How to Fix the Most Important Part of your Putting Stroke that you may be completely Unaware of

How to Fix the Most Important Part of your Putting Stroke that you may be completely Unaware of

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Welcome.

Happy Saturday.

Welcome to not sucking at putting anymore.

Because I'm sure all of you are taking time out of your precious Saturdays, or precious time out of your Saturdays.

To come.

Listen to me talk to you about putting, because you're probably not putting as well as you possibly could.

Maybe you're already a great putter.

Maybe you just need a little kick in the butt.

But today I'm going to talk to you about one of the most important parts of your putting stroke that can often be overlooked.

And if you don't have this part right, then you're always going to have a little mechanical flaw in your stroke that you might not be aware of.

So for those of you that just got done doing Axiom bootcamp with me about a half hour ago, congratulations and welcome back.

Hopefully you guys enjoyed that program.

For those of you that are joining me for the first time today.

Welcome.

I'm excited to have you guys.

Today's gonna be a fun day.

We got a big crowd of people in here.

We're gonna be talking about some really, really important parts of the putting stroke.

So I'm going to go through a demonstration here in just a little bit.

And then at the end of my demonstration, I'm going to open up for Q&A.

As a housekeeping item, for those of you that this is your first time joining us on RSA Live, please, please, please, after we get everybody settled in the room, try to keep the chat quiet for me because it can become extremely distracting for those of you at home.

But I can also become pretty distracting to me.

And I will get I'll stick around and answer all the questions that you guys want to talk about.

And I know that putting to a lot of you is not the most sexy thing in the world, right?

Because nobody really wants to work on the putting.

But some of you understand how important this part of the game is.

So I'm excited to have you guys here today.

Welcome, Tom.

Welcome, Mike.

Welcome, Luke.

Welcome, Craig.

Nice to see you guys.

A lot of people that I've worked with in the past.

So hopefully everybody's having a wonderful Saturday.

I cannot freaking believe it, that 2022 is coming up.

I can't believe it.

It feels like this this year is just blown by.

So I'm not sure what's happening in the PNC father son, because I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.

But for those of you that didn't see the video on PGAtour.

com with Tiger and his son warming up yesterday, man, what a great feeling to see Tiger back out there in golf balls, number one.

But his son, who already had a good golf swing, his swing got better.

And the kids like producing some really good speed, really fun to watch.

So hopefully everybody's having a wonderful start to this Saturday, just a couple more minutes, we'll let people get into the room and settle down.

And then we are going to become better putters as a whole in 2022.

So I don't know if you guys have been to PGA Superstore.

And the reason why today's topic is based on what we're going to talk about here today is because I walked into PGA Superstore.

And when you look at their giant putting green, okay, and you look around their putting green, what do you see?

What do you see?

You see thousands of putters, right?

And if you look at all of these putters, there's nothing that is similar about them.

Look at the best players in the world over the last 50 years.

Go look at the best putters in the world and look at what they're doing.

Look to see if you can find anything that's the same in their stroke and the length of their putter, the weight of their putter, the way that they hold it, right?

We've had claw grips, reverse claw.

We've had people, you know, with a reverse pinky down on the bottom of the shaft.

We've had, we've seen everything.

We've seen left hand low.

We've seen traditional grips.

Why do we see so much change in the world of putting?

Why is there so much variance from one person to the next?

Why do we have all of these putter heads that are massively big?

And then we have some traditional putters like you see here.

Why do we have all that stuff?

Well, if you boil this all down, putting is very much psychological.

It really is.

It's a very, very psychological part of the game.

And for those of you at home that have ever had the yips, okay, I can feel for you.

I was a phenomenal putter as a kid.

Okay, I'm just going to go out and say it.

My ball striking was not great.

I played out of the woods a lot in New Hampshire.

So I had to learn how to get it up and down.

So I had great short game.

But as I got further into my adult years, when you start developing a little bit of fear, you start kind of understanding that there is a way to be able to miss short putts.

Then you stop playing and you stop practicing as much because you got a wife and you got a kid and then life just comes at you.

Is that the psychological part of the game can start developing fundamental flaws.

You can start doing things when you least expect it.

And so I'm a very big believer in making sure that you have a very solid, strong mindset, but I'm also a big believer in making sure that you have your eyes trained properly.

Now, some of you have seen me talk about this specific item and under no circumstance is this a sales pitch.

In fact, I'm going to show you how to make one of these at home.

Okay.

This is what we call a triangulator.

Okay.

This is one of the most important tools I use personally and professionally when I'm working with people that want to get better at putting.

Yes, I could go into all of the minutia and all of the technical aspects of the putting stroke.

We could sit here and all of us argue back and forth straight back, straight back, straight through versus an arc stroke.

