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Eye Dominance - Check for Same side or Cross side dominance. This can affect alignment sig- nificantly and could potentially be a factor in putter fittings. To check eye dominance, ex- tend your arms and put them together to create a “window” and look through the window at an object at least 20 feet away. Alternate closing one eye than the other. When you close your non-dominant eye, and look with your domi- nant eye the object will stay in the same place in your window. When you close your domi- nant eye and look with the non-dominant eye, the object will move.
Same Side Dominance will tend to be able to align more square to the golf ball and have the neck in a more neutral position because you can track the target line without rotating your head.
Cross side dominance will tend to perform better with the lead foot open to the target and the neck in a more flexed position. Be careful when you flex your neck that you minimally flex your mid back (thoracic spine)
Head position - varying the degree of chin up or down will adjust how the line of the putt will look to you. It is very important to find a head position where the line of putt looks straight when it really is. Otherwise, your brain will constantly try to adjust for missalignment.
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The second key to starting the ball online is having proper visual alignment.
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There's one general thing that we need to do.
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We have to figure out which iteminance you are.
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And then once we know which iteminance you are,
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we can go ahead and find two in your visual alignment depending on which one you are.
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So I'm going to use a couple of terms here.
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The first one is going to be same side,
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and the second one is going to be cross-side dominant.
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Same side would be I am right handed.
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I play golf right handed, and I am right eye dominant.
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I'm going to teach you how to determine which dominance you are in case you don't know in a second.
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But that is same side where it's right right.
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Cross-dominance would be if I'm right handed,
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but I am left eye dominant.
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And that's said to have an advantage in golf,
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specifically from the short games point of view.
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And part of that is because if this is my dominant eye,
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I can stay in my golf posture,
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and I can look at the target without really moving my head a whole lot.
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Where if this is my dominant eye, which mine is,
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for me to see the target, my head is going to have to move a whole lot,
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so that this eye has the proper field of vision.
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First let's just teach you how to figure out which eye dominance you are.
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So there's two ways to do it.
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If you have no friends, your single, your alone,
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and you got nobody who can double check this for you,
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you can form a diamond like so,
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and look at an object in the distance.
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And when you close one eye versus closing the other,
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the object that you're looking at will jump dependent on which eye you close.
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When the object moves, that is your non-dominant eye.
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But again, that's a little bit trickier than what I think is the simplest way,
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which is if you make two okay signs and overlaps,
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you got kind of one little circle,
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and you tell someone, I'm going to hold this at arms reach,
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and I'm going to look at your nose.
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What you'll do is, if I hold this up so that I can see the camera,
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and you will see probably that you can see my right eye.
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That's because I'm right eye dominant,
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and that's the one that I need in order to see the camera properly.
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It would feel very weird for, yeah, I can't even get it to where it sets up there,
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because I'm very right eye dominant.
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And once you know which eye is your dominant eye,
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then you can start making adjustments.
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Because if your left eye dominant,
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you're going to have to make the following adjustments.
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You're going to tend to favor being more square
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with both your body and your feet,
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and the ball is going to be a little bit more forward in your stance.
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If you are going to be right eye dominant and play golf right hand,
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like myself, which is same side dominance,
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you're going to tend to favor a little bit more open stance
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with your feet and playing the ball more further back.
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Basically, the ball is going to be closer to your dominant eye.
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That's the first place that we're going to do some adjustments,
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and that will help us to see the line as straight when it really is straight.
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So practice that, figure out which one you are,
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and then play the next clip where we're going to go through
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how to fine tune your visual alignment.
