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There are seven fatal mistakes that golfers make on the green. The first mistake you don’t see talked about much, but it’s the practice stroke. You’ll see somebody come and let’s say with this putt, watch my head, right? Watch my head. What where am I looking? I’m not looking anywhere. And I’ve got this humongous stroke that if I hit that putt, if I just take that stroke, the ball’s going to finish off the other side of the green. I have basically maybe a 20 foot putt here. So the first mistake people make is not looking and giving their brain an intention of what they want to do. I want to hold this putt at this distance in the perceptions of my eyes. So I look where I want to putt. I look at the distance I want to putt. I’m looking just beyond the hole cuz it’s uphill. And I’m getting a feeling for that. Then I hit the ball with that same stroke. Look up at the hole again. My eye is always looking where I want to go, what I want to do, what the vision is, what the video playing is that I want to replicate with my stroke. I haven’t read this putt, but let’s see how we do with just that intention we gave my brain. Now, that’s a pretty good distance control because I gave the intention to my brain to do it. This is giving your brain the intention that you have no idea what you’re doing. You don’t know where you’re going because you’re not looking. And then when you get over the ball, you’re going to take the stroke and you’re going to decelerate cuz your brain’s going, “Whoa, mother lover.” Ain’t going to happen. So, you’ll take this back and then wonder why the putts happen like that. Get the intention and look where you want to go and then feed that rhythm into your brain and body and then use it for your main putt. And you’re going to find you’re going to have a lot more control with your distance. The second fatal mistake I see golfers making is not understanding or being aware of the slope. That first putt there, I was looking beyond the hole to get my rhythm. Why? Because it’s uphill. I want to hit a little firmer than a flat put of that distance. Down the hill, it’s the same thing except we move our target hole a little closer to us. This is downhill and then onto a flat. So, I might look two feet short of this cup to get my intention of where I want the ball to go with the rhythm and tempo in my body. And then I let my body take over by trusting my brain. The physics calculator. Now, the physics calculator is 100% accurate because you can take a pot off the stove without splashing the water all over yourself. You can take the ball out of the hole without jamming your fingers and breaking them. You know exactly the distance in time and space to take that ball out. You can throw a ball like this and get it somewhere near the cup. Why is that? Why is that? Because you have a physics calculator that allows you to do that. Trust it. But be aware of the slope. Downhill slope. Maybe not too much break. Let’s say a little left to right. I’m not so sure. I’m looking at a hole in my mind short of this hole by 2 ft. I’m getting the intention and the feeling. And then I go and let’s see what happens. Look at that perfect distance control. Again, I am not a genius putter. I am not. I purely give the power over to my brain and body connection. I do not think of anything except what I’ve just rehearsed. Downhill, aware of the slope. We’re aware of the break. We’re intending to hit this ball at a pace that will finish 2 ft short. We hit it and it’s a perfect pace. Again, I can do this all day long, even on a marble floor or a basketball court. It’s just purely awareness of the surface, awareness of the slope, downhill putt, changing your intention of hitting it a bit shorter, and boom, ski. What a day. Perfect distance control. A huge mistake I see on the green is misalignment. And it can be body alignment, but most of the time it’s the club face alignment. Now, the club face alignment needs to start aiming 90° to the line you choose. The way we do this, okay, is and and I see a lot of people will set up straight at the hole and we’ll pull a putt to be able to try and make it. Okay? And then, so what you’ll see is the same thing you do on your full shots, you do on the putting green. You’ll be open or you’ll be closed and you’ll take that to the putting green, which is quite funny. Now, let’s say on this one, we just see it a little bit. Let’s say it’s a little bit left. Let’s say we want to roll the ball over that. What on that line can help us to align our our 90° putter face or our putter face 90° to that line. We see something over here, a little blade of grass just like less than a foot in front of our ball. We line the putter head up to that. Now we know we’re aligned correctly. And then we know it’s aligned correctly and we just use our eyes to make sure. And if it feels like we’re, you know, in the wrong place, you can just move your eyes around until it agrees with you going about a cup left. Now, we just have to start stroking that ball on that line. Well, we started on the line. Now, let’s build in the intentionality we talked about earlier. Okay, now it breaks the other way at the end of the hole. And that’s it. Look at the pace control. When you add the intention, you start the ball on the line you choose. By aligning your club face to a piece of grass in front of your ball on the line you chose, you can now know you’re aligned. Boom. Not giving short putts the respect they deserve is a very, very fatal mistake people make on the greens cuz it’s be like, “Oh, they’re going to give it to me. I’ll just take it if I miss it. This should be a good putt.” But look here. We still have 3 ft. We have an entire putter length from the hole to the ball. These putts need to be made and they need to be made on the course and you can do it quickly. But the more you practice picking it up or the more you practice just halfassing it and missing it, thinking, “Oh, it’s