My Lesson With THE WORLD’S No1 PUTTING COACH | Phil Kenyon

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In today’s video, I get a putting masterclass from the world-renowned Phil Kenyon, widely regarded as the best putting coach in golf. Phil has worked with Major Champions like Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, and of course World Number One, and 2025 Open Champion, Scottie Scheffler – and now it’s my turn!

We dive deep into the mechanics, mindset, and drills that separate the world’s best putters from the rest. From green reading to putter setup, stroke path, tempo, and distance control – this putting lesson changed everything.

✅ Watch as Phil Kenyon breaks down my stroke and gives expert advice that ANY golfer can use to instantly improve on the greens.

⛳️ Whether you’re a beginner or scratch golfer, this video is packed with putting tips, putting drills, and tour-pro secrets to help you sink more putts and lower your scores.

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putting the great leveler. Over the years, I’ve never considered myself to be that good with the flat stick, countless three puts, and many painful memories. But in this video, I’m having a lesson with the world’s greatest putting coach, Phil Kenyon. You will learn things about putting you have never seen before, and see the improvement that I make within my game. Golf nerds, strap yourselves in. Phil, thank you so much for having me, man. I’m I’m really really looking forward to this. like you could make it. And what we’re going to do today, guys, like really simple. We’re just going to go through a full lesson. Um that if I was a well, if I was a pro, coming to you for a lesson. I am a pro coming to you for a lesson. So, we’re going to have a lesson. Yeah. And as mentioned in the intro, Phil is quite literally the greatest putting coach in the world. And if you do want more information, get down into the description below, visit the website, and also check out the academy as well, where you can get the lessons that I’m getting online. So, you don’t have to travel to Formbby. Although, please do cuz it’s lovely. This is the first like putting lesson that I’ve had in quite literally years. A few years. Yeah. Yeah. So, I’ve been obviously got fitted for my Scotty kind of in the States at the start of the year and with Paul. Yeah. With Paul. Yeah. And since that point, I’ve just been really trying to figure it out myself. And I know there’s some big big weaknesses in here. Right. That’s a statement, isn’t it? Yeah. Sorry. I always ask this question and it it might seem obvious, but where do you feel that you can improve your putting? If there was a particular part that you feel lets you down, what would it be? So, so same as everyone, green reading, ongoing process, just trying to figure it out. Confidence in that read. Yeah. Now, both of those things are related to probably the biggest factor in my issue, which is speed. I’ve seen some evidence that would substantiate that it it’s just so inconsistent. Like the combo I’ve just played at Dornook. Yeah. There was over the two days I three put in two par fives for for pars on the greening too which is so frustrating and was it the lag approach put that yeah it was the lag approach put in it’s just yeah I over a long distance like the comps I’m playing in I’m I’m hoping that the greens are really small so I don’t have to face like a long put but then the shorter puts as well when that a little bit of pressure is on how I’m lining up how I’m getting set up yeah it’s just inconsistent Like yesterday I put it great. I think I gained three strokes yesterday. Oh yeah. And then the day before I kind of like lost three. Is that kind of fluctuation from day to day consistent? Yeah. You that can happen a lot. It can be like a few days. What was it last week? We week before I gained almost five and a half strokes in one round. In one round which is unbelievable. If you do want more information on strokes gain, by the way, I think we’ll include a link in the description below because few people do ask, but it’s it’s the performance on how many strokes you would gain compared to with shot scope a tour pro baseline. When you see the strokes gained on tour, that’s often against a field like event by event. Yeah. So, it’s it’s a tour pro baseline. And then the next day again, I lost like two or three. It’s a good metric though for for any golfer to use because I’ll get asked all the or I’ll get people tell me all the time, I had 25 putts today and I had 36 yesterday and counting puts really doesn’t mean anything. So you could put exactly the same in terms of levels of performance and have you know that such you know that kind of big a difference in puts counted. So the only real accurate level or assessment of performance is strokes gained. Yeah. Right. What do you want me to do, buddy? Where should we start? I’ve got this calibrated. We’ve got a white point there. Yeah. We’re going to start hitting some putts at the middle hole. Okay. So, I’ve got everything set up. Just going to go through your routine. So, you’re using a line on the ball at the moment, aren’t you? Yes. Okay. Pretty much. Yeah. So, we’ll we’ll talk about that. But, for example, if you were on a fairly straight 14T putt, would you line it up? Um, yes. Yeah, I would do. