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Stack Putting

Turn aimless practice-green time into purposeful sessions with data, scoring insights and three training modes.

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Stack Putting

Putting can be the easiest part of your game to practise badly. You can spend half an hour rolling putts, feel great and still leave without knowing whether you're actually improving. Stack Putting brings a training plan, performance measurement and feedback to the practice green.

3distinct training modes
15minute sessions promoted
SGputting performance feedback

What makes Stack Putting different?

The concept is simple: the scorecard tells you how many putts you took, but it doesn't explain how difficult those putts were. Making two putts from a long distance may be a perfectly good outcome; missing repeatedly from short range usually points to something different.

Stack Putting uses structured sessions and strokes-gained-style comparisons to put your results in context. The aim is to help you understand both how you putt and what you should practise next.

Multiple TheStack Putting app screens showing putting performance insights and training challenges
Putting performance presented visually, from practice challenges to strokes-gained insights.

The three ways to use Stack Putting

Premier Mode

The guided training experience. Follow an assigned practice session and let your results inform future work. It is a strong option if you want the App to provide structure instead of inventing a drill each day.

On Course Mode

Capture putting information in the context of actual rounds. This helps link the way you train on the practice green with the putts you face when a score matters.

Creative Mode

Build a practice session around your own goals. You can focus on a specific type of putting challenge rather than relying exclusively on the guided pathway.

Progress across sessions

Record your results over time, identify repeatable trends and make it easier to tell whether your technique and distance control are improving.

Learn more than your total putts

Official Stack Putting app overview showing performance and drills
Putting outcomes are much more useful when measured in context instead of counting total putts.

The manufacturer's putting programme can examine performance relative to a peer group, as well as tendencies affected by factors such as distance, pace, slope, line and break. That is far more useful than simply declaring a round with 29 putts to be better than a round with 32.

For example, a golfer who two-putts reliably from 15 metres may already have strong lag-putting skills but still lose strokes from inside two metres. Another golfer could hole short putts confidently yet struggle to judge longer first putts. Those players need different practice priorities.

Why short sessions can be better than long sessions

Stack Putting promotes focused sessions of about 15 minutes. That isn't magic by itself; the value comes from measurable tasks and honest feedback. A short practice session that forces you to hit different putts, keep score and respond to the result is often more useful than casually hitting dozens of identical balls.

Coach Gurney's practice tip: Resist the urge to repeat a putt until you finally hole it. In golf you get one chance from each position. Vary distance and break, record the outcome, and train the decisions as well as the stroke.

What does a good putting routine look like?

Before the session

  • Choose the skill: start line, pace, short putts or long-distance control.
  • Pick a Stack mode appropriate to the session.
  • Set up on a realistic putting surface with varied targets.

After the session

  • Record scores and examine the performance feedback.
  • Identify whether the miss is about speed, start line or green reading.
  • Repeat the process over multiple sessions instead of reacting to one bad day.

How does putting work with the rest of TheStack?

Stack Stats can show whether you're actually gaining or losing strokes on the greens. If the data identifies putting as a scoring opportunity, Stack Putting helps turn that diagnosis into a practice routine. The speed trainer addresses clubhead speed; Stack Wedging tackles approach distance control. Together they create a more complete improvement toolkit.

Golfer enjoying a breakthrough on the golf course
Build skills in practice so that you can play with more confidence on the course.

What do you need?

Stack Putting currently runs on compatible iOS devices and requires the applicable Stack App membership. You do not need to buy the Stack speed-training club simply to practise putting. Stack Radar is required for Wedging and certain other modes, but not as a general requirement for putting practice. Check membership options in your existing Stack account before buying hardware for the wrong purpose.

Common Stack Putting questions

Does Stack Putting need the yellow weighted speed trainer?

No. The speed trainer is for speed-training sessions. Putting is a separate software module within the Stack ecosystem.

Do I need to bring Stack Radar onto the putting green?

No. Stack Putting is designed around putting activity and the app, not measuring putts with Stack Radar.

Will it tell me how to fix my stroke?

It can identify performance tendencies, but it is not a substitute for evaluating technique, green reading or setup with a qualified coach.

Can I use Android?

Not for the Putting module at present. Stack Putting is currently available on iOS, with broader platform support planned.

How many sessions should I complete?

Consistency matters more than chasing a particular number. Follow the app's practice structure and allow enough sessions to see a meaningful trend.

Continue exploring: Stack Stats, Stack Wedging, Stack App features and membership, or Coach Gurney's coaching offer.

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