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PuttingZone - Reading: What You Need to Know to Use Your Touch
Geoff Mangum explains how once you find the uphill line you are halfway to reading the putt.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts from Ball with Touch In, Back Out, Straight to Fall-Line
Geoff Mangum explains to Lucky Kusuma Chandra how to see the ball go in the hole.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts Fine Tuning to Surface Oddities
Geoff Mangum explains how to read the target without a flat surface.

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PuttingZone - Reading: Putts Taking Break Out 2 vs 3 Feet
Geoff Mangum demonstrates putting two versus three feet.

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PuttingZone - One Speed One Read: Ball Capture Physics
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how the ball interacts with the hole to indicate what a good choice is for touch.

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PuttingZone - One Speed One Read: Center Cut Putt
Geoff Mangum talks about the other slower possibilities with ball capture physics.

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PuttingZone - One Speed One Read: Delivery Speed
Geoff Mangum explains the considerations to take into account when choosing your delivery speed.

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PuttingZone - Reading Putts
Geoff Mangum discusses reading putts untuitively.

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PuttingZone - Handling Steep Tiers: Downhill
Geoff Mangum explains intuitively adding your putts.

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Putt Like a Pro with Geoff Mangum - The Hole
Geoff Mangum explains the interaction between the ball and the hole.

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Roll the Hoop for True Putts
Visualize the ball as only a solid disk vertical on its edge in the plane of the putt, with only one dimple on the back equator, one dimple on the front equator, and a central dimple on the top, and roll this hoop or disk to the hole with your solid putting stroke.

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Light Up the Target with Your Putterface
Visualize the direction straight out of the putterface as a long straight rod whose tip sweeps side to side over the hole or aim spot as you get a fix on precise face orientation to the target.

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Short Putts are Tough to Sink!
Short putts require extra care in targeting because the closeness of the hole makes it too large a target for good line control, too visible in the periphery so that you are tempted to move your head for a peek, and not far enough off to your side to generate a substantial angle in the neck-head turn as a cue to the location of the hole in relation to your setup positioning -- so be extra careful!

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A Slo-Mo Read for Seeing Enough Break
Speed determines break, and optimal speed at the hole determines optimal break; the optimal break is obviouly between the fastest speed that will drop and the slowest speed that will just get the ball to the hole, and is a lot closer to the slowest than the fastest to make more of the hole available for capturing the ball and avoiding long comebacks.

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Reading Break: Zero in on the Zero Break Line
If the green surface for the putt is basically flat although tilted, you can find one aim spot for any putt of the same length by identifying the fallline through the hole (the "zero break line" or ZBL) where all putts up or down are perfectly straight, walk around the hole in a semicircle from your ball to a sideon putt to the hole of the same length that is perpendicular to the ZBL (and hence has no elevation change up or down from there to the hole), and visualize this putt at regul regular speed to imagine how far below the hole such a putt would roll low and cross the ZBL; the aim spot for all putts of the same length is that far above the hole along the ZBL.

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Touch, Location & Space
Geoff Mangum demonstrates how to control the delivery speed of the ball at the hole, and discusses location and space.

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