Patent ID: 6840870

Claim:
An alignment guide for practicing striking a golf ball with a head of a putter comprising a base having perpendicular target and putter face lines intersecting at a point on an interior portion of said base and an unobstructed gap extending away from said putter face line along said target line from a beginning point spaced from and less than a radius of a golf ball from said putter face line, a pair of guide rails and means for securing said guide rails on said base in parallel relationship to and on opposite sides of said target line with said rails spaced apart by a distance slightly greater than a distance from a toe to a heel of the putter head and at least one aperture through said base, each said aperture being on an opposite side of said putter face line as said rap and between said rails, each said aperture being sized to receive a stem of a golf tee therethrough with a bottom tip of said tee extending below said base and a top of said tee extending above said base in a path of back swing of the putter head, said apertures being coincident with said target line.