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So, we’re going to measure you on Sam Put Lab, which measures a bunch of different parameters about the club. We’re going to get some video to see how you’re moving the putter. Okay. Um, and then we’ll we’ll kind of go from there. [Music] Maybe just like being in your presence is making me the best in the world. You you use aim point, don’t you? Yeah. Right. So, read this put for me as you would do if we were outside. So, I kind of feel that’s a two. What I’m going to do, I’m going to put this backboard here. Okay. Um, just go in and and uh do your arm bend again and pick out a reference on that backboard for your for your read. So, I’ve got that at the six. The first set of putts we hit was a straight putt. So measuring measuring your aim, how the stroke reacts to a straight putt. And then we’re going to um obviously now we got right to left put. You’re very specific with your intention. You know, you use an aim point. You picking a point that’s whole high. So we’re going to calibrate to that point and then we’ve got a reference for your aim and stroke relative to your intention on a right to left. Okay. Nice. Y love it. Right. So I’m going to move this backboard now. So you haven’t you haven’t got that reference. Okay. But I want you to go through your normal read. So you in terms of your arm bend. Perfect. How you line up the ball and then how you execute it. Just blasted it. I mean the ball has finished directly behind the hole. Yeah. So I’ve got a case of saying am I hitting it too hard or actually hauling pace? It’s not horrendous. But So is this was it is the speed good for me? Yeah. At the moment for me, that speed would be pretty good. Yeah. Okay. If you if the ball would was going to go in at good speed, the ball would probably finish about there, wouldn’t wouldn’t it? If it was shorter speed, it would finish on a similar line, but shorter. Yeah. So, you’re they’re definitely kind of highest misses. Yeah. It’s why it’s missed high. Is it a read? Is it uh stroke? Or is it aim? Okay. What would your instinct say there? So, I would say for me that’s going to be aim. Stroke felt okay. Stroke felt okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um but do you feel that you’re aiming higher? I I mean to begin with, no. But now obviously missed the second one. I do feel Yeah. rather than your read. Yeah. Don’t know. It could be one and a half% slower. Yes, indeed. Right. Let’s get on to a left to right put. Okay. Feels slightly less. You know, you got someone very important in the room where they bring their own balls and it’s got their own logo in. Look at that. I mean, get down to the comments. Let me know what you think. I was I was personally against this. Okay. Oh, so you’re giving this less. I’m giving this less now on the basis of what you felt under your feet. Yeah. So, this felt more like a more like a one and a half. But yeah, again, I don’t know if I’m I’m getting in my own head about it, but that’s what it felt like. So, that’s what I’m going for. Right. Okay. So, where would that give you one and a half? Uh, so one and a half. That’s going to put me at basically four and a half there. He’s made one. Right. Well, let’s have a little look at the data. I’m just going to set up a couple of things here. We hit seven puts on on the straight put on on average, your alignment was 1.4° open. So, if you look at the one and a half° there, you’re going to be closer to that point outside. You’re aiming it outside of the hole on straight. But you were consistent 98%. Yeah. So, you did it consistently. Now looking behind you, it looked like you lined up the ball well, but the putter was right of the line of the ball. Yeah. Face change uh.3 degrees closing. So we had a a small degree of closing. So the face impact is 1.1° and the consistency really good. Okay. So you’ve aimed it really consistent. The face change is minimal. Yeah. 3° would be very minimal like that. I like phase change to be within half a degree. Mhm. And and generally to match someone’s aim bias. So if you aim a little right, you want a little bit of closing, vice versa. But like to keep all that within half a degree. Okay. It’s kind of one of those weird things where actually there’s a lot of like a lot of pros aim right, don’t they, with their putts and like close. Yeah. A common I think a lot of good putters would be in that category slightly, you know, minute right aim and then release the ball, release the putter. So you get some players who could have a big right or left aim bias, but they’re really good at squaring a club up on their target line. Now you’re not quite squaring your club up on your target line. Yeah. So club’s coming in a little open. Uh path is 1.4° to the right. Directional error is not a massive amount. It’s very consistent. You notice that the sort of swing length ratio if you look at the back swing generally it’s a lot like longer than the forward swing. Yeah. and some inconsistency in the swing length a little but consistent strike was pretty good. You mentioned hitting one out the heel generally didn’t really look like much out the heel. