Putting practice at home has not only gotten more popular with people stuck inside over the past year, but brought more options. What used to be that simple turf that shed all over the place to robust custom offerings that give multiple speeds and moveable breaks. Somewhere in the middle should be a sweet spot that offers true roll, solid construction and stows away easily. The Explanar Putting Mat hopes to accomplish that.
We spent some time with the 13 ft variety of the Explanar Putting Mat in the THP Tech Studio and wanted to show off a few of the features and talk a little bit about how it works. In the video below, we roll a few putts to show the speed and explain some of the ways we have been using it so far.
Touched on briefly in the video above, but cannot be stressed enough is the construction of the mat in general. When it arrived in the box and we rolled it out, with most mats in this price range, you have to give it some time to settle lay flat. The Explanar Putting Mat was flat instantly and each time we stowed it away and pulled it back out, it was in perfect working order immediately.
After watching the video above, what are your thoughts? Do you think it would assist in your putting? For more information, check out their website at www.explanarusa.com.
The Details
Available: Now
Cost: $147 or $169 (size)
Length: 10 or 13 ft
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Chaos.
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Round 1 Sarzar 5/10, blazinden (Tri-Hot) 8/10 (Idk what I was doing on this round)
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Round 2 Sarzar 5/10, blazinden (Austin) 8/10 (I am blaming my horrendous putting on it being the middle of the night and I’m tired…)
How we randomly distribute the balls. Adjust off alignment aids and if any go off mat put on edge where it went off.
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Round 3 Sarzar 5/10, blazinden (Austin) 7/10 & stuck 1
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Round 4 Sarzar 6/10, blazinden (Tri-Hot) 7/10 with 1 stuck
All the teams were put on a piece of paper and randomly selected out of a hat. Each team was given a color (he doesn’t know which color belongs to which team).
As he putts, I will update the bracket so he is unaware of which team he is putting for.
Each round will start at 5 ft with 2 balls. He will continue to move back a foot until he misses.
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Slinging bags & Secret Tacos are the first 2 teams knocked out.
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Your team did better than slinging bags, secret tacos, and commanding wookies… That’s gotta count for something right ?
I did three sets. Toulon Austin w/ All In
3 at 3
3 at 4
3 at 5
2 at 6
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I surprised myself. I did pretty good for not putting on the mat in awhile. Maybe I’ll leave it laid out on the floor until WWGC. @Sarzar approved.
Explanar Mat challenge to find out my pick for Shaft Up #1 w/ UST Mamiya.
@Sarzar is the official.
Arnie balls are 3up at the turn. (can’t say which team yet cause @blazinden doesn’t know which balls are which team).
Holes 1-3 started at 4ft
Holes 4-6 started at 5ft
Holes 7-9 started at 6ft
Holes 10-12 started at 7ft
Holes 13-15 started at 8ft
Holes 16-18 started at 9ft
Chicken balls made a come back and went into hole 18 AS.
Chicken balls pulled out the win!
*Arnie balls were Team Jewamese
*Chicken balls were Amiish Cheedar
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