Curves and visual keys can help change your ability to start the ball online ! @JamieDonaldsongolf

Using the AimPoint system to predict the ball’s path can be a very effective way to get the ball started on-line

hi I’d like to talk to you about the drop point and what happens when we start to look at visualizing curves or aiming in straight lines but first of all I’ll talk a little bit about how we came to invent the drop point with aim Point gol for AO Technologies uh in 2017 Ross fiser shot 61 at St Andrews and he was interviewed and in his interview he was talking about I could just see the lines today I could see the curves I wanted to hit puts along it was a nice solid white line and it was just a great day where I could see where I wanted to set the ball off and that got me thinking how do you get in the state where you see curves and is it measurable or is it completely just something that players get good at so I sat down with Mark Sweeney and the other aimo instructors and we actually managed to figure out that you could pretty accurately display exactly where the ball will be on any putt that you hit so let’s have a look at the setup for drop point and then we’re going to hit some puts and talk about the pros and cons of using a line on the ball or just using curves and and basically matching up the ball to the path that you’re able to now see okay so the drop point and where it’s located well we’ve got a braking part here and 2/3 of the way between the ball and the hole the ball will roll over halfway between a straight line to the hole and the aim point so you do need an aim point to work out where you’re going to put your disc so once we’ve stood back and done our aimo read then we can figure out where the ball’s going to be and most of the time it’s 2/3 or 66% between the ball in the hole and halfway between your straight line and your aim Point here you can see me playing the Putt and I’m aiming along the string line and letting the ball move off that through the drop point and then into the hole okay so a lot of people like to use a line on the ball and they like to just work to the aim Point we’ve got a teg down here where I want to be aiming at and I’m going to go back line up my ball to that and there’s no drop point for this these are the guys that work on every part is a straight part theoretically and then the gravity just takes it away so if you use a line on the ball you’re not necessarily going to be seeing curves so we don’t need to factor that in so I’m going to come back and line up my ball with the TEEG always going to come back a step behind and check it okay that’s bang on so now I’m going to get my speed feels in here this is where I’m working out my stroke length and my timing once I got my feels for that all I want to do is just match up the line to the ball one more look play my PO okay so still still not sure which one of these two you are well you might well be a hybrid and this is very common which is where we’re using a line on the ball but we’re actually visualizing curves also so we got our read there we know how to place the the drop point now somebody that likes to be a hybrid when they’re in this position here and double checking the line on the ball they’re also visualizing where the ball will be through the putt so we’ve got our aim point line sort then we’ve got a straight line to the hole I can see where I want the ball to be at that two third stage the line is going to be what governs the aim of my putter but in my rehearsals I’m looking at where the ball will be at what stage I’m visualizing where I want the ball to be we come in match the putter to the ball one more look at my curve and play po okay so there’s a couple of ideas for you straight lines are straight to the aim Point curvs are predicting where the ball will be at what stage and what I have found with players is if you’re using a line on the ball and you you start a lot of puts high it’s because you’re visualizing the brake the curve too high and what I found with players is the teg always looks too high when they use aim point and the curve always looks too low when we show them where they should be so as soon as you understand that your brain is seeing things slightly differently then we’ve got a a really good area that we can make some benefits then we know that they’re not matching up curve and and their valuation of Curves wrong so being able to use drop point means we can show them where it is and they have to get used to seeing it there when they’re practicing and then take that format onto the golf course so give that a go and give us some feedback as to whether you’re a straight line curve Seer or you match them together