KR Painter
Gene "Dirt Road" Moore was the first guy to give me a chipping lesson when I was a kid. I was about 8 and he told me to have the handle ahead of the head and
hit down on it so hard the head could get stuck in the ground. You can imagine how by the time I was ten I could take a 56 degree and make it run like a 7 iron.
Anyway, Dirt Road looked at the hole. As he grew older he tried to convert everyone at the club but there were few takers. Around this same time, Johnny Miller won Pebble (I think it was there) looking at the hole. That only added fuel to his fire.
So I have tried it years ago but didn't feel comfortable with it. I think it is great for the "analytical" type that keeps the "computer" running over the putt. I really do! And I really like your advice about looking back to the ball and quickly hitting it. There is something to that Image Retention Time Period. 