Golf Putting Tips - Make More Putts
5 +1 putting tips to help you shoot lower scores
Golf legend Gary Player once noted that the game is won on the green. Yet this is where most players lose out. Here are the InnovationsGolf 5+1 step-by-step putting tips to help you perfect your putting skills:
1. Take in the whole picture. Once on the green, take a moment to analyse the breadth, slope as well as the contour and grain. Ensure that you analyze the putting line, the speed and break from all sides.
2. Set up your stance and eye alignment. As you set up your stance, align your eyes right above the ball. The appropriate eye alignment determines the effectiveness of your total set-up. It may be tricky to achieve, and without a confident sense of space, golfers, especially under the pressure of the game, can easily lose this sensitive alignment point.
The advantage of ClearBall Putter becomes obvious at this stage. Simply look at the alignment system insert in the head of the putter for instant feedback about your eye alignment. The alignment system of ClearBall putter guides you into the perfect putting alignment.
3. Visualize the path of the golf ball to the hole. In your mind's eye, get a picture of where the path would brake on a sloped path. If it is a long putt, visualize a virtual target 3 to 9 feet away on the path of the ball and use that point as your target.
4. Adjust your stance and eye alignment. Ensure that your feet and shoulders are parallel with the path. Also, it is absolutly critical that your eyes get aligned right on top of the ball as you adjust and finalize your stance. Analysis of hundreds of golf players' putting stroke shows that what distinguishes the top PGA and LPGA players' putting stroke is the consistent and accurate eye alignment. If you are playing with Clearball putter, as you finalize your stance, just ensure that the white focus lines of the alignment system insert hides out the red line - and you achieve the perfect alignment.
5. Take a confident and smooth stroke (shoulder or wrist stroke work equally well) and roll the ball on the visualized path to the hole. Before making the stroke, ensure that your eyes are focused on the ball. Keep your eye alignment and keep your head still as you take your putter off the ball and while you strike: your head should not move until the putt is complete.
+1. Remember that practice is key to success. Even if you use Clearball Putter, we recommend scheduling solo green practice time. If you're reluctant to practise solo, arrange a few putting games with your friends before the main golf season.
Best Putting Aids
The Ultimate Putting Training Aid - ClearBall
At the heart of this mallet putter training aid is its exceptionally efficient alignment system. The ClearBall putter, with its alignmnet system, addresses the crucial area of eye alignment and stance – the downfall of most non-professional golfers. It helps you to learn the proper technique of setting up your stance and create the perfet alignment.
Read our putting tips here to understand the role of the alignment in putting.
Slash your score with ClearBall putter
By using the ClearBall putter in practice:
- Immediately improve your putting accuracy
- Perfect your alignment and stance
- Slash your score and help to sustain a lower handicap
- Become a consistent and confident putter
- Eliminate the need for another putting training aid for a long time
See how golfers, using Clearball putter on testing green, have improved their putting.
Our Story
Our goal is to provide golfers of all levels with equipment to improve their game and maximize their capability and agility.
The approach we take is simple, yet innovative: Combine creativity, practicality and hard data to empower you to improve your handicap and enjoy the game as never before.
Putter Innovation
Our flagship product, the ClearBall putter was developed by analysing the putting technique of top PGA and LPGA players and making a comparison to non-professional golfers. We quickly found that the elite players distinguished themselves from the field with consistent and accurate alignment.
This discovery led to the idea of creating a putter that would give immediate feedback to golfers and guide them to correct their stance for the perfect alignment. After hundreds of hours drawing, designing, fabricating, testing and refining the ClearBall putter, we introduced the first retail series in Washington State and British Columbia golf clubs during the summer of 2011.
Our guiding principles are:
- Innovative product design to provide superior golfing experience
- Bold, yet smooth, natural forms
- The highest level of craftsmanship and relentless quality control
- Continuous research and development to improve manufacturing and create new ideas
- Environmental friendliness, in terms of manufacturing and the materials we use
Our putter made its major debut at the 2012 PGA Show and has been gaining commercial interest and sales in North America and around the world. The ClearBall putter has also scored superior results in GolfTest USA putting tests and has won the approval of the United States Golf Association (USGA). See USGA Approval letter here >
More importantly, we have received consistantly positive feedback from golfers of all type - female, male, amateur and Tour Pros as well as golf legends such as Doug Sanders and Bruce Fleisher.
