Golf Putting Mat - Portable Putting Green, Indoor & Outdoor Practice, with Ball Return - Golf Training Aid for Home, Office, Backyard - Golfing Gifts

After 4 weeks of use, 1. Developed with price in mind. It is not a $3,000 simulated turf putting green and don’t expect it to be. 2. All practice drills and tools each have a specific purpose this is no different it is one piece of the puzzle. Perfect Practice will definitely allow you to refine your putting stoke and fundamentals to help you become an overall better putter but it is one piece. 3. It is manufactured and packaged with price a key consideration. Good to high quality; but making it optimal for shipping pricing has caused them to fold or roll the surface more than I believe they wanted to and I can imagine the product team discussion on this point. 4. Getting the surface to lay flat. Depending on what you desire it will be a challenge. I laid things out as you see in my photo. It had more bumps than I would prefer. I gave it a couple of days. Not much change. I then took a 8’ 1x12 and placed it on 1/2 with two cinder blocks on top for three days. Only minimal improvement - sill more bumps and higher than I preferred. I used a steam iron “carefully” without much improvement. I then took a staple gun (this is where it will always be and no one will be moving it) and I stapled it at the bump points on the edges. I’m a golfer and I don’t care about the hardwood floor…and it’s a game room. This improved things considerably but I still had humps or slight bumps that influenced the ball roll enough that I finally we to the nuclear option. 4” wide double sided rug tape. I pulled out the staples and then very carefully found the bumps and applied the tape to those sections, starting at the cup end and working my way back down the runway until complete. Even then there remained some rises along the piping on the edge that I still stapled down. At this point I was all in anyway. Now I have a Perfect Practice setup like the factory did it. And I can use the full 15 feet with out the surface having any influence on the ball. Actually I probably fixed it too good. It’s a hardwood flood and I did not consider the very subtle crown the boards have. On the long putts which have higher speed if I do not get the putt rolling smoothly it can bounce on occasion. But that is good visual feedback and I know immediately what I did.Finally, my rating is high. Just because I’m a golf nut it was not fair to be hard on these folks with my goal of perfection. This is why I titled this “do not let Perfect be the enemy of Good” You do not have to do all that I have to have a very good inexpensive putting practice tool that will make you much improved at putting. And if you like to be perfect you now know what it will take….most likely. Oh, and make sure it is a space your wife will let you get away with doing what I have done. I’m a lucky man

I bought the XL because I had the room, but the room is carpeted, which I think makes it a bit harder to get the mat to lie really flat. If you have concrete or hardwood floors this might not be as much of an issue. I've been working on it for the past couple weeks and have gotten it so the ball rolls pretty straight. Rolling it up tightly the opposite way from how it came was of help, and so did lightly spritzing the mat with water then ironing on a 4 setting.The tilted end and ball return feature are Must Haves in my opinion to really enjoy and use a lot. After practicing on the carpet with 5 or 6 balls always getting in each other's way, this feature is GREAT! Super easy to set up and once the mat is flat it's fantastic to practice on. The lines allow you track both your putting stroke and the ball's path to the hole. I'm pretty new to golf but looking for ways to improve. I've been using this for about 2 weeks and It's already helped me develop a more consistent, comfortable stroke and better feel for distances. Every time I walk by I hit a few putts, or maybe 25. I live where there's snow 6 months a year so It's great to have something fun to do during winter!!I would recommend this to anyone who wants to improve their putting game or doesn't have good access to practice greens.UPDATE: After a few weeks I've realized that you need to be careful of using the scale of feet on the mat to judge putts on an actual course. Because of the ramp, you have to hit the ball WAY harder to get it into the hole than for an actual putt of the distance shown on the mat. The last 1 foot of ramp is like another 8 feet further you have to hit it to make it in, which I think is misleading.

Shipping took 10 days to finally get this mat to my home. Having said that the mat was easy to assemble and I was putting within minutes. I still need to flatten it out some (will try either heavy flat item or iron on low setting) but even with the couple small bumps in the mat it still rolls nice and the ball returns right back to the 9 foot putting area.

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I’m recovering from shoulder surgery so the only golf stroke I can practice is putting. I bought the Perfect Practice putting mat a week or 2 ago and it has definitely helped me understand the flaws in my putting stroke. I got the set that included the mirror and I realized that my stance was a part of my problem. Once I corrected some issues with that, I was able to focus on keeping the putter head straight in both the backswing and follow through by using the lines in the mat as a gauge. Very helpful! I also really like the small hole, as it makes the regulation hole look gargantuan. I made 40 consecutive 6-footers on the regulation hole before finally taking a break. It’s very satisfying to watch a putt roll straight down the line. The ball rolls perfectly true and the material is good quality - maybe a little quicker than the public greens I’m used to playing on. My only complaint as a putting aid is the ramp up to the holes. I wish they had some sort of adjustment/calculation to tell you what the length is taking the ramp into consideration. I’ve hit many putts that fail to get to the cup, but had plenty of pace had the mat been flat. Likewise, I’ve had just as many that went in that probably were hit too hard for the distance shown on the mat. So maybe a 6 foot putt is adjusted to 8 feet with the ramp - something like that. It will be interesting to see how my distance control is on an actual green. One last thing: balls never come completely down the ball return ramp. No big deal, but for the price, I’d like to see that work better. Set up is super easy, but it takes several days and some ironing to get the mat to lay completely flat. Mine is still curled up just a tad at the ends, but that doesn’t interfere with putting.

This is an excellent putting mat. The problem is: it doesn't lay totally flat. I've tried stretching. putting a board with weight on it. it just doesnt lay flat. they need to figure that out.

Buen producto. Facil de armar

I do like it, but I find I need to iron it every time I unroll it.

Got it as a gift for my brotherEveryone plays it! Great game and very good quality! Recommend

初めてゴルフパターマットを購入しましたが、転がり、球の伸びも良い感じです。初めてなので、他のがわからず評価としては星4です

value for money