line b when making the sand shot lines 56 and 52 should be aligned with the flag 70 thus the club path b is to the left of the flag 70 for a right handed golfer the leading edge of the golf club should be parallel to the line 54 thus the club is considered to be u201c open u201d when swinging the line 54 indicates where the club should first strike the sand this ensures the club passes under the ball allowing the sand to lift the ball out of the trap having described some embodiments of the invention the versatility of the invention may be discussed for example in addition to using the device 10 to make imprints 100 in sand edges 32 and 36 may be coated with a substance such as chalk and used to assist in putting training after coating the edges 32 and 36 and perhaps 34 as well with chalk the device 10 may be used to stamp a putting surface thereby creating parallel chalk lines to be used as a visual aid for putting additionally devices may be constructed having different dimensions for different shots for example fig5 shows a device 10 having the same components as those shown in the other figures except that the dimensions differ from those dimensions shown in fig2 altering these dimensions creates shots with slightly different ball flights additionally.