DANG! There was an "AHA!" moment for me in this video. I stopped using the alignment line on my ball because, as you say, it never looked right when I was over the putt; I just didn't trust it. It didn't occur to me that it WAS right, but that it just didn't look right because of where my eyes were in my stance.
i've also found that it helps to pick out a point 3-6 inches in front of the ball. if you roll your putt directly over your mark you can often be confident the putt will fall before you even look up. it helps to determine if you are mistriking the ball and pushing or pulling your putts if you miss that mark to the left or right, rather trying to determine that from end result. in which case it can be more difficult to determine whether you made a bad read or a bad strike. used in conjunction with these tips can be very useful.
This was an excellent video. When you realized the adjustment to the putter angle to the forearm was exactly opposite of what the instructor was seeing? BANG! Purple dust exploded from my head. I checked myself, used my phone to video my setup. Guilty. Putted for a bit in my living room at a dime. Vastly improved. Will be hitting the putting green soon to exercise some demons out of my putting.
Great video. Padraig Harrington had a great tip about big breaking putts. Given both putts hit the same, a putt missed on the low side will finish 3x as far away as a putt missed on the high side. Mattie, the putter in chief!
I started playing, at 49 years old, this July. Your way of the playa explanations are spot on. Broke 100 for the first time last weekend for a 97 & 99, my last two rounds. Thanks playa
Awesome video! I 100% agree about the mental video of making the putt. The days I really focus on that 'video' are the days I can't miss. For anyone still reading, I took a putting lesson a year ago and found out the hard way that people see the line differently in their minds. Some people see a straight line to a target point that the ball falls off of, and others see a curved line that the ball follows all the way to the hole. Figure out which mental image you have and focus on it. It was another game changer for me.
@@atbear Thanks for the worthless , inane, NPC comment. We all know Tiger and Earl woods said that which is why I stated it in this video at 6:47. The entire point is to adjust it to mean something to you. But here we are, repeating what I said to sound like you know something while adding ZERO value
You are a guru now. I love your videos so much. I have improved so much and don't feel like a dumb ass just wacking balls all over the place. For course management and putting, I look nowhere else but to my baus's channel. Thank you!!!
Bro the formula one reference went dark fast ngl 💀 in all seriousness this video was such a good one. I think you’re really helping us amateurs and also a lot of youths get the right way of thinking down. Bought the golf is not a game of perfect because of you. Thanks for all the great videos.
I love your videos because you are the only golf professional who talks about ways of improving the mental and psychological elements of the game. You can have the best swing in the world, but without the mindset and focus, golf rounds can go south very quickly. Thanks again.
11:15 I returned to the game last year after a 20 year hiatus. Concentrating on distance control substantially more than the break now has really helped. On putts outside of 8 feet or so I'm 80% speed and 20% line. On longer putts it's pretty hard to misread the break by 10 feet but I see a lot of people miss the speed by that much. Instead of practicing distance control towards a hole or a tee I putt towards the edge of the practice green. With no real left or right aim reference it really helps me concentrate only on the speed. I'm far from the World's best putter but I'm much better now in the last 16 months than I was in the 10 years I had been playing back then.
Awesome Video....the mental images in putting are 100% real I proved it last Sunday with a 20 footer for bird...I said this is going in imagined the whole picture and bam sunk it!
Great video. From Bob Rotella’s books I also like to pick a very small target within the hole, like a particular blade of grass. Somehow makes you feel like you can’t miss, and you start putting like a Baus 😎
Once you get a setup, you can do one handers with the hand you use dominantly in the putt. This is a GREAT video of using perspectives. I usually hit with just my right hand when I'm getting use to speeds of greens. On the practice greens ofc. But long putts and then hitting those putts in depending on where they are.
Great video Baus Mattie… picked up the “hit to a tee” tip on one of your early videos and that has been such a game changer in my distance’ control. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Matt, Love all your videos. Particularly your enforcement of the mental game and understanding your own limitations. I consider myself a pretty good putter and short game player but this video has really opened my eyes to a few things. One of the reasons my short play is good is I don't hit the ball far, so not only do I practice it, I get to put that practice into play regularly. I am often asked how can I have that short game as a 17 marker and my reply is always "because I don't hit a lot of greens in regulation". Thanks again Matt, learning heaps.
I’m not draining a lot of long putts, but I am leaving everything within 3 feet which is a huge boost for my scoring. I almost don’t even need to read if I got the speed. The read just gets me even closer. I stand behind the ball and look at the ball and the hole as I make a practice stroke that I believe is the right speed, then set up my aiming point and make that same stroke.