Okay.

I can talk to you about the bottom of the arc scenarios, face angle, face to path, those sorts of things.

And those all do play a very important role.

And we will talk about that here in a moment, but you have to remember that you have to understand one very key point.

If you've trained your eyes.

Okay.

And I'm sure you guys have heard this expression at home, that your eyes can play tricks on you.

How many of you have heard that expression?

I'm sure everybody in this room has, and you would be mind boggled, even having that little line on your golf ball that comes stock from the factory, or even having, you know, a chalk line on the ground, how your eyes can think that you're looking in one spot and you're looking completely in a different spot.

Now let's talk about that here for a second.

Seymour golf.

Okay.

Again, this is a triangulator.

You can get one on Seymour golf for like eight to 10 bucks.

They went and did a study about 15 to 18 years ago.

I don't remember exactly what it was.

And this was back when I was, when I was playing full time, they did a study on a hundred golfers, excuse me, a hundred.

Am I on?

Can you guys hear me?

Can you guys hear me?

All right.

Okay.

Sorry.

There was a text coming in from Craig.

So I just want to make sure that there was no emergency.

So they pulled a hundred golfers, 14 handicaps are better.

Think about that.

14 handicaps are about a hundred golfers.

They had them on a 10 foot dead straight putt.

They said, we want you to set up 10 feet on a dead straight putt.

We want you to line the golf ball up in the center of the hole.

We want you to just line up your putter face to the center of the hole.

Okay.

How many people out of those hundred golfers, we're talking about a lot of people that play a lot of golf, 14 handicapped golfers or better.

Those are people that have been around for a while.

How many people do you guys think lined it up in the hole?

How many?

You guys can close the numbers up if you want.

Think about it for a second.

So we have the center of the hole, right?

And then we have the variance in the hole, right?

So we have right, left, we got the center.

How many people lined it up in the center of the hole or are lined up in the hole at all?

So we see three, 15, 10%, 10, 10%.

Think about that number from 10 feet.

Okay.

We're guessing numbers like 25, 10%, 10%.

That seems to be a common theme.

Michael P was very close with his answer.

Four people, four people lined it up in the, in the hole.

The other 96 people, 96 people from 10 feet.

And I'm, I'm, I'm marking it to you guys like this close to the camera because I felt victim to it as well.

We're lined up in one direction or the other, thinking that they were lined up in the center of the hole.

They were thinking that they were lined up in the center of the hole, but they were one right, one left.

Who knows?

So now let's think about this objectively for a second.

Okay.

Let's think about this.

If I'm lined up and I'm under the impression that my eyes, excuse me, I'm under the impression that my eyes are looking in the center of this hole and I'm lined up to the right.

What do I have to do in my stroke to get the ball started online?

What do I have to do?

Well, I would have to develop a pole, right?

I would have to try to pull the ball online and vice versa.

If I'm lined up, my cutter head is to the left, but I think I'm looking at the center of the hole and I would have to push.

Now, for those of you that watched a very compelling video that Chuck put out probably a year and a half ago, it was actually with Craig as well.

They were talking about, he had the Sam putting lab and they talked about the importance of face angle, having the face square point of contact.

And I've never will argue with that.

Because the Sam Putting lab is showing us the importance of center face contact and making sure that your blade is square.

But think about that for a second.

Who cares if your cutter face is square?

And I'm not, I'm not negating what Chuck said.

Okay.

I'm just having you guys think about something here that could help you in your strokes.

Okay.

If you have center face contact and it's square, but you're looking in one direction or the other.

Okay.

One direction in the other, what are you having to do in the stroke?

Well, there's going to be some active manipulation.

When you have that active manipulation that's, that's taking place, whether it's one side or the other is the reason why you're struggling.

So I would never, ever, ever start working on retraining anybody's stroke until their eyes were properly trained.

Now you guys are probably wondering, how do we train that place?

How do we train that?

Well, this little hobby, right?

Okay.

So let's talk about what this is.

So this is a triangle.

Okay.

It's like, it's an isosceles triangle.

So it's, um, it's a little bit shorter on the bottom side and it's got two longer sides that are equivalent on this side.

Okay.

It's a triangle and it's about the width of a putter face and then it comes to a point.

Okay.

So about the width of a putter face and it comes to a point, it's got a line straight down the center.

So you can cut a piece of cardboard.

You can cut a piece of plastic just like this is, and you can jump, draw a line right down the center.

Now, the good thing about the triangulator itself is that it's got this string attached to it.

Sorry, I don't unwind it.

The string can get pretty long.

So if you look at this really closely, I'll put it up to the camera in just a minute.

You guys see this at home.

There's two little holes right here and here.

