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Nick 155 5 days ago 0 Comments

So, I used to putt by feel quite a bit and for a long time, I used a Yes! Tracy II (flow neck) with only a topline dot. I would drop some mid-range and long putts but struggled with shorter range. Just wasn’t lined up correctly. Swapped to a Odyssey Versa Doublwide (double bend)with topline line, no flange alignment. and it really cleaned that up in the last year. I don’t make as many longer putts but my lags, shorter putts, and overall it’s saved me shots. I’ve gone back to a putter I bought a few years ago with the black Moment XII (double bend). I’m starting to like it and get a better feel for the mallet. I have noticed my face alignment is slightly better than the Versa.

Britt, I was wondering if you could talk me through a bit of the Ball-in-Motion philosophy and why that works so well for alignment. Historically for me, lots of rear alignment makes me want to pull a putt or line up left of my target which is why I like the dots and topline alignment aids. But the BiM is working and I don’t feel like it’s aiming my left and the results aren’t showing that. The BiM is very interesting “tech”.

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Answer 1 · 2026-05-11T14:57:19+00:00

Thanks for the question. BIM is something we worked on for a while. Actually, if you go back to some of the first Moment Putters Ralph did in 2005 the alignment design was on it, but we didn’t call it BIM. In our testing and testing going back several decades, players alignment target and putter path to that target improved with this type of alignment aid design. It is quite interesting and something about that visual changes the way players stroke putts. Their path consistency improved, resulting in more putts starting on the correct path. The early version on those first Moment putters influenced what BIM is today. It’s the part of having alignment that is easy for the user to see, visualize at address and actually track through the stroke. I know we don’t, or generally should not watch the putter head go back and through, but our eyes register the movement and larger alignment aids, in our testing and based on my experience, allow the player to keep the putter on path better. The BIM is the width of the golf ball, which is important and a key to being able to align the face to the target line and then stroke the putt truer to the target line.

In short, it does not surprise me you are finding success with the BIM technology. The concept was proven quite a while ago and I am pleased we are able to keep it evolving into what it is today, and use it on some of our latest designs.

Britt Lindsey