Research at Ping REVEALS the Secret to Great Putting

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Liked the previous content, i want to go steady with the current content😂…so good, love the praticality of each episode…keep up the great work!

I like the clean topline. For the last ten years I played with a mallet that had long lines. Deadly. Great for distance control. But, I recently switched back to a blade because I think it's easier to square up for short putts. Now with the extra wide flange, and the perimeter weights, I feel like I still have enough mass to regulate my distance control. I discovered about two years ago that I have an aim bias to the right and compensate by closing the clubface to the left. So, it's not zero to zero. I like what Dr. Wood said about getting the zero at impact instead of at address. Thanks for the video Cordie.

This is super interesting. Seems like PING is always working on cool stuff like this.

It's not just the eye . . . it's the MIND'S eye that does the calculating, it then needs steady muscles and nerves . . . You can putt with a water pipe if you have the talent. John Daily putts with a blade one handed intoxicated. Just making ANY change can make a small difference, Changing your shoes & socks can make a difference. Pouring cold water on your head works . . . it all depends on the player's ability to see and execute.

my gaze pattern is static. i just stare directly into my opponents eyes while holing the putt cz i'm a god.

The key to putting is to look at the hole and not the ball. If I'm kicking or throwing a ball – i look at the target and not my foot/hand. let's see some serious studies on that.

He is absolutely correct, I am now thinking what archetype I am 😂
I know I've always used the line, but never realized I also use a putter that frames 🤔 I like that

Very interesting. I would have never thought about taken all this into consideration when choosing a putter. Great content

Archetype 1 – No lines on putter and I don't use a line on the ball. Get my line and putt to a point on that line about 3 feet in front of me. EDIT: 8 months later. Shortly after this comment I bought a zero torque blade putter with a line on the top line. Putted inconsistently on short puts with it. Went for a putter fitting and found out from six feet and in the line was making me aim 2 degrees right. After trying several putters it was determined the Ping Fetch was the most consistent putter for me. A new one is on the way!

What's to say that ANYONE is consistent enough to consistently aim badly? I miss all over the place!

No putter options with a short top line and only one flow neck. Interesting to see how many tour pro's use either no line, dot or short line on the leading edge, yet so few manufacturers bring them to retail…..

I really like Anser style with a small line or dot on the top rail. I wish Ping made a stock model like this.

Great video! However, your cameraman needs to do better focus. Is it on auto? Cheers

got nothing from this

you missing the how the mind interpreti nfo…you must first find if you are right eye or left eye dominant until you know you can never achieve all you could be… mind doesn'tsee from both one is the prefered until depthis utilizedforsight.. you just made my point with your takeaway comment…

I taught photography and studied the psychology and physiology of human vision and the sensation of ‘tunnel vision’ focus.

The physiology is there being two types of cells on the human retina, rods and cones, with different sensitivities to wavelength and intensity and different distribution on the retina. The rods only react to a narrow band of wavelengths in the green region, are 3000x more sensitive to light than the cones and cover the periphery of the field of view (FOV) of the eye. There are three types cones sensitive to Red, Green and Blue which are concentrated around the optic nerve in the center 2° of the eye— they the high-resolution sensors.

We don’t realize it because it happens subconsciously but our eye are constantly flitting around the FOV in what are called saccades — rapid movements between FIXATION POINTS. While in saccade mode the brain stitches together all the input into what we perceive with everything getting the same level of attention / inattention until we consciously fixate on something, usually something that contrasts in some way — motion being the biggest trigger.

What detects it first? The rods cells. What happens when it is detected? The brain moves the center of vision where the higher resolution cones are located to fixate on that spot and then it ‘tunes out’ the signals from the rods on periphery creating that sensation of tunnel vision.

The question in golf and shooting sports which also involve aiming is what should one fixate on? The answer is not something that is moving or will move.

I did archery and competitive pistol shooting (IPSC) before learning to play golf (in 1983) and the technique I learned way to first fixate on the target with a stable head and sight line then bring the sights of the bow / gun up into that sight line and reflexively fire with they lined up. With golf I fixate on a point near the ball but not the ball or the club head both which move.

By establishing a fixed ‘sight picture’ on the ground around the ball it becomes possible to perceive the path of the club head, face angle at impact and path of ball off the face as it releases. Not the case if one follows the path of either the club head or ball after it is hit.

The area the cone cells fixate on is very small, only 2, which is twice the width of a thumb 👍 held out at arms length. So when looking down at the ball that will be a 3-4” spot with the rest ‘tuned out’ when in the tunnel vision ‘zone’. For that reason it actually very difficult not to reflexively follow the moving putter head and then the ball after impact and you need to practice not doing it just like everything else in golf if wanting to use that ‘fixed sight picture’ approach. Once I learn how to do it I had much better situational awareness of path and face angle both during the practice swings and the actual stroke.

From 2003 – 2020 I had an artificial green in my back yard and from 2008 – 2018 played daily (weather permitting) in NoVa which was about 250 days a year. I started buying putters at thrift stores for $2-$3 each and collected about two dozen including Bullseye, older Ping Anser, Mallets and I also had the huge 6” wide circa 1987 Aluminum / Brass insert MacGregor Response (Anser-style) putter Nicklaus used to win the ‘86 Masters.

I came to realize how face balance of the putter needs to match the putting stroke. Based on a story I read what inspired Karsten Solheim to start making putters was realizing the toe heavy Bullseye putter he learned with tried to twist in his hand, with him understanding that by redistributing the mass to heel and toe the club head could be balanced so it would automatically =) – stay square not with the target line but with the curved inside-square-inside putting stroke =).

Understanding of that underlying cause and effect seems to have been lost over the years because conventional wisdom for putting changed to that of bringing the putter back and through on a straight line <———>. The ideal putter style for that stroke is a face balanced — putter not an Anser style that hangs at a 40-45° angle / when balanced on a finger. A Bullseye hangs straight down |

Putting with an anchored mallet is pretty much a no brainer, which is why the USGA banned anchoring and Langer and Scott use their lead hands as a fixed anchor point. Without that technique I find it difficult to swing a putter on a <—> straight line unless I either close / or open my stance 45° which causes my lead arm to hand and swing like a pendulum on a straight line. When I use my Anser putters I used them with an =) arc swing style.

I used to putt with a ping answer 2 it was a great putter for me. A friend ask me for it and I gave it to him. I never felt I needed it I could putt with anything I have used my sand wedge and putted very well. My son got fitted for one of the new putters and I was putting with it and I haven’t putted in years and was making putts like I never quit

"I'm sure alota people just watching this video are gonna have a hypothesis in their head"
This guy gets me. I play a TM TP Ardmore 3 with an S-Neck. I fought stability vs. feel for a long time and bought that putter to get some stability and roll improvement. I need toe-hang though. So most cases if it's larger it needs a slant/s-neck and if it's smaller it needs a slant/plumbers. I hate plumbers neck. Messes with my visual alignment too much. And slant blades are usually pretty punishing. I like the leading edge mixed with symmetry to be separate to the neck. Think straight lines vs curved lines. (heel shaft or slant/S neck work). Center line flange or topline is not as necessary as the symmetry of the shape.

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Are the glasses just forward facing camera view or actually tracking your eyes?

Ha. I was just fitted at a Ping lab, and after I got the putter, I painted the line black to match the rest of the mallet. Alignment aids are distracting for me.