Here's a simple way to make a putting aid. Get your oldest pair of sunglasses (or even a pair of plastic lens clear or prescription glasses). Scratch two straight horizontal lines on the front (left for righty's) about 1/4" apart. Scratch a couple vertical lines across the horizontal lines also about 1/4" apart. Set the putter behind the ball with the ball centered in the square of the grid. Pull the putter back and push it through the horizontal lines. The putter face is aligned square to the vertical lines and the stroke is square through the horizontal lines. The distances between the lines may or not be 1/4" but some experimentation will get you where you need to be.
If you're moving your head, the ball will fall outside the lines. If the stroke isn't square, the putter will move outside the lines. Using something like this allows you to leave the lumber at home, and you don't have to set up strings and tees. Just put the glasses on and go practice. TFlan > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:25:03 -0400 > From: dtutel...@optonline.net > Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Putting Training Aid > To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com > > At 01:14 PM 10/7/2009, Tom Flanagan wrote: > >All the methods and devices discussed here lack a couple points; in > >order to bring the putter away and through the ball, you have to > >have your eyes directly over the ball. > > That's a great point. > > And there are training aids for that, too. > > One of the best and cheapest is a plain old CD. (I don't remember > where I first saw this. Might have been one of your posts, TFlan.) > > Take a CD that you don't ever want to play again. (Like rap, or yet > another AOL subscription.) Put it on a flat, level piece of ground, > reflective side up. (Level is important.) Place a golf ball in the > center hole of the CD. Now address the golf ball with your putter. > You will be able to see the reflection of your face in the CD. Your > eye line should be through the ball. It is easy to see if your eyes > are inside or outside the ball. > > Cheers! > DaveT > > -- > Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. > Learn more at http://aldilavoodoo.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/
