Simplify and Fine Tune Your Putting Practice & Warmup / Bonus: PXG Fitting Session

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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GS963: Summary Matt Davis, the creator of Puttercup is this week's guest. Putter Cup is an innovative golf hole insert that offers two products: the Speed Bump and the Center Cup. The Speed Bump is a 360-degree raised incline around the golf hole that forces golfers to hit the ball with enough speed and helps correct offline putts. The Center Cup is a hole reducer that shrinks the size of the hole by an inch. Davis emphasizes that putting should be simple and that training aids should focus on concentration rather than mechanics. He also discusses his partnership with the First Tee organization and his plans for future product expansion. There's even more on this episode! A couple weeks ago PXG renewed their sponsorship of Golf Smarter, and once again, PXG invited Fred out for a fitting. The PXG fitting process was so interesting that we wanted to share it with you. Next week the PXG campaign will begin, and even though this could be interpreted as an informercial for PXG, rest assured that we received no additional compensation for including this edited recording in today's episode. It was completely at our discretion and in no way did PXG or my agency suggest that we include this.Takeaways Puttercup offers two innovative golf hole inserts: the Speed Bump and the Center Cup. The Speed Bump is a 360-degree raised incline around the golf hole that helps golfers hit the ball with enough speed and correct offline putts. The Center Cup is a hole reducer that shrinks the size of the hole by an inch, making putting more challenging. Matt Davis believes that putting should be simple and that training aids should focus on concentration rather than mechanics. Puttercup has partnered with the First Tee organization and donates 5% of its sales to support their mission. Puttercup is planning to expand its product line with a portable golf hole called the To Go Cup. Puttercup is open to suggestions and feedback from golfers and is considering retail partnerships to make their products more widely available. Two ways to become a Golf Smarter Ambassador and receive a choice of one of these great prizes including: • Glove + Glove Compartment from RedRoosterGolf.com where you can now choose from a large variety of styles of gloves for men and women in 36 sizes! • A private link to Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental” • A pack of 8 Flightpath Golf Tees. A Tee Above All. Learn more at https://flightpathgolf.com. Request to introduce an episode to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com.Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube for daily highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. We also post articles and video shorts on LinkedIn @FredGreene (from Novato, CA). This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply.This episode is brought to you by ONE Bar. Find all ONE bars at a retailer near you or on Amazon.comFor exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Former GolfSmarter host, Fred Greene has been... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mike Harley from Loudoun, Tennessee, and I play at Teleco Village, Toqua Golf Course.
0:10.0	This is Golf Smarter, number 963.
0:14.0	During my 20s, in addition to being an avid golfer, I also played a lot of billiards, including some competitive billiards. I was living in New York City at the time, so you can imagine there's some good pool players
0:24.6	out that way, and I had the chance to play for the first time on what's called a tight pocket table.
0:31.6	It's a descriptive name because it's tight pockets, and so what they've done is they've put wood shims into the sides of the
0:39.2	pool pockets to shrink it by probably a half inch on both sides until it's barely bigger than a
0:45.0	pool ball. It's really challenging. You miss a lot of shots. It's very exacting. But as soon as you
0:50.5	switch over to a regular pool table, you feel like you can't miss. It almost feels like cheating.
0:55.0	The pockets just feel so big.
0:56.5	For sure, I think that experience was floating around somewhere in the back of my mind.
1:06.6	Simplify and fine-tune your putting practice and warm-up with putter cup by Matt Davis.
1:13.1	This is Golf Smarter.
1:16.0	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:23.8	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:26.4	A little heads up about this episode before we begin, because there's more today than what you're expecting.
1:33.1	When I first recorded today's episode, it felt a little shorter than what I usually deliver.
1:39.2	So here's what we're going to do.
1:41.2	This week, we're going to feature two guests on two different topics, which is going
1:47.5	to make this episode a little longer than usual. Hope that's okay, but it's a podcast so you can
1:52.8	pause it at any time, right? Now, if you remember a couple of months ago, PXG sponsored Golf Smarter
1:59.4	to talk about their new Black Ops driver.
2:02.2	I went out for a fitting, recorded it, and then used that recording to create the ads that
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