Eye Dominance? | Golf Monthly

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read
I didn't realise that I was eye dominant until I had a lesson with my local pro to sort out my iron play and resolve the issue I had of pushing my irons right.

Lined up on the mats I was striking my 7 iron well but the ball was landing 10yds right of target. He took a look and asked what the problem was.

"The balls landing 10yds right of where I'm aiming"

"No it's not, it's going bang on line, exactly where you're aiming."

He told me to put my club down by my feet and then step back to where he was and note the tree where the club was pointing to. I went back to my set up position looked along the target line and the tree was 10 yds to my right, well it was from where I was standing.

"You've go a dominant eye which is causing a parallax error," he told me.

"So how do I fix it?"

"Easy."

At that he tells me to tee up several feet behind a divot using the divot to give a target line so when I stood behind the ball and looked down the target line the divot was 2-3ft in front of the ball giving a straight line to the target.

"Now set yourself up parallel to the target line between the ball and divot and then hit the ball"

They all went straight where I was aiming them and that's when I found out about dominant eye, however it doesn't seem to affect my putting for some reason.

If I hadn't gone to the pro it would have took me forever to work it out, so simple and so easy to fix

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