Okay.

These little holes are how you anchor it to the ground.

Okay.

This is what helps you understand where you're actually looking.

Now I know a lot of you at home are like, well, I've got this laser that I bought.

This laser is great.

I can actually see where I'm looking.

I agree with that, but go outside and try to see a laser.

You're not going to be able to see a laser as well.

Okay.

Some lasers I have tested have worked.

So I carry this because it doesn't run me into too many variables where I can't overcome it.

Right.

So this right here, when you get set up, goes on the front of your putter face, you anchor it to the ground.

So you take a T right here and a T right here, and you stick it down the ground, and then you drag the string off the front of this, and it will show you exactly where you're lined up.

So the way it would work.

So I'm going to take my set up and I'm not going to use these lines on the ground.

Because I want you guys to be able to get an idea of what I'm doing here.

Okay.

So I'm going to take my set up.

Okay.

Like I'm trying to make this pop.

I'm going to move the ball out of the way and I'm going to take this on the ground.

And you're going to see things moving around because we're not outside.

So just bear with me.

Okay.

Stick this on the ground.

And then you take your string and then you drag it up to the hole and it shows you exactly where you're lined up.

And if you're lined up one side or the other or not in the center of the hole, and I'm going to show you what to do to make an adjustment.

So this one, you can see that I'm lined up on the left edge.

Okay.

Again, you're not going to be able to see this as clear as you want at home.

I'm just doing a demonstration.

So bear with me.

Now, once you realize that you're lined up a little bit left of center, then you come take the T's out of the ground or whatever you're anchoring to the ground.

Okay.

And you turn it just a little bit.

Okay.

Just turn it just a little bit, get it on so it's right in the center, drag the string back down to the end of the hole.

And you now are in a position where you can go into the front of the triangular.

So you can guys can kind of see the triangulator's tip edge right here.

And now you come into the front of it and you start hitting putts with a line of your putter and this line in line with one another.

And this is what's going to start the process of retraining your eyes.

Retraining your eyes is something you can't overlook.

That was like a pun, wasn't it?

That was a good one.

So you can't overlook this because why?

Because if you're looking at one direction or the other, you're going to have a fun amount of flaw in your stroke.

You're going to have to develop a pull or a push.

I don't care.

Like I said to you guys just a few minutes ago, whether you take it straight back or straight through, I don't care if you arc it.

I don't care if you use a black mamba grip.

I don't care what you use.

You have to start with your eyes.

Once you develop really, really good vision.

Okay.

I shouldn't say good vision.

That's subjective.

Once you develop a proper eye function to where your eyes are looking exactly where your intended line is, then that's when you and I can start talking about your stroke.

Now, when I was playing golf full -time, this is something that was, when it was brought to my attention by Seymour Golf, the Seymour rep was, so this is when Zach Johnson was, he was a roommate of mine on the gluter's tour he was going through tour school.

He just actually got through the first round of tour school and was heading out to California.

And we met with the rep on the putting green and he started talking to us about that study.

I got to see that how far left I was aiming.

And I was like, man, this is probably the reason why I'm listening to a lot of short putts under pressure.

So I had to spend, I think I was like four or five months before my eyes were ready for like turning green.

I knew that my eyes were still going to continue to look in a spot.

You can't often, you can't underestimate this part of it.

You have to train your eyes.

And so when I was really getting back into the swing of things, I would check my eyes once a month.

Just take that triangulator out to the practice screen, put it on the front of your putter.

You want to get an eight to 10 foot dead straight putt, and you want to line yourself up and you want to put the triangulator in front of your putter.

Drag the string down to it and look to see if you're lined up in the center of the hole.

If you are, then you can start working on whatever it is you're working on in your stroke.

You can do a train track drill.

You can do a putting arc drill, whatever it is.

But remember at that point, now, once you have your eyes looking in the correct spot, okay, now the important part comes in where you need to start making good solid center face contact.

Okay.

And the club face needs to be square.

Okay.

That's when you can start using the stuff that Chuck talked about in that video.

Now there's many different ways to be able to do that.

And that's not the purpose of today's video.

Today is to talk to you about the important part of getting your eyes looking in the right spot.

You can be a great reader of greens.

You can go out there and have really good feel.

You can have all of that stuff in a good spot.

But if you're looking in one spot and your putter is actually looking in a different spot, then you're going to have these problems.

Now, one of the questions I get all the time is like, okay, Chris, we have all of these lines now that we can draw on the ball, right?

We've got, Callaway's got three lines in their balls.

You would be very surprised.

And I've seen this many times over.

In fact, I was looking for an image that I was going to put up on this TV for you guys with a student of mine that is a plus three handicap.

His name is Tom.

