steel spring tempered titanium spring tempered graphite alloys thereof or graphite spring tempered metal or alloy e g stainless steel bronze brass copper aluminum steel or titanium allows the strip 10 to be rolled up or otherwise made compact for storage and allows it to lie flat without showing a memory of the position in which it was stored this is desirable as most golfers do not want a 5 ft long strip 10 extending across their floors when they are not practicing putting spring tempered stainless steel brass bronze copper steel or tatanium is a suitable choice for this application also because it is reflective as mentioned above the reflective property of the surface allows the user to evaluate his swing easily the strip 10 should be heavy enough that it does not wrinkle or crumple when the ball rolls on it the strip 10 is not limited to being made of spring tempered metal metal alloy or graphite and may be made of any suitable material that does not show the position it was stored in possesses the reflective property and the weight described above in some embodiments a weight may be attached to one end or another part of the strip 10 fig1 b depicts the second surface 16 of the putting strip.