[TimEricsson]

I've always wondered how people line up and what they look for when setting up. If you have a 10 foot putt and see 3 to 4 inches of break, do you line up and aim 3 to 4 inches left of the hole or pick a spot just in front of your ball and let the speed of the ball do the rest?

[freevideom]

This might sound silly, but I visualize a line the ball will travel on like in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games. I draw a line on my golf balls, so I line that up with the visualized line. If I hit the putt the correct speed, it will go in.

[Goodwin]

I also try to visualize the line. It helps with my alignment and speed.

[Buincchotourbss]

I always use the alignment aid on the ball. I mark my ball and read the line. I point that line down my line. Pick up my marker. I never take a practice stroke. I just line up my putt and address my ball. I make a final check of my RST. I then start my stroke. I do everything I can to focus on hitting the ball with the middle of the putter face. I never look up until after I have hit the ball.

[apannamma]

Draw line on ball and aim it to where I want it to start off (in your case, 3-4 inches right of hole). Use alignment line on putter to line up to line on ball and just get it started down the line. I have really had good success with this method. I feel all sorts of lost trying to just visualize the putt without any true alignment.

[masterso]

This might sound silly, but I visualize a line the ball will travel on like in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games. I draw a line on my golf balls, so I line that up with the visualized line. If I hit the putt the correct speed, it will go in.

Not silly at all. That's exactly what I do as well!

[Madjostok]

I too visualize the line of the putt, but I always point my ball at the spot I'm aiming at. Thanks to the SeeMore triangulator I saw that I was a couple inches off of what my original target was... now I'm darn close and like I said, point my ball to where I am aiming. It would be hard for me to "address" the ball if the aiming line is pointing at the hole, while my putter and alignment aides on the putter are pointing at a target a foot or so left.

[Dertrioz]

I have a tool that lets me put an alignment line on my ball. I use that to line up my putts before every putt that is longer than 1 foot. I read the putt, line the line up with where I feel I need to hit it (on the line, that is) and then I just go on feel for the speed.

[TimEricsson]

Not silly at all. That's exactly what I do as well!

+2

So do you line up the ball's arrow 4 inches right of the hole if that is what you are reading?

[Goodwin]

I too visualize the line of the putt, but I always point my ball at the spot I'm aiming at. Thanks to the SeeMore triangulator I saw that I was a couple inches off of what my original target was... now I'm darn close and like I said, point my ball to where I am aiming. It would be hard for me to "address" the ball if the aiming line is pointing at the hole, while my putter and alignment aides on the putter are pointing at a target a foot or so left.

Thats what I do too. After I mark my ball, I line it up with my line.

[Buincchotourbss]

I have a tool that lets me put an alignment line on my ball.

Doesn't every ball on the market already have an aide on them? I only use an identification mark, I trust the line that's already there.
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[AXGreg]

This might sound silly, but I visualize a line the ball will travel on like in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games. I draw a line on my golf balls, so I line that up with the visualized line. If I hit the putt the correct speed, it will go in.

This is exactly what I do. Sounds silly but it works.

[freevideom]

+2

So do you line up the ball's arrow 4 inches right of the hole if that is what you are reading?

Correct. I'll line up the line I put on the ball so it starts on my visualized line, which would start 4 inches right of the hole. After that, speed is everything.

[ProomoSam]

Sort of a combination of what everyone has said...I aim the alignment aid/text on the side of the ball along the intended target line. I will often pick an intermediate target, a few inches in front of the ball, along my intended line, just for confirmation. I stand behind the ball, looking down the line for 1-2 practice strokes, just for speed, then step up and hit it.

[VogsHoock]

For me it's the break that I concern myself with. I imagine the ball rolling into the break and how the ball will break at which speed. I always try to line my ball up and I focus on my follow through through the imaginary line.


Tapatalkin' this mutha.

[tyclislavaify]

This might sound silly, but I visualize a line the ball will travel on like in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games. I draw a line on my golf balls, so I line that up with the visualized line. If I hit the putt the correct speed, it will go in.

Same here! Nothing better than "Tiger Vision" hahah!! Speed is everything for me. If it breaks too soon, i didnt hit it hard enough, breaks too late, i hit it too hard.

[Erexecike]

I've always wondered how people line up and what they look for when setting up. If you have a 10 foot putt and see 3 to 4 inches of break, do you line up and aim 3 to 4 inches left of the hole or pick a spot just in front of your ball and let the speed of the ball do the rest?

I cannot, for the life of me, pick something out just in front of my ball and putt consistantly. I have a black line on my ball and 90% of the time I point it at a point left or right of the hole. If its a double breaker or a long (40 foot) sweeping putt then I might aim at somthing just past the half way point between my ball and the hole.

[hexniks]

I just use the alignment aid on the ball and line it up with the break.

[Erexecike]

This might sound silly, but I visualize a line the ball will travel on like in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games. I draw a line on my golf balls, so I line that up with the visualized line. If I hit the putt the correct speed, it will go in.

True story. In south Louisiana its humid and foggy most mornings. Was playing one time in a "all birdies pay" game. It was about 7:30 am. I was 20 feet from the hole putting for birdie and my friend was about 35 feet on the same line. I marked 1 to the left. He made his for birdie! When I went to mark my ball back I noticed a dew line on the green going right to the center of the hole. I replaced my ball on its original spot and it was right on the dew line LOL just like Tiger Woods on xbox. I hit my putt and it hardly left the line and went in!! Everyone on in our group was laughing about it for 3 holes. Hope thats not considered cheating lol.

[pitoufsd]

After determining the amount of break to play, I decide which direction the ball should start rolling. Align the putting line in the direction I want the ball to start rolling then try to hit a straight putt with good rhythm. Let gravity and grain do it's job and turn it into the hole.