Okay.

And if Tom's in the room tonight, I'm sorry that I'm using you as an example.

He's been one of those habitual, I shouldn't say an offender, habitual offender.

He's been one of those big advocates for the lines on the golf ball.

I don't personally use a line at this point in my career, but maybe I'll go into it at some point.

Maybe it'll help me get past my use.

But what he would do is, is he would set up, he would have the line perfectly down his target.

But when he set up his putter, his putter was still open or closed in relation to that line.

And I had probably more heated arguments with him than I could even care to admit.

And I would take picture and video after video and show him where his face was.

And he still was like, no way.

And so then I got the triangulator out and just showed him exactly what the problem was.

So a lot of times people can get kind of untrained, even with the line down.

That's why it's super important.

You got to understand that the face is what matters the most.

You got to have the face looking in the exact same spot that your eyes are looking for this stuff to work.

Okay.

So another thing that I've heard from people is if I stand back in, behind the ball, I get my putter head really square behind it.

And then they walk into the shot, you have no idea when you're turning the corner, what your face angle is doing.

Okay.

So that video that now has been mentioned in here, search Sam or putting on RST site.

Exactly.

Go to the search tab on the website, type it up.

You'll see Chuck talk about the actual nuts and bolts of what is important in the stroke.

Okay.

Now, the question I get from people all the time is what do you advocate, Chris?

I don't care.

Right.

Again, putting, whether it's left hand low, whether it's an arc stroke versus a straight back straight through stroke, whatever it is.

Okay.

I care that you know how to get your eyes looking in the correct spot with a putter head wind up in that spot.

And then I care that you start developing feel and the ability to be able to read greens.

At that point, I don't care if you hold it like a hockey stick.

I don't care if you hold it with one pinky down around the bottom of the chat.

If you can get confidence built around those key components that I just spoke about, then you will become a good putter.

Okay.

Once and for all.

So let me close with this, and then we'll open up for some questions.

Don't overthink or don't overlook your eyes in this situation.

You can't do it.

Okay.

I just proved it to you.

Okay.

That study that was done was done because we wanted to unfold why people had pulls or pushes in their strokes to begin with.

If you have a push or a pull in your stroke, and you've got to really kind of work things out to try to get your stroke a little bit more balanced, then I do a simple little train track drill.

And this putting mat is good for that.

You can see that my putter head kind of fits inside the train tracks.

And I'm personally, and not a straight back straight through advocate.

I'm a, I'm an art sort of stroke person.

But when you have an extreme from one side or the other, right, when you have a pull or push, okay, then you really want to start taking away a lot of the movement in the stroke itself.

So I would start grooving a straight back straight through stroke for a little bit.

Okay.

I would do this in the train tracks, and then I would move myself over to the individual line.

Okay.

That's a good way to kind of move yourself about the cabin.

Why?

Well, because if you get things toned back, because if you even see a good art stroke, it's very, very mental.

There's not a ton of it.

It looks like it's kind of like an open and closed door and you get too much of it.

It can rock the face shut.

You can have all kinds of problems in your hands.

So it's called the triangulator.

You can get it on Seymour Golf's website.

The last time I did a video on this, it shut down their website because they weren't ready for all the traffic.

I'm not advocating that you go over there and spend eight to $10 for whatever that plastic piece is.

You can make it at home.

Okay.

It's an isosceles triangle.

The bottom end of it is about the width of your putter.

Okay.

Just put two holes in the side of it and then a line down the middle with a string coming off of it.

And you can go out there, put it on the front of your putter face after you've set yourself up and look down, pull the string over to the hole and see where you're lined up.

Just do it because you're going to be very surprised to see how many of you at home are lined up.

Some of you might be in the hole, but some of you might be on the right edge.

Some of you might be on the left edge and that will be the eyes wide open moment for you to start working on training your eyes.

Now, final piece here, How I retrain my eyes personally is I would put a chalk line down and round, or I would use the string on the front of the of the triangular.

And I would just do this for as long as I can stand it.

I would set up and I would just keep looking at the hole and back to the ball, looking at the hole, back to the ball.

I would do that walk.

Okay.

It allows me to be able to get my eyes trained to look from the ball in the direction.

I wouldn't hit a lot of putts at that point.

I was just retraining my eyes.

You guys are like, man, that was really freaking boring.

That's what I got to do.

Yes.

Do it.

Okay.

Because you're taking away the piece of the puzzle that could be affecting your stroke overall.

You could go out there with whatever stroke you want and you'll still be struggling.

Okay.

So that is the information.

Now, for those of you that want to ask some questions, please feel free to post those questions up.

I'll be here as long as you guys need me to.

I like talking about putting.

