HOLE MORE PUTTS WITH AimPoint Golf 

Thanks, this explanation is the clearest I’ve seen so far 👍🏾

Easy - get some wood strips - 1.5-2.0 inches wide. Cut to foot lengths. For a 1% slope you'll need a piece that's 1/8th" thick - place it under your foot on one side and place the other foot 12.5" away - the feel between the foot on the 1/8" wood and the other without the wood is 1%. Use a piece of wood at 1/4" thickness and it's 2%. Use bother the 1/8th and 1/4 and it's 3% and use twp 1/4" pieces and that's 4% - add the 1/8th and you have 5%. Keep doing that and looking down between your feet and feel where the balance point sits between your feet and you have it. BTW - Don't use a putter as a plumb bob between your feet doing this on the course cause that's against the rules - using a club for its unintended purpose rule.

How far should your hand be from your face?

I mean that helped me do it… no class, everything for free

@@tigger8579 Take a look at Geoff MAngums discussion document on using a set break vs distance calculations called " Slope Break Reading" - it's exactly how AimPoint works. The odd thing is if you tell players what you are doing the Geoff Mangum way they think you are bonkers - and if you tell them you are doing the AimPoint thing they think you are cool - such is the power of marketing!!

Slight feeling of break under the feet is 1 finger left or right of hole when stood directly behind the ball, regardless of distance away from hole. More break is 2 or 3 fingers etc. Aim at that exact spot (blade of grass, pine needle or whatever) or more easily a spot on the same line far closer (which you should then aim to roll over). Adjust power for slope and then trust the system so that you either hole it or miss close and 'high' (for an easy 2 putt). Voila.

@@robertbaldwin177 If you get three pine strips about a foot long - 2 at 1cm thick and 1 at 5mm thick then you can put one or two of these under your left or right foot and train yourself to correctly feel 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% slope. Just put your feet at 50 cm apart and place the 5mm strip under your foot - you are feeling 1% of slope. With the 1cm stripe thats a feel of 2%. the 5cm + 1cm is going to be 3% and two 1cm strips is 4% - all of the strips is 5%. You just need the break-per-foot matrix to do the calculations. at stimp 7 the break at 1% is about 3/8ths of an inch per foot so that makes a 10 foot putt at 1% a 10x 3/8 = 30/8 = just under 4". Geoff Mangum has all the numbers on his website.

@@robertbaldwin177 Put your feet about 2 foot apart - then 2% looks like your centre of balance is 2/3rds of the distance between your feet when you look down, 3% looks like 3/4qtrs and 4% is like 7.8ths. You'll get it with practice. Try my foot size strips method to practice strips under one foot of 5mm 1 cm .

Hi Raymond. It is a great system for sure. For the majority of golfers we feel it would be a big benefit and would give them a fast, more accurate read.

Great Brian. Glad this was useful. Hope it continues to work.

@Darrell Johnson That's the hardest part to learn. Feeling the slope. Here is what I did to learn how to feel the slope. I purchased a digital carpenter's level at Lowes that can measure incline in percent. Cost was under $20. Percent incline is simply a measurement of how much the surface goes uphill or downhill in a given distance. Example: From ball to hole is 100 inches, From ball to hole the green rises 1 inch. 1 inch is 1 percent of 100 inches, so hence the slope is a 1 percent slope. 4 inch rise in 100 inches would be a 4 percent slope etc. Anyways, I took the digital level to the practice green at my local course and laid the level down and read the slope. Then tried to feel that slope with my feet. Then found another spot that was steeper and compared what that felt like. Soon I could feel the slope confidently enough to challenge myself by picking a spot on the green to stand on, then guessing the slope , then laying down the level to see how close my guess was. Got to the point that I could guess within 1 percent . Keep in mind that Aiming point works best for putts where the ball rolls an a constant slope to the hole. That means relatively short putts on most greens (under 10 feet). If it's a long putt , with slopes that go in several different directions, the system becomes much more difficult . You have to break the putt into 3 sections and figure out what the ball will do in each section, then somehow average it out.

