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00:00How difficult was that process for you man going from something that was so, you know trained, right?
00:05It's a trained skill to finding like what's the solution?
00:09I know there's other players like Keegan Bradley that had to go through similar deals
00:13But it seems like y'all both were able to come up on the other side of finding a process that worked for you
00:19Yeah, I mean it was at the Ryder Cup in 2014 when Pauly said hey, we hadn't put a great this year
00:27Like we have another year we could use this thing
00:29But what if we go ahead and switch, you know this fall this offseason to a short putter?
00:34So we did in my first term. It was the Dunlop Phoenix
00:37First time yeah
00:40Yeah, so I figured you know less pressure in Japan than in the United States
00:45It'll be a good first start and I had some, you know, good putting weeks early on in the PJ tour
00:52I'm here. I played a great at Doral finished seventh that week. So I was feeling confident
00:57Finished second here at Wells Fargo, but then in the summer that first year I started putting really bad and I went from
01:04Being an above-average putter to two years in a row with the short putter
01:09I'm one of the worst putters in the PJ tour like
01:12175 to 200 type numbers
01:15Was that all inside of 10 feet? Was it mainly just pulling the parts that she should hold?
01:20Yeah, I was nervous anxious over the putter. No confidence
01:24And then I missed a cut here at Wells Fargo. This would have been I guess
01:292016
01:30May and
01:32Bones, I was playing with Phil Bones talked to Pauly about hey when Phil went to the claw
01:38Like he got way better inside, you know 10 feet and Webb should try it
01:42so I went out to Charlotte Country Club grabbed an armlock putter and
01:47Tried the claw and I'm like, okay, this feels a little awkward
01:50But it feels like doable and Pauly watched my stroke the next week
01:54He said strokes really good
01:55And that was I think colonial and I finished third or fourth that week the year Spieth made everything from everywhere
02:04but I'm like all of a sudden this I feel like a new player and
02:08Smiley those days were dark
02:10I mean I I got to a point where I didn't like I thought I could keep a career on tour
02:15But I I believe I could never win again unless I figured something out with the putter
02:20I mean, I'd go out and hit 16 greens
02:24and
02:25You know shoot one under par and I'm like, I can't keep doing this. That's just not you either, you know
02:30Yeah, yeah
02:31I know and I was used to making a couple of 10 to 20 footers around that it stopped and I was starting to miss
02:37a couple of three to four footers around and
02:40It was just killing me. Let's kill my confidence momentum everything
02:44But when this armlock came and the claw happened I
02:49It changed everything. I went from like
02:51One, you know, like I said 190. Let's say on strokes game putting to fit all of a sudden and I'm
02:59Horsey came up to me. He goes explain something to me. How does somebody go from 190 to fifth in a year?
03:05I said horsey. I just changed my partner changed my grip
03:10But it's been a roller coaster for me now
03:12I'm in the I use the broomstick and I do love it. I would say I'm not as
03:18I don't get as hot on my hot days
03:20but my bad days are like negative one strokes game versus what I was doing negative three, so
03:26It's something I'm working really hard on like I I feel great over the putter now
03:32but as you know to
03:34The difference in finishing fifth and 25th is a few plots a week. That's it
03:39Yeah, if I can get back to kind of hauling some 10 to 20 footers like I used to I think those are the weeks
03:45that that are
03:47Gonna make me feel more confident