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Launch conditions hitting slightly up on it. 2.6° you got 7° uh deloft. You’ve got just over two degrees of loft on that putter. So your launch is going to be fairly similar to in and around yeah one and a half to two degrees. We’ve not measured that uh on Quintic, but um obviously you’ve been fitted for the putter previously, so we’re going to look at more in and around how you’re moving the putter, but your if you look at your shape tend to have like a stronger arc on the back swing and a shallower arc through the um you know forward swing. Yeah. So the shape of the stroke the trajectory of the sweet spot is kind of changing as it is with a lot of golfers. Okay. You know the plane we’re not always swinging the club on a consistent plane. Yeah. No, that that would make sense. That actually makes sense to how it feels sometimes as well. It does feel like I take it kind of inside quite quick. Not not exactly a draw feeling, but it kind of feels like I’m more on that side. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. This is a very simplistic kind of overview, but Sam puts it down into different categories. Tendency, which is your technique. Yeah. Uh timing, which is rhythm timing. We’ve got consistency. So, how consistent are you? And that is a really important parameter because, you know, with great putters, you can pick little holes in their technique and they might not always be score really highly on here, but generally they’ll score really high in consistency. So, they have a predictability in how they move the putter and and launch the ball. And then very often their green reading can can be ways that they’ll adapt to a certain bias of starting the ball left or starting the ball right, stuff like that. Yeah, makes sense. But if you look timing that that is a low score general, you’re on the slower side of things going back. But you’ve matched it quite well in terms of swing length here. You know, it’s a little slow and but also long. Yeah. So if you have a slow stroke, then you need to have a long stroke. If you have a quick stroke, you get away or need to match up with a short stroke in a very simplistic way. Yeah. Speak consistency on the straight put. Not bad. There was a couple of uh minute decelerations here. I was expecting this to look a little different based on what I’d seen on the on on the video of you out on the golf course. This is your right to left putt. And I’ve immediately gone to the speed uh and timing profile. Now we we see a little bit more acceleration uh or a change in the acceleration profile. So this is acceleration in the takeaway. So we accelerate away from the ball. So you apply a force, we move the putter away from the ball, then that rate of acceleration starts to slow down. Mhm. So we can see acceleration going down and then it starts to slow down. Then we get to a point where we start to decelerate because the club comes to a you know the top of the back swing. So you you’re starting to apply a force then that starts to slow the club down. So now we’re above the zero here. So this is deceleration or acceleration to the target. Acceleration will have a positive or negative. It has a direction. Then this is top of your back swing. And then what we notice about the top of the back swing is we keep accelerating. And your peak acceleration is 3/4 of the way into your down swing. Okay? So this enters kind of a little bit low and then keeps accelerating, keeps accelerating, and then you break. So on here um on this put here where we’ve got this black line, this is um above zero. Now, on the straight puts, if anything, you decelerated on a few, but then when we got on a breaking put, we saw a change in the profile. And and this is what I saw a little bit by watching you on the on the course was um you could see like little changes in your acceleration profile. And I don’t know what happens maybe under pressure, but you definitely didn’t look like you swung it as long as you did in the studio. You mentioned your speed control probably being the area that you can uh improve the most and luckily for me observing you at times on the course like I I think that’s it’s the consistency of that. Yeah. I think you have slightly slow stroke which then can make it difficult to control your swing length and then you’re always trying to find the speed in the down swing. Yeah. So, giving you a a system in around helping you control your speed better and then also practicing it, be equipped technically to do it, but you’ve also got to have some feel and be able to take that technique and and um yeah, generate touch and feel with it. Absolutely. And I think it starts by being a little brisker going back, having a little bit more flow, accelerating, decelerating quicker. Let’s go back. So, we go to the right to left put and we calibrated at six. Now using put view I’ve displayed what that brake should be on a 2% slope. Right. So you read it at 2%. So you your feel your feet was good. Good. Um your arm bend gave you six and it should have been closer to seven. So you’re not far out with your read actually at all. But then if you look at your aim, you’ve aimed that 4° right of your intended target. So based on what we spoke about before, actually aimwise, I’d been more at what? 10. 