A really good very informative video Matty. I got the audio book Bob Rotella, putting out of your mind and immediately improved my putting along with hours of 1 foot 3 foot and distance to the T peg all as recommended by yourself. You have improved my game 100% waddaplaya waddachannel thanks 🙏
My first comment, although I have watched many of your videos... You are dead on correct with this. The beauty of finding how your eyes have to be for YOU to see correctly with a putter stroke...will also carry through to alignment for every other club in the bag.
Something I learnt recently through trial and error. If the angle in your trail wrist alters during the stroke, even slightly, from address position, the putter face will open or close unless you make a compensating move. There are many ways to achieve this and it doesn't really matter how you achieve it but it's important.
I honestly believe if playas spent 1 solid hour a week putting, working on the 1-3 footers, and working a bit on the lags, doing what this video says, they will become good putters. My handicap is currently 33, and in July of last year, I was averaging 38-39 putts. But in the fall and winter, I put a few hours of putting practice in, and my stats on the SwingU app show me as a single digit (9hcp) putter. I average right at 35.5 putts per round, and I know I can get better! I did it by using these methods and mindsets, listening to Matt and Bob R, RESPECTING every single putt, and by believing that I am a good putter. I AM a good putter!
Great video Matt! Also the link to the alignment video is great stuff, and I'm not even half way that video!!! This afternoon I'm back to the putting green to practise :)
Great stuff! For me, it’s about expectations. The truth is that outside of 10 feet it is an absolute ocean of 2 putt territory, even for the very best in the world. Don’t ignore pace control, but practice a ton inside 10’!
Best improvement I had in putting was applying a Luke Donald tip I saw where he said visualize staring into a mirror under the ball and still be staring in to your eyes AFTER the stroke. Absolutely sends the ball out on the correct line every single time (assuming you have read it correctly!!!) Also I just happened to see a bit of PGA coverage and the anchor was talking about a lad on the practicing with a kettle-bell posture. I gave it a try for a laugh and I must say it keeps you rock solid over putts!!!
Yesterday was my first round ever with no three-putts. For me, once I found my line and got over the ball, the best thing was letting go and feeling super relaxed as my last step before making the swing.
I can tell that dropping your hands a bit to allow the shaft to run through your forearm is still uncomfortable for you b/c you're drifting back up! ;-). but you were right, that was the single biggest improvement I made in my set up. such great tips from one of the best UA-cam golfers out there!
If there’s a stroke in golf that is improved by body stability it’d have to be the putt. Reliable distance control and direction control begs for a solid putting stance. Wonderful video; you ARE the best putter on UA-cam!
@@joemarks3719this dingus thinks that a pro golfer using UA-cam to redefine his poor public image is the same as being the number 1 golf UA-camr in Lithuania who has been doing it for the people from the beginning. Joe marks you can have brizon dichambeaux you stinky winky
New Golfer here, really appreciate your videos, insight, and humor! I feel like I'm learning a lot here and I see it translating well. Got a sub out of me, believe dat.
Ok reduced my expectations based on reality, taking a lesser club to stay in the middle and had best round ever yesterday. Of course it did help my driver was dead on, but I was hitting safer approach shots putting me in scoring position. thanks!
1 thing i learned from someone better than me about confident putting / mental putting. If you do make a bad putt, or 3 putt or whatever. You literally just make every excuse imaginable. Nothing on the green was because you did anything wrong. Its strange thinking that way (because it surely was our fault) but somehow it does keep your confidence going into the next hole.
"gain control by giving up control"- such a great quote. And it works for me. I almost never look at a putt from behind the flag because that´s not where my ball is. Keep it simple. Don´t worry about which way the grass is growing. Or whether your moon is aligned with Uranus. Over analysing is over anal. with icing. If I have a big break across a slope, sure I might go to the upside of the hole to see where it´s going to drop in from, and you can see where that is because the lip of the hole will look pretty level. Then pick that point and visualise an arc, that gets steeper at the end as the ball loses speed from the putt. Then just put it out there and let gravity do the rest.
To finally see how you look better (more centered over the ball) after he moved your head to the left and the subsequent 60/40 weight on the left is an aha moment for me. The shaft in line with the forearms. Duh. Those two things made a HUGE improvement for me. (For me, I need to raise my hands). Thanks so much for this excellent video. I have not putted this well in 25 years
When I do “one foot putts” I always hit them as hard as I can and still have them go in. It helps me not quit on my putter swing, knowing the ball can be going pretty quick and still go in. Plus, everything else in that drill comes into play as well. Very good if you want to be more aggressive.
