Right Eye Dominance & Putter Style

[RH82]

As a right handed, right eye dominant putter, what putter style has worked best for you? I've always gravitated towards high moi, long single alignment lines with double bend shafts and it seems to work best but I'm curious about what other right eye dominant players use.

[BigBlue7]

For me it's a plumbers neck blades (or wider blades) with no sight lines that give me the best alignment and most consistent stroke

[Maroon_19]

Right handed/right eye dominant.  I always played mallets - Ray Cook MX1, TaylorMade Spider, Mizuno M-Craft III - until I went to Artisan to get fitted.  All of the mallets I played had giant sight lines.  John put me in a plumbers long neck blade with a simple center dot alignment and I immediately putted better.  I find it easier to line up the putter and make a good stroke without that line there.

[Doaner84]

I have found that I play best with a plumbers neck or a flow neck with lots of offset.  I have a custom made but really love my toulon atlanta that I recently picked up.  This thread is also a great read.

 

[Mrgreen36]

I have always liked/preferred what I guess is a double bend shaft or one with a short offset hosel, like a tyne 4.   I still play a ping Darby from almost 30 years ago.  Yeah it's light, yeah I put a SS CB grip with 50g in butt, yeah I've had lead tape on it for years.  Ball has to be in middle of my stance.  I think its why I really want a DF 2.1, the standard T alignment works for me and I can start it on my intended line every time. 

[JourneyToBreak80]

Right now I switched to an Odyssey 2 Ball White Hot OG with a Stroke Lab shaft. Double bend shaft. It seems to be the easiest for me to line up, I don't do great with a sight line that isn't on the top line of the putter. I do really like a Plumbers neck blade with a single dot on the top line but that is tougher to find.

[RH82]

Interesting that some of you guys find it easier w/o a line. With no alignment aid or just a dot, I'm totally lost and have no idea where I'm aiming.

[bladehunter]

9 hours ago, RH82 said:

Interesting that some of you guys find it easier w/o a line. With no alignment aid or just a dot, I'm totally lost and have no idea where I'm aiming.

Some of us ( I do ) use the face line to align with.  As in the top of the face that’s perpendicular to the hole.  Because a line pointing at the hole never looks right.  

[RH82]

11 hours ago, bladehunter said:

Some of us ( I do ) use the face line to align with.  As in the top of the face that’s perpendicular to the hole.  Because a line pointing at the hole never looks right.  

Yeah it just goes to show that everyone sees things differently.

[North Butte]

11 hours ago, bladehunter said:

Some of us ( I do ) use the face line to align with.  As in the top of the face that’s perpendicular to the hole.  Because a line pointing at the hole never looks right.  

I am actually opposite-eye dominant but it took me the first quite a few years of playing golf to discover that having a big, straight line on the flange was wrecking my putting. I'd always wanted bolder or bigger or longer aiming lines in my putter yet I never got any better.

 

It took a while to retrain myself to aim with the "perpendicular face" instead. And with the putters I was using I also had to discipline myself NOT to pay any attention to the aiming lines that were built in. That change knocked a couple couple of strokes off my putting game and of course when your putting improves it's a big shot of confidence that trickles over into other parts of the game. 

 

The final piece was a good few years ago now when I discovered I putted well with old-fashioned Anser putters. The kinds with no alignment marks, just a plain face and plain flange with a plumber neck. Now I don't have to worry about ignoring a bunch of alignment "aids". 

 

The way I see it [pun intended] I already aim everything from driver down to wedge by aiming the face or leading edge of the club. Not some straight line that's supposed to point at the target. To me putting is similar in that regard to full swing or short game. I'm also probably strange in that I feel my putting stroke is powered by my bottom hand, not my lead hand.

 

I see a lot of people whose putting seems based on lining up a flange line (or similar alignment aid) then trying to keep that line pointing at the target while they drag the putter forward powered by the leading hand and taking every bit of trail hand out of the stroke they can. I am the complete opposite.

[bladehunter]

1 hour ago, North Butte said:

I am actually opposite-eye dominant but it took me the first quite a few years of playing golf to discover that having a big, straight line on the flange was wrecking my putting. I'd always wanted bolder or bigger or longer aiming lines in my putter yet I never got any better.

 

It took a while to retrain myself to aim with the "perpendicular face" instead. And with the putters I was using I also had to discipline myself NOT to pay any attention to the aiming lines that were built in. That change knocked a couple couple of strokes off my putting game and of course when your putting improves it's a big shot of confidence that trickles over into other parts of the game. 

 

The final piece was a good few years ago now when I discovered I putted well with old-fashioned Anser putters. The kinds with no alignment marks, just a plain face and plain flange with a plumber neck. Now I don't have to worry about ignoring a bunch of alignment "aids". 

 

The way I see it [pun intended] I already aim everything from driver down to wedge by aiming the face or leading edge of the club. Not some straight line that's supposed to point at the target. To me putting is similar in that regard to full swing or short game. I'm also probably strange in that I feel my putting stroke is powered by my bottom hand, not my lead hand.

 

I see a lot of people whose putting seems based on lining up a flange line (or similar alignment aid) then trying to keep that line pointing at the target while they drag the putter forward powered by the leading hand and taking every bit of trail hand out of the stroke they can. I am the complete opposite.

Yep. I’m left eye dominant too. Extremely so.