good. I’ll just take it.” The more you’re going to miss it when it counts. On a three-footer, you generally hardly have to leave the cup. You can take some break out. You can pick just center right, center left. Make sure you’re aligned and then just give it a jam. This is going to be very easy to do, but you have to practice it. That’s a big mistake is taking the putts and then when it counts and people make you putt them or you’re in a tournament, you can’t make them. A fatal mistake is listening to dingleberries who cannot putt. Certain people do not know how to putt or to be able to transmit the idea of putting. So, they resort to uh poo pooing and straw manning other people’s arguments or creating drools. And when it comes to putting, what I have discovered, and I may not be an expert, but I’m definitely a better putter than a lot of people. I’ve realized that putting is purely removing the mental game from putting. Never up, never in. Somebody said once, that’s the worst advice ever in golf. No, I would say the worst advice ever in golf is when in doubt, send it like an idiot. The never up, never in little phrase people say is then countered with this idea that the PGA pros leave their long putts in a 10% distance of the initial putt from the hole. So if you have a 30-ft putt, they’re leaving it 3T away from the hole. It could be 3T short, 3T right, 3T long, or 3T left. So it’s a 6ft radius circle. But that’s that’s dingleberry thinking because what they then say is that if you get it inside 10 ft, that’s going to be pretty good. But is your intention now to hit it into a 6ft radius circle? No, it’s not. Your intention is to get the ball in the hole. Your intention will then after you miss the putt, allow you not even a three-foot circle or 10% circle. It will allow you a very simple tap in if you allow your brain and body connection to take over. My intention is to get perfect speed control that can finish maybe 6 in behind the cup at worst. And that’s what I’m going to do. My intention is not three-foot circle. The PGA pros do not have an intention of a 3-ft circle. It just happens that their 10 their miss is 10% because they play 12 stump greens, 11 stump greens. So, let’s not get talked into being like super mediocre because you can really strive to be a great putter if you just get these barriers out of your brain. Cuz what happens is we sailing along. Woo woo. I’m sailing along as a great putter at the moment. If I as soon as I just discover like a barrier to put up in front of me to prove what I’m doing is wrong. I have a self-sabotaging problem, then I’m going to put this barrier up. Now, I’ve got to scale this barrier, get to the other side of where I was initially, and I just introduced it myself with dingleberry stuff. You have everything you need as a physics calculator in your brain. Check this out. We’re going to go right. We see a hole we’re going to aim at or a spot. We feel the pace. And look at that. Look at that. Do I have an intention of getting a 10% to the hole? No. I have the intention of making the putt and it is there in you. All these barriers and dingleberry phrases that people try to counter with the stats of PGA pros, it’s a barrier that was not there. You’re introducing the barrier. Once you’ve scaled all the barriers you’ve self-sabotaged yourself with, you realize you were chasing your tail and everything you had was right there from the beginning. From the beginning. You do not have to prove yourself wrong anymore. And Rick Shield saying, “Never up, never in.” That’s correct, Rick. That is correct. The other thing people really don’t do is go high enough. Like I said, when you go high a foot, you miss by 6 in on the on the high side. When you go low a foot on the same line, you end up three or four feet from the cup. So, you want to always go higher than you think. So, if you’re at this putt here and you’re getting your intention of where you want the ball to go, you’re getting that rhythm, you’re feeling it, you you understand the surface cuz you play often. Wow. You got your hammer, you’re swinging the same hammer all the time. You hit a nice pace like that. And look at this. Look at this. Look at the pace. It’s like a foot and a half past the cup. And that’s what the intention is. The intention is not to just go 10% and go, “Oh, well, I had a 20footer. I left myself 2 feet short. PGA Tour Pros do it. Come on. Come on. Get out of that frame of mind and make the putts. The biggest mistake people are making is not watching my putting videos and actually implementing the stuff. If you do that, you will be a great putter. Check the videos in the link in the description to stop the for putt. Huge mistake I see people make is coming up to a ball that they’ve just chipped somewhere or putted somewhere. They’ve got this for the bogey and they go, “Here comes a double bogey.” Man, you’ve already preset that putt to miss. Get to the short putt and give it your intention. Give it your best shot to get in the hole. And you know what happens when you do that? You make more and you stop thinking those silly doubts, those silly thoughts of preempting the score before you’ve hit the shot. So, we take it seriously. We get a line properly. We see it’s a pretty straight putt. We’re very happy about that. We align the club face and we hit it in the cup and we make the bogey. We don’t talk ourselves into the double. Because as soon as you talk yourself into missing the putt as soon as you come up here and now you’re rushing, right? Because you’re like, you come up and oh, here comes a double bogey. I hit such a nice drive. Oh, well, whatever. Oh, man. Alive. And now you’re going to give yourself another short putt. Now you get another huff. And I see it often. And it’s a buffy. Oh, I can’t even miss. That’s how I am. Those are the seven fatal mistakes. Maybe there’s more in there, but check out my padding videos. I promise. And let your brain and body connection take over.
