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This drill is the ultimate start line training station.

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So we're going to focus in on start line.

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There are three skills to being a really good putter, controlling speed, reading the

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green, and start line or starting the ball in the intended line.

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So what I'm going to do here is I've got a yardstick that has a hole in it, and what

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I'm going to do is I'm going to use the hole to place the golf ball, and I'm going to

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place the golf ball with a thick black line or in this case, blue or red.

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But basically with a thick line going around the circumference of the ball, you can either

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do this with the piece of PVC pipe or they sell little stencils or you can order them

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online.

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It's really good.

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The line is a really good diagnostic to how well you're controlling the putter face, how

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well you're getting square, roll, and over in.

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So what I've got here, the ball is straight up and down on top of the drawer, now we're

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the meter stick.

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And I'm going to use a meter stick because I want to commit to a line.

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So I'm going to make a little adjustment here.

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You don't come back.

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So I've now aimed this meter stick where I want the ball to start, and the ball is straight

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up and down.

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So if I hit a good putt, the ball is going to roll end over in.

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And if it rolls end over in, we can see a little bit of a wobble in that one.

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So it wasn't quite perfect.

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But I also saw a little bit more of the break.

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So this is going to help me commit to a line.

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And then once I commit to a line, I'm going to forget about that.

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And I'm just going to train, rolling the ball, and over in.

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So that one rolled a bit more end over in.

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If that happens, you'll see one line, and you'll see that that tracked in towards the

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golf wall.

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Here's a handful of videos showing this common trend that a lot of golfers over 90%

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of golfers on tour will use a line of sub-sort on the ball.

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And here's a bunch of them rolling it end over in, especially on these shorter putts.

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After seeing those examples, you're probably, you bought in that, okay, I want to get

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the ball rolling end over in.

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This is really coming down to my putter face control.

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If I tend to have more of a cut stroke or more of a hook kind of flip stroke, that will

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tend to cause the ball to launch in spin, and so the ball won't go end over in.

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So here you'll see if I have the putter face open and cut across.

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Yes, I can hit the putt where it goes online, but you can see that that did not roll very

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well.

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It's going to be really difficult for me to be a consistent putter, both in terms of

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start line as well as distance control if the ball is not rolling end over in.

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So that's why this is one of my kind of go to ultimate diagnostics for just seeing how

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good all that hit a little something midway and kicked it left.

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It was rolling end over in, it was a good stroke.

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We'll try one more time, although I think that ball is now in the way, so we'll just hit

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through it.

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So that's rolling end over in, right in the center of the cup.

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Quick little demo.

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We've got the line straight up and down.

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We're going to try to match it, and then we're going to try and roll ball end over it.