How to do the gate drill

Two tees either side of the ball, just wider than your clubhead: an off-path stroke clips a tee, a square one goes straight through and starts the ball on your line.

A 0:28 film by golf.studio, drawn from how the coaches in our index teach the gate drill.

Chapters

  1. 0:00 The question
  2. 0:02 Set up
  3. 0:07 The miss
  4. 0:12 The good one
  5. 0:16 What it trains
  6. 0:20 Who teaches it

What the film says

The question
Putts starting offline? Try the gate drill.
Set up
Two tees either side of the ball — just wider than your clubhead.
The miss
Off path, and you clip a tee.
The good one
Straight through — the ball starts on your line.
What it trains
A centred strike. A square face. Your start line.
Who teaches it
31 coaches we've indexed teach it. Every one of them, timestamped, on the drill page.

31 coaches we've indexed teach the gate drill. See every one of them, at the second they demonstrate it.