Really rough time with the thundercock tonight! Still in need of some major practice. I blew a 5' putt about 20' past the hole at one point, and on another one I had a 6' putt go right over the hole and bounce out. I'm still missing low a lot too. Hopefully you can catch me on stream sometime and help me out. How much do you charge for lessons? ;-)
Here's what you need to do, similar to the second chadputting vid I posted. Drills, drills, drills. Plan, predict, assess, adapt and repeat. It's the only way to internalise the feel for distance control and the impact of pace on distance. It's why I said I was surprised that some have reported such immediate positive results, I think you need methodical practice of the same putt repeatedly to get that feel, it's difficult to get the requisite muscle memory when you're testing it out on a course with completely different putts every time.
Find 1 course with 187 speed greens, one with 160 (or thereabouts) and one with 140 (or thereabouts) as these are the most common we see in TGCT. For each course, go to the putting green and firstly make sure there's plenty of undulation around certain pins as these will be the ones to practise on primarily. You need to find
1. A short (6-10ft) strongly breaking putt. Something where you'd have to aim at least 6 cups away to die it in, preferably more. Once you've got a nice looking practice putt, turn mulligans on.
1.1
Start by taking the dead weight method.
Plan first to miss on the high side by a few ft and left/right by 2 cups.
Predict a) how far the ball will go in exact feet (the next shot it will show you with the marker how far you hit it, which is an awesome feature), taking note of where you place the marker on the grid, and b) how many cups left or right the ball was as it passed the hole.
Assess the result in direct comparison to your prediction - did the ball finish at the xft that you predicted? Was it x cups wide? Think actively to yourself "Oh, I planned and predicted that to run out to 13ft and 3 cups wide, but it actually finished 12ft and 2 cups wide" - this helps begin the process of rewiring your brain to change how you view breaks in the game So from there,
Adapt and for the next shot aim slightly shorter, wider or whatever, to get closer to the desired miss you initially planned for. This is a highly methodical, scientific method where you can narrow down your variables and through practice gradually groove the right pace and aim for a particular shot.
Repeat until you achieve the miss you planned for ONCE.
Then, start the process over where you try to miss it on the near side and short. Say roughly 1 cup wide and just 1ft short of the hole so you can better see how wide you were. You basically want to recreate the infuriating 'didn't hit it' low side miss with the ball resting less than a foot away slightly on the low side.
Repeat the exact same plan, predict, assess, adapt and repeat process as before, until you achieve this miss ONCE.
Then the fun starts, actually planning to putt the damned ball! The misses will already have shown you where not to aim so you should already have a very good idea of where to aim to die the putt in. Slightly longer and wider of your low side miss and slightly shorter and closer for your high side miss. If this sounds condescendingly easy it's because it is, that's the purpose of drills, repeating the process over and over until your brain sees it as something to transform into high competence so you 'naturally' (it's all learned) begin seeing the right break and pace. Take a note if you get it wrong as always and adjust, and the goal here is to putt the ball dead-weight
3 times in a row. How to know if it was dead-weight? The putting marker for the next shot will tell you. E.g. in my second chadputting vid I found that one putt needed an exactly 7ft pace putt to die in the hole for a huge break, and I was able to repeat that speed control for a second time. You need to do this 3 times in a row before you can move on to the next stage. Be acutely conscious of how that very specific pace feels with your controller - nobody can tell you what exactly 9ft feels like on a 187 speed green, you have to develop that feel through muscle memory.
1.2 Same putt as before, so keep mulligans on, but this time we're thundercocking it. When you do this drill you'll soon realise why I believe it's a safer method than dead weight putts, because the angle of approach makes the effective hole size wider when you're playing for less break, compared to a really strong breaking putt that has so much more lateral movement. Anyway, re-do the first process again, first aiming to miss long and wide. This will be easy since all you have to do is keep the marker where it was and use a firmer downswing motion on the stick. Don't pull it further back necessarily, just use a more confident and firm movement upwards with the stick. Your prediction that it went long and wide should have been correct, but might not have been exact, so
repeat this miss until you match your initial prediction (e.g. 2 cups wide, 8ft too long or whatever you decided).
