Another main reason you should mark your ball is to help you line up correctly. As I mentioned in the intro, you could have the best stroke, read, and mental attitude but if you aren’t aligned properly, you probably won’t make many putts.

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This is a great question as marks on your ball can really help you set up better to more putts and shoot lower scores. But as you can tell from above, there is no one way to do it. Low on the face: When you hit a ball slightly low on the face the ball doesn’t go as high as normal. But it can still go the maximum distance and why a lot of golfers say “thin to win.” Very interesting test you did and the results surprise me a bit. I can see how having the same side facing up would help if you were rolling dice at Vegas, but not as sure for the benefit you would gain in golf. From what I understand, the reason for marking the "equator" of a ball was to line up the equator to the direction you want to hit and it would minimize side spin. By marking the top of the ball, you've identified the "north pole" and by placing it on top during a drive you've aligned the equator along the "x-axis" rather than the "y-axis". With that setup, I'm not sure there is any real benefit since it might induce more sidespin? Your blue dot should be lined up pointing at you or pointing away from you.No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you are playing a game. You are playing old man par.

Golf Club’s Sweet Spot: Find it and Hit it More Often A Golf Club’s Sweet Spot: Find it and Hit it More Often

Look I get it, hitting bombs on the range is a lot more fun that working on your putting stroke. But if you truly want to improve as a player and lower your handicap, you need to work on what will actually lower your score. When you hit a golf ball in the middle of the club it goes longer, higher, and straighter than mishits.It’s the signal of a perfect golf shot and even sounds different from mishits.I've seen *some* golf balls definitely be very off balanced and could see it effecting my putts. For instance, I could putt with 3 golf balls from the same line and the first two would roll the same way and the third one would roll much differently despite stroking the putt pretty much the same way. And once you have a consistently good swing, get properly fitted for golf clubs. A good professional club fitter (probably not the guys in your local golf store) will fit you for clubs with the correct combination of length, lie, loft, swing weight and shaft profile for your swing, that will give you the best chance of finding the sweet spot consistently. That’s 20 extra yards over the average off-the-shelf clubs. With the “Line M Up” version, you have a few extra lines that you can easily add to your golf ball. This low-cost item has one main slot to draw a straight line on the equator of the golf ball. But on both sides of the main slot, you can also add two dashes (four in total).