By Bryan Haas, PGA Professional

Step 1. Choosing your putter
Choosing a putter is much like choosing clothing. The putter you choose should look good to you and instill confidence. Liking the way your putter looks is the first step in producing a confident putting stroke.

Step 2. Grip, Posture & Alignment
Choose a grip style
Have a PGA Professional help you choose a grip style. Weather you use a traditional golf grip like the overlap, interlock, reverse overlap or cross handed, sticking to that grip and not changing it will help you create a stroke that you can repeat.

Select a Posture
Create a posture to where your eyes are just inside the ball. Be sure that you can repeat your posture over and over again. Maintaining a repeating posture will help you create a repeating putting stroke.

Alignment
Use a shaft of a club or a putting alignment tool to be sure that you are aligned to your target each time you practice. Practicing with bad alignment, will produce a putting stroke that you will not be able to repeat on the golf course.

Step 3. Have Your Putter Fitted
Having your putter fitted for you is not necessarily the 3rd step of this process. However it is the one area that I see most players pay the least amount of attention to. It also causes more shots than they realize. Having a putter that is the correct length, lie angle and loft are very crucial to complementing the first two steps of this process.

Playing with a putter that does not fit, will produce a ball that will roll off line even though you have a good posture, grip, alignment and stroke. See Your PGA Golf Professional. They will be able to help you put all three of the steps together.