Understand Your Putting Stroke Mechanics with the Visio Putting Balls.

Let’s take a look at the Visio Putting Balls and how they can help you develop the key skills you need in order to become a great putter. 

The Visio putting balls come as a pack of three and each ball has a very distinctive design, including a black and white ball, a crosshair ball, and a triple alignment ball. Three very different designs, but they’re all going to give you great feedback on your ability to roll a ball, which will give you great feedback on your impact conditions, which in turn is going to give you great feedback on your stroke mechanics. By understanding your stroke mechanics, you can then appreciate what you need to improve in order to roll the ball better, and hole more putts. 

So let’s take a look at how you can use the Putting Balls on a putting green to get the feedback you need to become a great putter.

A great exercise when you’re on any green is to use any of the three balls, and to line it up at your chosen target. Now immediately when you step in to address the putt you get a very apparent line to the hole on the ball. That’s going to help with your alignment, but more importantly when you hit the putt, you’re going to see how the ball rolls down that line. If you cut cross the ball from out to in, then you would see side spin, and see the ball wobble and you would see the cut spin as it travels down the length of putt. If you hit it out of the heal of the putter you would also see cut spin. If the clubface was to come in open, you would again see cut spin. If the clubface is closed, you would be able to detect hook spin and if you hit it out of the toe or the path was in to out, again you’ll be able to see hook spin. So the balls give you great feedback immediately when you see the ball roll down the line, you’ll get a sense of the impact conditions and as a consequence, what you’ve done with the stroke. 

Whether you use the solid black and white ball, the crosshair ball, or whether you use the triple alignment ball, lining them up, at your target and rolling them down the line, is going to give you great feedback, which is going to help you with your stroke. 

Another way to use the balls to get feedback from impact is to film your ball roll from the side. Now filming from the side, that’s going to give you some really good feedback in terms of the launch of the ball. So for example, if you use the crosshair ball, filming from the side, as your club comes in, you can see how the ball reacts to impact, and determine are you getting some forward roll? Does the ball roll forward immediately? Or are you getting some backspin? The black and white ball is very useful for this too, helping to see whether the ball is rolling end over end or if there is an element of backspin. 

If you’ve got side spin, again, you can see that axis tilt from the side. So filming from the side will give you another view of impact, which is going to help you determine any error that you have with your stroke.

So, three different designs are going to give you slightly different feedback depending on which ball you use. But the feedback is very real and very relevant. It’s going to help you determine are you putting side spin on the ball? Are you creating backspin? If you can identify that, you can then fix it. If you can fix it, then you’re on your way to becoming a great putter. The Visio putting balls designed to help you understand your stroke mechanics and develop a better putting stroke.

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