Wonderful. Most people would tell you just to pick a spot in between the hole and the ball and focus on that only while all I wanted to do is to imagine the film of the ball gloriously fall in the hole. Glad I am not the only one. have imagine crowds cheering. I used to even tip my cap at the imaginary crowd if I left a long one at tap in length. Does look stupid but it's a real positivity boost. Dr. Bob would approve I guess because I always putt to hole it. Ironically, I have more difficulty doing the same from 1-2 meters, which tends to feed my mind with negative thoughts. As one is statistically not really expected to make long putts often that makes it easier to "give it to the universe" so no negative thoughts there, if only I could copy that on shorter ones. And although I love my shot scope watch for many reasons, knowing that to make around 57% of these to go into the lower eighties I can only manage a measly 38% isn't helping to chase out negative thoughts, so thanks Sensei for the great tips for the shorter ones!
I like to use the scattergun approach. I try to think on 5-6 footers, I know I'll make 50% of them in the long run so it doesn't really matter if this one in particular doesn't go in. Good way to release that outcome focused thinking.
"Putting is a combination of speed and line that is all" Is sorta similiar to what ive been told of. "you always have to strike a put straight, You never try to curve it. Thats the job of the green." I feel thats super beneficial to me as well to stop me from compensating for my vision. I happen to be left dominant as a righty, so for me im "ok" at gaging but the mind plays tricks on you. "Trust your aim, shoot it straight" And let the green do the rest. (gives you someone else to blame as well! ;D)
niggling injuries and a gnawing feeling of muscular imbalance (golf is such a one sided game) led me to switch to putting cack handed this year. Benefits are tremedous (a) when putting I can feel muscular tension dissolving - literally tension rippling away into the air...(b) and so I look forward to practicing and putting (c) bonus is total brain reset. Once I committed it only took 3 weeks to figure. Now locked in. No going back...
Mattie I did get fitted for an Edel putter that takes into account your “aim bias”. This could be BS, but in my mind and putting stats in Arccos I am 1.9 putts less per round in 2024. Thoughts on aim bias????
Mattie according to the fitting I had done, we all have an aim bias, much like a dominate eye or hand. This in turn cause to think we are aiming at our line but in fact we are not. It may be marketing Bull shit??
I really like the 1 foot putt exercise. We think of those as given but we've all missed putts like that. It has to be the least practiced shot distance in golf.
The practice of that extends far beyond not missing 1 footers. It's very powerful for alignment, confidence, strike, seeing lines, commitment, pressure situation making 100 in a row, working past questioning yourself
Good stuff matty. I don’t use a line on my ball because I set up the putt with the line and check it “no that’s too far left” I move it a poofteenth right “no it’s right now” move it half a poofteenth it’s not right. All this takes too long and my brain isn’t convinced. I don’t know how people set a line from ball to hole and it’s right. Also your line is massive. Brad faxon says one single line with a normal sharpie. The bigger the line the more alignment issues like I have. If you have any tips to line it up in less than 3 attempts I’d love to hear them
Great video Matty, I took your advise from an old video ref: Bob Rotella, putting out of your mind, there some great lessons in these books for all, and you adding these tips from Eric is fantastic, now!! I need to stick with the plan for a set period 6-7 months ,
Yes sir most of us find something that works but we don’t see golf as a diet. If you lose weight, you can’t go man to eating everything in sight because then the weight comes back
@@GolfSidekick l"ve listen to it 8 times now!! every time i listen i get another nugget , so moving forward when i feel the need to wavier or question the path of a playa it will be time to listen to the Oracle Dr Bob Rotella cheers matty look forward to better days playing golf,
i,m glad i listen to you and got his audio books yes a couple, out of you mind putting like a genius, game of confidence ,not a game of perfect ,all fantastic cheers thanks 👍
Am I weird for not lining up the lines on the ball with my read line? It tends to screw me up more. I prefer to stand over the ball and adjust, and I am lined up in accordance to the lines on the ball, I tend to second guess my adjustments.
