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I get a lot of questions about things like the putting arc and training aids

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for putting.

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And as you've noticed, most of these drills, I'm not very fond of training aids

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in general.

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And the reason is, it's kind of like having the answer sheet sitting next to

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you while

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you're taking a test.

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It can be good in the very early stages of learning, but I've seen way too many

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players,

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especially juniors, get obsessed with being good on a training aid and not

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developing a

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proper feel or using it correctly.

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So training aids should be used as a feedback tool, potentially after the fact.

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So here I've got a, I'll show you what I mean by after the fact.

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Here I've got the learning curve, which is similar to the putting arc, it's

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stand at

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least training device.

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I like it.

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I think it's a pretty good, pretty good little tool.

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So if I was having trouble making a good arcing motion with my body connection

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and stuff,

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I would, I would take some strokes just letting the heel of the putter kind of

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slide along

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this arc or on this incline plane.

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And because it's on an incline plane, the putter moves in along the arc, just

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like the

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putting arc.

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But I prefer this to the putting arc because the putting arc is straight up and

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down where

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this one is on the actual swing plane.

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So I would then use this as a feedback tool.

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So I might step away from the object and hit a few putts and then step over to

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the object

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and say, okay, that felt about the same.

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Rather than setting up the ball on the actual learning curve and hitting putts

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with it forcing

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me to do it correctly, if you have an object that's forcing you to do it

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correctly, I can

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guarantee you that it's not going to transfer onto the course.

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There's a lot of research in motor learning that says that does not transfer

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very well.

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But this one's fun because I like it both as the incline plane.

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And actually more specifically, I like the arc on the inside.

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So you can take a look here and basically there are lines that show the angle

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that the

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putter face would be if it is square to this normal curve for, I believe it's a

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68 degree

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putter, I could be very wrong on that though, but basically if you were to set

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up to this

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like so and make a proper stroke on the way through, this would show you the

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angle that

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the putter face should be at.

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So again, I'm not a big fan of hitting a ton of putts on it, but if I was to

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hit some

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putts over here and then come forward and just use it as a check, well it'll be

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a very

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good tool for helping you fine-tune if your putter face and putter path are

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correct.

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But I don't think it's a great tool for learning them, I think it's a great

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tool for fine-tuning

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them once you kind of have a good idea of what you should be doing.

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So use the drills that I showed you in order to build your repeatable putter

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face and putter

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path, but then you can use objects like the learning curve or the putting arc

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if you really

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want to confirm that what you're doing is as specific and as detailed as you

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need it

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to be.

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So that's my take on the putting training aids, not a huge fan but if you're

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going to use

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them, that's how I would use them.