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I generally hate putting ( 36 putts is a great day for me! and no i am not hitting every green in regulation!! ) - hence my score suffers - but just not found anyway to make it interesting to practice. Feel or mechanics... Seems very easy to have good feel one day and bad the next... difficult to monitor the mechanics on your own... I know that you should get mechanics first and repeat solid mechanics through feel but...

Yesterday I went to a buddy's house and we did some putting practice in his backyard. He has a great setup...large practice green with slopes all around. He has some simple practice tools...string lines to cups and a portable mirror. My short putting has been suspect lately and with some string and mirror work I found that some bad habits had crept into my swing...at setup my shaft was leaning backwards, I was a little closed to my target line, eyeline was a little too far back from the ball and I was too handsy and picking the clubhead up on my backstroke ....all this discovered through LOOK, LOOK, LOOKING at what I was doing. Something which I think Homer suggested doing frequently. So for those like me with some putting woes...don't take for granted that alignments are in good order. I had and was very suprised that they were not.