For this one, no need to do a low-side miss since you're hitting it firmly regardless. So instead set the marker about halfway between the dead weight aim point and the cup. Let's say your first putt drill was 10ft away, flat and needed 7-8 cups wide at 11ft pace to die in the hole. Now set the marker at 3-4 cups away from the hole and aim to hit it at 15ft pace (as before, you'll know if you got the pace right because the marker will still be set to 15ft on your next mulligan). Call this your plan, and you predict that the ball will go in the hole. If it doesn't work, adjust accordingly. Your goal here is to
putt this ball 5 times in a row before moving on. However unlike the dead weight putt drill, you have some leeway on the exact distance, because as you'll see you can get away with being a foot wrong either side distance-wise and the hole will still accept the ball. That's one of the biggest benefits of thundercocking, you you have more room for error than dead weight putts which have to be very precise. Maybe if you choose 17-18ft distance you'd need to bring the aim marker in by half a cup or whatever - similar to the putt in my video where I brought the marker waaaay in with a harder putt, the difference in break was ludicrous. Ultimately with these drills you need to find your happy medium where you can feel confident in a certain chadputting aim zone, and by repeating the process through these drills you will visualise how the ball travels so much more accurately.
2. A longer putt, this time 20ft, ideally on a medium to strong breaking putt.
Repeat the exact same process as in 1.1 and 1.2. You want to get the misses right once, the made dead weight putts in 3 times in a row, and the thundercocks 5 times in a row. By the end of this drill with the 3 different green speeds I guarantee you will have developed a very good internalised idea of how pace dictates break and where to aim accordingly.
3. Distance control.
You need to take notes while doing these on the various green speeds. Find a relatively flat long putt area on the green, and you want to set yourself distances of 30ft, 40ft, 50ft, 60ft and 70ft. Your goal is to use the internal counting method to nail the distance on each of these putts. You need to nail it 3 times in a row for each putt, with the following tolerances:
30ft (no leeway)
40ft (1ft leeway)
50ft (2ft leeway)
60ft (3ft leeway)
70ft (4ft leeway)
So let's say on the 50ft putt your marker shows 50ft, 49ft and then on your third attempt 47ft. Suck it up soldier,
you need start over until you get within 2ft 3 times in a row. Actively think to yourself how your counting rhythm feels and what a 48-52ft putt feels like in terms of your personal count. You need to repeat this process to develop that feel until you then know if you timed it a little early or late of your desired distance. You may need to count quicker, or you may need to adjust your distances, e.g. on a faster green for a 70ft putt I might count to 4.5 because it's safer due to the difficulty in pinpointing longer distances based on backswing length. For me personally, my count begins on the 'wu' of 'one' as soon as I move the stick back, aiming to hit the ball on the 'fi' of 'four point five'. The point is by repeating this process for a count that works
for you until you get it right several times in a row, you are strengthening the accuracy of that internal timer which is continually micro-adjusted. By the time you are done nailing 45 distances (the above distance control putts should be done on each of the very fast, fast and medium speeds greens remember), you will have an incredible feel for distance control on putts along with a baseline to use on future courses. You'll never be 100% accurate, nor will anybody, but with this approach you can reduce the variance, be more consistent and gradually start sinking a few more putts per round that you would otherwise have missed.
If you fancy doing this on stream and do it before 9pm GMT then let me know and I can hop on and act like a drill sergeant
But it might be better, given the nature of the process of fine tuning the competence of delicate muscle memory, to do these drills on your own. The rule is you can't progress until you have made the shot x times in a row as stated above, so you will improve dramatically, that is guaranteed.
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LET ME SEE YOUR PUTTING FACE!
But it might be better, given the nature of the process of fine tuning the competence of delicate muscle memory, to do these drills on your own. The rule is you can't progress until you have made the shot x times in a row as stated above, so you will improve dramatically, that is guaranteed. 