I don’t line the line on the ball up, I use the centre line on my putter to visualise the starting line with the back stroke of the putter. Made 34 putts yesterday, my lowest total
I think it's all preference brother, do whatever works for you and stick with it. I'm not a good golfer by any means but my putting is usually pretty solid. If you can read a green decently and have good speed control using a line doesn't matter. I've never lined up my putts for the same reason as you, mentally and visually it throws me off
I copied Jack Nicklaus putting since he is one of the greatest putters of all time. Feet slightly open with one foot back, right arm low, eyes directly on top of the ball, piston-like stroke straight down the ball line to the hole. I don't know why more people don't putt like Jack.
Is your back stroke on a slight arc? I was always under the impression the putting stroke was dead straight but now I think it's a slight arc, the angle of the putter to forearm is a great tip
Impossible to do 100% straight Back and through - there has to be a natural arc. One of the surest ways to harm putting is to think about this aspect during a putt. Let it flow
@@GolfSidekick perfect, your channel has helped me massively esp hit to where you want to miss advice. Do you have a video on when you hit alot of irons at the beach which allowed you to hit your irons so well? I think I get the theory, the sand provides instant feedback if you draw a line and swing, we're looking for contact with the sand after the line. Is that correct?
Great video as always. When you say "Eric moved my head and eyes to the left." Do you mean he moved it moved towards your lead side and not Eric's left? Thanks.
DANG! There was an "AHA!" moment for me in this video. I stopped using the alignment line on my ball because, as you say, it never looked right when I was over the putt; I just didn't trust it. It didn't occur to me that it WAS right, but that it just didn't look right because of where my eyes were in my stance.
Please check the link to BE BETTER GOLF with Mike malaska in the description. Great video for that
Same. Really great vid. Also said aha again when I dropped my hands a bit. Thanks playa!!
i've also found that it helps to pick out a point 3-6 inches in front of the ball. if you roll your putt directly over your mark you can often be confident the putt will fall before you even look up.
it helps to determine if you are mistriking the ball and pushing or pulling your putts if you miss that mark to the left or right, rather trying to determine that from end result. in which case it can be more difficult to determine whether you made a bad read or a bad strike.
used in conjunction with these tips can be very useful.
See Paul Wilsons "Crazy Putting drill. Where he takes a wiggled path before the ball. Males you more target minded. Weird but Works.
Agreed. Ive been doing the same thing. "Oh that doesnt look right".....
Im going to stop doing that now!
One of your all time finest performances. Great great video.
This was an excellent video. When you realized the adjustment to the putter angle to the forearm was exactly opposite of what the instructor was seeing? BANG! Purple dust exploded from my head. I checked myself, used my phone to video my setup. Guilty. Putted for a bit in my living room at a dime. Vastly improved. Will be hitting the putting green soon to exercise some demons out of my putting.
Yes sir. Most of us think we are swinging like Freddie couples. But we look like we bought our swing from a Goodwill
Thx. Shaved 6 putts in 9 holes today. You have helped me enjoy golf, have realistic expectations and get better.
Boooom
Great video. Padraig Harrington had a great tip about big breaking putts. Given both putts hit the same, a putt missed on the low side will finish 3x as far away as a putt missed on the high side.
Mattie, the putter in chief!
I always lag to to the high side. You get tap ins not knee knockers.
I’ve never heard that before, but when I think of it, it really is true
That's why they say in golf commentary missing on the low side or the pro side
I started playing, at 49 years old, this July.
Your way of the playa explanations are spot on.
Broke 100 for the first time last weekend for a 97 & 99, my last two rounds.
Thanks playa
Awesome video! I 100% agree about the mental video of making the putt. The days I really focus on that 'video' are the days I can't miss.
For anyone still reading, I took a putting lesson a year ago and found out the hard way that people see the line differently in their minds. Some people see a straight line to a target point that the ball falls off of, and others see a curved line that the ball follows all the way to the hole. Figure out which mental image you have and focus on it. It was another game changer for me.
Exactly. Putting lines and visualization, and reading greens is highly personal
@@atbear Thanks for the worthless , inane, NPC comment.
We all know Tiger and Earl woods said that which is why I stated it in this video at 6:47.
The entire point is to adjust it to mean something to you. But here we are, repeating what I said to sound like you know something while adding ZERO value
You are a guru now. I love your videos so much. I have improved so much and don't feel like a dumb ass just wacking balls all over the place. For course management and putting, I look nowhere else but to my baus's channel. Thank you!!!
Bro the formula one reference went dark fast ngl 💀 in all seriousness this video was such a good one. I think you’re really helping us amateurs and also a lot of youths get the right way of thinking down. Bought the golf is not a game of perfect because of you. Thanks for all the great videos.