So if you guys want to talk about some of the nuts and bolts, putting for sure.

If one eye is very dominant over the other, do you practice with both eyes, just the dominant eye or some other modifications?

Charles, fantastic question.

Fantastic question.

I like to train with both my eyes.

I like to have both my eyes.

I'm a lead eye dominant person.

So I'm left eye dominant.

And so I, when I'm looking at this, I know that my peripheral is going to go so far.

I like to be able to turn my head and use both eyes.

Now that does not mean it's right.

There's so much subjective material in this world that, especially in the golf instruction world, this is the one freaking sport that none of us agree on anything.

Right.

And as I said to you guys, when I was opening today, that if you go into PGA Superstore and you look at the putters, just look, go around and look at it.

There's all kinds of different weights.

There's all kinds of different head sizes.

There's all kinds of different lengths.

Why are we having so much discrepancy between putters?

Why don't we just have one specific putter?

Because again, this stuff is just to help you and clean up your, your, the psychological aspect of it.

So you might have somebody that's trained, you know, their trail eye, their lead eye, one eye closed to try to get this stuff sorted out.

That's again, that's up to you, right?

You want to just make sure when it's go time and you're on the golf course that your putter head is looking where your eyes are looking.

Okay.

That's why I'm saying I'm not going to, I'm trying to eliminate a lot of the, this might work better.

This might work better.

Make sense.

So I struggle with distance control.

Also stroke low to the ground or pendulum, how to have the ball rolled over properly.

Okay.

So distance control is something that is not often taught, right?

That's, that's learned as a student.

Distance control is feel, right?

Feel is something that I can give you drill.

I can give you ladder drills.

I can give you, you know, around the world drills and I can work on three, six, Nine drills where all of these things are helping you kind of understand what you need to do in order to be able to get that distance control in place.

We even had, you know, the T being 17 inches in behind the hole.

And if you miss the putt, you're trying to roll it 17 inches past the hole.

Those are things that are learned inherently by the way that you practice.

So feel is not something that I can teach you.

I can't do it.

Now I have done some drills in the past with kids specifically that ended up turning out to be a great drill for adults.

Because if you've ever watched children, okay, and they go out there and they're hitting putts for the first time.

Okay.

This is kind of fun, right?

You get out there and they have this big old whack and they hit it across the green, right?

How many kids do you go out there and see it from like 25 or 30 feet roll pretty close in the hole?

I mean, probably not a lot, right?

But if you can get them to relate to something, right?

And this is for all of you at home.

Like think about the game Skee-Ball, right?

So Skee-Ball, you take that ball and you roll it with your hand up to the holes.

I'm sure most of you have seen that.

And if you think about your right arm as being kind of like an extension of your body and helping add the speed to it, then what I do is I have kids take a ball in their right hand, if they're right -handed or if they're left-handed, I have a in their left hand, whatever the throwing hand is.

And I have them try to roll a ball at the hole.

And you should see automatically how much closer to the hole they get.

And I say, okay, now what I want you to do is I want you to visualize that you have a putter in your hands, okay?

And I want you to feel like you're going to roll a ball back to it again.

Then I'll have them attach the putter to your hands and I'll have them start hitting putts and you'll see that their feel starts to get much, much better.

Now, as far as low to the ground is concerned, yes, I like the idea of keeping the putter low through to finish, okay?

Because a high putter going back, coming down, you can steep the angle and tack just a little bit.

But again, there's a lot of back and forth conversation with stuff.

Why don't we agree on anything in the sport, right?

There's, I'm sure some of you have been to Pels.

He teaches straight back, straight through.

That's what he advocates, right?

I don't even know what the devices he has.

I can't even remember.

But if you think about the other 300 short game gurus that are standing behind him, which I've studied a lot of it out there, everybody's got a different thing, right?

Why?

Well, because that's what they feel like works best, okay?

They can give you the scientific data behind it.

And I can talk about scientific data all day long.

I can talk about, you know, the importance of having a face balance putter when you're using more of a straight back, straight through stroke versus, you know, a toe-weighted putter when you're using an arc stroke.

There's definitely some information to be had there.

But everybody's doing something different.

There's so much gray area when it surrounds putting that I just, I try to remove myself from it and just think about how to build a stroke.

That's going to be confidently working in the direction that I'm looking and making sure that I hit center the face, okay?

So I'm a right-eyed dominant ball.

I'm a right-eyed dominant.

Where should my ball position be?

Again, very subjective.

Ball position.

I like to have a ball position very, very forward, okay?

Because I'm standing more upright with my spine.

You won't have a lot of access to when you're putting.

So I have my ball position inside my left ear.

That's, again, the bottom of the arc.

And I use a very, very, very arch stroke at times.

