A morning on the launch monitor, and the news is good: the putter itself is fine. The loft is fixed, your hands have stopped fighting the arc, and the equipment is clean. That leaves exactly one thing we have never touched — and one thought to fix it. Finish left.
Your stroke travels a touch in-to-out — out to the right through impact — and that is the last thing on the list we have never worked on. Everything else got handled this morning. So there is one job: get the putter head finishing left of the target line. Do that and the face squares itself up. You will not have to think about the face at all.
Four different feels this morning, and the arc came out the same every time — travelling out to the right. It is not a strike problem and it is not the putter. It is the only piece of the stroke we had not addressed yet.
We tried closing the toe this morning and it felt uncomfortable — so that is not what we are asking for. Just get the head travelling left through the finish. That turns the arc, and the face comes along with it.
Your start line goes from about three and a half inches right at ten feet to about one. And it arrives without a single face thought — that is the whole point of doing it this way round.
It is the highest-graded and steadiest part of your game across the last twelve months, and it never dropped below 93 in any month of the year. We are not fixing a problem here — we are finishing a good thing.
You get to plenty of greens — seven in ten. What is missing is the putt dropping, and the start line is the first thing standing between a good look and a made putt. Fix that and the same round scores lower without a single extra fairway.
On a ten-footer, three and a half inches of start line is the difference between the middle of the hole and the lip. The arc is what is putting it there — and the arc is the one part of the stroke we had never worked on until today.
“Could not aim properly and find my normal setup.”
The Brock String test today says you are strongly left-eye dominant. That means a square line genuinely looks left to you — so when you trusted your eyes and adjusted, you were aiming yourself right. You were not imagining it, and it is not a stroke fault. It is an aim question, and we will settle it with a proper setup and eye-line check.
One OnForm clip a week, filmed from down the line — same spot, same height, ball in frame. Down the line is the only angle that shows where the head finishes. I mark it up and send it back.
The putter head travels left of the target line through the finish. That is it. The arc turns, the face comes with it, and you never think about the face.
Every block you have ever raked has fallen apart. The one block this morning that ran at roughly a putt a minute is the one that got better as it went. Slow the reps down and the feel survives.
Line on the ball, matched to a straight six-footer. Your eyes will tell you it looks left. Believe the line, not your eyes.
Nothing to change here. The backstroke is not the problem, and adding a thought to it will cost you the good part.
The win from this morning. The ball comes off the face and rolls instead of being pressed into the green. Protect it — do not chase it further.
The putter head finishes left of the target line. This is the only thing on this page you are actively working on.
Judge the finish, not where the ball ends up. Inside a change your putts will scatter more before they scatter less — that is normal, and it is not a sign the feel is wrong. The question is only ever: did the head finish left? Make that yes and the make-rate follows on its own schedule.
We are not rotating the toe closed. We tried it this morning and it felt uncomfortable, so it is off the list — the head going left is the whole ask. And no holding the face at the target: that is the compensation you have just shed.
One clip a week into OnForm, down the line — same spot, same height, ball in frame. Down the line is the only angle that shows where the head finishes, so a face-on clip cannot answer this one. I mark it up and send it back.
Even with the arc neutral, the ball still started a fraction right — which points at aim and eye-line, not the stroke. With your left-eye dominance, that fits. So before we add any new feel, we do a proper setup and aim check. Bring your putter to the next session and we settle it in ten minutes.
Nothing to add to the technique — just keep the target honest. Not "on the green" and not "close." Inside six feet is the distance you hole from at a rate that turns a missed green into a par, and it is the same gate we use on every report.
Bias every green miss to the long side and the open side. Never short-sided into rough. You are choosing which of these three bars you get to chip from — and you can choose the 75% one far more often than you do.
Finish left. That is the only mechanical thought you are allowed to take onto a golf course. No face, no loft, no stroke length.
Square will look left to you. Put the line on the ball, aim it, and go — do not talk yourself into an adjustment over the top of it.
Every green you miss, miss it where you get to chip from grass you can control. Never short-sided into rough — that is the difference between three chips in four finishing inside six feet and one in three.
Walking off, the question is not how many dropped — it is whether the head went left. A week of good finishes and a cold putter is a good week.
That is the whole test. If you come back on 13 August with the head finishing left on film and no face thoughts in your head, this block has done its job — whatever the make-rate says that week. The makes are a lagging number and they will arrive.
Same size as your yardage book, so it lives in the same pocket. Everything on this card is on the pages you just read — the one thought, the phrase to retire, every gate with its number, and the rules to play by.