10. Yeah, that’s a slight issue. So, and then there’s some closing. Yeah. So, the further you aim right, the more you’ve closed. So, now we got a degree of closing, but it’s never enough. Those balls always missed high. Yeah, didn’t I? I told myself way to apparently just ignored it. The left writer was also 2%. Okay. So, you join me now a few weeks after the lesson. And I’m going to intersect these little explanations into what we did at the studio with Phil just to show you what I’ve been working and just to expound on some of the things that we spoke about. So, a lot of this lesson we spoke about perception and eye positioning and where I think I’m aiming to where I’m actually aiming. And as you’ve just seen, I was pretty consistently aiming off to the right hand side of the hole. Now, a little bit of that was to do with my eyes being on the inside of the line. So, if you can draw a line from the ball here to the hole, and you got a line here and a line here, my eyes were about here in my setup. So, they were inside the line, and that was helping to give me a bit of a perception that I was aiming the club to the right hand side because my eyes were on the inside of the line. I’ve played in a comp today and I don’t know if I’m making any sense. So Kieran, you’re gonna have to Does that make sense to you? Yeah. Yeah. I’ll I’ll show you what I’ve been doing to work on this. So I’ve got a putting mirror here, and all I’m looking for is to try and get my eyes over the line of the ball. Now, you can do this in a few different ways, but a putting mirror is by far the easiest. So, what I’m looking for here in my setup is for my eyes to be directly over the ball. And I can obviously see that in my reflection. Now, to get into the position easier, I mean, getting closer to the ball, feel like I’m standing relatively tall as well. And the actual setup position now feels really, really good. It felt strange to begin with, but honestly now it’s if not second nature then it’s definitely feeling more natural and it’s allowed me to perceive the line of the putt so much better. Now did you genuinely feel less slop in your feet? A little. Yeah. Um but to be fair even when I was doing that in my mind I’m like am I actually just am I doing this to myself now? So but because of a reaction of the higher yeah a little bit. So, I knew I knew it was around one and a half, too. Yeah. But I probably just said, “Okay, one and a half.” Yeah. And and I’ll see golfers do that a lot. Yeah. It’s human nature, isn’t it? Um, but what I’ll also see, and this is something to explore, is sometimes people are better at feeling one direction of slope, right? Okay. So, you may have a feel um like right to left where you have you feel a certain amount of two and you know that that’s say two. Yeah. Yeah. But then when you go the other way, you don’t quite feel it the same. Right. Okay. That is the actual break. Now, can you remember what was your what your aim was? What your intention was? Mine was going to be one and a half, wasn’t it? So, I think that was like I say it was like four and a half, I think it was. I think either way, it wasn’t six. Oh, yeah. It wasn’t six. It was low, wasn’t it? Yeah. Right. So, now if we look at your alignment of the ball, alignment of the putter face, it was open. So on average open 0.9 closing one degree. Right. Okay. You you started it on your line aiming slightly right of it and then pulling it back onto that line. But that line was slightly lower the brake. So you would have probably needed a firmer probably make that on a firmer speed. Yeah. So if I one of the things we put you is put a corridor down and this gives us a corridor um speed options. So the seven was based on a one foot pass speed. That would be dead weight speed. And then your furst speed is closer to your five. Now the interesting thing was uh I I I thought that you lined up the ball relatively well. Yeah. And then why aren’t I aiming? Yeah. Yeah. Along that line. So I mean there’s two two things that I would immediately if if you look at the numbers and uh because the numbers take out all emotion and subjectivity, don’t they? Yeah. If we looked at the error created, so we look at like all of these scores here across, where was the most error? So the consistency of everything was pretty good. Okay. But if we look here, that’s yellow. Okay. If we looked at the path score, that’s green. Yeah. Green. High consistency. Green. Uh rotation green. Green for uh face to path. Dynamics on the straight putly green. Face aim. Face a where the most error is. And then we go to the right to left at 4°. Two things that stood out to me were just how you aim it. Why would I be good at aiming the ball and then I put the putter behind and I can’t aim it along that line? Well, let’s find out. Why would I do that? That seems like the easiest bit. You’ve got, you know, you’ve got the line of the ball. It’s on there. Now, there’s a thing called uh via acuity. If you went through an in-depth screening like optical sport screening, one of the tests that you would do would uh be a ver verna acuity test and it’s effectively looking at two lines. Okay. Okay. And then detecting when they don’t match, right? So you have like several like um pictures that would come across and you go right that doesn’t match. Now not everyone can look at two lines and think that they look straight. Okay? And not everyone could look at a perpendicular reference and think that looks square. You might be able to line up the ball well, but then whether you can match the putter to that line is a different right uh question. So, I’d be a terrible builder. Well, you might not. Well, yes, if you’ve got someone to come in and check your work, you could get away with it. But if you hang pictures at home, you know, your MS could come in and say, “Well, that