Personally speaking, I’ve tried putting with a line on my golf ... facing up. Now step back and visualize the path that the ball will take to roll over spot three and into the hole.

Their expert fitters first had me line up a putt with no lines ... I missed the hole an inch to the left. Next, I tried using a line on my golf ball and pointed it directly at the spot I tried ...

The good news, though, is that golf balls are created with a line ... hole from or miss from. Even though I think I’m pretty good at reading putts from behind the ball, my brain will sometimes ...

Crows steal golf balls ... that is no closer to the hole and take a free knee-height drop. You're good to go. Incidentally, if the hole is on the green, you also get line-of-putt relief.

Robots that can whack a golf ball down a fairway ... a neural network to figure out how to line up a putt and how hard to hit the ball to get it into the hole from anywhere on the green.