Carly, we were just speaking a little bit about the simplest way to read greens.
What are the two things that we need to think about whenever we're reading greens,
when you have a putt, that's anywhere from 15 ft or longer.
Uh Speed is the main thing that a player should be focused on.
The second element would just be to give it a chance to go in the hole, right?
So we're, we're not just standing up to a putt and,
and hitting it with no thought of where it's going. So
I like to think about it in two ways, kind of ask two questions.
Is it uphill or downhill?
And where is the slope le higher left or the right side? So,
if we're standing right here, can you tell me,
are we looking downhill or is that hole above the wall?
You know, it looks like we're going a little downhill if anything
downhill. Yeah. And then what do we think about the slope?
I would say it's probably going a little bit down towards the front left of the green,
towards the water.
Perfect.
So in a practice setting,
what I would do is I'd have my students throw a bunch of balls around the green
and just practice those two questions over and over again and test it. So we got
a, just general downhill putt a little bit right to left.
So maybe a half a ball outside the hole to start
and a little bit firmer since it's downhill.
Oh,
pretty good close. Right.
And let's do another one maybe over here. Yeah.
And I like practicing kind of putting in that, like, more live environment. Right.
I want it to be more realistic and only have one chance
to really get that ball as close as you can.
And so on this one, we'll ask the same two questions. It looks a little bit uphill.
Now we've got an
uphill and then we're breaking to the left.
Mm. Pretty good two putts. But, but you were perfect in both of those.
You read them great. And, and we're pretty close to the whole to make a two put.
Yeah,
all we gotta do is ask those two questions and it makes green reading a lot simpler.
Very simple.