doesn’t look straight.” And you go, “Well, it’s dead straight to me.” Everyone’s got a different perspective, haven’t they? So, I I leave everything to Carly. She’s she’s DIY in the house. She doesn’t trust me. And now I know why. Right. Line up your ball for me if you can. Uh on straight. Yeah. Right. Now, do you check your line of the ball? Um yes. Um it kind of depends if I’ve got a if I’ve got a reference point. So obviously on this surface it’s kind of difficult. But if I’ve lined up and let’s say I am aiming I don’t know at four and there’s something which is just in front of my ball. I’ll kind of line it up to that and then I’m good. I don’t I kind of feel like okay I’m good. I can go. Okay. So, first thing is is we’ve just got to make sure you line up the ball where you intend. You know, some of that error could could come from trying to get out. Yeah. Do you want to try to get around? Yeah. Use that club because you got the sensor same shaft. So, first thing is let’s eliminate any of the any air coming from the ball. Obviously, if you look at this line, you’ve got three separate lines and you’ve got the logo. Does that give you enough definition to get a real kind of sense of where that line is? I don’t know. Right. Okay. But explore around. If you’re someone that uses a line, explore different shapes, lengths, sizes, colors, and which which one kind of is easiest to line up. Now, when you put the putter down, what you actually looking at? Um, I’m I’m focusing on the line on top of the line on top. Yeah, line on top. Okay. Right. So, Okay. and again. But you’ve lined up the ball well there. Yeah. And you’ve definitely lined up the putter face to the ball better. Yeah. Cuz that was the thing that stood out to me. But yet there’s no real clear intent there. No. Okay. What do you think’s happened there then? So I’ve lined the ball up better to the hole. Yeah. And I’ve probably had a lot more talk about intention. I probably just more focused on making sure it’s there. Could be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, does something with a slightly longer sight line give you a little bit more a little bit more vivid as when you put the club in to kind of give you that sense of right, I’m going to match those lines. Yeah. Potentially next square. So, this year I was really keen to line my ball up on pretty much every single put. So, what I asked Titus to do is give me the balls with this Prov1 alignment on. Now, all throughout the year, I have been setting this up and I have been aiming it, but as I found in the lesson, as you’ve just seen, but even with this alignment aid, I was still aiming it to the right of the target. Now, what me and Phil found is if I extended the line, so I made it a little bit thinner, this actually made it easier for me to line up for whatever reason. But not only that, I had to integrate something different into my pre-shot routine. So, this is a pretty good example on this port. It’s relatively straight, but I think it’s just going to move a tiny bit off to the right hand side as it finishes. So with this put, I have it breaking just a little bit left to right. So just outside the left edge. So what I’ve done is I’ve lined my ball up to where I want my putt to start. But because of how I was lining everything up to the right of target, what I do now is I just add a little thing into my routine. So I just crouch down. Mark is normally behind the ball at this point. And I just hold my shaft up and I make sure that that line is directly down my intended start line. Really simple. And then I can just see if I think it’s going to take that break because from there I can be confident that when I move into my setup I square my face against that line. So this should set off just outside the left of the hole. Hopefully it breaks. Jeez, I think I might just be one of the world’s best putters now. Although, unfortunately, the coms in between the lesson and now have shown that I’m still rather inconsistent, but I’m getting there. So, this putter has just got a long alignment along the Yeah. So, we’ve got a not too dissimilar kind of footprint. You’ve got some mass behind the face, but we’ve got a longer sight line and that sight line’s all on top. Yeah. Um, obviously you got like a cavity here. So, if you having a sight line at the bottom here, you the sight line would be on two different levels. So, the sight line is longer and all on one level. Okay. And again, so if you looked at the previous one, it was point4 open, which is still like decent. Um, I could see that the line was slightly right of the line of the ball ever so slightly. Go to the next one where you’ve you’ve looked along the whole back edge, right? Then that one was zero. Okay. Okay. So, obviously that that club in itself is is a different um got completely different alignment feature. You’re looking at the top here. If you’re going to use a club like that, then using the whole of that line can help you because when you first put it down, I don’t know if you were just still kind of focused on this front edge, but when you were more focused along the whole line, you match the lines better. Right. Okay. So, your shape is definitely influenced by your aim. Yeah. Like can’t really see much difference in your setup between the two different putters. Your eyes would be a tiny bit inside. It might be on both. You know, you got a little bit