I love your videos because you are the only golf professional who talks about ways of improving the mental and psychological elements of the game. You can have the best swing in the world, but without the mindset and focus, golf rounds can go south very quickly. Thanks again.
By far my favorite golfing youtuber.
Agree
Asked about a putting video a few weeks ago and here it is! Thanks Boom Boom. The greens will be my kingdom after implementing this!
11:15 I returned to the game last year after a 20 year hiatus. Concentrating on distance control substantially more than the break now has really helped. On putts outside of 8 feet or so I'm 80% speed and 20% line. On longer putts it's pretty hard to misread the break by 10 feet but I see a lot of people miss the speed by that much.
Instead of practicing distance control towards a hole or a tee I putt towards the edge of the practice green. With no real left or right aim reference it really helps me concentrate only on the speed.
I'm far from the World's best putter but I'm much better now in the last 16 months than I was in the 10 years I had been playing back then.
Awesome Video....the mental images in putting are 100% real I proved it last Sunday with a 20 footer for bird...I said this is going in imagined the whole picture and bam sunk it!
Great video. From Bob Rotella’s books I also like to pick a very small target within the hole, like a particular blade of grass. Somehow makes you feel like you can’t miss, and you start putting like a Baus 😎
mate, I could watch your videos all day long! as a fellow saffa, you make things so digestable!
The algorithm has treated me nicely. I have found you and will never let you go!
Once you get a setup, you can do one handers with the hand you use dominantly in the putt. This is a GREAT video of using perspectives.
I usually hit with just my right hand when I'm getting use to speeds of greens. On the practice greens ofc. But long putts and then hitting those putts in depending on where they are.
Man...the dropping of the hands and lining up with the arms, made a huge difference with aim and speed. Freakin amazing tip...!
This one is the insta confidentals
Great video Baus Mattie… picked up the “hit to a tee” tip on one of your early videos and that has been such a game changer in my distance’ control. 👍🏻👍🏻
Your French is impeccable
I've always struggled with seeing the break differently once I stand over the ball. This video has me feeling more confidential already.
Thanks Matt, Love all your videos. Particularly your enforcement of the mental game and understanding your own limitations. I consider myself a pretty good putter and short game player but this video has really opened my eyes to a few things. One of the reasons my short play is good is I don't hit the ball far, so not only do I practice it, I get to put that practice into play regularly. I am often asked how can I have that short game as a 17 marker and my reply is always "because I don't hit a lot of greens in regulation". Thanks again Matt, learning heaps.
I’m not draining a lot of long putts, but I am leaving everything within 3 feet which is a huge boost for my scoring. I almost don’t even need to read if I got the speed. The read just gets me even closer. I stand behind the ball and look at the ball and the hole as I make a practice stroke that I believe is the right speed, then set up my aiming point and make that same stroke.
Second time watching this. Best putting advice I have come across. Tried out some points yesterday and quickly seen great results. Brilliant.
We didn’t come here to waste time only to help the playas
A really good very informative video Matty. I got the audio book Bob Rotella, putting out of your mind and immediately improved my putting along with hours of 1 foot 3 foot and distance to the T peg all as recommended by yourself. You have improved my game 100% waddaplaya waddachannel thanks 🙏
Excellent information Matt. Hearing the ball go in the hole I call plopish. Enjoying the channel.
My first comment, although I have watched many of your videos...
You are dead on correct with this. The beauty of finding how your eyes have to be for YOU to see correctly with a putter stroke...will also carry through to alignment for every other club in the bag.
Waddaman. I wish more people would realize this - true legendarianism
@GolfSidekick it took many years to realize it, and most importantly, learning to putt first.
Something I learnt recently through trial and error. If the angle in your trail wrist alters during the stroke, even slightly, from address position, the putter face will open or close unless you make a compensating move. There are many ways to achieve this and it doesn't really matter how you achieve it but it's important.
I honestly believe if playas spent 1 solid hour a week putting, working on the 1-3 footers, and working a bit on the lags, doing what this video says, they will become good putters. My handicap is currently 33, and in July of last year, I was averaging 38-39 putts. But in the fall and winter, I put a few hours of putting practice in, and my stats on the SwingU app show me as a single digit (9hcp) putter.
I average right at 35.5 putts per round, and I know I can get better!
I did it by using these methods and mindsets, listening to Matt and Bob R, RESPECTING every single putt, and by believing that I am a good putter. I AM a good putter!
Better putter fundamentals = better ball chipping and pitching = better ball striking
@@GolfSidekick I’m breaking 100 this summer. Maybe this week. I’m on the way!
