In one of your drills for putting straight you mention "killing vision" and Loren Roberts using this technique. ANy more information on what you mean by this appreciated.
I have commited to your method and VERY enthused about early results. It makes alot of sense, especially, how to set up my eyes and neck. Thansk for a great site.
There comes a specific point in time in the routine of the putt when vision is not helping much. This is right before you pull the trigger with the takeaway. If the eyeballs are roving around at this time, the eyes are only suggesting that you pay attention to something other than just making a good stroke headed straight the way the putter is aimed. When the eyeballs are still, the scene below your face is also still, but your body is in motion making the stroke. The putter head is moving out of view on the backstroke, and then the putter head re-enters the scene coming in towards impact. If the eyeballs pay attention to the putter head in motion, this takes away from more helpful focus right at or behind the back of the ball. Better focus is right behind the ball, leaving any hand-eye coordination vision to the peripheral vision only. Thus, the eyeballs STAY aimed and fixated at some point directly below the face behind the ball while the stroke moves both back and then thru the ball.
Usually, when the eyeballs follow the putter head back away from or thru and past the ball, the head and neck follow also, and this changes the shoulder alignment and the path of the stroke. (The nbase of the neck changes the shoulder alignment, and this alters the path.) Not good!
Well, tholding the eyeballs still looking at something like a blade of grass or the back of the ball is a little boring, so you want to LIKE this boring aspect of vision during the stroke. This kills out the tendency to want to watch things in motion, like the putter head.
Since you are not watching anything in motion, your "focus" is on the feeling of the stroke in progress. This means that the processes inside the brain are more in the body-feeling area of the parietal lobe (behind ear) rather than in the occipital lobe for vision (at the back of the head).
I hope this helps.
Cheers!
Geoff Mangum
Putting Coach and Theorist
PuttingZone.com