more neck bend potentially, I’d say, but not a huge difference. No, tiny bit of neck bend. If you’re going to use a line of the ball, how can we best align the putter to that ball? You know, that tests better than that. If I was going off numbers, I’d be like, well, have something that’s got a stronger sight line on the top. That’s to an extreme. It’s a long one. We can obviously get different head shapes and different uh alignment patterns. that’s got a smaller line. But if you think about that, there’s a high contrast. You, you know, it’s slightly longer than the one you’ve got. You’ve got no other like perpendicular references. This has got a very like clear bit in the middle with a nice clear like linear reference. A little longer. Yeah. So for you, you might be potentially look from a putter fitting perspective, you might look at something with a more what’s the word for it? Just a longer sight line that stands up. And I prefer sight lines that are on the top of the club. Okay. That go right to the front of the ball if you are using putter and ball or for someone that might struggle with it. Yeah. Makes sense. However, that’s still good. Yeah. Yeah. I think that’s the Okay. So, like all I would say with this is you would you did well once you paid attention to it. Yeah. So, kind of did did better when I paid attention to it. Something like this with a longer alignment would just make it easier to see. I think it e easier. Yeah. You know, you got some important comps coming up and you like this putter and you probably don’t want to swap it at this moment in time. But what we obviously but if you’ve got processes to help manage it, some processes in around helping managing your aim, I think you could still do a good job with this. Okay. So, what me and Phil were talking about in this part of the lesson is different head designs. And you can see on my putter, I’ve just got this single line on the top edge of the blade here. And what we were trying to figure out is, will I be able to line a putt up better if this line is extended? Now, I think for me, what I really want to do is have a proper full day intense putter fitting to really figure out what is going to be best for me. if I need to be a little bit more upright with the setup, a little bit flatter, the length and all this kind of thing, which we did touch upon at the start of the year, but I want to get a little bit more in depth. I really want to try and find a putter which I’m going to be using for years, not just this season. Grab your putter. Don’t be careful not to touch that device. So, give but take your setup as if you’re going to strike the ball down this white line. So, imagine striking that ball down that white line. Yeah. Now, when I move out the way, if you were to kind of look down that white line where the ball would go, where do you feel that white line points like just left? Just left. Yeah. Outside of the hole. Yeah. Only just there. Kind of like left edge. Just just left edge. Okay. All right. Staying set up. Let me move the club. Right. Now, if you look at these perpendicular references, Mhm. Do they look square to the target line or does it look square to that white line and then slightly closed? Weirdly enough, it does look like the the extension coming off it is going a little bit further left than than the actual lines. So, if anything, it could look like this. Yeah. Yeah. Just a touch. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, you have a slightly better perspective of that line here being square. Right. Okay. And this is where golf really can pickle your head. No line with the phantom. So long sight line. Lined it really well when we had the line of the ball. Okay. And then you take the line of the ball away and you aim it miles right. Go to your own putter without the line of the ball. You aim it amazing. Now if you look at the configuration of those two putters in that test, you saw square better than you did. You did. Yeah. So this one matches that more. Yeah. This one matches this more. That looks slightly left to you. Yeah. So, it would be very easy for you to then want to adjust this to the right in order for it to look good. Gotcha. So, without the line of the ball, you aim this better. So, there’s two different things here. You’ve obviously got the the ver accur aspect of matching two lines. Longer sight line can help you match that line. But if if that line of the ball also, like I say, is left, your instinct kind of might want to push you to the right. Without the line of the ball, you wouldn’t want to use this putter. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Now, if you’re switching in between using the line and using not using the line, then you want a putter that’s going to accommodate both. Now, me and Phil spent in the lesson, I would say about 40 minutes on neck bend, which is a thing because when I’m over the ball, if I lift my chin, my eyes here in the mirror are above the line. Now, if I just tilt my head down, so I have a bit of neck bend, all of a sudden, this brings my eyes directly over the ball. And we worked a lot on just getting the right amount of like this. And what it boiled down to eventually, it just feels like I’m just like relaxing my head forward, relaxing my head down, and then that gets me in that position directly over it. Oh god, I could put like this all day. all day. Right. So, this is my my thinking