The most important skill in putting is green reading – properly assessing and anticipating how the golf ball is going to roll and change direction once you set it in motion. Learning how to read putting greens is part analytical and part creative, and in the long history of the game, no player has done it better than Titleist staff member Brad Faxon. Start following Brad’s process for reading greens and bring your putting game to the next level.
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00:00 – Introduction – Reading the putt before you reach the green
00:48 – Aerial animation showing the varied direction of breaks in this green
01:10 – Accounting for grain
01:25 – Gathering information from behind the ball
01:54 – Evaluating break from low side of the putt
02:15 – Confirming initial read from opposite side of the hole
02:50 – Identifying an intermediate target on green surface
03:12 – Instinct and visualization
03:50 – Lining up the golf ball
04:04 – Brad’s routine
04:45 – Hitting the putt
05:05 – Summary
15 Comments
Oooh, looks like a slippery putt coming back. But this was helpful, thank you.
Well. That certainly is a process.
I walk to the hole, feel the slope, bend down behind the ball, envision my line, stand over the ball and tell myself “you will make this putt.”
I just can’t believe these video are free! Titleist is the best!
Brads the King of one puts. That guy has dropped more bombs than WWII.
⛳️.
And people think walking the line and putting up some fingers is slow
It helps having a caddy that knows every square inch of the green too. 😅
Todays modern covid era golfers don't have the patience for this.😮 3:11
Out of curiosity, for those watching this, does him missing the putt add more legitimacy/weight to his words or less? Genuine question. With how many takes they could have done, they went with this one.
Now a question, should i trust my initial read or the read from behind the hole more ?
And this is why in 15 years I have NEVER taken a cart. I walk and carry my clubs, it allows me to feel the ground. I've never seen a great golfer in my life who plays in a cart every time, they are losing out on so much information by not not walking the course
Brad Faxon's playing partner; "Wake me up when its my turn to putt"
I started following this advice and my putting has gotten so much better since! Great video!
Unfortunately we are not PGA pros so we live in the real world.
I can’t imagine how hard it was to learn to golf 20-30 years ago before YouTube even existed.