So when you start working the putter inside left, you can obviously understand that that can affect the face.

So ball position is, again, subjective.

I'm trying to stay away from subjective instruction today and give you where I'm trying to get you to focus.

So I know the line of my putter left of the hole, but does not appear that way when I look at the line of my putter and the chalk that I want to use.

How do you retrain to ignore what appears to be the correct alignment?

So just continuous to look from your putter head at the hole, right?

As I just explained to you before, once you know that your putter head is looking in the correct spot, because you've used the triangulator, you've got it set up in the correct spot, then you just got to keep recheck, retraining.

Just keep looking at it, okay?

Keep doing it over and over and over.

So rather than mechanics, it's more about identifying and controlling your mechanics.

Exactly.

That's a really, really great way to think about it.

An absolutely brilliant way to think about it.

If you look and watch what people are doing out there, they're just doing drills to get them more confident in where they're aimed, right?

They're making sure that they have really, really buttoned up strokes and make sure that that ball is starting on its intended line and rolling end over round, right?

So that's why none of them are doing the same thing.

Look at how many people are now using the inside part of their forearm to anchor the putter.

So why didn't Ben Crenshaw do that, right?

Why didn't all of these great putters not take that sort of notion, right?

They knew that they could do that at that point, right?

Same thing with, you know, what was the advantage of having a long putter?

Why do we have to move away from anchoring the putter, right?

I mean, we could talk about this stuff all day long, but again, putting is an area of the swing, an area of the game that not one person is doing the same thing.

In fact, I would probably bet you guys a lot of freaking money that if we took all of the people that are in the room right now and we said, bring your putters and we looked at the way that you set up, the way that you held the putter and the weapon that you had in your hands, there would be one single person in this room that would be the exact same.

There would not be one person, okay?

If you guys want to take that bet, let's go and get together.

You guys come down here in Orlando.

It's nice right now.

It's like 75-ish, a little windy, good time for some golf.

All right.

So I have a right eye astigmatism and aim left.

What adjustment should I make?

So this is a tough one.

What I would do is with your right eye.

Astigmatism is just obviously make sure that you make the adjustment with your putter head being in line with the center of the hole.

And I would maybe try to consider trying to train your lead eye at that point to become a little bit more of the dominant one that you're going to try to look from.

So you may want to close your right eye first and see if you can actually visualize the putter head in the hole in the correct spot.

If I understand correctly, you are training your eyes to set up the putter face square to a straight target.

Exactly.

Like the center of the hole.

My preference is to have a line in the ball, adjust the ball so the line.

Exactly, Charles.

So that's my point is that I just spoken this just a moment ago.

So you may think that your face angle, and when you get out to like 10, 12, 15 feet, if you have a face angle that's just a little bit off, out of dress where it's lined up, one degree right, two degrees left, whatever it is, even if it looks perpendicular to that line that you have on the ball, even if it looks there, you have trained your eyes to think that it is square behind the golf ball.

And in fact, it's not.

And that one or two degrees turns into five and six inches outside of the hole.

That's the point I'm trying to pass along to you.

Is that face angle?

And making sure that you have it looking exactly in the spot that you need it to be is absolutely critical.

Is adjusting stance to match two balls lined up on the target line a good way to train the setup eyes to be correct?

Is adjusting stance to match two balls lined up on the target line?

Yeah, so that would work.

Okay, so I understand what you're saying there.

So I like to use the front of the triangular.

I'll go to the front of it and have the line coming off the back of my cutter and be directly aligned with that behind me as I start retraining it.

But then I also if my eyes are way off, I will I will talk to the pro shop and I'll say I need to put a chalk behind on the green.

Is it okay?

And I'll go out to 10 feet and then I'll put my putter head 100% square behind it.

I'll double check it with a triangulator and then I'll just sit there and eyeball putts for a while and I'll hit some putts.

So is left hand low putting okay for this?

Yeah, exactly.

So you can putt.

I'm going to emphasize this one more time for you guys.

You can putt left hand low.

You can hold like a hockey stick.

If it's looking in the right spot, okay, and it's square.

You make square contact with it.

You can putt any way you want.

Left hand low.

Why was left hand low developed?

Does anybody know?

Does anybody know the real reason why left hand low was developed?

Because if you do, let me know what you think it is.

I would love to hear what your interpretation of the developer of left hand low, what he was going after.

What did the person that went to the clogger, right?

At one point in my career, this is very true.

When Chris DeMarco was doing the claw, because he was actually, he's an Orlando guy.

I went to a reverse claw.

Okay.

I went, I clawed it between my pointer finger and my thumb.

I held the putter like this.

Okay.

Can anybody see that?

I held it like that.

And then I would go left hand low.

