I Used This Putting Trainer for 7 Days… Here’s What Happened

This little thing attached to my putter right here claims it can analyze everything about my putting stroke and then tell me how to fix it. I consider myself to be a pretty decent putter to begin with. So I'm going to give this thing seven days to see if it can help. I've got a six foot putt right here. I'm going to hit this today. We're going to see what it does, and then we're going to follow what it tells me to do for the next seven days. And then I'm going to come back here, hit this putt again, and see if seven days using this gizmo gadget Okay, so I've only looked at this thing to take it out of the box and update the firmware after downloading the app, poked around the app for a few minutes. It seems pretty straightforward, but I've got my thing set six foot putt start session. So it's just lined up perpendicular or flush with the putt face. Feels a little bit different, obviously, having something on your putter shaft, but got a lot of green and a little bit of yellow there. Fly angle a wee bit too flat. I like my hands low. I don't know if that's a generic thing or that's relative to my fly angle, which is flat already on this putter. Sixty nine degrees. Putt again. Okay, loft angle. We've got some green. I've got that one a little off the toe and you see it there, but it's or heel, I guess still pretty good. Fly angle a little too upright there. Interesting. You do have to hit putt again every time. I read that in the little instruction manual. This thing detects impact. So that's why you need to kind of set it so that it's ready. It's not just going to auto detect your stroke. Fly angle too flat, loft too low. So I add a little too much forward shaft lean. Okay. A lot of green there. What I would imagine is I don't think it matters the like green quality because our greens are a little bit slow at the minute. The course is under renovation, so they're not like cutting these, this putting green often. But if you're doing it on a mat or a fast green or a slow green or like in the house, I mean, it's just measuring impact. You just need a target, I would guess, at three, six, nine or 12 feet to be putting to, but it doesn't know if the putt's going in or not. The real time data is really, really cool. I'm not sure, entirely sure what it all means. We're going to look at that after and ultimately. See what it tells me I need to do right off the heel. Yeah. Okay. That one was way off the heel. Seeing a little bit of variability. In my loft putt to putt, I don't think that's the green. I don't think because it's a, uh, like the greens are shaggy, the balls may be bouncing. It's, it's measuring impact. Apparently what it says, I don't know how many I've hit yet. Uh, I guess, yeah, this is my eight. So that putt felt awesome. Apparently I de-lofted at nine degrees. That's certainly a misread. Okay. Keep that in mind. In old school, like the vlog days in the car, we're going to talk about that practice session. I had to go through and audit it because there were some funky readings, like loft of 22 degrees or 14 degrees or face closed. So I hit 30 putts, but I audited two out because there's just some strange readings. Even the ones that have like eight degrees negative loft seem a little funky, but I kept them in there. Maybe that's, maybe that's legit. Then if you go here and, uh, dive into what it has to say, we look at your metrics, face angle, performance is green. So that's good. Lie angle, hands are low. So we tick on this. Now it's 4%. Your lie angle is improving, but there's still room for improvement. You want it between negative three and three degrees, but then here is tap the lie angle tips, quick tune up steps. Okay. Okay. Okay. So there's things that it's going to tell you. Oh, so then you can track here. Okay. So it's going to like, obviously as we put more sessions in here, loft angle, that's where it's those loft readings. Maybe they were off. Maybe they were right. I'm a little, but again, tips, things to focus on. And then don't forget, you put this on your putter as you're working these things, you're going to get that instant feedback while you're working on it. So that, that's kind of cool. Could be off center. Acceleration. Whoa, bad. Your acceleration impact needs work. So I need to be accelerating more. Okay. So it's giving me things to pay attention to things, to monitor tips on how to monitor these things. So that's what I'll be looking for over the course of this week. As I practice with, and without this thing, I haven't practiced my putting in years. This should be very good. Day two. I just finished some testing in here. Now it's time to work on my putting. I did give this little thing a read through a little bit more and it says there's something you can do or you can double tap so you don't have to hit cancel putt every time. So I'm going to mess with that and get a little more averse with that. But I've been thinking about it and it's given me things to work on, but I feel like working on all of them at the same time could be very problematic. So I'm going to focus on my hands. If I can keep my hands up a little bit more through the stroke at address, maybe that helps with the loft and the acceleration or what have you. Cause I think if you're working on all these things at the same time, you're not going to get better. So I'm going to hit some putts here actually without it. Cause again, I feel like too much feedback, too much information could be a problem. So I'm going to work here for 10 minutes on my hands being high. And then I'm