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
15 coaches we've indexed teach it. Every one of them, timestamped, on the drill page.

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