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Hope it helps. Please ket us know.

Thanks Gaz

Hi Mark. Hope you're well? AimPoint was actually very good. Woburn definitely worth a visit too.👍

Dude I’m right there with ya

I was like “that seems a lot longer than 20 feet I reckon”😂

Died laughing because i had the same problem

Truth f-k off

NB: Tour pros on the best greens in the world average 50% from around 7 feet. Your right hand tip is a very good one, but you don't make half of your 10-20 footers.

Daniel Leonard you don’t make 5/10 of 10-20 foot putts

I’m not saying I make 50% of those shots every time I golf... let me rephrase what i was trying to say. If I were to put it into a percentage basis, I would say that it would be 30-50%. All depends on how Im golfing, and the condition of the greens. All I’m saying is that it greatly improved my accuracy. I would love to learn the aimpoint system and refine my putting even more. Where once I was three and four putting, I’m now 1 and two putting the same distances, just by changing my grip. This year in a round of 18 holes I’ve maybe had 2 triple putts a round. Before I would have 6 or 7 triple putts. That’s all I’m saying.

Great work. Glad this was a useful

If you like it definitely get a lesson from a certified instructor. You need to dial in what the feel for each percent of slope. 1 thru 5 percent of slope. And nuances such as when to line up the side of your fingers at the middle of the cup or low side. Plus how to adjust your arm length to adjust for the green speed.

How does it work what is the scale too howd he know three is it one to 5 obviously 5 fingers? And when he said we talked about the speed point talking about how far away his hand is from his face so whats that?

Bryce Smith it’s hard to tell you, but it easy to teach it in person because then things make sense

Eric Hurt sounds a little like you don’t entirely know or, you dont have all the info. I don’t understand how you couldn’t articulate it on a keyboard but you could articulate it vocally in person??

Eric Hurt you need to show me?

Bryce Smith when you go to the teaching of it they thought us how to feel the green with our feet while because visually you can’t see everything, you get a scale on what each point is based off of. Now this is of course based on course conditions and green speeds. When I play I always ask what scale are the speed of the greens.....no does every golfer ask that....heck no.....they’re loading up for beer and on there way. So like I said there’s a lot of factors involved and scale training. Go to a class close to you and they will get more involved and you’ll see how putting is way more involved then you think.

True top spin you are spot on with comments.

Trial and error in practice. I taught this to myself with no instruction. Whatever my feet feel is the number I give it. This could be something different to everyone. Once u know where the putt ended up adjust it from there. Ex: oh crap what I felt was a 3 really was a 4. Ok. Eventually you will have your own feel to the number you pick. It’s not really rocket science tbh.

I think in a lesson you learn it more in depth. They want you to see the process, understand it a little, and find someone to get a lesson.

It's actually very fast. It only takes 1o seconds and you can do that while your partners putt.

Ian Barnes on a really gentle slope try closing your eyes and shifting your weight very gently left and right - you’d be shocked how sensitive your internal gyroscope is when you put all focus on balance. Narrowing and relaxing the feet can also increase sensitivity.

Ian Barnes if a picture is slightly off kilter, you just know - when you can “see” with your feet it is almost the same.

Aim point don’t want to give that away for free otherwise no one would pay for courses

You actually have to go to an aim point clinic or express to learn it. It's a feel method so it's best if it's shown directly on a slope. Basically it everything depends on the slope of the green you feel with your feet - so they show you - this feel = 1 finger, this feel = 2... if you are X meters away from the hole and the feel is 2 fingers you need to either - stretch your hand out, bend it etc. I don't think it can be taught online, so I'm probably going to a clinic this summer.

@@rokstern7042 I bought the DVD and taught myself, its been fantastic for my putting especially big breaking lag putts

The closer you bring the arm, the more break this gives you so this would be on faster greens. Hope that helps?

