In MygolfSSS, we are constantly refining our testing methodologies to provide players with the most comprehensive, impartial possible data. While there is always room for improvement, with most clubs in the bag, we are generally happy with the place we are. Putters have long been an exception. It is not like our testing has not identified some intangible positions over the years, but we have long been required to do more.
While our Pitter testing has evolved, we have tried different access. We have integrated obtained strokes and three-putt avoidance into our methodologies, but the opportunities to collect significant data beyond make-or-Miss have proved elusive.
When the last stroke of each particular test has fallen, we can tell you which fine nails at a certain distance and which of them exceeded the field, but we do not always have excellent answers why.
Was it due to the extent, the endurance of the impact, the direction of the beginning or something else fully?
We wanted to give you more details and better answers.
Here comes PuttView.
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We have had conversations with the PuttView team in past PGA shows on how their technology can improve our placement tests. When those conversations began to get serious, I found a local place where I could try one of them The slightest placement of the greens.
Besides being a “I love it!” Moments, technology really changed the way we thought about what could be possible in testing the putter. PuttView can provide reactions, means of visualization and a way to measure performance setting beyond what we were doing.
With a new mygolfspy structure in works, a new opportunity to rethink the testing of putter and take it to the next level, Puttview was the visible choice.
A sketch comes to life
Like many other ideas, PuttView Green’s appearance began with a rough (truly tough) outline on a napkin. We envisioned a higher green placement that would allow us to create a stronger test of layers. This meant integrating slopes, fractures and enough space to try everything, from short knee curves to longer shocks that can make or disrupt your round.
PuttView has worked with us at every step of the way to design a custom green that would serve as a manifestation of our new test facility and set up our putter testing.
The final design took shape as a 30 × 20 (HI) -Foot Green containing the exact slopes and vacations, ensuring that we could repeat most of what players experience in the Golf course.
Custom Green Engineering
Building a green of this ladder is not simple enough to open a twist and cut some holes. Inchdo green inch was meticulously planned, from the construction of the base to the final calibration.
Once the green modeling is completed, the installation of a puttie that sets the green begins in the factory where a series of measured CNC foam panels are cut into the correct specifications. The locations of the holes are marked and everything is labeled for mounting.
“When everything appeared in Albania, it was like Indiana Jones,” says Phillip Bishop, MygolfSpy test director. “Everything is in massive wooden crates like those ancient objects. Everything is cut and encrypted where 1 goes here and 2 goes there. They essentially plan it and put it together as a puzzle with jigsaws. “
Once they were collected, the panels formed the green foundation, complete with the predetermined slopes that dictate how the shocks and roll. The next step was to install the terrain. The placement area was placed and provided with additional materials located around the perimeter to create a realistic threshold area.
The holes, while pre-marked on the panels, are cut in place to provide a perfect approximation with the system tracking program.
A note for all this: while PuttView Green was originally created with seven total cups (five physical and two virtual), we only use physical ones during the testing process. We will surely use virtual options in the future, but for the most required tests, we want to avoid anything that can complicate the process.
Installation and related changes
PuttView’s Stuart Smith supervised the installation of panels and terrain from start to finish, ensuring that each part was set correctly, providing ground, setting the upper projectors and tracking cameras and cutting down the holes.
After the physical construction was complete, PuttView co -founder and management director Christoph Pregizer took over, installed and calibration of the software needed to strengthen the PuttView system.
For the most part, the installation was a breeze (it is easy for me to say that; I was not at the headquarters while it was happening). So what was the biggest obstacle?
Lighting.
Always is always something, right?
Because our green placement is significantly larger than most PuttView installations, we need to control the lighting on an important area – and this includes any unwanted environment of the environment flowing from our doors and windows. The PuttView system uses cameras to follow the golf ball and any discrepancies in lighting can create problems with the ball recognition.
The last thing we want is something to interfere with the system’s ability to read putts, forcing our testers to repeat the same blow over and over.
“There are certain issues in which you can execute depending on the size of your green placement,” Bishop explains. “Since it is based on camera and camera is being used to follow the golf ball, there are times when the camera can be blocked by the person deciding.”
With this, we expect that we would need to make some adjustments and, as we have tested and re-testing the new PuttView test protocols in preparation for the most required tests, we found that additional tweaks were needed. The PuttView team has gone up and further to help us reassess, get everything called and update the software as we go.
Building a better putter test with PuttView
In addition to data implications, dress Makes our Putter tests significantly more dynamically. In the golf course, each stroke is different: distance, slope, rest, speed. As we have always tested places from many distances, we were unable to integrate other aspects of setting that players experience in the course.
With our custom -developed case test protocol, we are able to repeat the course by placing it more accurately. Everyone Putter is tested in identical conditions. The test test strikes the same number of uphill strokes, descending, left and right and straight- but the exact places are random. Hope is to prevent players from getting in place, making the most reflective results of current placement performance.
But the biggest jump ahead are the data.
With our PuttView system we now easily measure:
- Proximity to the hole in each blow.
- Left or right Miss Bias.
- Distribution patterns showing how constantly leaves golf players with second possible strokes.
- Direction and speed of starting, helping us identify which layers offer the most sustainable starting conditions (yes, putters have starting conditions).
- A new blow acquired by setting the handicap metric that simplifies the putter’s performance in a way that every golf player can understand.
Beyond that, system flexibility is a player.
“We’ve got it predetermined for the most sought after tests,” Bishop says, “but we have the flexibility to restore essentially any other Putter test we may want to run. This means we are not locked In a single test model – we can adapt, refine and continue to improve the way we appreciate the decisions. “
What comes next?
Our first complete test using the PuttView system is underway. We are planning the three most sought after putter tests in 2025 and we are sure they will be the most inclusiveness we have ever made. The additional mirrors we are getting from PuttView go far from what we have been able to measure in the past.
But we’re not stopping there.
While PuttView continues to add integration with other systems (Quad GC release monitors, for example), we will require additional opportunities to improve the testing process.
One thing is for sure: Putter testing just got much better.
For years, placement has been seen as an art-based art, unpredictable and, to some extent, is difficult to determine. With our new PuttView lab, we can focus on the science of placement. And that means that players will receive knowledge directed from the data they need to make smarter decisions for the most used club in their bag.
We are not fully sure where this will take the testing of the putter but we are sure This is just the beginning.
office ROLLING WITH PUTTVIEW: Inside the construction, installation and future of our located laboratory first appeared in MygolfSSS.
