It's Really Easy to Putt Better than 99% of Golfers 

DANG! There was an "AHA!" moment for me in this video. I stopped using the alignment line on my ball because, as you say, it never looked right when I was over the putt; I just didn't trust it. It didn't occur to me that it WAS right, but that it just didn't look right because of where my eyes were in my stance.

Thx. Shaved 6 putts in 9 holes today. You have helped me enjoy golf, have realistic expectations and get better.

This was an excellent video. When you realized the adjustment to the putter angle to the forearm was exactly opposite of what the instructor was seeing? BANG! Purple dust exploded from my head. I checked myself, used my phone to video my setup. Guilty. Putted for a bit in my living room at a dime. Vastly improved. Will be hitting the putting green soon to exercise some demons out of my putting.

One of your all time finest performances. Great great video.

Awesome video! I 100% agree about the mental video of making the putt. The days I really focus on that 'video' are the days I can't miss. For anyone still reading, I took a putting lesson a year ago and found out the hard way that people see the line differently in their minds. Some people see a straight line to a target point that the ball falls off of, and others see a curved line that the ball follows all the way to the hole. Figure out which mental image you have and focus on it. It was another game changer for me.

Great video. Padraig Harrington had a great tip about big breaking putts. Given both putts hit the same, a putt missed on the low side will finish 3x as far away as a putt missed on the high side. Mattie, the putter in chief!

You are a guru now. I love your videos so much. I have improved so much and don't feel like a dumb ass just wacking balls all over the place. For course management and putting, I look nowhere else but to my baus's channel. Thank you!!!

By far my favorite golfing youtuber.

Bro the formula one reference went dark fast ngl 💀 in all seriousness this video was such a good one. I think you’re really helping us amateurs and also a lot of youths get the right way of thinking down. Bought the golf is not a game of perfect because of you. Thanks for all the great videos.

I’m not draining a lot of long putts, but I am leaving everything within 3 feet which is a huge boost for my scoring. I almost don’t even need to read if I got the speed. The read just gets me even closer. I stand behind the ball and look at the ball and the hole as I make a practice stroke that I believe is the right speed, then set up my aiming point and make that same stroke.

Once you get a setup, you can do one handers with the hand you use dominantly in the putt. This is a GREAT video of using perspectives. I usually hit with just my right hand when I'm getting use to speeds of greens. On the practice greens ofc. But long putts and then hitting those putts in depending on where they are.

Asked about a putting video a few weeks ago and here it is! Thanks Boom Boom. The greens will be my kingdom after implementing this!

Great video Baus Mattie… picked up the “hit to a tee” tip on one of your early videos and that has been such a game changer in my distance’ control. 👍🏻👍🏻

“Bulee dat.” LFG!!! 💯🤣

I love your videos because you are the only golf professional who talks about ways of improving the mental and psychological elements of the game. You can have the best swing in the world, but without the mindset and focus, golf rounds can go south very quickly. Thanks again.

mate, I could watch your videos all day long! as a fellow saffa, you make things so digestable!

Great video. From Bob Rotella’s books I also like to pick a very small target within the hole, like a particular blade of grass. Somehow makes you feel like you can’t miss, and you start putting like a Baus 😎

11:15 I returned to the game last year after a 20 year hiatus. Concentrating on distance control substantially more than the break now has really helped. On putts outside of 8 feet or so I'm 80% speed and 20% line. On longer putts it's pretty hard to misread the break by 10 feet but I see a lot of people miss the speed by that much. Instead of practicing distance control towards a hole or a tee I putt towards the edge of the practice green. With no real left or right aim reference it really helps me concentrate only on the speed. I'm far from the World's best putter but I'm much better now in the last 16 months than I was in the 10 years I had been playing back then.

I've always struggled with seeing the break differently once I stand over the ball. This video has me feeling more confidential already.

