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Shouldn't matter as it has to do with your eyes and not your hands, although I further like the link that I found and linked above. Using a toilet paper roll. I just used to shoot rifles competitively from the time I was 11 and found out about eye dominance years later. They gave the example of using the fingers. I never understood why I shot a rifle left handed when I was right handed, and did so with such accuracy. At the age of 11 it just seemed to make more sense and I didn't know why. Once I found out about eye dominance it became much easier to understand. I use the same methodologies while putting as I did while shooting a rifle, all the way down to regulating my breathing. Although when I shot a rifle you would learn to do so in between heartbeats, something I never took to as much depth on a golf course.
Here is the link:
GOLFONLINE - See The Perfect Putt
Your explanation is why I am, at times, uncomfortable over putts. I have difficulty seeing the line between my putter face to the spot I've chosen. It seems to shift as I move my head from the putter to the target. When this happens confidence in the stroke is not engendered. Years past I compensated by becoming a spot putter. Putting over a spot a foot or so beyond the ball however this caused a distance control issue.
Andy have you tried spot putting for those short ones within the leather?
I really provided the article more because it related to the initial post on setting up over the dominant eye, and showed how to test for eye dominance.The article referred to above states "Golfers who are right-eye dominant tend to see the hole to the right of its true location. The reason is that they set up with their right eye too far inside the ball and the target line."
I fail to see why would that be the case even though it is possibly true.