The T-Roll Putter is a unique and superior instrument, having multiple benefits. It will help you build your putting stroke, no matter what putter you use for competition. It will help you avoid putting disasters, especially those occurring under pressure, in either of two ways: by preparing yourself with it in practice, or using it as your putter of choice in playing. The latter, of course, offers double value since it allows you to duplicate your best practiced skills on the course with the very same club that got you there.

Now, if you'd like to make all that work at its most effective level, we offer you a drill that will help you develop your big muscle putting skills, followed by a fully developed set of habits from those skills, so you can putt your way to lower scores on "automatic pilot."

What we offer is the best possible combination of putting equipment, stroking action and mental foundation to provide a way for any player to perform at the maximum level of his/her ability, with the minimum amount of effort. To do that, you need the desire, the best equipment, the most effective pathway to building your stroke and a clear picture of how all that comes together. You bring the desire. We have the equipment. KeyGolf's Clear Keys and 32 Ball Drill, using Clear Keys, will take you safely through the process and steps required for building skills and saving habits so you can play and score at your best.

A prerequisite for management of the golf swing is solid habits. Management means a first step of using preselected Swing Keys during pre-shot to prompt desired habits. The next step is shifting to Clear Keys for execution. Both those steps depend upon having well developed habits, long since worked out on the learning tee.

The underlying principle supporting habits is this: Thinking about what you are doing while you are doing it forces the use of skills only. Habits enter when making shots while thinking about something other than the action itself. (There is no such thing as not thinking, so the thoughts must be carefully selected). Swing Keys inform skills. Clear Keys open habit pathways.

The most effective mechanism for moderating anxiety at the "moment of truth," is a "Clear Key." Swing keys belong in "pre-shot." Clear keys are the management tool for the swing itself. Swing Keys are as important to pre-shot as Clear Keys are to execution, and vice versa. Both also facilitate learning and developing skills and habits.

"Give me liberty or any other five cent magazine" is an example of what we call a "CLEAR KEY." Any kind of phrase is acceptable within the following guidelines: It must be passive to action so that it gives no command. It must be long enough to begin before your swing starts and lasts till it's complete. It must cover your entire swing in the same way a tablecloth covers and protects a tabletop. It should avoid even any hints of action. It should put a smile on your face. Humor is an anxiety fighter. "Low and Slow" is a Swing Key. "Mary had a little lamb. I wish I had one too" is a Clear Key.

BUILDING HABITS
In order to build a habit, one must give conscious attention to what is being done. That is a MANUAL activity. For a habit to MATURE, one must consciously replicate the action long enough for a habit to be formed. At that point, our systems transfer that learning to a "subconscious" or unconscious reservoir and our habit is ready for service. Habits function only on an AUTOMATIC PATH. It takes MANUAL activity to build habits and an AUTOMATIC process to release them.

The AUTOMATIC PRINCIPLE is: "When habits start, conscious thinking about action stops." If you are thinking about what you are doing while you are doing it, or giving yourself any kind of action command, you will not be able to use your habits, no matter how many you have or how good they are. Like it or not, you will be left to skills alone, which require conscious thought for their action.

To BUILD a HABIT, AND an AUTOMATIC PATH, it is necessary to BALANCE MANUAL & AUTOMATIC activity. That is accomplished through a series of "32 Ball" exercises.

    * FIRST - Execute four putts with the T-Roll putter while thinking about what you are trying to do - on MANUAL.
    * SECOND - Execute four putts with the T-Roll Putter using a Clear Key. MANUAL input is made pre-shot. The actual shot is made on AUTOMATIC in this sequence.
    * THIRD - Repeat steps one and two, three more times. (4+4) x 4=32.
    * FOURTH - Duplicate this process for each skill, regularly, until you can take the habit to the course. When you can use your clear key and get shots off that match what you ask for in pre-shot, those habits are formed. That takes as long as it takes. Expect at least a week just to become acclimated to anything new.
    * FIFTH - When playing after a building session, play on AUTOMATIC, using a Clear Key in order to evaluate your progress.

Repeat these steps with the T-Roll Chipper to increase your chipping and pitching skills.

Remember that growth is an UNEVEN process. It rarely follows a straight, upward line. Do not be alarmed by occasional regressions. Use the range to BUILD. Use the course to practice the AUTOMATIC PATH and evaluate the progress of your HABIT development.

ADJUSTMENTS require as much BALANCE of MANUAL and AUTOMATIC as BUILDING. However, there is a difference in WHEN they are implemented. Since adjustments are only appropriate with habits that are already in place, manual thinking at the moment of shot-making is rarely necessary. All manual thought pertaining to an adjustment is best done as part of pre-shot activity. BEFORE stepping over the ball, one gives direct attention to the desired alteration. From that point, the normal procedure for going on automatic is initiated.

Minor adjustments can be made during play, to the extent they are considered only within pre-shot time-frames. Major adjustments are best left to the practice area. Players must decide individually what is major or minor for them. The "32 Ball" exercise remains valid for adjustments. It can be carried out (4+4)x4, or it can completed by making all 32 shots using a Clear Key, so long as the proper manual input for the adjustment is clearly inserted during the pre-shot period.