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

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on the ball.

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Now most manufacturers, sometime in the last two decades, have started printing the logo

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or the name of the brand of the ball in a straight line on the ball.

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Brad Faxon is the first guy that I can remember really taking the time to line up the line

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on the ball every single time.

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But in Dr. Craig Farms' worth book, the putting prescription, highly recommend it's

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a great book.

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He says that 91% of TorPro's a few years ago, we're using some sort of enhanced line.

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So 91% and that's a pretty strong correlation, I recommend you at least give it a try.

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Now here's the caveat.

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

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practice any other piece of your game.

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Don't think that just putting a line on the ball and then going out and trying it on the

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course is going to work.

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

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golf ball.

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

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the line aiming at the center of the hole.

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You will typically want to position yourself so that your dominant eye is in line.

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So I've played around with, put with, lining with just my dominant eye open or with both.

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I tend to actually line better with both, but that's an individual thing.

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You need to play around with it.

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So practice at least a good 15, 20 minutes, just aiming three footers to make sure it's

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lined up at the center of the hole.

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Now one way that you can check, one one second.

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So one way that you can check to make sure that you have it lined up once you do is if you

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can see that this line is aimed roughly at the camera, you would stand a few feet back

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and you would hold the putter so that the non-tapper straight part.

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So you can notice how my shaft, the putter shaft here has a taper to it and has these steps.

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

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angled.

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But the last 10 inches or so of most puttershafts are going to be straight.

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I believe it has to be.

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So what you do is you hold it just below there and you would use your dominant eye so

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that this straight line is right on the edge of the golf ball.

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I'll back up and demonstrate in a second.

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But you're going to hold it up so it's right on the edge of the golf ball and that'll

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give you a confirmation that it's aimed right at the center of the hole.

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I'm going to be picky when we're doing this alignment thing because when you get on the

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course, if it's a little off, your eyes aren't going to trust it and it's probably

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better that you just put based on having the white looking up at you and trust your eyes

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instead of using the line.

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But if you can practice the eye or sorry, if you can practice aligning the line on the

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ball, it's a huge advantage.

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I'm going to back up and basically align the golf ball at the camera or at my imaginary

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target, which would be right there.

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And then I would step back and I would hold the puttershaft right in line with my dominant

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

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So I got a little work to do until I can get it aimed right at center, but it's pretty close.

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So that's the way you use the line on the golf ball.

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

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that's perfectly straight.

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I recommend those if you're going to use the line, either that or get a golf ball that

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has the line already imprinted on it.

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