Re: Do you balance your golf balls?
Originally Posted by
Fourputt 
I
might buy it when I see empirical evidence obtained by scientific method from an independent testing source, rather than from a "short game guru" who is trying to sell his books, training aids, lessons, etc., and who through his own ego has convinced himself that his method is the only right way. (Can you say "conflict of interest?")
Even then I'll only buy it as having any value if the player has a stroke as consistent as a robot's, and can read every green perfectly every time, hit every putt dead on line with perfect speed for each read every time.... You get my drift here? As often as you may miss a perfectly struck putt because of an unbalanced ball, you are just as likely to make a putt because an imperfectly struck or read putt is corrected by the ball being out of balance.
And that is only if you believe the whole theory in the first place, which I still don't.
You're still grasping at straws. Your improperly read putt error assumes the ball always goes in the correct direction, but it doesn't, there's only a 50% chance of saving a bad putt, where as the same imbalance on the correct line will mean a near 100% chance of miss. If it's imbalanced, a misread can be coupled with an imbalance to throw the putt even further offline. You've been presented evidence by three well known industry figures, all of whom did studies with swing robots, none of whom are selling balancing tools. In fact, they all say to use some water and baking soda, and to save it.
You are married to an ideology, and you cannot be convinced otherwise. Just like golf instructors who outright refuse to believe the new ball flight laws, or people who still cling to something that's been proven wrong time after time (like the idea that the earth is 6,000 years old, but that's another story). Balancing golf balls is free, and it takes about a minute.
