all right uh today we're talking uh putters
what do we need do we need a blade style putter
or a mallet style putter or something in between i'm gonna show you
what you need to know today let's go
okay so when you roll up to the golf shop
it might look something like this except there might be like
400 more choices and how do you pick the putter that's best for you
and with all the different everything going on
there's some critical mistakes that we're making when it comes time to
choosing a putter so what we're going to do is just go
through how to choose the right putter for you what you can do
there and what you need to look at and what you don't
need to look at because there's some critical mistakes that we're going to
make and we got to avoid that so we can make
more putts a lot of times it's just not your fault
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wow okay did you see what i did there that's
kind of what we do and then based on if the ball went in
the hole or not we're like hey i'm making a lot of putts with this
particular putter therefore uh i should buy that putter
okay that is mistake number one and uh and and here's why
okay so let's say this is my everyday putter right what happens
is uh mistake one is your alignment gets off okay how you set up to the ball
and what happens is you take your normal putter
and you start aligning incorrectly well over time it starts to look right
and so that just feels comfortable to you and
then your stroke is a reflection on that and then you
have imperfections in your stroke because
you're misaligned so what happens is you go to the golf shop
you pick out something totally different than your putter
something weird and looks strange and then you line up with it
okay you line up you're not going to line up
most of the time you're not going to have that same misalignment
with the putter now because it looks so dramatically different than your
putter so you're a lot more cognizant of how you set up to the ball
and you're just gonna naturally set up much more
correctly with the new putter in your hand
and then you stroke it and it goes in uh because you had proper alignment
with the new putter because it's so different than your old putter so then
you're like i'm gonna spend a million dollars
because i make putts with this but then over time you're gonna slowly
uh get off because that's what we all do then
you're going to throw this putter away you buy it as well just send me your
money because uh i'll take better care of it than the
putter that's going to collect dust or get broken or thrown in the trash
because you can do the same thing over and over again so that is something we
gotta not do so the second mistake you're making is
uh it's it's it's uh
connected to your first mistake so you had a misalignment
because of your misalignment with your normal putter
you have an imperfect stroke because you have to compensate for how
badly you're lining up so then you grab the new guy the new
weird putter and now you're lining up perfectly
your stroke is going to self-correct so you're actually going to have a
pretty decent stroke and it's going to be so much better than your
current stroke that the ball is going to have a much better time
easier time going in the hole and then after a couple putts you just start
rattling them off and you go to the register and they're laughing at you
going we got another one so that's not what you do so now let's
go over what you do and what to look for while
you're practicing with the new putters and uh
this is gonna just this is the one thing you have to look
at when buying a new putter okay so you grab your putter that you
want to try out let's say we're going to try out the
blade putter now there's uh there's three kinds
of putters well there's a lot of different kinds but but the the ones
we're really going to focus on today are going to be these okay there's your
blade putter they call it a blade it's actually toe
down putter see that the toe goes down you just balance it on
your finger and see where that face goes and it goes
down to the ground okay that's your uh toe down putter and it
could be even more but that's kind of typical
right where it hangs right there then you have your
face balanced putter or your mallet right it's your odyssey x07
and you can see i balance it the same way and the face points
straight up straight up and down for the most part i'm not doing anything just
trying to get it balanced and that face goes straight up in the air
that's a face balance putter then uh you have this guy
this is my scotty cameron newport 2 and you can see here it's
what they call 45 degree toe down if i just let it
hang it's not so much as that toe down putter it's more of a 45 degree
angle okay and then if you really want to get
in the weeds and try something then you have this guy
this is my odyssey rossi uh putter this is called like a
tow flow putter it's not it's a little more it's a little less than 45 degrees
somewhere in between so those are your options
but the key is going to be this is i don't care what putter you use i
don't care anything what we want to do is we want to line up perfectly
okay we want to read the break correctly and then we want to have the face square
at impact that's going to be the key ingredient
are you hitting it open are you getting it closed or is it
square you need it square to have everything working correctly
your alignment you can work on and we're going to and that's one thing
you're going to do when you're practicing new putters
testing them out your green reading ability is going to be you spending time
on the putting green getting that dialed in because that's
going to be that's on you if you don't spend the time you're never
going to read it correctly but if you read the green correctly
