Line On Ball

[Overkill]

And Overkill continues to leave no stone unturned!

OK,

Scoping or spinning a ball reveals "how it wants to spin". Does the mark you put on the top of the ball in the scope become the farthest point away from your player at address?

Thanks and good luck at Pebble and throughout the season. With your attention to detail, you take a lot of what others see as luck out of the equation.

Overkill rocks!

UPP in snowy Ohio

UPP

With the Gyro I use, once the ball is spinning in balance you can either put a line around the ball or a dot on the side. If you don't mind looking at a line ( I don't) you aim it in the direction that you want the ball to fly or roll. So, as you putt, you would be looking down on the line.

If you use the dot, you place the ball on the green or a tee so the dot is aimed between your feet.

By the way, in case someone is wondering, it is not against the rules of golf to put a line all the way around a ball.

[cometgolfer]

I have to admit that I've thought about getting one of these but always talked myself out of it. I'm one who sort of believes that balls today are manufactured better, are more consistent, etc. Reading OK's comments got me thinking about it again and I decided to use some $ I had on a gift card to get one.

I marked up a few sleeves of new PV1's I had laying around. I then took 4 or 5 and "re-scoped" them. All returned to the same orientation.

Assuming the concept is to determine if the ball has an internal weighting "issue" then I would assume this tells me that each of the ones I re-scoped does (or it would be more of a random settling point on a 2nd spin).

Is it enough to make a significant difference? Not sure. If nothing else I did my thing to stimulate the economy.

CG

[Uppndownn]

The fact that the balls generally return to the same orientation proves the point, at least for me. It takes one more variable out of the equation.

UPP in snowy Ohio

[Uppndownn]

UPP

With the Gyro I use, once the ball is spinning in balance you can either put a line around the ball or a dot on the side. If you don't mind looking at a line ( I don't) you aim it in the direction that you want the ball to fly or roll. So, as you putt, you would be looking down on the line.

If you use the dot, you place the ball on the green or a tee so the dot is aimed between your feet.

By the way, in case someone is wondering, it is not against the rules of golf to put a line all the way around a ball.

Thanks,
You confirmed my understanding of the procedure.
I am a dot guy, not a striper, though.

UPP in snowy Ohio

[Richie3Jack]

I found another reason that the line is helpful. I don't use the line after reading some of David Orr's posts on how the line doesn't help golfers that much and it is tough sometimes to get it aligned the way you want to. However, I just got a putter fitting Monday and we reduced my skid by about 20%. Now I have a new putter and it's reduced by greater than 25%. Before with the old putter if I putted on the line the ball would inconsistently roll end over end. Now with an improvement on the putter, my ball rolls very consistently end over end. I have been trying it out on the practice green. So if you have questions about your skid, using the line may give you a decent answer.



3JACK