When my putting goes on a little vacation, I go back to the basics and try to keep things very simple. If you think too much about mechanics it is easy to lose sight of the objective... putt the ball on the line you want to. Once the ball is gone, you can't control if it goes in or not.

I go to the putting green and pop a chalk line about 5 feet from a straight, uphill putt. The main reason I do this is to teach my eyes to know where the putter face is aiming. Most of us will aim the putter to the right or left of where you are actually looking to aim the putter. Once my eyes get adjusted aiming where I'm looking, I can focus on body alinment and making a stroke down the line, toward the hole. I am not big on keeping the putter face square the hole time, nor do I focus on making the putter face open then close. I know If I'm looking dead middle of the hole and focus on making the stroke to that point, most everytihing else should happen naturally.

The only thing that really matters is that the putter face is square to the intended line at the moment of impace and that the stroke is toward that intended target ( not an inside to outside stroke).

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