Why You Need This: In this video, you get a great golf putting tip.

To make a lot of putts, the first thing you'll need to do is find your line.

The Rifle Scope drill is the best cheat that I've found to help you find your line fast.

It's like you're shooting down the barrel of a rifle.

In the first part of the video, you'll learn how to test which of your eyes is dominant.

Once you discover which eye is dominant, you'll want to have that eye looking down the line for your putts.

Next, stand next to the ball with your dominant eye slightly behind the ball's line to the hole.

This will put you in a good position to naturally see your line throughout the putt.

A few more tips...

• Get just a little bit of forward shaft lean for a better roll, and
• Keep your left wrist flat and hold your finish to avoid a stabbing motion into contact.

Watch this video now to learn the Rifle Scope putting drill and drain more putts!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 2:48

Video Transcription:

All right guys, if we’re going to make a lot of putts, we have to be able to see our line. You can imagine this just like we’re shooting down the barrel of a rifle.

We put that rifle to our shoulder, and we’re looking down the barrel toward our target in the distance. We want to do the same thing when we’re putting.

First let’s test our eye dominance to see which I we should be looking with. If you make a circle with your fingers, and if I was to put that over top of the camera, you’ll see that I’m looking through that circle with my left eye towards you guys and the camera.

If I was to close my left eye, that circle would be off to the side somewhere. You can test that yourself, some people are right-eye dominant which would be this, but naturally if I just keep both eyes open, I put that circle around any object, I’m looking through my left eye every single time.

If you close one of your eyes, then that circle’s going to move if that’s not your dominant eye. You’re going to go to the same eye every single time. Most people are right-eye dominant.

When this matters when you’re putting, is I want to make sure that I get that eye looking kind of down the target line.

If I could imagine that I’m setting up behind this golf ball, and I have a rifle, and I’m going toward that hole, or toward the direction I’m going to put, I want to be looking down that target line the direction I want to go.

So if I’m left-eye dominant, I’m going to have to be a little farther back. If I set up to this putt, I want to take a ball, drop it from my left eye, I want it to be slightly behind that golf ball, just like that one.

I’d also like for that ball to drop anywhere from my target line to a little bit toward my feet. So you can see here, again, it’s slightly inside the ball. It could be right over top of that golf ball, as long as it’s behind it, that would be fine.

But I don’t ever want it to land on this side of the golf ball. I don’t ever want it to land there. Again, because then I’d be looking kind of back and out, not as easy to see the target line.

If I’m a little inside, I can look out on it and see the target very easily. If I’m a little behind it I can look out on it and see the target very easily.

From there, now that I have my eyes behind it, I can look right down my target line, it’s going to be very easy for me to roll putts into the hole, because I can see the line very well.

If I was to get too far this way, or too far that way, now all of a sudden, it’s tough for me to visualize that line.

Now I also want to get a little bit of forward shaft lean until my left wrist gets nice and flat, and I want to keep that wrist nice and flat all the way through the stroke and into the finish.

Then lastly, I would recommend holding your finish, that way you keep the feel of what that stroke was like all the way until the putt goes into the cup.

I don’t want to do this and then have some recoil, I want to hold that finish so I can internalize the feeling of a good-made putt.

So get those eyes down the rifle barrel, looking down your target line. Slightly over top of the ball or to the inside, you’re going to see the line a lot better.

You’re going to make a lot more putts and feel a lot more confident.

Good luck to you guys.