So now is where we address the ball to start looking at our putting stroke. One of the most important parts is we get ourselves the right distance away from the golf ball. This is not only to get a good strike on the club face but also to make sure that your eyes are sitting directly over the top of the ball. Like I said, it’s one of the most fundamental parts of making your putting stroke is having your eyes set in directly over the top of the ball.

When you turn your head then, you got to look down exactly the same line the ball is going to roll on and that’s very important because you can imagine trying to shoot your eyeful while you’re not looking down the target line but you’re looking across the target line, across the barrel of the goal. Now if you were to stand with your eyes here and your putter reached out, that’s effectively exactly what you’re doing. The club and the ball are on one line, your eyes on a different line and they’re merging together on a line, that’s very difficult to get good alignment.

So I’d like to see that when you set up to the golf ball, your club sits behind the ball nicely, you position your body eight to ten inches away from the golf ball with your eyes directly on top of the ball. Now the easiest way to check, that would be from this position, take a spare ball from your pocket, hold it up to your left eye socket and drop it down downwards. And hoping it will land right on top of the golf ball beneath me. That means I’ve got a direct hit, a bulls eye, my eye was right on top of that ball that when I make my stroke, my club can rock back and through, my eyes can then look down the line and follow the ball to the hole knowing that my eye was directly on top of the ball.

It’s much easier to line your puts up like that and it’s much easy to make a good solid smooth stroke with your eye directly on top of the golf ball.