with me and half the spot oh all right we're back we're back guys thanks for being patient I don't know why it's overheating doesn't make a whole lot of sense it's sitting in the shade but it is hot out here so that could be it so we're back we're back we're back we're back can you guys see me perfect perfect perfect perfect so where were we yeah this is pretty similar to the Powell's tool with the balls but I just have the t's I just have never got that Pels one and then what do we have here Trevor yeah I always focus on my rhythm and tempo in this trope it's kind of the thing that I always always fall back on and then when I'm on a golf course it's the only thing I'm thinking about especially on short putts a key that I tell a lot of amateurs in the pro-am is you just want the the stroke to feel the same speed back as it is through I'm like four or five three footers there's a lot of amateurs struggle with the shorter putts because they're accelerating too much or they're decelerating so this is something where you can kind of make sure you keep that rhythm constant through and you'll keep this face square a lot longer okay we're good alright overall a few more we're still alive thankfully I don't know why my phone is over slows down square so it's very easy basically I just stand-in here I see my line I have that T is like another visual aid and just let it go all right Lorelai that's good that's good to see all right let me checking on it I'm not on dial-up connection I said I'm on a phone and the phone over he did play in England Sunday of course I do I'd love to get over there and play some tournaments but also maybe film with Peter or Rick or me and my golf mobile hotspot that I'm using as well as streaming so I'm gonna turn the mobile hotspot off and just do the come and look back for chats but I'll look at the most recent chats that we have here there and put that phone in the car okay sorry guys this damn Florida heat [Music] yeah the Matt I was saying the Matt I use is the vizio my putting template so you can find that on vizio golf's Instagram and a bit of a wink when do I use my staff bag pretty much only if I'm doing like a charity event I know I don't use the staff bag in tournaments it's overkill I'll use a staff bag in tournaments when I'm paid to carry a staff bag that's kind of how I look at it yeah the staff bag is just you look like a doofus using a staff bag in a mini-tour event so I just like to use my carry bag because I'm often carrying my own bag so I'm not gonna be carrying a staff bag [Music] 25 back 75% through that that's a good thing but that's also you need to have really good control of what you're doing with your putter to have that understanding let's go back here all right guys I'm gonna have to come back behind the phone for any type of chat stuff now because the hotspot overheating so what do you guys been saying what John what what putting trainees do I use basically this homemade one I use the vizio my putting template and then I use I started to use this actually I did a video about it the gen I won smart golf ball it's pretty cool and especially in this puting switch it's just helping me basically see how much the face is moving in the stroke and if I can keep it square for their impact do I focus on keeping my hands but all my shoulders no I have a tendency of getting my hands too low I've always had that tendency so the thing that I think about is I'd love this putter basically to grip right into my belly button or my belt buckle so that's kind of my cue when it comes to where the hands are I usually use my putters like three degrees flat but I've gone to just one degree flat now because it gets this understand a better position here but yeah I just focus on this being at my belly button so where they are in relation my shoulders just kind of happens and that's something that I believe is will focus on when practicing and then on the course I try to just go with it I don't consciously [Music] but it's very easy to tell after a stroke if my hands got too low sometimes when my hands get too low that's when the face closes a little bit too much and that's what this putter is a lot helping me with because I'm keeping the face a little square a little longer the ardmore I can close it a lot more and that was getting me in trouble [Music] see ya here in the chat what did that just say they disappear unfortunately the only putty narc I use is the mom I'm putting it has a slight arc on it so when I put the t's in there it will show me a little arc but I don't use that because I don't have a lot of art in my stroke and that cutting template kind of covers all the bases instead of just having an arc down here a wood arc or whatever it is that puttings input gets you a kind of alignment set strike set you can put a gate in it like there's just so much that it does and I just I love it [Music] roll a few more but some chats rolling or I guess I could say so like say I've done this drill 450 putts let's say when I'm practicing or I'll do it for like 10 before around then I'll take it off the ground but because yes this technical block work is good it gets you in a good feel of the now it's about fitting cutscene aligned and there's this rope you warmed up for a tournament or about a golf you're not really super concerned about making these things you're just concerned with your just needs control if you've seen the line and those things like that's kind of all your the water a lot of people before around or just they stress themselves out if they're not making putts but it's just beautiful rounds to hit up hills downhill and then just get a feel for the greens and your throw I thought was a really good putt but I just made it through the break but that I gained a lot more than if I hit a bad putt that happened to go in and he chats guys like now's your time come back behind the camera I can see these things yeah the phone's not overheating that was it was the hot spot over evening and then I guess since I'm talking a little bit about pre-round a pre-tournament the last thing I'll do is basically like I'll go around the hall with 1/2 foot butter no reason other than seeing the golf ball go and hearing it go in and just getting confidence of picking the golf ball out the hole like it's something I've done for a long long time and it's just a good way to end before going on the golf course and if you're practicing from here and you miss a few while you're warming up