This is the best stroke-building station as it tests every area of your putting action – eyeline, path, face angle and alignment. I know lots of you got a string line free in TG last year and I urge you to get it out or go and buy one as they prove to be incredibly cost-effective! Setting it up just a short distance from the hole and working with it for just a few minutes will tell you so much.

Through the gate
Set a gate fractionally wider than your putter head using two tees and pass the head through it. Unless you’re delivering the face square and hitting the middle, you’ll hit one of the pegs.

Shows the arc
You will putt with a slight arc and the line will show this as the putter head moves away from it on the way back, comes back to it at impact and moves inside again on the way through.

Eyeline

The string should split the ball in half as you look down if your eyeline is correctly over the ball.

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