I honestly believe if playas spent 1 solid hour a week putting, working on the 1-3 footers, and working a bit on the lags, doing what this video says, they will become good putters. My handicap is currently 33, and in July of last year, I was averaging 38-39 putts. But in the fall and winter, I put a few hours of putting practice in, and my stats on the SwingU app show me as a single digit (9hcp) putter. I average right at 35.5 putts per round, and I know I can get better! I did it by using these methods and mindsets, listening to Matt and Bob R, RESPECTING every single putt, and by believing that I am a good putter. I AM a good putter!

My first comment, although I have watched many of your videos... You are dead on correct with this. The beauty of finding how your eyes have to be for YOU to see correctly with a putter stroke...will also carry through to alignment for every other club in the bag.

Excellent information Matt. Hearing the ball go in the hole I call plopish. Enjoying the channel.

Man...the dropping of the hands and lining up with the arms, made a huge difference with aim and speed. Freakin amazing tip...!

Second time watching this. Best putting advice I have come across. Tried out some points yesterday and quickly seen great results. Brilliant.

A really good very informative video Matty. I got the audio book Bob Rotella, putting out of your mind and immediately improved my putting along with hours of 1 foot 3 foot and distance to the T peg all as recommended by yourself. You have improved my game 100% waddaplaya waddachannel thanks 🙏

Thanks Matt, Love all your videos. Particularly your enforcement of the mental game and understanding your own limitations. I consider myself a pretty good putter and short game player but this video has really opened my eyes to a few things. One of the reasons my short play is good is I don't hit the ball far, so not only do I practice it, I get to put that practice into play regularly. I am often asked how can I have that short game as a 17 marker and my reply is always "because I don't hit a lot of greens in regulation". Thanks again Matt, learning heaps.

Great video Matt! Also the link to the alignment video is great stuff, and I'm not even half way that video!!! This afternoon I'm back to the putting green to practise :)

Something I learnt recently through trial and error. If the angle in your trail wrist alters during the stroke, even slightly, from address position, the putter face will open or close unless you make a compensating move. There are many ways to achieve this and it doesn't really matter how you achieve it but it's important.

I'm with you on the breakers. It feels like I'm rolling the ball out to an area, even though I have identified a specific spot as the putt apex.

Best improvement I had in putting was applying a Luke Donald tip I saw where he said visualize staring into a mirror under the ball and still be staring in to your eyes AFTER the stroke. Absolutely sends the ball out on the correct line every single time (assuming you have read it correctly!!!) Also I just happened to see a bit of PGA coverage and the anchor was talking about a lad on the practicing with a kettle-bell posture. I gave it a try for a laugh and I must say it keeps you rock solid over putts!!!

When I make the Senior LIV tour one day in the future, Matty, you’re the first person I’m thanking🤙

If there’s a stroke in golf that is improved by body stability it’d have to be the putt. Reliable distance control and direction control begs for a solid putting stance. Wonderful video; you ARE the best putter on RU-vid!

Alright!!! You heard my plea!! Thanks GS!!!

I found prioritising distance control helped my putting the most and minimising errors and 3 putts

Thanks mate, I finally broke 80 today because of you. You are a bawsss

I always said that Golf is a game of the mind and putting is the main reason.

Thanks man, not only great advice but you have ignited my love of golf again,seeing it from a different angle, thanks legend

Probably the greatest video on putting I've ever seen!

This info is SO right on correct, much of what I have been doing, but always can improve. Great !

Great stuff! For me, it’s about expectations. The truth is that outside of 10 feet it is an absolute ocean of 2 putt territory, even for the very best in the world. Don’t ignore pace control, but practice a ton inside 10’!

Hello Matt. Again a game changing video. Masterclass. You really add value to the table. Money. 😊😊😊🇩🇪👍🏻👍🏻

I can tell that dropping your hands a bit to allow the shaft to run through your forearm is still uncomfortable for you b/c you're drifting back up! ;-). but you were right, that was the single biggest improvement I made in my set up. such great tips from one of the best RU-vid golfers out there!