and you line up perfectly then all you have to do is hit it with a square face
so that's what we got to focus on so i'm going to use my blast motion sensor
this is going to give me face impact uh face angle at impact of the ball so
it's going to tell me exactly where it's at now i'm
also going to do something here for you so this just attaches to the end of your
putter and then you use your app and we're going to look at
this is all i care about really when i'm testing out new putters is
which putter gives me the best uh face angle
at impact because if there's one if i hit that
face balance open every time i'm not going to get that even the ball
goes in the hole like i don't want to hit an
open face i want that face square so we're going to look at that now
let's say you don't let's say you don't have that
this it's like 100 bucks link in the description below
uh but let's say you don't want that you don't have that here's what you can do
you're going to get when you go to the shop and you're going to look at putters
get a sharpie then just take a line i've already got a line on this but draw
a line on your ball okay boom as straight as possible that
shot probably will have one of those little
guys that um you can you could put on go grab one of
those like five bucks or something we want
that line on the ball okay try to get as perfect and as defined as
possible as long as possible too now you're good
to go so you either have this or this
both are going to help you out in determining what you need
uh in terms of putter okay then what you're going to do
grab one of the other putters get something there you've got to get
something that is going to help you line everything up so you can aim it a
hole you can aim it anything else i don't care
you just you can aim at nothing just i want
something that's a perfect line then you get your ball with the line on
it and you put it next to it so it matches right there it's gotta
match that line okay then
you get the putter you're going to use and
you put it on the ball so that the alignment
on the putter matches the alignment on your ball okay that's
perfect now if you have your blast motion
sensor then you're going to use that as well
and i would use all of this together because i want to know exactly what is
the best putter for me so i've got my sensor
it's connected so there i'm lined up got everything good to go
i've got everything set up here i know i'm lined up with the
alignment eight on the ground my putter is good
everything's good and i'm just looking at
is my square putter impact
and so i was 1.4 degrees closed on that stroke with
the toe down putter now i'm not going to just do it one time
i'm going to use this putter a number of times and every time i'm grabbing that
line putting that line down perfectly with my
line like i said i don't care if it goes in the hole
hole is not even important don't even use a hole just make sure you're lined
up perfectly and i'm looking at if i don't have blast
motion how is that line rolling is it spinning
side to side because if i hit it with an open
face at impact that line is going to spin one direction
now let's say with a super shut face at impact okay
that line is going to spin another direction
ideally i want the line perfect and i want to have a perfectly square
impact position
and that's close look at that two degrees closed so
with this particular style putter here i'm really trying
i'm really trying to get a perfect impact position
uh square face at impact
so for whatever reason with this toe down putter i am
super closed at impact so i'm shutting it down too much
uh so i'm having a difficult time getting things squared up with the toe
down putter so this even if those balls are going the whole
i know that my face is not square at impact so
it's a struggle i don't want it to be a struggle i want it to be easy
so now i'm going to move to a different style putter
another thing you can add here okay if you can't tell
if it's open or closed is you get a second
club and you lay it down here line them up perfectly
and i like to go so these back ferrules are just right next to each other
and the club and the balls in between the clubs right in between
the reason i go towards the end is it's easy to get that
face square at uh at setup at address because you're comparing it to these
ferals in the back of the club and then if you have a slight arc to
your putting stroke um you know it can go
beyond the clubs and you can get a little arc
this is going to help you square up at a dress
and then if the ball rolls out closer to the right
club then your club face is a little open
and you can see that there if it you know the opposite is true if it rolls
out closer to the left club then you're a bit closed at in
at impact so that's how you can really tell also
that's a big big help so i feel like i'm really close with this club
in terms of getting it squared at impact some set up perfectly and you want it to
roll out the center
decent yeah 0.2 open so that was near perfect
and you could see that line really rolling
nicely end over end so far this is the one that's i'm getting closest to
perfectly square now perfectly square is difficult
but you can see that the closer i get it to square
the better that line rolls and that's what you're looking for
that tight line but you need to test it out so
either use your blast motion to give you really precise numbers
at impact because that's going to be the key to making putts is
how are you striking the ball at impact so hope this helps when you're going
shopping for a new blade get something that uh
you can square up otherwise you're gonna be trouble let me
know what kind of putter you like to use or what bests fit you
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