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Me with putters. Watching reviews then second guessing what’s in my hand and letting the intrusiveness get in my way of just thinking about putting.
A lot of sincere passion in this one!
I quite like your black ball. 😆
The Cadies playing rock paper scissors in the background is genius. 😂
My golf game has improved by 9 strokes and I am finally an 11 handicap BECAUSE OF YOUR VIDEOS! No more stupid hero shots, or shitty putting. The best tip you had was to relax, and MANAGE THE COURSE! I get weird looks when I tee off with my 6 iron on a 375 yard par 4, only to land my second shot right on the green, while they are still chasing their drive in an adjacent fairway! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Your videos are the best on YouTube hands down. GOAT. Please do a video with Bryan Bros.
Pro tip Matty Boom: having text on the screen as you talk is super disruptive, at least for me and I can multitask like an octopus on cocaine. Rather make a pdf available or leave it altogether.
LOVE the actually video content and the script. Keep pumping ma bru
"get out of that shit frame of mind and make the fucking putt" ❤
This video is money, thank for making it Matty. I know it's stupid, but I went mini golfing with my kid the weekend and putted with your suggestions and thoughts in mind. The shit mini golf putters don't have any alignment lines and they are covered in rubber. I was playing like I was going to make every putt, and when I didn't make the putt the first time I knew I would make the second. I had fun and putted pretty well thinking I was going to make every putt. Mindset is such a huge part of golf, and I never really thought about. Sure proved me wrong.
Hahaha, l loved that the man eating a fish comment was written all jumbled 😂😂😂🤣🍻
Cheers playa, top advice once again.
When you hit the putt after the practice stroke I lost it and I've been laughing too hard to take a drink of anything for about 10 minutes now.
Tip # 8 is money. I used to talk myself into doubles and then moan after a round how my 93 could've been an 87. Still making more doubles than I'd like but shift in mindset has reduced them and left me feeling more confidential about a bounceback afterwards. Whadda game!
It’s a 6ft diameter not radius btw
Man Adam Sandler said your patented “fader” on Bryson Dechambolic’s channel… I guess he’s a fan
Excellent advice!!
Big baus
I see No. 1 a lot… Dingleberries making the same huge practice stroke for 5ft as they do for 25ft. Zero intentionality
This is the work of Dr Bob Rotella, and that's a good thing 🙌🏼
Scored an 80 today, but had 4 three putts on the front 9. Ooohhh… what could have been. It was a good round though… scoring was there, especially on the back 9 – level par 2 birdies/2 bogeys.
I tell my brothers exactly the same thing about their green work. Look at the hole while you take a practice stroke, aim for a spot on the line closer to the ball with the intention of hitting the center of the cup. Aim small, miss small. I also try to hammer home good swing thoughts, see the shot you want before you swing type shit and the body will make it happen. Picture a shit shot. Your body will make it happen.You are absolutely correct about that kind of thinking. Expect shit, and shit will follow. I'm a big fan of your advice. I hope everyone listens and puts this into practice
10:16 channel this energy everyday
I'm still alive, so refuse to believe I have made any fatal mistakes on the green.
The Playa we deserve but not the one we need
Great advice and vey cool shoes, miss the white socks. 😊😊😊
I received my order from Waddaplaya today. Haven’t even played with the loot but my confidentiality is up ten fold already.
0:17 “Pro V1 Kanobi” 😂😂😂
9:28 Does he? I don’t recall him saying that, at least not as advice. But you probably pay closer attention than I do to those things. With Rick, I only pay attention to actually striking the ball.
Thank you for these videos!