You can see that he doesn’t mind having a beer after…awesome! From Canada 😮

New Golfer here, really appreciate your videos, insight, and humor! I feel like I'm learning a lot here and I see it translating well. Got a sub out of me, believe dat.

Yesterday was my first round ever with no three-putts. For me, once I found my line and got over the ball, the best thing was letting go and feeling super relaxed as my last step before making the swing.

Feet comfortable and narrow stance. Check. Everything diagonal and go. Awesome 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 but was missing Left or right eye dominancy is a factor.

To finally see how you look better (more centered over the ball) after he moved your head to the left and the subsequent 60/40 weight on the left is an aha moment for me. The shaft in line with the forearms. Duh. Those two things made a HUGE improvement for me. (For me, I need to raise my hands). Thanks so much for this excellent video. I have not putted this well in 25 years

After 6 months of playing I finally got my first birdie and I was preaching all day the gospel Matty the Grand Mojodulah thanks Matty

Great video, really helped me feel confidential over the putter

Straight confidential putting from now on

Wow. This is a great putting video. Watched so many. Now I know the line on my ball should look right…just adjust my eye position

Ok reduced my expectations based on reality, taking a lesser club to stay in the middle and had best round ever yesterday. Of course it did help my driver was dead on, but I was hitting safer approach shots putting me in scoring position. thanks!

Best advice iv ever been given on RU-vid

As always, great video. Am I the first to wonder...when will there be a line of Golf SideKick nose creams in different colors?

"gain control by giving up control"- such a great quote. And it works for me. I almost never look at a putt from behind the flag because that´s not where my ball is. Keep it simple. Don´t worry about which way the grass is growing. Or whether your moon is aligned with Uranus. Over analysing is over anal. with icing. If I have a big break across a slope, sure I might go to the upside of the hole to see where it´s going to drop in from, and you can see where that is because the lip of the hole will look pretty level. Then pick that point and visualise an arc, that gets steeper at the end as the ball loses speed from the putt. Then just put it out there and let gravity do the rest.

Greatest golf vids on the tubes.

When I do “one foot putts” I always hit them as hard as I can and still have them go in. It helps me not quit on my putter swing, knowing the ball can be going pretty quick and still go in. Plus, everything else in that drill comes into play as well. Very good if you want to be more aggressive.

Very helpful video sir I appreciate your dedication to helping us improve

So much great stuff in this video Matt, thanks.

That's great advice. Thanks for the tips!

1 thing i learned from someone better than me about confident putting / mental putting. If you do make a bad putt, or 3 putt or whatever. You literally just make every excuse imaginable. Nothing on the green was because you did anything wrong. Its strange thinking that way (because it surely was our fault) but somehow it does keep your confidence going into the next hole.

Great video, lots of practical tips. Thank you.

Wonderful. Most people would tell you just to pick a spot in between the hole and the ball and focus on that only while all I wanted to do is to imagine the film of the ball gloriously fall in the hole. Glad I am not the only one. have imagine crowds cheering. I used to even tip my cap at the imaginary crowd if I left a long one at tap in length. Does look stupid but it's a real positivity boost. Dr. Bob would approve I guess because I always putt to hole it. Ironically, I have more difficulty doing the same from 1-2 meters, which tends to feed my mind with negative thoughts. As one is statistically not really expected to make long putts often that makes it easier to "give it to the universe" so no negative thoughts there, if only I could copy that on shorter ones. And although I love my shot scope watch for many reasons, knowing that to make around 57% of these to go into the lower eighties I can only manage a measly 38% isn't helping to chase out negative thoughts, so thanks Sensei for the great tips for the shorter ones!

niggling injuries and a gnawing feeling of muscular imbalance (golf is such a one sided game) led me to switch to putting cack handed this year. Benefits are tremedous (a) when putting I can feel muscular tension dissolving - literally tension rippling away into the air...(b) and so I look forward to practicing and putting (c) bonus is total brain reset. Once I committed it only took 3 weeks to figure. Now locked in. No going back...

