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How it plays

How to get the best out of Puttie

Two minutes to set up. Then a ladder game you can play alone or against the house, a pace drill, and a competition with proper rules.

Start at 3 ft. Sink three in a row. Step back a foot.

The game, in one line

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4.5″ cup — start here 3″ cup — the next level Pace cup — train your speed

01 · Get started

Set up on a level floor

Place the Puttie mat on a level floor. Open Puttie's collapsible leg fully and position it against the inner core tube at the end of the mat. That position indexes the 2 ft to 10 ft marks on the mat accurately.

Start with the largest cup, the 4.5″ one. Put the ball a short distance out, 2 or 3 ft. When you hole three putts in a row, move back a foot and do the same from there, and so on until you've holed three from the 10 ft marker. Then downsize to the 3″ cup and start again from the shortest distance.

Sinking a 10 ft putt is a good shot at the best of times. Puttie lets you build gradually, but quickly, to the point where you can sink it all day long. That's when you reduce the cup size to sharpen your accuracy.

Puttie set up at the end of the 10 ft mat on a wooden floor

The pace cup fitted in Puttie, with its white line across the cup

02 · Pace

Groove the same strike, every time

To practise your pace, fit the pace cup, the one with the white line across its diameter. The aim is to train your muscles to strike the ball with exactly the same force again and again, so the ball just reaches the white line before returning to you.

Because the pace cup sits flush with the Puttie incline, the ball returns in a straight line, without being flicked to one side as it is when it lands in the other cups. You get into a rhythm, tweaking the strike until you find the sweet spot where the ball runs an identical line time after time.

03 · Puttie competition

Play against friends and family

Decide the order of play. The first player putts from the 2 ft mark with the 4.5″ cup fitted. Hole it and move back to the 3 ft marker, and so on. Miss, and play passes to the next player.
The first player to hole from the 10 ft marker wins — though play continues to the end of the round. If another player also reaches and holes from 10 ft, those two keep putting from 10 ft until one misses.
Each player leaves a coin of their choosing beside the distance they're putting from, to keep track of who's where.

04 · When a putt is a putt

Judge it as you would on a green

Ask how the ball would have travelled if the same putt, at the same distance, were on a putting green. If it rolls up the slope, into the cup, out over the back until it hits the rim and then returns to you, that's the equivalent of over-hitting on the green and running over the hole. We've all been there.

If you miss the cup on the way up but the ball drops in on its way back, that would never happen on a green, so the putt was a miss. Apply that to every putt and it's obvious which are in and which are out. And if it's all during a practice session, remember: the only one you're fooling is yourself.

The film

See it played

John Dunne, Puttie's inventor, shows how the slope returns the ball and how the cups and pace line work.

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The Puttie film, 1:04 — John Dunne shows how it plays.

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