.Thanks man!!! Made an insane 20ft putt downhill today to save par.
SPEED AND LINE BABY
“Bulee dat.”
LFG!!! 💯🤣
Great video Matt! Also the link to the alignment video is great stuff, and I'm not even half way that video!!!
This afternoon I'm back to the putting green to practise :)
Thanks man, not only great advice but you have ignited my love of golf again,seeing it from a different angle, thanks legend
Great stuff! For me, it’s about expectations. The truth is that outside of 10 feet it is an absolute ocean of 2 putt territory, even for the very best in the world. Don’t ignore pace control, but practice a ton inside 10’!
Thanks mate, I finally broke 80 today because of you. You are a bawsss
I'm with you on the breakers. It feels like I'm rolling the ball out to an area, even though I have identified a specific spot as the putt apex.
Best improvement I had in putting was applying a Luke Donald tip I saw where he said visualize staring into a mirror under the ball and still be staring in to your eyes AFTER the stroke. Absolutely sends the ball out on the correct line every single time (assuming you have read it correctly!!!)
Also I just happened to see a bit of PGA coverage and the anchor was talking about a lad on the practicing with a kettle-bell posture. I gave it a try for a laugh and I must say it keeps you rock solid over putts!!!
Yesterday was my first round ever with no three-putts. For me, once I found my line and got over the ball, the best thing was letting go and feeling super relaxed as my last step before making the swing.
Out of yo mind playa
I can tell that dropping your hands a bit to allow the shaft to run through your forearm is still uncomfortable for you b/c you're drifting back up! ;-). but you were right, that was the single biggest improvement I made in my set up. such great tips from one of the best UA-cam golfers out there!
Yeah the lesson was a year ago. Good to recap and see i drifted!
If there’s a stroke in golf that is improved by body stability it’d have to be the putt. Reliable distance control and direction control begs for a solid putting stance. Wonderful video; you ARE the best putter on UA-cam!
You can have him, I'll take Bryson DeChambeau against him for any amount of money you want.
@@joemarks3719this dingus thinks that a pro golfer using UA-cam to redefine his poor public image is the same as being the number 1 golf UA-camr in Lithuania who has been doing it for the people from the beginning. Joe marks you can have brizon dichambeaux you stinky winky
@@joemarks3719Mong
@@joemarks3719 I think maybe you’re taking UA-cam too seriously…
When I make the Senior LIV tour one day in the future, Matty, you’re the first person I’m thanking🤙
This info is SO right on correct, much of what I have been doing, but always can improve. Great !
Wow. This is a great putting video. Watched so many. Now I know the line on my ball should look right…just adjust my eye position
I always said that Golf is a game of the mind and putting is the main reason.
And everything stems from this little stroke
Hello Matt. Again a game changing video. Masterclass. You really add value to the table. Money. 😊😊😊🇩🇪👍🏻👍🏻
New Golfer here, really appreciate your videos, insight, and humor! I feel like I'm learning a lot here and I see it translating well. Got a sub out of me, believe dat.
Feet comfortable and narrow stance. Check. Everything diagonal and go. Awesome 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 but was missing Left or right eye dominancy is a factor.
Probably the greatest video on putting I've ever seen!
People are calling it the best video ever made
I found prioritising distance control helped my putting the most and minimising errors and 3 putts
Straight confidential putting from now on
Alright!!! You heard my plea!! Thanks GS!!!
Ok reduced my expectations based on reality, taking a lesser club to stay in the middle and had best round ever yesterday. Of course it did help my driver was dead on, but I was hitting safer approach shots putting me in scoring position. thanks!
Great video, really helped me feel confidential over the putter
1 thing i learned from someone better than me about confident putting / mental putting. If you do make a bad putt, or 3 putt or whatever. You literally just make every excuse imaginable. Nothing on the green was because you did anything wrong. Its strange thinking that way (because it surely was our fault) but somehow it does keep your confidence going into the next hole.
Best advice iv ever been given on UA-cam
"gain control by giving up control"- such a great quote. And it works for me. I almost never look at a putt from behind the flag because that´s not where my ball is. Keep it simple. Don´t worry about which way the grass is growing. Or whether your moon is aligned with Uranus. Over analysing is over anal. with icing. If I have a big break across a slope, sure I might go to the upside of the hole to see where it´s going to drop in from, and you can see where that is because the lip of the hole will look pretty level. Then pick that point and visualise an arc, that gets steeper at the end as the ball loses speed from the putt. Then just put it out there and let gravity do the rest.
