Why You Need This:

In this video you’ll find out how to visualize your putts going in the hole, time and time again, before you ever move the putter.

The best players in the world can see the ball roll into the hole before they ever take the putter back for a real stroke.

Jack Nicklaus would talk about this all the time.

He mentioned being able to watch every shot, like he is watching a movie in his head.

Tiger Woods and his dad Earl did the same thing.

Earl always told Tiger to “putt to the picture,” so he could see the picture of the ball rolling in the hole, before every putt.

Sounds pretty cool, right?

Watch this video today to discover how to visualize the shot being made before it’s taken, and how to make this thought process automatic…

What's Covered: Your pre-shot routine and how to visualize making a putt before you ever hit one. This is a game changer!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:13

Video Transcription:

Being able to visualize your putts is one of the most important things you can do. We need to go through a four-step process to see the ideal putt over and over again in our head.

There’s a couple keys we’re going to do as we do this. Like Jack Nicklaus one of the best putters of all times, really talk about the visualization process and how they felt like they had a crystal-clear picture of exactly what the ball looked like as it was rolling before they ever took the putter back.

So what I would do normally is as I go ahead and I approach my ball here, I’m going to be obviously looking from back in the fairway to read the green a little bit before I ever get to the green.

Then from here, I want to get very far away from the hole. So I’m going to walk back about 30 feet or so away from this putt, and I’m going to start to get down really low to the ground, that way I can see from a farther back view the slope of the green.

So I’m going to come back here, and I’m going to crouch down as low as I can get to the green, and what I want to do from this angle is I want to look and see the ball roll in the hole twice.

So I’m just going to picture it in my mind’s eye rolling in the hole, and I want to position my body to where I’m looking at the starting line, straight down the starting line, and then I’m seeing that ball fall off the starting line.

So I may need to move a little bit this way, or that way, until I get lined up and it looks just right in my head.

So in this one it looks like it’s going to break off a little bit to the right. Now as I start to go farther up, obviously my ball would have been marked on the green.

Now I would mark my ball, and then as soon as I’ve marked my ball I’m going to go into the second piece of this process.

I’m going to get about 10 feet behind this putt, and I’m going to crouch down and do the exact same thing again.

So I’m just reaffirming what I already read from 30 feet away. Now I’m 10 feet away and I’m getting that second look at it, that reassurance that it is what I thought it was.

Now from here, I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to step up over the putt. Now I’ve already done my green reading, this visualization is for pairing up my green reading to the actual stroke itself.

So this is when it breaks into more of my pre-shot routine. So as I step up over this putt, what I’m going to do is I always set down with just my right hand first, and I’m looking down this target line to where I want to line up this putt, and then as I make my first stroke, I’m making it just like a real putt.

So now I’m visualizing the movie playing in my head, and I’m watching this ball roll into the hole, and I’m pausing in my finish. I don’t want to do one of these where I go back and forth really quick like this.

That’s going to break my visualization. I want to make the real speed stroke, and see the ball roll all the way to the hole. I’m going to do that twice in a row. So I’ve just made two putts in a row, saw them go in the hole.

Now I’m going to set up my putter for the same routine. My right hand’s on the putter, I’m looking at the ball go in the hole as I trace it with my eyes. So I’ve just made another putt.

I’m setting up my feet, I’m looking to the ball to go in again, and then as soon as I look back, now I’m going to go ahead and roll that putt and it should trace the exact line that I was looking at.

So visualization, it’s not exactly green reading. We’ve read the putt, now we’re getting back and we’re just affirming everything, picking up from 30 feet back, marking our ball, 10 feet back we’ve made two more putts.

Stroke two more practice strokes, so now we’ve already made this putt six times, then we set our putter down behind the ball, look at the hole twice, we made it two more times.

So before we ever take the putter back we’ve made the putt eight times. We have a crystal-clear picture in our head exactly what it’s going to look like, and now we’re just auto-pilot.

Take the putter back, completely unconscious in your mind, you’re just putting to the picture just like Tiger Woods and his dad Earl Woods talked about.

So Earl Woods used to always tell Tiger get that clear visualization in your head and just putt to the picture, let your natural athleticism take over.

So what I want you guys to do, go ahead and practice this about 20 times on the practice green before you ever go out again.

Takes a little bit of time, it’s going to take you some time to go through the full process. In the next four rounds I want you to focus in on doing this every single putt.

Unless you have a one-footer or something like that, but anything outside of three feet, go through this same process over and over, you’re going to make the putt eight times before you ever take the putter back.

It’s going to become a habit, and you guys are going to make a lot more putts. So good luck, see the ball go in the hole, you’re going to putt a lot better, make a lot more.

So I’ll see you guys soon.