Everyone flinches. Most people never see it.
The short putt you keep missing.
Prop your phone up, hole out from two to six feet, and find out what your stroke does when the putt actually matters.
How it works
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Set the phone up
Face on, about two metres away, level with your hands. The app checks you are in shot before you hit anything.
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Hole out from two to six feet
One recording, five or six putts. Putt as you normally would, not as you think you should.
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Tap where each one finished
One tap per putt on a target. That gives a miss map, and it is the only way the app can tell an aiming fault from a stroke fault.
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Practise the one thing that is costing you
Two or three drills, all of them inside six feet. Come back, film it again, and the app checks whether the drill actually worked.
Why short putts
Tour players hole 96 percent from three feet, 88 from four, 77 from five. A fifteen handicap holes about half. That gap is the largest anywhere in putting, and it is on the putts you already believe you should hole.
Inside six feet there is almost no break to misread and no pace to misjudge. If you miss, it is your aim or it is your stroke, and this tells you which.
What it cannot do
It cannot measure face angle or path in degrees, and no phone camera can. It measures what causes an open face instead: lifting your head, quitting on the stroke, a wrist flick, a sway, a routine that stretches when it matters. Then it asks where the ball finished and puts the two together.
Set the phone up
How far are you putting from?
Six putts, one recording
Reading the clip
Where did they finish?
Tap the spot for each putt. Tap the hole itself if it dropped. This is the only way the app can separate an aiming fault from a stroke fault.