To finally see how you look better (more centered over the ball) after he moved your head to the left and the subsequent 60/40 weight on the left is an aha moment for me. The shaft in line with the forearms. Duh. Those two things made a HUGE improvement for me. (For me, I need to raise my hands). Thanks so much for this excellent video. I have not putted this well in 25 years
This is the video for putting! Watch this ten times and read (Putting out of your mind) ten times. Thats all you need.
Very helpful video sir I appreciate your dedication to helping us improve
You can see that he doesn’t mind having a beer after…awesome! From Canada 😮
When I do “one foot putts” I always hit them as hard as I can and still have them go in. It helps me not quit on my putter swing, knowing the ball can be going pretty quick and still go in. Plus, everything else in that drill comes into play as well. Very good if you want to be more aggressive.
You are finding your way and I love it
That's the personal golf journey
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So much great stuff in this video Matt, thanks.
Wonderful. Most people would tell you just to pick a spot in between the hole and the ball and focus on that only while all I wanted to do is to imagine the film of the ball gloriously fall in the hole. Glad I am not the only one. have imagine crowds cheering. I used to even tip my cap at the imaginary crowd if I left a long one at tap in length. Does look stupid but it's a real positivity boost. Dr. Bob would approve I guess because I always putt to hole it. Ironically, I have more difficulty doing the same from 1-2 meters, which tends to feed my mind with negative thoughts. As one is statistically not really expected to make long putts often that makes it easier to "give it to the universe" so no negative thoughts there, if only I could copy that on shorter ones. And although I love my shot scope watch for many reasons, knowing that to make around 57% of these to go into the lower eighties I can only manage a measly 38% isn't helping to chase out negative thoughts, so thanks Sensei for the great tips for the shorter ones!
I like to use the scattergun approach. I try to think on 5-6 footers, I know I'll make 50% of them in the long run so it doesn't really matter if this one in particular doesn't go in. Good way to release that outcome focused thinking.
This dude is insane, and it is the best.
"Putting is a combination of speed and line that is all" Is sorta similiar to what ive been told of. "you always have to strike a put straight, You never try to curve it. Thats the job of the green."
I feel thats super beneficial to me as well to stop me from compensating for my vision. I happen to be left dominant as a righty, so for me im "ok" at gaging but the mind plays tricks on you.
"Trust your aim, shoot it straight" And let the green do the rest. (gives you someone else to blame as well! ;D)
Every putt is straight playa, just gotta hit it offline to come back online
Best advice for me was miss omen the high side and try and lag it to the Tee. Shot 82 today and I’m on my way to single digit handicap
That's great advice. Thanks for the tips!
Great video, lots of practical tips. Thank you.
niggling injuries and a gnawing feeling of muscular imbalance (golf is such a one sided game) led me to switch to putting cack handed this year. Benefits are tremedous (a) when putting I can feel muscular tension dissolving - literally tension rippling away into the air...(b) and so I look forward to practicing and putting (c) bonus is total brain reset. Once I committed it only took 3 weeks to figure. Now locked in. No going back...
Used these tips yesterday and broke 90, won the ladies competition on nett 67 🎉
Mattie a great vid!!! Just tried the forearm alignment!!! What a game changer!
Thank you
Boom
Mattie I did get fitted for an Edel putter that takes into account your “aim bias”. This could be BS, but in my mind and putting stats in Arccos I am 1.9 putts less per round in 2024. Thoughts on aim bias????
@@markeister8518 Can you tell me what you mean by aim bias?
Mattie according to the fitting I had done, we all have an aim bias, much like a dominate eye or hand. This in turn cause to think we are aiming at our line but in fact we are not. It may be marketing Bull shit??
Eric fits the same way. He says that what you had done is the only way he fits putters. Nice one bro!
After 6 months of playing I finally got my first birdie and I was preaching all day the gospel Matty the Grand Mojodulah thanks Matty
I really like the 1 foot putt exercise. We think of those as given but we've all missed putts like that. It has to be the least practiced shot distance in golf.
The practice of that extends far beyond not missing 1 footers.
It's very powerful for alignment, confidence, strike, seeing lines, commitment, pressure situation making 100 in a row, working past questioning yourself
Great video! I struggled on some hard fast greens yesterday. 37 putts in my rd yuck
As always, great video. Am I the first to wonder...when will there be a line of Golf SideKick nose creams in different colors?
The Head Playa & Dr. Rotella, Putting Gurus.
