I think he is *there.* I know his general walking stride is shorter than what we see there - but it doesn't take too much in terms of a purposeful stride to get to a 4' stride. Teaching orienteering I kept a consistent walking pace by feel - stretch before an activity, and then focus on how my hips felt at each step to keep it consistent. At 5'10 with short legs for my height - a comfortable step was 3'4.5" per. I'd say Paul had about 3 strides there that were that short or shorter out of 9, and he didn't take the last step to the pole.You think McBeth takes 4' steps??????????? (Oh, I didn't read on to see the further discussion about this. Long time ball golfer, had my strides pretty close to 3'...PM is about the same height...a 4' stride is really long for someone 5'8"ish).
Overall - I'm just amused by it. I do think that it messes with putting statistics. I know that last year at GBO Austin Hannum had absolutely no idea how far he was from the basket and was just killing it putting, so its not like I'm pointing out something that impedes putting ability. He shot a 1039 that round. But all round he was telling people to mark 0-11' into UDiscLive for putts that were 15-18'. Considering how often I see it at tournaments all the time - I don't think our top pros are necessarily any better at judging actual distance than the average person, they are however about seventeen bazillion times better at judging relative distance and application of relative distance in putting.