Any of you single digit guys do this? I've never done it and honestly didn't know how to do it until a guy showed me yesterday at a practice green. I started experimenting with it and found it to be helpful. Once I made my read I just focused on the proper pace. It made me more committed to my line. I'm eager to try it on the course during my next round and was curious if anyone had any tips.

Curious too. How does it work?

I can't even figure out which is my dominant eye so I'd be even worse using plumb bobbing

Matsui said:

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Curious too. How does it work?

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AI's answer: Find your dominant eye, hold your putter with the shaft perpendicular to the ground, and stand behind the ball with your non-dominant eye closed, letting the putter hang to cover half the ball; observe if the hole appears left or right of the shaft to gauge the break, aiming for the gap or side where the hole disappears, indicating the slope, using it as a rough guide for the putt's start line.

My experience on the practice green: It worked pretty much as the above paragraph explains but it definitely takes some practice. Once you get used to how you see the gap or line that is revealed and how it works in reality you will gain confidence. You need to make sure where you're holding your putter is the correct point where it will hang perpendicularly and not be at an angle. Putters are weighted differently and will hang at an angle if held "incorrectly". You can check this by holding it up to something you know is perfectly perpendicular like a door frame.

This always seemed bizarre to me since most putters don't hang straight

But on the course, you've introduced a variable you may not recreate perfectly right and with no way to check it.

DannyDuberstein said:

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But on the course, you've introduced a variable you may not recreate perfectly right and with no way to check it.

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If you know how to hold your putter to make it perpendicular this is not a big problem. It takes some practice to get used to what you see when you plumb bob versus how accurate your read is when you actually hit the putt. I've only spent about 90 minutes on a practice green using this technique so I'll see how it goes on Thursday when I play. It appears to be a useful tool but we'll see.

I've done it for years and it works for me, everywhere except for in the mountains. Not sure why, but doesn't work.

I remember reading Jackie Burke's book and he called it a gyration. But if its helped some people sink more putts than good for them. Different strokes, different folks.

I use it on putts I'm unsure on the break. Very easy and works well.

It's the only way I putt. Been doing it for 20 years.

So I played yesterday and used the technique about 8 times. This is a course I'm familiar with so I already had a good idea of how the putts would break. Plumb bobbing confirmed my initial reads so I think it is something I'm going to keep using, especially on courses I don't play often.