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Using your body's feel, you can find out where the fall line around the hole is. If you are 90 degrees to the fall line, it will break the greatest distance, if you are somewhere in between, it will break some. To find the fall line, you can either use your feet, and find the place around the perimeter of the putt where you are not walking uphill or downhill. This is best done by closing your eyes. Also, you could imagine doing a push up around the whole. Wherever you would place your hands and they BOTH would be at the same height as the hole is a straight putt (the location of the fall line).
Playlists: Putting
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Okay, so I'm going to show you how to assess a fall line because this can help you identify
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what's going to happen in the last four feet.
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Essentially, as the ball slows down, it's going to drift towards the fall line.
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So there are a couple common ways.
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One way is as you walk around the hole, you can start to identify when you've gone from
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walking uphill to walking downhill.
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So in this particular case, it's right about here, which is where I would stop going
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down and start going up.
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So this right here would be a fall line, which is roughly going to be a straight put.
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So if this is the straight put, then if I'm putting from above there, it's going to
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funnel down this way, if I'm coming from below here, it's going to funnel in towards
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the fall line.
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Another way that makes a lot of sense, especially if you've done a lot of outdoor sports,
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I call the pushup method.
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So Jeff Magnum was the first show assuming I think it's a great little tool.
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If you've used a lot of outside on the course, or outside on the grass, playing soccer,
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football, anything where you were used to getting your hands on the ground.
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Essentially, I'm going to imagine that I have to do a pushup around the hole, and I'm
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going to try to figure out where my hands would be level.
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So I wouldn't want to do the pushup like this or like this.
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I want them to be level.
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So right here is where I would be pushing into a straight line.
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So again, this looks like the fall line.
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So those are two quick and easy methods.
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If you're more visual, you can imagine if water were flowing, where it would start to collect
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and funnel, because if it's on more of a side slope, it's going to find the fall line
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and funnel down that way.
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So those are three methods you can use to identify the fall line, which will help you
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read the last word for the feed of the put.