This is the video for putting! Watch this ten times and read (Putting out of your mind) ten times. Thats all you need.

Simply perfect ! Thx Matt !

"Putting is a combination of speed and line that is all" Is sorta similiar to what ive been told of. "you always have to strike a put straight, You never try to curve it. Thats the job of the green." I feel thats super beneficial to me as well to stop me from compensating for my vision. I happen to be left dominant as a righty, so for me im "ok" at gaging but the mind plays tricks on you. "Trust your aim, shoot it straight" And let the green do the rest. (gives you someone else to blame as well! ;D)

After this video with all the strokes gained gonna make top 10 on MGS

Good stuff matty. I don’t use a line on my ball because I set up the putt with the line and check it “no that’s too far left” I move it a poofteenth right “no it’s right now” move it half a poofteenth it’s not right. All this takes too long and my brain isn’t convinced. I don’t know how people set a line from ball to hole and it’s right. Also your line is massive. Brad faxon says one single line with a normal sharpie. The bigger the line the more alignment issues like I have. If you have any tips to line it up in less than 3 attempts I’d love to hear them

The Head Playa & Dr. Rotella, Putting Gurus.

Used these tips yesterday and broke 90, won the ladies competition on nett 67 🎉

Great video Matt. Thanks

Love Matty Boom Boom. Great stuff as always.

Great video! I struggled on some hard fast greens yesterday. 37 putts in my rd yuck

Great tips those clearly explained, thanks 👍

thanks for the video! my puting has been something i need to work on

Give it to the universe is a life lesson.

Mattie a great vid!!! Just tried the forearm alignment!!! What a game changer! Thank you

best putting video i've seen!

Great video Matty, I took your advise from an old video ref: Bob Rotella, putting out of your mind, there some great lessons in these books for all, and you adding these tips from Eric is fantastic, now!! I need to stick with the plan for a set period 6-7 months ,

Matty boom boom how did you know I’ve been working on 3-4 putts, like a tv show lost on the green

Am I weird for not lining up the lines on the ball with my read line? It tends to screw me up more. I prefer to stand over the ball and adjust, and I am lined up in accordance to the lines on the ball, I tend to second guess my adjustments.

I copied Jack Nicklaus putting since he is one of the greatest putters of all time. Feet slightly open with one foot back, right arm low, eyes directly on top of the ball, piston-like stroke straight down the ball line to the hole. I don't know why more people don't putt like Jack.

Who is the instructor that gave you that lesson on this video?

Confidential usually means secret. Confident or confidently is less likely to be confused. Great video apart for that.

Eric is the Baus❤

The one foot putt drill is what I need, I’m terrible at dragging under three feet on occasion

good information

Great video as always. When you say "Eric moved my head and eyes to the left." Do you mean he moved it moved towards your lead side and not Eric's left? Thanks.

Matt, regarding the 1ft putts, would you use the same hole and same location? or move round the putting green for different lies?

When are we getting love making lessons? These golfing videos are great and all, but I wanna be a confidential lover.

Finally broke below 36 putts per round. Had 34 putts total yesterday, shame about my irons being awful 😂

Nice work. 🎉

Why bother putting? Just hole out from the fairway like a true God.

Is your back stroke on a slight arc? I was always under the impression the putting stroke was dead straight but now I think it's a slight arc, the angle of the putter to forearm is a great tip

Good stuff, as usual.

Where do you get those drippy hats? Im just getting back into golf after a 4 year hiatus and i find your content very helpful. Appreciate it!

Nothing is more revealing than revealing everything that there is to be revelation

When I saw the way you were dressed I thought that you were going to be a gimmicky content creator. I subscribed despite of your clothes. Thanks for this great video.

Wow… eric impact golf kde💪