and that's the end of your warmup what you're taking to the golf course is missing pucks so I'll just basically come in here see the hole and it's just a good feeling picking it up move move a foot the other way it's a good feeling picking out of the hole and this is the last thing I'll do before I go and see it out you know obviously I make sure I'm staying still and all those things but this is just a great thing to do because then when you're on the golf course and you have maybe that little testy we wanted to have footer that you even sometimes struggle with there - footer you've seen a ton of putts go in the hole so this is just an you know a great little way to take yourself to the golf course it's a lot harder when I can't see the chats all right I'm gonna spin it around selfie mode and we'll just end with a little like kind of brief Q&A sound good let's do this spin this around I look like a lefty now but we'll sit down straighten this out that's really crooked all right go guys all right hit me with your chats now so I can see them and then we can end this little live from the putting green with with a bang I have appreciate your guys patience through all that phone overheating guess I tried my best with the hot spot it worked for for a hot minute but it was too hot the hot spot was too hot and the phone was overheating so I couldn't keep up with the chat on the computer so hit me with the chat now my pre round routine that's uh I just showed you a little bit of that like when it comes to putting my pre round routine I could probably make a full video about that because I'm pretty predictable I do the same thing before every round so I'll totally make a video about that in the next month or two because it is fall now and I don't have as many tournaments or as much travel I've got a lot of time here at Northampton practicing yeah I think I'll do some live like I think you guys are liking this I'm liking this and yeah we can do a live from from chipping you know in a week or so do I recommend getting fitted for a 17 handicap yes I mean when I took a year off plane I was a club fitter and it doesn't matter how good or novice or whatever you are getting fitted into golf clubs will help you enjoy the game of golf more because you don't have to change yourself to the clubs the clubs are now suited for you and even if you're a seventeen handicap and it makes you drop down to a fifteen and that makes you enjoy golf a little bit more do it getting fitted in the golf clubs is something that so many people don't do but it's it's necessary I'm trying to think of an analogy of something else that's commonplace like you know you wouldn't just buy a car without test driving it or you wouldn't like these type of things like you you need to have something that suits you so yeah doesn't matter you're handicapped getting fitted is super important yeah pre-round pre-tournament round vlog no problem James I hope you learned something from it and it helps your puting helps keep those those balls starting online and making those short putts yeah pre round tournament vlog that'll be easy to do like I've done things that I do before the actual tournaments but doing a warm-up Dominican what's up man I'll do it definitely a warm-up vlog for sure and a wide from with like live from live from the chipping green you know we can we can do that next week these are these are pretty fun to do you just got to find a way to get some I get a second phone so I can see the con see the chats while I'm doing it or have someone out here get Kelly out here so she can read it read the chat to me or something I think I'm gonna sign off pretty soon here guys so if you got any questions fire them in if not so I'm gonna get back to practicing coming out of college in Canada what's up from San Jose good place to be those sharks you took my took Carlson from Ottawa good Tours to play if you're coming from Canada like all night on the East Coast the Great Lakes tour and the sea cpt are the best obviously are on the west coast the vgt the vancouver golf tour is great those are the only options so i don't know where you're from but yeah those are I've done a video about the Great Lakes tour so Arkansas what's up Austin I've done a video about the Great Lakes tour so you go check that out learn a little bit more about them but that's a great place to start your professional golf journey if you don't have the means to jump right into cue school for a Mackenzie tour or something like that I totally forget what the other question was no problem Tyler yeah I'm a Canucks fan so seeing Carlson go I wish he came to us would I change to pxg maybe like I'd have to hit the golf clubs get fitted into the golf clubs and I answered this in the QA like if I wasn't with TaylorMade or if Taylor might drop me I'd still use all the clubs I have and then when those clubs were wore out I would just work to get fit into something else that works for me or I mean quite frankly if TaylorMade were to drop me I could still purchase golf clubs so I would probably still trust Hillary for a long long long time but pxg is quite expensive so it is it is about relationship and I'm fortunate but yeah it's like if my car died what car would I Drive after I Drive a Hyundai now I don't know what car I'd get after this like you just kind of cross that bridge when it comes in terms of clubs I would use these golf clubs even after whatever sponsorship or drop like whatever if it if it ended I'd still use the clubs because they're still good and they still work any more questions any last things because I'm gonna sign off and perhaps a little bit more than get some lunch and then just tweak this so that I can upload it in full for anyone to watch it again or anyone that missed it oh I'd love to play faster tempo I had a Isaac Weintraub played with him on the Canadian tour for a handful years he you think he grew up playing there he's in DC now but I've heard a lot of good things KD for lunch no Katie and no Katie in Florida it's called something else I don't even know what it's called but no Katie here all right guys I think that's it I'm going to get some food in me and tweak this edit thanks so much for joining the live stream and this one was a little bit better than last one we figured it out a little bit more but then the phone overheating got to us but I'll see you guys in a couple days because the next thing that'll be uploading will be a bit of tournament stuff so [Music]