Thanks Tony. Glad you enjoyed it and hope you are doing well and playing some good golf.

Joe Perez pworks great on tour when you have a slope map in your pocket.

Or on courses with absolutely pristine tour-like greens,as opposed to the bumpy greens at the local muni.

I did the course with Jamie, it transformed my putting, I'd say it's something you need to have taught face to face.

Fair enough, makes perfect sense. Trouble with face-to-face instruction, is that the Aim Point's own web site has a map of the USA with instructors, but they are labeled as Level 1 (most instructors) to Level 5 (Mark Sweeny in Orlando, who I think is the creator of the system). Nowhere on the web site that I can find details what the difference in "Level" instruction is. The only instructor listed in the Myrtle Beach area where I live is at the Dustin Johnson Golf School, and is a Level 1. Is a Level 1 instructor going to teach me anything I won't already know from watching the DVD? I'm guessing that Level 1 is "basic intro" stuff.

I'd drop Mark Sweeny a line, ask when he, or someone top notch is in the area. Jamie was very approachable.

Garv Chadha never change something if you do a routine in training when theres No pressure. Then you Will do the same under pressure( just My thoughs)

Reduce the expectations of your performance to zero, nil, nothing (Note: this is *not the same* as thinking you're going to play badly!). If you have high expectations of how you are going to play you have already mentally played the round in your head and shot a good score - yet you haven't actually hit a single ball! That brings pressure and pressure brings tension and tension brings poor shots and poor shots bring disappointment in your expectations. So go out with a clear mind (and maybe a couple of swing thoughts you know help you) and just execute each shot the best you can. If it's a bad one, let it go and move on - no amount of anger or wishful thinking will change it. If it's a good one your confidence will grow for the next shot. With a bit of golfing luck and skill you 'll get in the zone and be hitting balls pressure free, not expecting good shots, just hitting them as they happen.

My tip for match play is always play your shot before you opponent. You need to make your opponent chase you not the other way around.

Garv Chadha 7

1) play more matches to get accustomed to the pressure and more importantly 2) remember it’s just a game and have FUN!!!!

If you miss the line low, the ball will NEVER go in. If you miss the line on the high side you still have a chance if you get the pace wrong. Hit it a fraction slow and it might go in.

You feel with slope with your feet and rate it.

Check out Jamie's details in the description.

Should have protested that. Its a picture book, literally all it is.

That's explained in the class. They don't give it away on camera as then no one would pay for the classes. I took AimPoint thinking that I'd cannibalize the best bits from it into my routine but now it's 95% of my putting routine. This video makes it sound more complicated then it really is.

Thank you, David Cullen. Makes sense

@@chrisd5986 I do recommend the 1st two classes but I'm not convinced on their 3rd class on Speed. I think they'll refine that better (over to you Mark and Jamie)

Haha thought the samething, ok wtf does a 3 feel like and what's the range cat.1-5 like hurricanes? Don't forget the coriolis effect for putts greater than 30ft.

It's just a feel. A slight slope is 1. Progress as you feel it increase.

That's what you pay money to go to a aim point clinic for!!!!! This video is pretty much just a sales pitch.

Adam Scott is close to worst on tour in 3 putt avoidance.

So does Justin Rose....hes done pretty well

Adam Scott can't putt worth shit.....he's lost a lot of tournaments 'only' because of his putting. His one only Masters win was the only time he putted good....a fluke. You can love his swing but his putting and chipping holds him back

What's holding you back Keith?

Sorry to bring the facts up. Adam Scott is the worst putter are we as good as the worse putter on tour?

videom Hi, if you're referring to the comment about adjusting the line of the putt further right subconsciously, this is the correct term to use.. Unconscious refers to states of brain unresponsiveness I.e anaesthesia, coma, being knocked out and states of sleep.

Ya might wanna pull out the dictionary a bit there bud.