I called it, I called it the reverse claw.

Now, does that mean I'm the inventor of it?

No.

But what that did for me at that point in my career, when I was really struggling with putts, is it helped me make a lot of shorter putts.

Why?

Well, because I was missing shorter putts, right?

I was probably doing something inherently wrong in my stroke that I couldn't control under the gun.

So all of this stuff that you hear is, again, it's helping you control the psychological aspect.

How many of you guys at home, this is a fun one.

How many of you guys at home, and I'm not trying to develop, have you guys develop years, but how many of you had a playing partner or a buddy or somebody that doesn't like you come up to Charles, Chipsa, David, do you breathe in or do you breathe out when you putt?

Now, I know a lot of you are thinking about this one, but when you start thinking about that, when you're standing over a putt and less about what you're, where you're trying to get the ball started and the speed and stuff that you're trying to feel out of the stroke, you're not gonna make a lot of putts, okay?

So more control with the right hand, right?

So that's subjective, right?

So more control from the right hand.

How is that possible though?

Why, why can't you have more control from the left hand?

I can manipulate the face from my left hand.

This is what I'm talking about.

This is why golf instruction sucks.

We say it all the time because nobody agrees on anything.

This is the one sport that there's so much greater in.

This is the one sport that we have when you get to putting, you have 3,000 different weapons that you can choose from that are all different shapes and sizes.

I gotta, I have a Seymour putter here.

Look how vastly different these things are coming off the shaft, right?

Look at this.

Like one is coming up straight off the shaft, one is coming off.

Why?

Why?

What did this person know at Seymour better than the people at Scottie Cameron?

What did they know?

Well, they're gearing these things to a specific crowd of people.

That's what I'm trying to move you guys away from.

I don't care if you hold a left hand on.

I don't care if you hold a right hand on.

I don't care if you hold a soda can between your hands and you help eliminate the hands out of the stroke.

I don't care.

I can build or I can work on the technical side of your stroke.

Once you're insured, once you say, okay, Chris, I know that my eyes are looking in the right spot.

Putter is looking in the right spot.

Then I'll look at your videos all day long and send it to me.

That's one of the things that you guys often overlook is that you guys think that we might be one trick ponies here and we only work on golf swings.

Absolutely not.

I've got plenty of people that send in short game videos, right?

I want you to send in short game.

I want to look at your chipping in your putting.

It's a huge part of your score.

So if you say, okay, I'm working on my stroke now.

I use a face balance putter this length.

I'm going to be working on, you know, I noticed that a lot of my putts, I get like a little bit of a push or a little bit of a pull in there.

Then I'll start going through the nuts and bolts.

I'll start looking at, you know, where your eyes are in relationship to the ball.

I'll look at, you know, if you, what your stroke is doing as far as the arc is concerned.

I'll look at your bottom out points.

I'll look at your face angle.

That's, I can get into that stuff with each and every one of you.

But when you're speaking to people of masses, I can't tell you guys what to do at home.

That's going to give you the most success.

Why?

Because there's so much greater.

And if anybody, any of you guys know me at home, right?

Any of you, you know that I don't like bullshit.

I like things straight down the middle.

And some of you can comment on that, but you know that I'm kind of a hard ass when it comes to this stuff.

And that's because I want you guys to succeed.

I know how frustrating this sport can be.

And I know how frustrating it can be to go out there and have a new driver pitched in your face or a new putter pitched in your face every two years.

That's why that's the beauty of the PGA show, right?

Is that they're cycling product through you so that you guys buy more.

When, if you look at this putter right here, this putter has been in my bag for a long time.

Actually my playing putter, which is not even in here right now.

Okay.

Is the one that I started when I was playing like 15 years old.

This was after I made my way through the junior ranks, moved to Florida.

It's a Scotty Cameron Napa 2.

Like I used it for years.

Why, why would I never, why would I want to change something that was always a good putter?

So that's what I'm trying to tell you.

All right.

How about looking at the hole when we putt?

I can't do it.

George Spieth can.

That's another one of those things that people do to help eliminate when your eyes are looking down at the ball.

You can get really tense.

This sport, like it makes you crazy.

It makes, it literally makes you crazy.

How many of you at home feel crazy because of the sport?

Sometimes you leave me like, why am I playing this thing?

I'll tell you, I'll be the first person to admit When you start going down a pathway where psychologically you're having a hard time pulling the trigger.

And this is the people that know me know that I stopped playing golf professionally because I was, yes, I did hit it.

I had a quick hook that I battled with.

And it can't be four or 500 par coming up 16 and hit a quick one out of play.

I expect to win golf tournaments, but I could not stand the pressure.

As a kid, I loved it.