going to hit a few putts with it on and check in and see if I've improved that metric a wee bit. Let's have a little look if our work on the hands paid off. Lie angle, all of those are in the green. That's, that's what we wanted. We do see some, some wonky loft readings. We saw it. Yesterday see it today, but my tempo or my acceleration generally improved a little bit. I do feel it being a bit more Healy strike, but I digress. But facing a lot, like we focused on my angle and that was good. So I'm going to check today off as a success by five putts after 10 minutes of working on it. Feedback. Feedback indicates the work. I missed yesterday. Forgive me. We're traveling back from a weekend away where I did get to play some golf. I have been primarily focused on the handle, the hand position. I think all the data can be great, but also can send you like this. I've been focusing primarily. You saw it in my warmup for my round on Saturday and I'm happy to report I putted really well on Saturday. I putted quite well, made putts that mattered in three putt distance control was there. Greens were a great speed for a hole in putts and getting aggressive. And we saw a good score in that round because of some great putting. I have noticed the loft reading really varies. So I wouldn't pay too much attention to that unless you are using this and you're seeing consistent readings on the loft. I don't necessarily know how I would work on my accelerating, but I'm getting good feedback and it's giving me something to work on, which is what I think a lot of golfers could benefit from and a great use for this. I do like when you get at least five green, you get that nice. So that was a week of diligent work, at least 10 minutes a day, except for one day. And what, what did this thing do or show or prove? If I look at the data from that final session to the first session, I improved my lie angle by 41%. We went from 4% to 45%. That is huge. That's massive improvements and that's just not guessing. That is actionable data and feedback. That is definitely something that makes this potentially worth the price tag. And yes, the price tag is high. This is a $400 unit, but it delivers a lot, but it's not for every golfer. I can imagine when I was playing full time and I would work on my putting pretty diligently on a putting template mat. But if I had this to kind of reinforce what was working or what wasn't working a stroke around being saved, that could change a lot for a lot of elite level players, amateurs or professionals over the course of tournament play. I did say, I think coaches could benefit a great deal from this, because if you have students that aren't going to purchase something with this price tag, but you want to show them how their putting is not just based on the ball going in the hole and show them how it's improving. That is definitely something that would make this very valuable to a coach. The readings we see that I've progressed the loft confusing, not great, but that's nothing. A firmware update can't fix or with feedback from someone like myself or other users, but everything else seemed pretty spot on where I think this could be incredibly valuable or useful is if you are thinking of getting a new putter, you've got your putter, you're going to get your readings with your new putter, but let's say you're dabbling into the zero torque world, put this on and see if it makes things better or makes things worse because yes, the ball going in the hole is a great reading, but if we have a consistent repeatable stroke, I think that's better and over the course of time that's going to perform better. You think zero torque might be for you. You put this on and the readings are worse. Maybe it's not. Or if the readings are astronomically better on more toe hang, face balance, zero torque, this could really help you if you are looking to change putters. Super easy to use. The learning curve was very flat. No subscription, which is nice on top of the price tag. I don't love that it seemed only this cable charged it. I've got cables here for charging all these things, but this was the only one that charged it and granted charge last a couple of days. Like you see, I haven't used this in a couple of days and uh, it's still got that sleep light, but I've got a drawer full and over there, I got training aids that I have tested that I just simply don't use because I don't really practice, but I can see myself popping this on from time to time just to check in because I feel like I'm a good putter, but feeling real or sometimes different. So if I have this and I can pop it on and just make sure that that handle isn't getting too low. I did notice in improving my lie angle, my strike moved a little bit towards the heel. So that's something that I definitely need to pay attention to. If I keep that handle up, just make sure I'm getting it off the center, not getting a little heel side. I think there's a lot of value and a lot of benefit in this for a lot of people, but it's definitely there's going to be a barrier for a lot of people like your recreational golfer or what have you. I haven't seen quite anything like this. I've seen putting aids where you get data and you got to be in a cap toe or a Sam or a big thing to pop this on and away you go. Very, very, very cool product. Let me know. Have you tried it? Are you a coach using it? Are you a player using this? Have you seen this at the PGA show? Sound off in those comments. And is this something that you think would benefit your game? Let's talk about it in those comments and we'll see the next one.