around your alignment. Okay. Right. A single sight line or a stronger sight line. Yeah. Check that when you step in. I think you can be slightly closer and more chin down. Yeah. That’s going to help the line look less left. I think that is also going to help you in your your ability to match club and ball regardless of what put you use. I think then once you’re chin down eyes over you don’t have to overly focus so much on matching just it’s a little bit of attention club face top line match once it feels good you switch off and then your attention is going to get into the rest of the put and I think you could use that put yes I I I think so one thing I would like to do is to look at your rhythm and timing acceleration profiles yes so there’s two kind of like light like light two well two pre there’s a precursor, the bing bong. Mhm. And then we’ve got that light that comes on. We got this rising tone. We’ve also got swing length reference here. But if you look at that light, okay, we can see length of the back swing. We can see the acceleration of that light to the top of the back swing. We see it coming down. So that is set up at a overall timing of the stroke which I think reflects your down swing time. Gotcha. Okay. Just make a few strokes. I’m going to leave it for you to explore. So it’s better. Yeah. Don’t worry about the ball. Don’t worry about start line. And to be honest, don’t worry too much about your setup. Just really get into the flow and the rhythm of that stroke. back swing is going to feel like it’s got a little bit more flow to it, more freedom. Right. So, give me a couple of practice swings to the side of it. Okay. Well, you’re going to work that tone now. What feeling would you get from that back swing like as a I mean, it definitely feels quicker. Yeah. What would be the general feel like the your practice swings were really good. You’re not quite as good when you put the ball there. Yeah. Kind of felt that. Okay. So, but if you were to describe what the practice strokes feel like, what would they what would you glean from that? It’s quicker going back and then coming through just more like a best way to describe it. More like a gentle like just release. Yeah. Just like allowing the club to kind of flow through rather than Yeah. Like actively accelerating, I suppose. Best way to describe it there. Like the ball’s getting in the way. Yeah. That that’s what I’m trying. Certainly in the practice strokes it felt like that. As soon as the ball’s there, there’s a little hit at the ball, isn’t there? Yeah. Right. So, without the tempo stick there, try and recreate that same feel. Okay. Right. So, let’s have a couple of really good practice strokes to start with. It’s going to feel a little brisker. There’s going to be a little bit more flow. Yeah. But you’re going to keep the club moving. There’s a the club’s continually moving. Okay. Cuz we’re not just come It shouldn’t feel like it’s coming to a stationary top. How’d that feel? It felt better. It did feel better. So, do you know what? I talked about you kind of this coming in a bit shallow. Yeah. And then having to kind of peak here and then break late. Can you see how much higher this comes in? Yeah. Okay. So, your peak acceleration is the top of the back swing. Okay. which personally from experience that’s where I see most the putters that have really good touch distance control speed control they’re more on this side of it this is where we would two things here we want a reference for timing something that you could put to like a equivalent of like a metronome I’m going to use a little device with you so what we got here one two three one two three so you listen to the first beat and react to it one two Three. [Music] Second beat is top of the back swing. Third beat impact. Okay. So, give me a couple of practice swings there. So, does does this change on length of put or kind of like this pretty much not as a concept. The reality is there’ll be subtle differences. So, give me couple of practice swings first. Yeah. Just try and get used to matching that. One, two, three. Sure. So yeah, wait for the first one and think about the third being impact. [Music] Okay. Okay. Right. Two practice swings. Step in. Hit the P. [Music] You didn’t respond too well to the visual of that. It’s probably cuz I was looking at it. Yeah. But you’ve picked up the auditory even better like quicker. So if you look at that one, Pete. So you gone back brisker 600 300 303 down. So you slightly brisker. You’re on the quicker end there. Ratio 1.98. If you looked at the acceleration profile, can you see how higher that comes in? Yeah. Yeah. And drops off. So you’ve responded nicely to that, albeit maybe a little bit quicker. Don’t mind that. Don’t mind you falling on that side. And if we if you can have something that you feel comfortable with that gives you a sense of timing. This is my timing. Yeah. And it feels comfortable and you can do it. Then all we then need to do is to help you build up different size of strokes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. This is a swing length chart. So we’ve got stimp on the left hand side and then we’ve got distance on the right hand side. So this is going to be suitable for your timing. Um, but like let’s say on any given day you’re going to go practice, we’re going to do 9 18 27 feet on those three drills and it’s an 11 stimp green and that would be your back swing reference 22 cm by 9 ft uh 31 cm 18 and then 37. So little tape measure in the bag. That’s you know a little teg which would be where the face would be and you can sort of scorch on the grass a little line for consistently starting from the same place and then literally just stick a tea and when you’re doing that drill I would be more aware of your swing length in your practice stroke. So make two practice strokes feeling the beam boom boom. You get a sense of stroke length. Yeah. And then when you’re over, just hit the put and think more about the rhythm. Yeah. Yeah. Your practice stroke will give you a feel for length. And then afterwards, just reflect. Did that feel like an appropriate size of stroke? Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. If you ever practicing with someone, they can look and say, “Yeah, that looks like it matches.” But it’ll just give you a rough guide to and it’s more as you’re getting on your bigger putts, that’s where I think you’re going to have to be more aware of increasing size of stroke. Okay. No, from what I’ve seen so far alignment of the ball. Yes. Solid line. Yeah. Um just taking just taking a moment to check that alignment. Yeah. In practice, you could use a string to check that ball alignment. Little bit closer, chin down, split second just to square the club to the ball, but then not getting line locked. Trusting that that that that’s done then. Yeah, it’s locked in there. Okay. So, mirror in practice to help you with your setup. Mhm. You mentioned doing it on a short line. I think that’s a good idea. Once you’ve kind of warmed up the stroke, got comfortable, then what I would do is some speed work. Like I mentioned, you could do 10, 20, 30, 40 ft. Uh you could vary those distances each day. So one day it could be 9 and then 18, 27, 36, whatever. And you can with the um swing length chart, you’ll have an idea of what a distance in between those numbers could be. Okay? doesn’t have to be precise, but you could guesstimate what a swing length could be if that number’s not exactly on that chart. So, you got those four four different distances. You could vary those distances each day. You do um swing length reference three balls from each distance um with the audio file. You could work up, you could work down, and then you could do that without the audio file. Work up, work down. Okay. Then you could do some random puts. Yeah. With the audio on some, with the audio off on others. Okay. But your focus is on that rhythm and timing. Rhythm. Okay. And that’s kind of like my step from practice to the course basically. That um No, that’s still in a way your timing technical practice. Your bridging work is different now, right? Like you need to spend you need to allocate a little bit of your practice time where you literally have one ball and then you go through your routine and you hit different puts, okay? with a a focus on okay, I’m going to carry over some of that rhythm and timing stuff. You could see that that one brain cell slightly overworked today. I think it just just fired a little bit then. Wow, we came to life, mate. That was amazing. Honestly, pleasure. So, so good. So, in the intervening time between the lesson and now I’ve done open qualifying and I’ve played in a lot of comps, pace putting still is the major issue. I’ve practiced and I have worked on this aspect of my putting. However, it is still one of the big weaknesses of my game during the lesson. And one of the reasons why it still feels so strange is the feeling that I’m having is effectively this that I’m getting set up. I’m taking the putter back fast. It’s almost a little bit of a del as I smoothly move the putter into impact. It almost feels fast to slow, which isn’t happening in reality. And yet, oh man, honestly, it it’s a bit of a head scratcher. So, proof is in the pudding. Here are my putting stats. So, this is pre- lesson and post lesson, and you can see the improvement. You know, putting is one of the most important factors within golf. If you’re a good putter, it can make up for bad rounds. And if you’re a good putter and you play well, then you can have a fantastic round as well. I’m still having some issues with three puts. I’m still having an issue with pace control. But overall, the the underlying putting technique and my underlying putting game has vastly improved. So all those factors that we worked on with Phil, I have been practicing them and it seems to be having a benefit, which is great. But for example, my last two days at Cington Golf Club where the Surrey Open has been, I lost almost four and a half strokes on putting yesterday and I lost two strokes today. I shot four over yesterday and I shot four under today. And I lost my two strokes today putting with a really iffy three put, but also I missed a couple of short puts. So there’s still so much improvement to make. And within context of this, my open qualifying rounds, my final qualifying, they were pretty good. And at Coli, I gained almost three strokes put in. So, it’s there. It’s within me. I just need to make it more consistent. Okay, guys. Massive thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe to the channel and make sure you check out Phil’s website, which is in the description below, and we’ll also kind of link it here. I’m going to be doing a lot more work with Phil. 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