Unless you’re already a great putter, one of the fastest ways to lower your handicap is to increase your proficiency on the greens. For example, If you go from 36 to 29 putts per round, well, that’s seven strokes off your score. That turns a 92 into an 85, and an 82 into 75.
Of course, if putting is by far the strength of your game, then you might not be interested in the product I recently tested – the GloPro Firefly, an innovative putting trainer that clubfitters, golf instructors, and many golfers would find very useful.
I came across the GloPro Firefly at this year’s PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando. They were in a small booth, and each time I went by, I noticed a golf pro or two there, checking it out. They seemed intrigued, and I witnessed more than one making an order on the spot.
(Image credit: Mike Bailey)
The GloPro Firefly ($149.99) is a system that combines a clamp, laser light, and a glow-in-the-dark pad that traces the beam. The clamp fits on the shaft of your putter. The laser goes in the clamp and points down. From there you can put a ball on the pad on an indoor putting green, or simply make putting strokes over the pad without a ball. In either case, the laser traces your exact stroke in real time.
The inventors of the GloPro Firefly got the idea from swinging a 9-iron in tall grass. They were a bit surprised to see the exact path of the clubhead wasn’t what they expected, which led to creating something that could do this for putting. A family member who worked in medical research helped find the materials to create GloPro Firefly, which records a line marked on the pad that disappears after a few minutes. You can either take a picture of it, or simply remember what it looked like. In any case, it gives you a real time picture of your putting stroke.
(Image credit: Mike Bailey)
So the big question, of course, is how do you use this information? Well, it can tell you a lot. Do you have much of an arc or do you tend to go pretty straight back and straight through? You might have a combination of both – an arc going back and a straight follow through or just the opposite. Can you retrace your path when you change direction? How long is your stroke, both back and through? (If you’re promoting a pendulum stroke, for example, without a ball, the back stroke and through stroke should be fairly even.)
According to GloPro founder Anthony Metzger, the first thing to look for is are you pushing or pulling your putts? From there you can…
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