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DO THIS TO BE A GREAT PUTTER | Legend Tom Watson
this is the way I aim a putt. I've determined first of all that this putt breaks about five feet. there's a big break in this putt. the first ball right in front of this ball right here is the Dave Stockton or Arnold Palmer method both of them advise me just to pick a spot on the maximum amount of break that you're going that you determine is going to happen in the putt pick that spot right in front of the ball and roll that over it this one is actually the maximum amount of brake that will be in the putt right there it's a little bit closer or 2/3 of the way into the putt like that there's another way of aiming uh for the for the big braking putt the method that I use is actually the far one over here which is 90° from the hole that is also on the line of the maximum break of this putt so this is what I do obviously I can't use this ball in front of it to make this putt but I'm going to get up here and I'm going to aim at that far ball right there and make a stroke just a little harder and that balls in but that's how I aim for a big braking putt like that 90° from the hole but you can do it any of the three ways and it's perfectly okay here's another tip that might help you make more braking putts when I look at this braking putt right here I have determined that it's got somewhere in this neighborhood of break that much break for this short of putt now I'm going to place a ball right down there in the center center of the hole right there as you're looking at it and you're going to say to me you know that that ball right there is is in the way you can't make this putt but in reality when I look at the way this pole is going to be breaking into this hole the center of the hole right here is going to be at about 8:00 7:30 8:00 maybe even 9:00 if the speed's just right it might lip in so that's the way I look at this putt I'm not looking at that center of the hole there I'm looking at the left side of that cup and this is how I'm to try to putt it in and that's how you look at this hole you look at an 8:00 tree right here you do that you're going to make more breaking putts
DO THIS TO BE A GREAT PUTTER | Legend Tom Watson
this is the way I aim a putt. I've determined first of all that this putt breaks about five feet. there's a big break in this putt. the first ball right in front of this ball right here is the Dave Stockton or Arnold Palmer method both of them advise me just to pick a spot on the maximum amount of break that you're going that you determine is going to happen in the putt pick that spot right in front of the ball and roll that over it this one is actually the maximum amount of brake that will be in the putt right there it's a little bit closer or 2/3 of the way into the putt like that there's another way of aiming uh for the for the big braking putt the method that I use is actually the far one over here which is 90° from the hole that is also on the line of the maximum break of this putt so this is what I do obviously I can't use this ball in front of it to make this putt but I'm going to get up here and I'm going to aim at that far ball right there and make a stroke just a little harder and that balls in but that's how I aim for a big braking putt like that 90° from the hole but you can do it any of the three ways and it's perfectly okay here's another tip that might help you make more braking putts when I look at this braking putt right here I have determined that it's got somewhere in this neighborhood of break that much break for this short of putt now I'm going to place a ball right down there in the center center of the hole right there as you're looking at it and you're going to say to me you know that that ball right there is is in the way you can't make this putt but in reality when I look at the way this pole is going to be breaking into this hole the center of the hole right here is going to be at about 8:00 7:30 8:00 maybe even 9:00 if the speed's just right it might lip in so that's the way I look at this putt I'm not looking at that center of the hole there I'm looking at the left side of that cup and this is how I'm to try to putt it in and that's how you look at this hole you look at an 8:00 tree right here you do that you're going to make more breaking putts
