Putting trainers are about as common as coffee mugs and carpeting (and nearly as boring), and offices all around the world are filled with frustrated putters.
The golfers at Therefore, one of the U.K.’s top product design consultancy firms, know this feeling all too well. So they set about designing their own putting trainer that would be conceived with that frustration in mind. The result is PuttOUT, a non-mechanical, ball-returning putting trainer that seems no less artistic than it is functional.
The inspiration was those unnerving 3-5 footers, “the ones we should make,” said Therefore’s Cam Slaughter. “We wanted to create something that gave us at least the chance to practice the short ones more, and know standing over them on the course that we’ve put the work in.”