Anyone else have this problem?

[rubbery]

I draw an alignment line down the side of my ball, but whenever I use it to line up a putt, I either don't trust it and watch the could have been line be the right one, but more often than not (~90% of the time) line it up, and have it be the wrong line.

I have no idea what my problem is. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to line it up properly, other than just doing it, which is what I should be able to do but can't for some reason.

Also, it's not my green-reading that's the problem because I can't even do it for straight putts.

[Dub]

I had the same trouble....so I quit using the lines. Dumb, I know, but I couldn't explain or support the way the line would look great from behind but skewed once at address.


I wonder if the SC ball markers are really more helpful here.

[SiamGolfer]

Had not exactly the same problem, but similar, and sometimes felt I needed to adjust my line mid-stroke to compensate ..
I do the opposite now and place my ball so there are no marks/lines to the hole, just the predominately white part on top .. works for me

[HazardMagnet]

I've only been playing for two years now, but when I showed up sometime last year with all my balls marked with a line, my partner/teacher said that all I really would gain from this is a visual confimation of if I trully hit the ball straight or at an angle with my putter as the line will either appear to stay "straight" or wooble as it rolls... With that said I've concentrated more on reading greens correctly. On a different note, I read somewhere about how you mark your balls, and one person wrote "3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots"... S.O.S... so next time I buy a box of balls I'll be using that little plastic thingy to mark them that way, best of both worlds, a traking line and an unique way of idenifying my ball out there...

[michaeljames92]

Same goes for me. When I line it up with the hole and address the bal to putt it always seems to be not lined up. I then will hit it how i think it is lined up and it goes in. I don't get it.

[Dent]

I have the same problem as well, my tip, it may look stupid, but get as low to the ground as you can and then you can really see if it's lined up correctly.

When I squat down I can't see anything. I can't tell if its lined up or not.

[TigerCurtis333]

I have the Titleist DT Carry's with the alignment thing on the side of the ball. I'll crouch down and line up my putt using that, but when I look at it while standing it almost always looks wrong. It's probably my error, but I don't trust the line either.

[Franco!]

It's your mind playing tricks on you.
That's why most amateurs have poor alignment.
You have to learn to trust it.