Pelz (2000) states 43% of shots made are with the putter, highlighting the importance of this aspect of the game. In addition to this, putting performance has been the most highly correlated performance measure to score average (r = 0.68) on a professional level (Wiseman & Chatterjee, 2006). This makes it surprising that many golfers neglect putting during practice. This way of thinking needs to be changed with putting coming to the forefront of a players` practice, and with the introduction of new technology things are slowly changing within the golf world. Technology, and specifically Quintic Ball Roll is giving players the opportunity to receive improved feedback about launch conditions allowing them to identify kinematic variables that could have resulted in a missed putt. Four clear factors have been defined to contribute to putting direction variability, these are green reading, aim, stroke/ball roll and green inconsistencies such as spike and ball marks on the putting line (Karlsen et al., 2008). The less direction variability associated with a golf player the more consistent their putting is likely to be. Karlsen et al. (2008) accounted 80% of direction variability to face angle at impact (0.50° effective variability), 17% to putter path (0.18° effective variability) and 3% to the horizontal impact point on the putter (0.09° effective variability). Research investigating the effect of impact point on the golf ball while measuring the resulting kinematics is very limited. The impact point on the golf ball may be important, as a golf ball is not perfectly spherical due to dimples all over the surface allowing for increased ball flight during the long game aspect of golf. Pelz (2000) has acknowledged dimples do affect the direction variability of a golf putt, however only presents limited data. This direction variability due to dimple effects is depicted in Figure 1. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of the impact point on a golf ball and the impact point on a putter on
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