Do you use a line on your ball to aim your putt?

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Unless I'm not picking up the nuances you start by saying "no comment about what others should do" and then "how I believe others should do." ...

I just find your whole post contradictory, especially when read in conjunction with your earlier posts.

Oops - I missed out a rather key word from my post...I have talked specifically about me as an individual and not how I believe others should do.

Yes - that's rubbish grammar I know

That said - I do believe that it is a courtesy that we should all mark and lift if it is not us to putt first. But I would not request another to do that unless I was bothered.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Absolutely I use a Sharpie line on my ball to putt. Switched to the line method five years ago or so and never looked back. Takes me a little longer than those that don't, yet whilst they are three putting again, I'm on the next tee...

All the years I've played golf I can't remember one time I've stopped or asked a PP to mark their ball because it's in my way or eyeline. Balls left on the green are irrelevant to me. Its personal preference what you do about marking, as long as it doesn't interfere.

I find myself having to do it most rounds I play. Some folks just don't think where there ball is,. and don't think whether or not I might prefer it marked and lifted. As it happens I think that at my place the convention is to mark and lift if you are not 'away'. You're usually going to mark and lift to clean and position your ball in any case. Just that some folk sometimes don't.

 

[Chisteve]

I mark my ball with line and use it to aim always

 

[hovis]

i think it all depends on who you're playing with. i never mark my ball when playing with my usual friends. even if I'm on their line i just identify a blemish in the green and put it back after. i know they'll tell me if they want it lifting.
if I'm playing with strangers i mark my ball every time until i get more familiar with them