Best Alignment Tools For Golf Review

Even if you’re a seasoned veteran, there are times when you wish a power bigger than you could guide your hands through a stroke. All jokes aside, though, proper alignment is a key element of golf, and even though everyone understands this, you’ll still see plenty of golfers, especially amateurs, who could use a little bit of help in this regard. For this reason, we decided to shortlist some of the tools you should check out in this best alignment tools for golf review.

Why do Problems with Alignment Occur?

Well, painting it with a broad brush, there are two main reasons for it – either you’ve altered your stance and position at address in a bid to compensate some other fault in your stroke, or you’ve fallen into a bad habit of not checking your alignment. Alternatively, you’ve never been taught how to align properly, though this is extremely rare.

Short of taking lessons and asking for tips, you could get one or several golf training aids to help you sort things out. Think of them as the golf version of training wheels, if you will – you use them for as long as you need them, and once you’ve mastered your stroke, be it putting, chipping, driving (you know the drill), you simply set them aside. That said, some of these aids, such as alignment sticks, remain in many a PGA pro’s bag until the end of their career.

On that note, carrying alignment sticks during a round is of itself not a breach of rules, but under no circumstances are you allowed to actually use it (rule 14-3), at least as tournaments go. Whatever you do during a round with friends is up to you and your friends, of course.

Best Alignment Tools for Golf Review

To save you the trouble, we made a list of the 15 top rated alignment tools for golf, with a brief review for each. Enjoy the read, and feel free to chip in down in the comments!

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There is a plethora of alignment training tools for golf out there on the market, with the Golf Putting Arc MS-3D being one of the more popular choices among golfers who favour arc strokes.

Alignment sticks are incredibly popular across the board, from the PGA pros to even the most casual of golfers, and with good reason. They are easy to use, and with regular practice, they bring noticeable results, even with the absolute novices.

Indoor putting mats are an efficient and entertaining way to practise your putting, helping you with pretty much all the aspects of the short game – distance control, alignment, the works. The LevelGolf Dual-Track ProEdge Indoor Putting Green is one of the more popular golf training aids in this category, coming with two holes (in different sizes), longer-than-usual mat, plus an adjustable ball return, as well the usual distance markings.

The Dave Pelz Putting Track is exactly what it says on the tin – an arced track that follows your stroke. It consists of two arced rails that frame your putter and help you “groove” your stroke. The track’s been around for a while now and it goes a long way to helping you groove your stroke and alignment.

The PuttOut Pressure Putt Trainer is an absolute favourite when it comes to golf alignment tools that help with short putts (6 feet and in). It’s a simple plastic training aid with a rubber sole the width of a hole and an incline behind it. The idea here is for the ball to go up the incline and then come back the same distance it would’ve past by the hole if it were a real putting situation.

The SKLZ Putt Pocket is a horseshoe-shaped golf training aid that’s designed for both indoor and outdoor use. It’s useful in that it helps you read greens correctly and, in turn, aiming more efficiently. On the green, the Putt Pocket goes around in the cup, helping you visually to see the right line.

The Putting Gate from SKLZ allows you to practise your putting within the gate that you would traditionally do with two tees. That said, the trainer still needs tees to fix it (four of them), and you end up with a two-gate training aid that goes a long way to ensuring you keep the putter square at impact.

The Softspikes Golf Ball Alignment Tool is one of the lowest-tech, user-friendliest, and cheapest training tools for golf you’ll ever find. The principle is simple enough – you grab the ball with the tool and use the sharpie to draw the lines on the ball (vertical to line up the putt, horizontal to line up the putter face).

Alignment sticks are the true champions when it comes to golf alignment training aids. Some might find it too simplistic or even only a beginner’s tool, but the fact remains that many PGA pros still have them in their bags. The babies coming from Tour Sticks Golf are one of the more popular choices in this regard.

The TPK Golf Training Aid is designed to help you get the most consistency you can out of your stroke on short distance putts (6 feet and in). It promotes correct eye alignment, stroke length, as well as accuracy and it’s been popular among tour professionals for quite some time. The idea is simplicity in its purest form – all you have to do is keep the ball on for the entire length of the stick, and you’re golden.

A bit of an odd choice for a list entitled best alignment tools for golf, but certainly not without its merits. The V1 Golf App is a nice little piece of software that helps you capture and analyse your stroke. You can play your swings in slow-motion or compare different strokes during fitting/round using the side-to-side feature, among other things.

​The VariSpeed Putting System is an excellent golf training aid to help you perfect your putting. It’s one of the closest things you can get to an actual green indoors and comes with an amount of tech you wouldn’t expect in a mat. For a start, you can choose between four different speeds (hence the name) and custom breaks, so you can really challenge yourself. Another great thing about this mat is that you can actually see the exact path your ball takes, as the traces remain perfectly visible on the mat’s surface.

Conclusion

Admittedly, when we started this piece, the word “shortlisted” was used, and 15 items don’t exactly constitute a short list. Still, considering the variety, it can all be boiled down to only a few – indoor putting greens, tracks and trainers, alignment sticks (a major point), and a few odds and ends that don’t really belong to any broader category. Whichever way you decide to go about it, we hope this list has helped you make a decision. Fairways and greens!