Like when I was playing a New England top flight tour, I loved pressure.

All right.

It's how we fed on it.

And when I started getting under the gun with, when there was money online and playing for, you know, peanuts and these mini tours, I started shaking so bad.

I couldn't even pull the trigger.

Right.

And that's a frustrating part.

So a lot of the stuff that we're doing is, is just trying to relax our mind, trying to be confident.

Right.

And that's why I'll tell people all the time, like, I want you to go to the golf course thinking that you're going to make every putt inside.

I started playing my best golf and putting my best when I would say to myself, you're going to make this putt twice in my brain.

That's what I did.

That was me personally.

Now, does that mean Rory's going to do it or Tiger's going to do it?

No, whatever they go through, as far as their, their pre-shot to help clear their mind out, everybody's different.

All right.

Less spine tilt, more consistency with left hand.

Well, again, subjective.

If you could point to me in that direction, why that would actually make sense, then let's talk about it.

Right.

I can be more in control from my right hand than my left hand with more tilt.

How is that possible?

Think about it.

Okay.

So these are things that I want you guys to ask.

I want you to ask these questions because we've heard it, right?

We've even heard, you know, with having your, your shoulders back in this depressed position, how that allows your arms to be moved around by your body strength.

So you're more consistent.

I've seen a lot of great putters with their hands.

Seen a lot of great handsy putters.

hopefully you guys are catching my drift now.

This is why this, this part of the, of the game is so overlooked, right?

It is.

I'm telling you, if you get this in a good spot and you have a reasonable stroke after that, then you should just start working on making everything you look at.

Make sure you understand speed control.

Okay.

All right.

So how long is the string on the triangle?

The one that I have, I think is like 15 feet.

Um, I don't know how long they make them anymore.

That triangulator is literally as old as the company is.

Um, they actually sent me that putter from last time when I did a video on the triangulator, because they were like, we haven't sold like 10 of these things in, um, in the last year, they sold a bunch of them.

Um, so like, can we custom make you a putter?

And I actually use that because the Seymour putter has a red dot on the back of it.

And it helps you understand if your face is square or closed when it's moving through the hitting area.

So it's a pretty cool little tool, but I don't, I don't use it on the golf course.

All right.

So that's quiet eye training is very helpful for me.

Are you familiar with it?

Yep.

I am very familiar with it.

I think that's a great tool.

I think that we actually, we actually sell a mirror on our website that is the eye line trainer that is very good for it as well.

Um, I find that what actually helped me move beyond the yips was not watching my putter head go back because I was so worried about it being square.

And I started thinking about my eyes and where they were moving to and I was following the putter.

And so I would automatically try to make knee jerk reactions.

Again, that's not going to work for three other people standing behind me.

So I used the Seymour putter to know if my putter head was square, I could watch it for, for a long period of time.

And then now I just started looking past that.

I start focusing on, I look at the ball and this is something that some of you might actually even do.

I look at the ball, but I try to look through the ball.

I try to look to see like, I try to hypnotize myself.

So for those of you that remember those like color pictures, right?

Where you could like, if you stared at it long enough, you could kind of see a picture behind it.

I could never do that.

I don't know if you guys could, but I can never see what was behind those damn colors.

I remember sitting at the dentist's office or my doctor's office trying, I was like, why can't I see what's behind this thing?

But that's essentially what I'm trying to do to my eyes is I'm trying to kind of hypnotize myself and not worry about where the putter is in space.

Because once you get ingrained, typically if you have a good stroke, you should be able to sit there and have a conversation and be able to move the putter back and forth and never see variance in that stroke.

You should never see variance in it, right?

Because that's what ingrained movement is.

You've been awesome.

Thank you so much for tuning in today.

Thank you guys for listening to me ramble at you.

For those of you that went to the bootcamp this morning and then sat into this afternoon, I'm sure you're on a Chris Tyler overload and still trying to figure out some of the stuff that I said, but I really do appreciate you guys being here.

I really do.

You guys are absolutely the best group of people to work with because we just drive, we drive very inquisitive minds.

We drive a very like intellectual group of people because of our content, right?

So I like dealing with you guys because you guys know this isn't quick fix stuff.

It's just a matter of being able to get the understanding, get out there, put the nuts and bolts to it, practicing properly, and understand this, okay?

And I'll close with this because we're always here to help you, okay?

We're always here to help you.

If you want to work on putting in your swing reviews, send it in as a swing review and let me look at it.

Just let me know what you tend to value, okay?

Hopefully you guys have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your Saturday, a wonderful rest of your weekend.

Happy holidays to all of you guys.

2022, let's become good putters, okay?

I'll become a good putter if you guys will, all right?

Have a wonderful day.

See you.