Introducing the Face to Path Putting Guide

Now available at the introductory price of $229.99.

What is the Face to Path Putting Guide?

The Face to Path Putting Guide is a training aid designed to provide golfers with both visual and physical feedback on their putting stroke. It encourages skill development by allowing the golfer to perform the stroke independently while still offering essential guidance for improvement.

How does the Face to Path Putting Guide compare to other Golf Training Aids?

The Face to Path Putting Guide offers golfers unparalleled feedback on the critical aspects of the putting stroke, setting it apart from other aids on the market. The Face to Path Putting Guide does not act as crutch by physically directing the stroke, the Face to Path Putting Guide trains golfers to naturally refine and develop their technique, creating sustainable improvement in their game.

What is Face to Path?

Face to Path is the relationship between your clubface position and club path at impact. Every golfer should have the goal of returning their putter face square to their target. Understanding your path and making it consistent will help with a consistent face angle and contact.

In putting, Face to Path refers to the relationship between the putter face angle (the direction the putter face is pointing) and the path of the stroke (the direction the putter head is moving) at the moment of impact. This relationship plays a role in determining the initial direction of the ball and whether it starts and stays on the intended line.

Key Elements of Face to Path in Putting:

  1. Face Angle: The angle of the putter face at impact. A square face aims directly at the target, while an open or closed face points to the right or left, respectivly. The face angle at impact has the most influence on the start direction of the putt, while the path contributes less but still plays a role.

  2. Stroke Path: The path should be on a slight arc. It is important to keep the path neutral through the hitting zone.

  3. Face to Path Relationship:

    • Square Face to Path at Impact (0° Difference): Results in the ball starting straight along the target line, assuming proper contact. Especially important through the hitting zone, this will result a ball that has limited sidespin.

    • Open Face to Target: Causes a Push.

    • Open Face to Path (Square to Target): Start line will be at target but it will produce sidespin.

    • Closed Faced to Target: Causes a Pull.

    • Closed Face to Path (Square to Target): Start line will be at target but it will produce sidespin.

Based on data provided by Quintic Ball Roll, Greater than 20 rpm of Cut or Hook spin is enough side spin to cause the golf ball to change its intended path (i.e. miss the hole) when putting over a distance of 10ft.

Why It Matters in Putting:

  • Consistency: Understanding and improving Face to Path can help golfers consistently start putts on the intended line through eliminating variables. Most golfers do not have consistency through the hitting zone and tend to overcompensate for their mistakes. By limiting your face to path relationship, you will establish a better understanding as to why you missed and limit the chances of overcompensating.

    This will lead to players being able to focus on eliminating variables like, putter type, impact location and face to path.

  • Feedback and Adjustment: Training aids and tools that measure Face to Path provide valuable feedback, allowing golfers to refine their stroke mechanics.

Golfers and coaches often use tools like launch monitors, putting mirrors, or laser alignment devices to analyze and train the Face to Path relationship for more accurate and consistent putting.

Order the Face to Path Putting Guide now for introductory price of $229.99.

Case Study: Low Professional in PGA Championship

One of the first golfers on a Face to Path Putting Guide prototype was Braden Shattuck, PGA. The guide helped Braden understand why he was missing the center of the face and what was causing his ball to have "weird spin". A few months later Braden went on to be the Low Club Professional in the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla.

Braden was also ranked #1 Strokes gained putting for the week and made 165 feet of putts in the second round. 

What I’ve learned with one of my friends Mike Little, was that I was hitting all these really good putts, and they would get like three feet out and they would like they would literally spin offline and I couldn’t figure out what was going on. It turns out when you don’t hit it in the center of the face it puts some weird spin on the ball
— Braden Shattuck, PGA, 2023 PGA Professional Champion

What is difference between the Face to Path Putting Guide and Face to Path Putting?

The Face to Path Putting Guide is a training aid, while Face to Path Putting is a method of learning the putting stroke by focusing on producing pure ball roll. Face to Path Putting uses the science behind ball roll to create a method of putting that produces reliable results that a golfer can use to hone in their putting stroke.

Face to path relationship —> 

Leads to pure ball roll —> 

Produces a baseline putting stroke —> 

A Golfer now has a reliable baseline putting stroke in their tool belt

Face to Path Putting essential factors:

  1. Face Angle

  2. Club Path

  3. Face to Path

  4. Attack Angle

  5. Shaft Angle

  6. Acceleration

  7. Set up

  8. Green Reading

Golfer:  The difference in how the ball rolls out is incredible. It looks like it’s gonna come up short but just keeps going. Holding its line at the target a lot more than it did before. 

Coach:  Did this change the way you read putts?

Golfer:  I would say my reads are a bit closer to the hole now. People have always wondered why I play so much break and I think I know why now, because putts would just tail off at the end but now they are holding the lines and rolling out better so I can play it closer to the hole without feeling like I have to hit it harder.
— A Golfer after a Face to Path Putting Golf Lesson