Love Matty Boom Boom. Great stuff as always.
thanks for the video! my puting has been something i need to work on
After this video with all the strokes gained gonna make top 10 on MGS
Simply perfect ! Thx Matt !
Good stuff matty. I don’t use a line on my ball because I set up the putt with the line and check it “no that’s too far left” I move it a poofteenth right “no it’s right now” move it half a poofteenth it’s not right. All this takes too long and my brain isn’t convinced. I don’t know how people set a line from ball to hole and it’s right. Also your line is massive. Brad faxon says one single line with a normal sharpie. The bigger the line the more alignment issues like I have. If you have any tips to line it up in less than 3 attempts I’d love to hear them
Practice it on the practice green.
Great video Matty, I took your advise from an old video ref: Bob Rotella, putting out of your mind, there some great lessons in these books for all, and you adding these tips from Eric is fantastic, now!! I need to stick with the plan for a set period 6-7 months ,
Yes sir most of us find something that works but we don’t see golf as a diet. If you lose weight, you can’t go man to eating everything in sight because then the weight comes back
@@GolfSidekick l"ve listen to it 8 times now!! every time i listen i get another nugget , so moving forward when i feel the need to wavier or question the path of a playa it will be time to listen to the Oracle Dr Bob Rotella cheers matty look forward to better days playing golf,
I listen to Rotella every week for about 2-3 hours.
i,m glad i listen to you and got his audio books yes a couple, out of you mind putting like a genius, game of confidence ,not a game of perfect ,all fantastic cheers thanks 👍
After aligning ball ,trust your alinement line and Aline putter to that line and consentrate hitting line only.
Great video Matt. Thanks
best putting video i've seen!
Am I weird for not lining up the lines on the ball with my read line? It tends to screw me up more. I prefer to stand over the ball and adjust, and I am lined up in accordance to the lines on the ball, I tend to second guess my adjustments.
Yes you are weird 😂 we are all weird, thats the beauty of it.
Lining up a ball has little affect on the over all outcome of the putt.
I don’t line the line on the ball up, I use the centre line on my putter to visualise the starting line with the back stroke of the putter. Made 34 putts yesterday, my lowest total
I think it's all preference brother, do whatever works for you and stick with it. I'm not a good golfer by any means but my putting is usually pretty solid. If you can read a green decently and have good speed control using a line doesn't matter. I've never lined up my putts for the same reason as you, mentally and visually it throws me off
I just use it a reference I use my eyes too once I'm over the putt.
Great tips those clearly explained, thanks 👍
When are we getting love making lessons? These golfing videos are great and all, but I wanna be a confidential lover.
Listen to Shaggy’s boombastic album all you need
@@GolfSidekick it wasn’t me.
Matty boom boom how did you know I’ve been working on 3-4 putts, like a tv show lost on the green
Where do you get those drippy hats?
Im just getting back into golf after a 4 year hiatus and i find your content very helpful. Appreciate it!
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@@GolfSidekick that's awesome man. Just ordered the kochenbolz bucket. My wife loved the steak and eggs one lol
Good stuff, as usual.
Matt, regarding the 1ft putts, would you use the same hole and same location? or move round the putting green for different lies?
Move around because otherwise you’ll kill the grass. Try to make it a 100% Straight one wherever you do practice from
The one foot putt drill is what I need, I’m terrible at dragging under three feet on occasion
Nice work. 🎉
I copied Jack Nicklaus putting since he is one of the greatest putters of all time. Feet slightly open with one foot back, right arm low, eyes directly on top of the ball, piston-like stroke straight down the ball line to the hole. I don't know why more people don't putt like Jack.
Excellent playa
I do. Best comment ever.
Is your back stroke on a slight arc? I was always under the impression the putting stroke was dead straight but now I think it's a slight arc, the angle of the putter to forearm is a great tip
Impossible to do 100% straight Back and through - there has to be a natural arc. One of the surest ways to harm putting is to think about this aspect during a putt. Let it flow
@@GolfSidekick perfect, your channel has helped me massively esp hit to where you want to miss advice. Do you have a video on when you hit alot of irons at the beach which allowed you to hit your irons so well? I think I get the theory, the sand provides instant feedback if you draw a line and swing, we're looking for contact with the sand after the line. Is that correct?
Eric is the Baus❤
BRotella!!!! Amen!
Great video as always. When you say "Eric moved my head and eyes to the left." Do you mean he moved it moved towards your lead side and not Eric's left? Thanks.
To my left yes
Thanks playa!
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