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Another piece that can help with visual alignment is using what's called an

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enhanced line on the ball. Now most manufacturers, sometime in the last two

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decades, have started printing the logo or the name of the brand of the ball

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in a straight line on the ball. Brad Faxson is the first guy that I can

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remember really taking the time to line up the line on the ball every single

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time.

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But in Dr. Craig Farnsworth's book, the putting prescription, highly

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recommended, it's a great book. He says that 91% of Torpros a few years ago

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were

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using some sort of enhanced line. So 91%, that's a pretty strong correlation. I

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recommend you at least give it a try. Now here's the caveat. If you are going

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to

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use a line on the ball, you have to practice it just like you would practice

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any other piece of your game. Don't think that just putting a line on the ball

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then going out and trying it on the course is going to work. What you really

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need to do is you need to practice on three footers with the line on the golf

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ball. So typically what you'll do is you'll put your coin down, you'll place

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the

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ball with the line aiming at the center of the hole. You will typically want to

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position yourself so that your dominant eye is in line. So I've played

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around with lining with just my dominant eye open or with both. I tend

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to actually line better with both but that's an individual thing. You need to

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play around with it. So practice at least a good 15, 20 minutes just aiming

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three footers to make sure it's lined up at the center of the hole. Now one way

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that you can check, one one second. So one way that you can check to make sure

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that you have it lined up once you do is if you you can see that this line is

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named roughly at the camera, you would stand a few feet back and you would hold

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the putter so that the the non tapered straight part. So you can notice how my

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shaft the putter shaft here has a taper to it and has these steps. These are

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very

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poor for using as a visual alignment because they're going to be slightly

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angled. But the last 10 inches or so of most putter shafts are going to be

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straight. I believe it has to be. So what you do is you hold it just below

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there and you would use your dominant eye so that this straight line is right

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on

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the edge of the of the golf ball and I'll I'll back up and demonstrate in a

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second. But you're going to hold it up so it's right on the edge of the golf

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ball and that'll give you a confirmation that it's aimed right at the center of

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the hole. I'm going to be picky when we're doing this alignment thing because

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when you get on the course if it's a little off your eyes aren't going to trust

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it and it's probably better that you just put based on having the white

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looking up at you and trust your eyes instead of using the line. But if you can

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practice the eye or sorry if you can practice aligning the line on the ball

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it's a huge advantage. I'm gonna back up and basically align the golf ball at

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the

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camera or at my imaginary target which would be right there. And then I would

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step back and I would hold the putter shaft right in line with my dominant eye

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and I can see that that is aimed about three dimples to the right of center. So

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I got a little work to do until I can get it aimed right at center but it's

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pretty close. So that's the way you use the line on the golf ball. There's a

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bunch

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of little line tools that you can buy that help you draw a sharpie line that's

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perfectly straight. I recommend those if you're going to use the line either

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that or get a golf ball that has the line already imprinted on it. So that's

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how you align the ball and that can help a lot with visual alignment.