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00:00We've got all of your 3D data for your body and your club over here on the left.
00:04And we've got, you know, the regular 2D video, which I'm sure you've done a lot of work on in the past.
00:10Let's see how accurate this is, the biceps here. Let's just zoom in on this little guy. I mean, come on.
00:15Yeah, fully ripped there, Smiley.
00:17You've got to appreciate gears making sure the mannequin looks absolutely yoked.
00:23Exactly, exactly.
00:25But you're statistically a very good putter. You know, for most of your career, made a lot of putts.
00:30So what we're kind of looking at is, you know, what exactly is the body doing? What's the club doing?
00:35And you kind of mentioned you worked on your lines a lot.
00:38And you can kind of see here, when we look at that over-the-top view, you can see really good lines with your setup,
00:46much as you can here in kind of the video as well.
00:49The reason that I use this is I'm not able to see, you know, half a degree here and there.
00:55Yeah.
00:56Whereas this can, you know, I'm still really using this, but this is kind of giving me like a CT scan as to what's going on.
01:04And your listeners are obviously fairly avid golfers and pretty, you know, pretty knowledgeable.
01:09The hole is only about one degree of error at 10 feet.
01:13So it's impossible for me to see one degree with the eyes.
01:17So we use this.
01:19You display a lot of the really great tendencies of great putters.
01:24Your aim, this is incredible.
01:28You're seven hundredths of a degree closed with your putter face at aim.
01:32I got to get better.
01:34Got to keep working at it.
01:35That's what you're saying.
01:35So this is just about as good as it gets.
01:40So we know that you're in the perfect posture and your putter is the right fitted putter for what you see.
01:48Okay.
01:48So these are things, you know, you've obviously kind of changed putter recently.
01:53Yeah.
01:55And it's something that's perfect for you setup wise.
01:58As you move through the stroke, we get that face moving along the arc, top of the backswing.
02:06You know, you're a fairly low face rotation guy, I would say.
02:09You know, it opens about four degrees to the putt.
02:12Have you always kind of used that face mallet, face bounce?
02:15When I was on the PGA Tour, I used a blade putter.
02:19And I tended to feel like I would try to open the toe.
02:23I used to always watch Tiger Woods do that gate drill with his right hand.
02:27And so when you had a blade, you would really feel the toe open and close.
02:31Yes.
02:31And so I had that feeling with the blade.
02:34And I think I got a little too inconsistent inside of eight feet with the general timing of that.
02:41Yeah.
02:41So I went to a mallet and started working my lines more.
02:47And then started to feel like every day it kind of started to look more the same.
02:51And I could just focus on just general body rotation.
02:54Yeah, that's something that's pretty interesting.
02:57There's a lot of players, me included, you know, growing up watching Tiger, especially listening to him and talking about, you know, how he used to really release the putter and release the toe and stuff.
03:07And I always, I keep this putter as my teaching putter because it's about as, you know, low tech as you can get.
03:15And it's one of those where I find it really easy to explain stroke mechanics with something like this.
03:22So whenever...
03:24Because you see the toe opening and closing a ton, right?
03:26Absolutely.
03:27Yeah.
03:27So, like, whenever I set up and I just de-loft the putter, I haven't actually rotated it, the toe goes behind the heel.
03:37Yeah.
03:37And then when I re-loft it, it squares up.
03:42And when I ad-loft it, the toe passes the heel.
03:45Yeah.
03:45And I think a lot of people have misinterpreted what Tiger's, like, feel was.
03:51Yeah.
03:52Is that with the great putters, we never...
03:54And when you watch Tiger do that one-handed drill, you never see him do this.
03:58You always saw him kind of de-loft, re-loft, ad-loft, which on a 2D camera sitting in front of him looked like the toe went behind the heel and then passed it.
04:10But a lot of people at home, I think, and a lot of turf pros we get through here, they actually think they're supposed to...
04:18Open the face.
04:18Open and close it.
04:19Yeah.
04:20And it's kind of what you're describing as it maybe got a little too inconsistent.
04:25Yeah.
04:25I would always battle it getting a little too outside.
04:28Yeah.
04:28So, like, just general disconnection right from the get-go was something that I felt like got off the most.
04:34Yeah.
04:34So I would focus on just that, the backswing, and that seemed to always clean up.
04:39For me, what I felt like was the through stroke.
04:42Yeah.
04:42You can kind of see, obviously, a lot of the good work you've done here, especially as we start into that downswing.
04:49Something that we're measuring on gears I kind of alluded to a little bit early in our conversation, this efficiency number.
04:58This is how much of your stroke is the face relative to the arc better than one degree.
05:05Mm-hmm.
05:06So, that face currently is five degrees open to the hole.
05:10Okay.
05:11But it's barely closed to your actual arc.
05:15Mm-hmm.
05:16And as you come through, really through impact, you can see how that just gets cleaner and cleaner and cleaner.
05:22So, let's go ahead and see how that works.

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