Ben Crenshaw gives his best putting tips: Play with a ‘blank mind’ | Golf Channel

Ben Crenshaw — a two-time Masters champion and one of the greatest putters of all time — tells PGA Tour Champions player Dicky Pride his keys to putting, explaining why a player must have a “blank mind.” #Golf #PGATourChampions
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Ben Crenshaw gives his best putting tips: Play with a ‘blank mind’ | Golf Channel
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so Ben I am one of the many Legions of people that have tried to putt like you I mean I won in ’94 on in Memphis with an 8802 that my father got me because when I was trying to putt like you when I was in college and it stayed through my first couple of years on tour and you know so many people have tried to copy and mimic you and become better Putters you know what are the the couple of things that they can use from what you do to help you help them putt better I think it’s least any good putter I ever saw had really great speed I mean they knew instinctively how hard they were going to hit the putt but I know one thing too that I think good Putters are great readers of Dreams in other words you know you put on different greens every week different species you have to know how that ball reacts some greens are fast some greens are slower but you have to adapt every week that you play tournament golf right I try to just keep it simple I I would just simply go out and hit longer putts at first and just watch the ball and see what it does see what the characteristics were and and I know one thing too that I wouldn’t try to change so much of my stroke a lot of people changing their Strokes gets gets them in trouble the only thing I tried to do imperceptibly was change the ball position in my stance I’d either move it a little bit up or a little bit back okay so when would you move it up and when would you move it back did the ball bounc in or was the ball yeah I felt like I wanted to see a ball leave and had a certain role on it and I felt like I felt like if I it played it way too far up in my stance that’s too far and way if if I got way too close to the ball that would inhibit my stroke my my stroke is a little bit Freer than others but I I’d want to get that ball positioned uh in my stance that I that it felt comfortable in other words I I really think when you putt really well you’ve got a blank mind you don’t think about what you’re trying to do you’re just watching the ball and and you don’t it’s not technical at all I’ll bet the week the the weeks that you won you weren’t thinking about your stroke or the way you got into the ball you were just being very alive and real about what you saw in other words Optics has such a great thing to do with it yeah and you and I have talked about this before both our mothers were artist my mother was a painter your mother played the piano and I’ve always felt like that’s one of the advantages I’ve always had because I can look at a putt and I and I see a line where it’s got to go here and if it’s got to go here then it’s got to be at this speed you know I like to look at ARC too I like to see a ball break yeah I to me the hardest things were the straight putts I mean that you know because you felt you felt like you’re more precise than when you got over the ball but if you see it bending yeah then that it gives you a little more freedom that way but once again that’s reading that’s reading green so is there anything that you can think of you know for the average golfer I mean you and I instinctively see a lot of break and we see things like artistic you know to help the the average golfer see where the ball’s going to go and where they need to start it things don’t change to hit this ball in the in the middle of the face is what you want that ball travels the furthest right and and I’m this particular putter the putter you like the 802 I I never thought that I would hit the ball in the heel of the putt I don’t I didn’t want that I wanted it in the center or maybe just out on the toe that’s just the way this particular Club swings for sure this swings like a golf club it has a little bit of offset which I like uh but the weight people like in different weights people like a heavy putter some people like a light putter I always thought you wanted enough to where you felt like the ball was going to this putter was going to do most of the work and he was going to roll it out the distance you wanted yes all right so now we’re going to go straight to this is for me I’m going to hit a putt and I want a little help because I know what I’ve been what I believe I’ve been fighting I’ve been you know I set up very similar to you with very long arms and I and I no tension no tension really really light grip I always try to go like this and make sure that that that putter is just nice and heavy and then I have a tendency to kind of pull out like this sometimes I want I like doing an inside Arc stroke where I just go this way and I love the way that ball rolls but I see sometimes you know I’ll be honest with you sometimes I see that Paul and I get right here and it goes this way and that’s not a good role that yeah no that’s not a good role so I’m asking specifically for me cuz I’ve got a season to play here in 2025 I need some help Ben well I I’ll take this we’re all human we’re all human and what there so many times you’ll see a guy just raise up just a little bit that is simply human you want to see what the ball does but you’ve got to learn to stay down stay down with it long enough to where you’re not lifting up it’s just like a golf shot you know if you miss a golf shot if you stay down through the ball and not look up nine times out of 10 if you look up you want to see where the ball goes goes to the right opens it you got to train yourself to stay down same in putting stay right stay right down and and don’t come up wow stay right down it’s human it’s we’re all human all right let’s see if I got it stay right down there there you go beautiful I like that putt we’ll give luck a chance on that give luck a chance thank you for your help for my 2025 season starting off the right way with a putting lesson from Ben crch