The PuttBANDIT story
Dreams of putting glory
For two brothers, with many prime golfing years behind us, sinking the putt that wins the Open or Ryder Cup, had become an extremely remote possibility. But that doesn’t mean we’re not ambitious when it comes to golf.
How can we improve our golf?
One day, we were talking about our occasionally dreadful putting and the fact that the average golfer takes more strokes with a putter than any other club in the bag. We were certainly proving that point.
It was clear that improving our putting skills could have a big impact on our scores.
Research and Development
We concluded that improving our putt line targeting and accurately aligning to our chosen target point, was where we needed to be. After many months of research - reviewing products and techniques – analysing and testing multiple prototypes – we came up with the PuttBANDIT.
Results?
Using PuttBANDIT prototypes, we both saw our putting become more reliable - three putts were much rarer, two putts became the norm and one putts happened a little more often. Our scores dropped and our handicaps started to fall.
So if the PuttBANDIT was helping us, it could work for other golfers too. Now all we had to do was get the R&A to examine the PuttBANDIT for compliance and then work out how to manufacture them. Something that sounds a lot easier than it really is! But we did it.
From idea to reality
After climbing up and falling off many steep learning curves with regard to equipment rules, CAD, injection moulding, materials, 3D printing, CNC laser cutting and much more, PuttBANDIT ball markers are now available to golfers who want to improve their putting performance. And our customers are telling us that their PuttBANDIT markers are helping them too.
We wish you good putting.
Neil and Paul Hart
Designed to align
Tested to perform, examined to comply
Save putts while complying with the rules
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The PuttBANDIT story
Dreams of putting glory
For two brothers, with many prime golfing years behind us, sinking the putt that wins the Open or Ryder Cup, had become an extremely remote possibility. But that doesn’t mean we’re not ambitious when it comes to golf.
How can we improve our golf?
One day, we were talking about our occasionally dreadful putting and the fact that the average golfer takes more strokes with a putter than any other club in the bag. We were certainly proving that point.
It was clear that improving our putting skills could have a big impact on our scores.
Research and Development
We concluded that improving our putt line targeting and accurately aligning to our chosen target point, was where we needed to be. After many months of research - reviewing products and techniques – analysing and testing multiple prototypes – we came up with the PuttBANDIT.
Results?
Using PuttBANDIT prototypes, we both saw our putting become more reliable - three putts were much rarer, two putts became the norm and one putts happened a little more often. Our scores dropped and our handicaps started to fall.
So if the PuttBANDIT was helping us, it could work for other golfers too. Now all we had to do was get the R&A to examine the PuttBANDIT for compliance and then work out how to manufacture them. Something that sounds a lot easier than it really is! But we did it.
From idea to reality
After climbing up and falling off many steep learning curves with regard to equipment rules, CAD, injection moulding, materials, 3D printing, CNC laser cutting and much more, PuttBANDIT ball markers are now available to golfers who want to improve their putting performance. And our customers are telling us that their PuttBANDIT markers are helping them too.
We wish you good putting.