ProAim putting trainer

Price: £49.95

If Darren Clarke wins the Volvo PGA Championship, which starts today – and living on the Wentworth estate, he’s one of the favourites – he’ll be thanking Butch Harmon for introducing him to a new training device.

The Irishman has incorporated the ProAim virtual alignment system into his putting regime.

At the Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters recently he shot four birdies on the final five holes to rocket up the leaderboard (earning £4,000 for Sport Relief) after using the unique putting trainer on the practice green.

Despite again finishing high on the leaderboard his putting wasn’t quite on song in the Deutsche Bank but he’s fully confident the dark spectacles with the imprinted putter alignment, will soon help earn the title he has been threatening to claim.

Clarke has consistently averaged around 1.7 putts per hole for the last four years but knows it needs to improve to reach the goals he has set himself and to claim the major title he craves.

"The short game is everything for us on the Tour," he explained. "Hitting the ball is one thing but you've got to knock your putts in. Anything that's going to help putting is going to affect scores and certainly ProAim has started to benefit me a great deal."

Wearing the ProAim glasses, he says, helps keep his head still.

"The old bad habits can still appear but with these I'm starting to get a lot better," says Clarke.