The PuttView App offers you three core visuals, known from PuttView’s award-winning indoor systems, to master the three most important aspects of putting – read, line, and speed – which all have to align for a putt to drop. Learn more about Contour Lines, Aiming Line, and Ideal Line and how these visuals can help you become a better putter.
Contour Lines
Green-reading is the skill to detect changes in elevation on the putting surface and translate those into how they affect the roll of a putt. Within the PuttView app, you can choose between three different topography visuals. Contour Lines – connecting points of equal elevation, Slope Arrows – pointing down the exact line gravity acts in (perpendicular to the contour lines) on a specific point on the green, and Slope Percentages – putting a number on the gradient like professional yardage books do. All three visuals describe the same surface, but in a different way. So, pick the one you can relate to the best instead of switching between them on every putt.
Aiming Line
In the context of read, line, and speed, line refers to the intended start line of a putt – the Aiming Line visual within PuttView. It is a straight line from your ball to the point you need to aim at to find the middle of the hole with your putt at the intended speed. Consistently hitting your calculated start line is one of the most important skills in putting and can be practiced isolated with specific drills – for example, a classic Gate Drill.
Ideal Line
The Ideal Line is the exact representation of how the three key elements of a putt act together. It projects how a putt will roll along the slopes of a green, at the intended speed and for the calculated start line to find the middle of the cup. This means, there are multiple Ideal Lines for the exact same putt, all depending on the power you want to hit your putt at. Keep in mind – a putt that dies at the hole always takes significantly more break than a putt that hits the back edge of the cup.