Larry, from the photo below you'll see the line from your eye to the ground.  I suspect the camera may be off a bit but your feet appear lined up.  Is your foot setup square?  If so your putter head is way outside your eye line.

A simple test is to use the index finger of your dominant hand and use it like a gun to take dead aim at a target across the room.  Take dead aim.   I know that you've just looked down the length of your finger and arm from your dominant eye to the target.  Most who are inside putt like they would have pointed from their shoulder looking like a t.v. gangster with the gun sideways, not close to seeing where they aim.

If you want to putt the line, you have to see the line.  From what looks like your position your brain must calculate a converging angle that changes for every inch of putt.  That's a lot of mental gymnastics.

Square feet, square shoulders (yours may be a bit open but again hard to tell from the photo), take the face to the target.  Practice your path along the baseboard and you should be able to put the top of your head against the wall looking straight down at the ball. 

PuttLab test from Dan Hall back in Jan. 2010. This test was performed on the 2008 SAM PuttLab software with wireless triplet.

Impact spot was very tight in the sweet spot.  There was some variation vertically in part caused by the addloft component as noted in the next image.

Impact side view shows excessive addloft and a high launch angle.  Side view indicates the ball could be moved forward experimentally until more rise could be added.  It has been suggested to the student that he reduce the effect of his hands during the stroke.  By quieting the hands and engaging the shoulder plane (big muscles) we can tend to reduce or eliminate the addloft issues.

Thanks to Dan Hall for his permission to release these results.

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