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TRAINING AIDS – PUTTING DANE WIREN
Perfect Practice Putting Mat bullseye with a throw that is excessively hard or
easy but arced, whereas you cannot make the
GolfSply
In what amounts to a perfect storm, GolfSply ball stay on the ramp of PuttOUT with a putt that
Co. has been perfecting its dual-hole, crystal
Co. is too easy or too hard. Every now and again we
velvet putting mat for nearly two years. We have receive a complaint that the product doesn’t
seen the company tweak the roll, the ramp, and work, which always makes me chuckle and think
the return track to perfection, and customers to myself, “Being good is harder than you think.”
are genuinely in love with the product. As of Give a PuttOUT to any young player, and
this writing, three full containers are arriving, all they will become obsessed with mastering it. If
presold. you want to teach line and speed, start your
Customers have called Perfect Practice players one foot away and let them take the
Putting Mat the gold standard of putting mats, ten-putt challenge. Allow them to move one
a must-have and a go-to rainy-day practice foot back each time they can get a ball to
tool, but this product has stay on the ramp within ten balls. If they can
genuine fans you can look make one ball before their ten run out, they
up on YouTube or Instagram. get to move back a foot. This PuttOUT drill is
Check out @GolferGirlEm, simple, engaging and super fun! PuttOUTs come
for example. Among the in a range of colors, great for creating team
numerous PGA Tour player challenges or stations with easy identifiers.
endorsements, you will see Charles Howell III, The company that makes
Vijay Singh, Taylor Gooch, Marc Leishman, Lydia PuttOUT has always had a vision
Ko, Jimmy Walker and Nelly Korda, along with of creating an indoor putting
Dustin Johnson, who is the product’s official studio. Last year they introduced
endorser and spokesperson. their ultra-smooth PuttOUT Pro
The original Perfect Practice Putting Mat putting mat, but new in 2020 are
that has received such acclaim is the 9’ 6” (2.9 their Putting Gate and PuttOUT
m) standard model, but the company has just Putting Mirror. The company
released an 8’ (2.44 m) compact and a 15’ 6” is meticulous about both the
(4.72 m) XL version. However, buyer beware… design and construction of their
the XL version seems even longer when you are products. For example, their mirror features a
putting to the small hole for a bet. I was really scratch-resistant coating, a stainless-steel base
close! It should have gone in, actually, and we so the mirror will not warp, a textured bottom so
never shook hands. You can’t bet real money the product will not slip, and magnetic rails that
on an elbow bump.
may be configured for stroke patterns
PuttOUT Pressure Trainer and drills.
Other products have helped us through
People like learning the crunch, as well. Nearly every article I seem
through games. Take a difficult to make mention of Martin Chuck’s Smart Ball,
task like striking a ball with the which is still going strong. We also picked up
equivalent consistency of hitting Jamie Brittain’s Swing Plate, along with the
a bullseye on a dartboard, line of Sure-Set products from Dan Frost and
and you can imagine what the Martin Hall, which are all excellent. That said, it
PuttOUT Pressure Trainer is like. has definitely been putting products that have
One difference is, you can hit a helped us keep the ball rolling so far in 2020. w
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SUMMER 2020 Golf Teaching Pro ®
