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This video is visualizing the fall line.

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So when you're working on putting, it can be helpful to kind of take the green and try to convert it into planes that you can predict how the ball would work around.

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This is most important when you get inside of, let's say, 6.8, 10 feet even.

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Because there you're more likely to have a pure planar surface.

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It's rarely going to be that way, so the green will actually have little hills and mountains and valleys and things that will make it not perform this way.

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But this will get you kind of in the ballpark.

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So when you're working on that last 4-6 feet and you're kind of visualizing this planar surface,

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here's how the the fall line methodology would work.

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I've got a sheet of paper here and it's representing kind of an equidistant circle.

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So let's say this is a 4-foot circle around the, around the hole.

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At whatever speed that is, doesn't really matter if the surface is purely planar,

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then this is the pattern that you're going to see.

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If there's mountains, if it's a bowl, if it's a saddle, you're not quite going to see the same pattern.

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But if you're seeing this planar surface, there's what we'll call the fall line or the line of zero break.

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So the line of zero break would be a straight uphill put or a straight downhill put.

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Once you've found that it can be easier to kind of predict what the rest of the hole is going to do or what the rest of the puts would do.

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When you're at 90 degrees, so when you're at these two, you're going to have the greatest amount of break.

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And what you'll see is it doesn't really matter which side of the hole you're on if this is a truly planar surface,

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you're going to have the same spot or an point, regardless of if you're the same distance away,

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regardless of which side you're on.

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Now, the thing about the way this works is if you have a 4-foot circle all the way around,

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you're going to have approximately the exact same endpoint regardless of where the put is.

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So sometimes if you're kind of in this zone here, it's hard to tell if it's a purely straight put or not.

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You can use the methods that I describe in the assessing a fall line video of either trying to find where your hands would be kind of

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push up level or this would be I'm walking slightly downhill and now I'm walking slightly uphill.

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So that low point that midway point would be this fall line.

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If you're in this zone it can be sometimes hard to tell if it's truly the straight put or if it has a little bit of break to it.

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So sometimes going to this 90-degree spot and figuring out where the endpoint would be on a long that fall line and then coming back to your put,

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you can visualize it a little bit easier.

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So you're not alone if you're having trouble visualizing the fall line, this is ultimately what it's going to look out.

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Look like again in real practice, it's probably going to be something a little bit more like that where there's a few little

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hills and valleys that you'll have to feel or navigate or visualize.

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But using this general representation can help you get in the kind of the right vicinity and then with enough reps,

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you'll turn that visualization into a real skill that you'll do almost instinctively as you practice your green reading.