PuttOut Putting Mirror Trainer Review

hi guys and girls it's Lee here the store manager down at major Gulf direct along Leeds Road in Huddersfield just a quick video to let you know what's just come in today in the last hour you probably all familiar with the putout pressure trainer and the putout matt recently over in orlando a couple weeks ago they launched the new mirror trainer with the gates so it takes the pot in practice to the next level so another little go see how I get on and see if I need any cutting lessons let's have a go so what you've got now is you've got your adjustable gates so you can have them set to any width that you want you've got your mirror board which helps with your alignment your setup and your stroke and then the idea being is to get it through the gate obviously here with aiming into the hole but you can put this anywhere you want indoors outdoors and have it any distance apart so there's several hurdles go and see what happens that's not bad I'll keep that one

so father get ready for this final round this one he does uses that mirror especially towards the end of what he is doing under practice putting graded he explained what it's all about yes I'll go out and I use a mirror made by eye line it's very simple when I carry my bag and use it for about 5 minutes before ever round or whatever I go out and practice and it's really it's not telling you where you need to have your eyes or anything like that or how you need to set up but it's so I can go and check and make sure that I'm consistently setting up in the same position so the purpose explained what do you think for a lot of guys using it for that very reason you like to get your autonomous unplugs every single time some people like to have that the vault slightly outside they're on it has to be in the same place and we've seen that from 10 to 20 15 lives maybe 10 putts in that distance that's sort of the magic distance it's more the birdie range

there's no doubt that potting is an area of the game where think nearly all of us can improve and safe shots during the round of golf you look at the best players on tour they're averaging 28 pots or so around Thomas Bjorn one in Switzerland last week with a hundred and six pots for four rounds so averaging 26 and a half putts around and I think the vast majority of us will certainly be over 30 pots around I'm sure many of you out there more than 34 36 even 38 putts around sometimes possibly even more than that so I think for everybody who's out there plotting as an area of the game which has very little in terms of physical demands but is an area where we can save significant shots around one of the most overlooked elements of passing is your eye line your eye position and this has a dramatic effect on your ability to initially aim the putter on target it's one thing to select a target but you've then got to go ahead and be able to aim the putter face on the correct target and then execute the correct stroke and I'm going to use a potting mirror this week to help highlight what I'm what I mean by this I'm sure many of you particularly if you've had pottery lessons or you've read up about potting you will have heard a lot of people talk about the potential the importance of getting the eyes directly over the top of the golf ball now although this isn't a hard and fast rule there been many great putters who've had bare eye line inside the line of the ball I think there's one element which is very rarely talked about unless you really go for high-level potting instruction which is common to all great putters and that's the eye line relative to the target line what do I mean by this well your eyes when we set them over the ball we need to ensure that whether we're slightly inside the ball or whether we're working more on top of the golf ball that the eye line is parallel to the target line in other words one of the most destructive elements of particularly aiming or lining a putter up is if you get your eye on your head position slightly twisted your eyes are not parallel your putter face position naturally is going to run in the direction but you've aligned your eyes so if I slightly twist my head to the left of target I can now see that looking down on the mirror the chances are my perception of what a square plots of Facebook looks like he's going to be distorted and I'm going to align the putter face to our left of the target now as soon as you've done that that's going to demand some sort of in stroke compensation to recover that initial mistake and that's obviously not something that we would like to happen on a regular basis so putzing mirror is crucial if you speak to your club player I'm sure you'll be able to to get one from him they're not expensive things to have but if you're going to have any kind of training aid a putting mirror I think is one of the most important to have so we set ourselves up and I'm looking at really trying to get my eyes over the top of the ball when i putt that matches my desired stroke shape so I can now not only see whether my head is over the top of the ball but I can also start to work on my head position in terms of getting my alignment my eyes aligned parallel to the target line I then bring the pots are in I've got alignment aids aligns on the on the mirror that help me square the putter up and I can also see on this mirror my shoulder line so in that position my shoulders are square now at that position once you establish it feels alien to you feels uncomfortable then there's a pretty good chance that you're making mistakes out on the golf course so get yourselves a passing mirror it's a crucial piece of kit build your setup and I think that if you spend 15 minutes a week practicing not necessarily on the potting green but if you spend 15 minutes a week it's inkpots on the carpet working on the position of your eye line you'll significantly improve the consistency of your stroke the consistency of your aiming and you develop a solid strike and really improve your passing

one of the questions we hear every day I think is so tell me what are the tour players really doing with these mirrors I see them on TV I see them on the website what are they doing let me give you a real quick glimpse because they're critically important keep in mind these are the best players in the world and they are spending time every day on a mirror which is a feedback device right but here's the thing that they're checking they throw the mirror down they make sure that it's lined up they hit a couple putts to make sure that's where they want to be right they make the adjustments to get it right the next thing that they do then is they make sure they that now they've got a reference point for the putter face being square they've got this great line to look at they'll take a ball which is often marked with this ball liner even for practice they'll set it down gives me great reference point for square they will often create a putter gate by putting the tees in these holes here where the putter has to swing so now we're starting to work on the path of the putter the one thing that you and I think they look at most and it's very important are the eyes and here's what they're looking at with the eyes I want to get my eyes over the line of the putt perhaps I might want to get my eyes over the inside edge of the ball they don't get their eyes inside the line like this when they say inside the line it's this far perhaps but it's the same every time the second part about eye line is that the eyes have to be Square to the line I can't be cockeyed if I am my hole optical system is messed up I had a great conversation last week with a player we were talking about exactly that he said I use the mirror because when my eyes get cockeyed then my shoulders follow and where my shoulders go the putter goes the path of the putter goes so he says I get my eyes back over the line square then my shoulders are square then I've got a lot better chance of repeating that the shoulders are going to let the putter flow down have phenomenal way to do it there's one other thing I want to show you that we see out there a lot and that is they begin to work on a little bit on the path of the putter where they'll they'll take that tee and they'll set it behind the ball just outside the path and the idea is it's not trying to guide me it's trying to prevent me from doing something really stupid like bringing it back to the outside so when I put that tee there it lets me know bring that putter back inside that path think about this all with one thing set it down check in alignment eyes path putter face that's why there's someone love the mirror yet it smoothes out their stroke it makes their optical system work properly being a line and pulling the trigger with no doubts that's a big deal when you're playing for millions or it's a big deal when you're playing a $2.00 Nassau