00:00My follow-up question to you is going to be on that front with pros is that, obviously, situationally, you might want to, on a quick downhiller, have it be a one, right?
00:10Or, you know, if you're hitting a putt back up the hill, that maybe needs to be a three.
00:14I mean, does that vary, or is it more of like, this guy likes to see this always go in at, like, a one or a two, so do that.
00:20Maybe another one of your guys likes it at a three or a four, always do that.
00:24Yeah, you know, you get guys, I would use Daniel Berger as a good example.
00:28You know, maybe Colin, Shane Lowry.
00:32Those guys, I would say, tend to be a little bit more conservative on the speed, but then they actually read their putts for the higher line that it's going in at, you know, a really manageable speed.
00:45There are players out there, one that I don't teach, and he's a great putter, is Danny McCarthy.
00:50Yeah.
00:51Danny's big on hitting his putts pretty firm.
00:54You know, we play out at Medallist a lot, and when I see Danny practicing out there, he really practices with a lot of pretty firm speed, and he reads his putts for firm speed.
01:07A lot of great putters have used slightly firmer speed.
01:12You know, someone like Brad Faxon would say, you know, when you see the ball go past the hole, it's easier to make it coming back because you already know the line.
01:19Okay, so I'm a big fan of, you know, kind of choosing two as a speed, general, but, you know, you get to Riviera or somewhere like Augusta, you get these downhill putts.
01:29You know, you're literally, they're trickling in on the last roll, whereas the uphills, you can be a little bit more aggressive with them for sure.
01:37But it's something that you need to decide on what you want to do before you hit the putt.
01:43It's really going to help then when we start hitting non-straight putts.
01:47Yeah.
01:48It'll help you be more consistent with your reads.
01:50Okay, so let's, I like that sort of that two-ish range.
01:56See, that's perfect as a two.
01:58Maybe a one and a half.
01:59Okay.
02:00That's kind of where we want it.
02:01You know, that's like a one and a half, one and a half, yeah.
02:08So, you know, that might be the speed that you actually feel more comfortable at hauling putts.
02:14But, you know, the philosophy around putting, understanding what you're trying to do, it's easier to do it if you actually have a clear picture of what you're trying to do.
02:23I always reference the money ball philosophy, you know, the movie with Brad Pitt and baseball.
02:29So, I always reference money ball and I always reference, you know, like blackjack.
02:34You know, on 17, you're supposed to, you're not supposed to hit on blackjack, okay?
02:39And there's a philosophy of how you're supposed to play it.
02:42Money ball, you know, it's not about hitting the Hail Mary, okay?
02:46It's about, you know, getting on base and doing that over and over and over again.
02:50So, if the best players in the world are only 51% successful on average from 8 feet, you know, when we get to 10, 15, 20 feet as an amateur player, everyone's trying to make the shot.
03:06They're trying to go for the Hail Mary.
03:08They're trying to have that, like, walk-off home run.
03:10Whereas, a lot of amateur players would score better if they just assured that they two-putted from 20 feet.
03:18Yeah.
03:19And they got the ball right up beside the hole.
03:22It's amazing.
03:24But it's, you know, God forbid that you go two down autos to your buddy on the weekend for not making the 15-foot bomb.
03:32So, that's a perfect two.
03:37That's a two right there, right?
03:38That's a perfect two.
03:39It didn't hit the back wall of the cup.
03:41It didn't just barely trickle over.
03:43And that's kind of, you know, what we would read most putts for.
