Your guide to understanding how aim works on artificial turf.
Putting Baseline
Putting is an important stroke in the game of golf, as it can immensely affect a player’s outcome in a single round. Any putting surface, natural or artificial, has important playability parameters that determine the “putting quality” of such a surface. Bounce, spin, trueness, speed, aim, firmness, and regularity are some of the key attributes that affect “putting quality”.
To secure our synthetic turf greens putted similar to natural greens we forged standardized testing methods to evaluate both natural and synthetic putting greens. These testing methods help deliver the country club golf course experience at your own backyard putting green.
The Putting Green Assessment Tool is designed to objectively measure the effect of distinct surfaces on the golf ball. The process is automated in such a way that it gets rid of the human interference and variability. For example, a golfer asked to putt 10 times will likely produce 10 different shots. It uses a simple device equipped with a free swinging putter to repeatedly reproduce identical ball strokes for the putting motion, and two launching mechanisms that administer backspin to the ball from ground level and from 2ft from the ground. The apparatus creates data related to ball strike, spin, bounce, and aim. Other tests used in the protocol are well-known to most in the golf industry: speed and firmness(Stimpmeter and TruFirm).
This manner can be used to:
1. Organize a guideline for model playability of putting greens using natural grass greens at the highest level;
2. Benchmark playability of a specific course vs. the baseline;
3. Benchmark the playability of an artificial putting system vs. natural green;
4. Create product comparison data and advance product development intentionally to achieve a specific target.
How Turf Affects Aim
Aim is a fundamental skill you have to practice to get the shot accurate every time, but did you know that the quality of the turf you’re on plays a role, too? Here are the few elements that affect how the ball reacts when you’ve taken your swing and the ball comes to rest on the turf:
Turf Stiffness
The tension of the turf affects how the golf ball will move throughout the putt, if the fiber is not optimized for putting particularly it can create erratic ball movement while rolling ”chatter.”
Friction Properties
Friction properties amid the ball and the turf also greatly influence how the ball slides and rolls. If putting surface friction is not optimized it will not accurately transition the club face and spin will form a bouncing effect instead of a smooth roll.
Pile Lay
A natural green is rolled to ensure the fibers are not standing upright. Correctly infilled putting greens will replicate natural rolled greens and avoid grain irregularities.
To test aim and surface variation; we measured the relative variation of standardized putts on a lot of various putting surfaces (bermuda, bent, nylon synthetic, polyethylene synthetic, and polypropylene synthetic)
The Southwest Greens Difference
Having a good quality turf will supply you the confidence to know the ball will respond the way it needs to. The type of turf will certainly affect your shot. The precision of the turf lets the aim be as accurate as possible, and you can now have this on your own lawn with our fan-favorite Golden Bear Turf.
Golden Bear Turf’s aim is scientifically developed and tested to go toe-to-toe with pro-quality putting greens. Shot after shot and putt after putt, Golden Bear has the tightest perimeter and the best aim of any putting surface. For pro-level consistency, it’s only the most outstanding synthetic green for putting aim on the market.