Why you Should Align Eyes Over the Golf Ball Senior Putting Help (Video) - by Dean Butler
Why you Should Align Eyes Over the Golf Ball Senior Putting Help (Video) - by Dean Butler

On this putting tip I want to talk about how important it is to have your eyes aligned over the top of the ball. You’ll find that when you watch the top players you’ll consistently see them over the ball with their eyes directly over the top and you may well be thinking, why? Why are they doing that? Is there a reason behind eyes with a method? And you’d be right, there is good reason for it.

The putting stroke is all about trying to swing the putter like a pendulum. A pendulum hinges everything from the shoulders, so the shoulders go back and forward. And the putter moves along the same line backwards and forwards time and time again. If we set up with the putter behind the ball, and my eyes are actually on the outside of the ball, that means to that side to the right of it, this would encourage you to swing the putter this way; outside and then back in. Because as closer as you get, you can imagine now the body is in the way and your arms haven’t got the room. So to take it straight back would be very difficult and it would create maybe a little bit of sort of body movement which is what we don’t want. So when you are over a putt, let’s focus on trying to keep the eyes right over the top of the ball. Now of course, it’s not so easy when you are on your own, so a couple of methods. If you lucky enough to have a [Indiscernible] [0:01:29] patio door, that is easy to kind of set yourself up key eyes over and try to look at the mirror, and just see where your eyes are lined up. If your eyes are lined up over the top of the ball or slightly on the inside of the ball, which is to the left of the ball after the right hand, that you really haven’t got a problem with creating this pendulum at first, because putting is all about everything going from the shoulders backwards and forwards. No body movement, no wrist movements, no sort of wristy sort of cockiness with the wrist. The body stays still. Just like the old grandfather clock with a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards consistently; one length back, one length forward at one time count. So how else can we actually find out about the eyes being over the ball? If you set yourself up over where you want to putt and you actually take a golf ball and you’ve put your head here in this position, and drop it from the bridge here from there. Where that ball drops, is where the ball should actually be. So that’s where the ball is dropped there. I can put that putter there and you can see right over the top and from that there it will create a nice pendulum going backwards and forwards so that ball. So it was all about how do you get the eyes over the top of the golf ball and what are the importance about it and hopefully we’ve covered that without getting too complicated about those two key things very simple. Go into your putting green in your golf club, spend about 15, 20 minutes and by trying to go through this routine I’ve shown, you should see a vast improvement. The three puts hopefully will become two putts. So go out put into practice and reap the rewards. 2014-03-31

On this putting tip I want to talk about how important it is to have your eyes aligned over the top of the ball. You’ll find that when you watch the top players you’ll consistently see them over the ball with their eyes directly over the top and you may well be thinking, why? Why are they doing that? Is there a reason behind eyes with a method? And you’d be right, there is good reason for it.

The putting stroke is all about trying to swing the putter like a pendulum. A pendulum hinges everything from the shoulders, so the shoulders go back and forward. And the putter moves along the same line backwards and forwards time and time again. If we set up with the putter behind the ball, and my eyes are actually on the outside of the ball, that means to that side to the right of it, this would encourage you to swing the putter this way; outside and then back in. Because as closer as you get, you can imagine now the body is in the way and your arms haven’t got the room. So to take it straight back would be very difficult and it would create maybe a little bit of sort of body movement which is what we don’t want.

So when you are over a putt, let’s focus on trying to keep the eyes right over the top of the ball. Now of course, it’s not so easy when you are on your own, so a couple of methods. If you lucky enough to have a [Indiscernible] [0:01:29] patio door, that is easy to kind of set yourself up key eyes over and try to look at the mirror, and just see where your eyes are lined up. If your eyes are lined up over the top of the ball or slightly on the inside of the ball, which is to the left of the ball after the right hand, that you really haven’t got a problem with creating this pendulum at first, because putting is all about everything going from the shoulders backwards and forwards. No body movement, no wrist movements, no sort of wristy sort of cockiness with the wrist. The body stays still. Just like the old grandfather clock with a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards consistently; one length back, one length forward at one time count.

So how else can we actually find out about the eyes being over the ball? If you set yourself up over where you want to putt and you actually take a golf ball and you’ve put your head here in this position, and drop it from the bridge here from there. Where that ball drops, is where the ball should actually be. So that’s where the ball is dropped there. I can put that putter there and you can see right over the top and from that there it will create a nice pendulum going backwards and forwards so that ball.

So it was all about how do you get the eyes over the top of the golf ball and what are the importance about it and hopefully we’ve covered that without getting too complicated about those two key things very simple. Go into your putting green in your golf club, spend about 15, 20 minutes and by trying to go through this routine I’ve shown, you should see a vast improvement. The three puts hopefully will become two putts. So go out put into practice and reap the rewards.