AimPoint Golf Ireland

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12. Bottom line:

Slow play on the green is driven by:
• Excess movement
• Multiple angles
• Indecision
• Resets

Behavior drives pace.

If you want faster play, change the mechanics.

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11. Within the same players:

On short putts → small time difference.
On long putts → AimPoint advantage widens dramatically.

Structure scales better as uncertainty increases.

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10. There is a compliance lever.

Simultaneous reading.

Read during another player’s turn:
• ~9–10 seconds faster
• Nearly 5x higher compliance

Without it, compliance on longer putts is nearly zero.

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9. Now the uncomfortable truth:

Over 90% of putts longer than 3 feet exceed 40 seconds.

Non-compliance is the norm.

Blaming one green-reading system is mathematically indefensible.

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8. Ball alignment?

Adds ~5–6 seconds per putt.

Once distance is controlled, make-rate improvement is minimal outside short putts.

Measurable time cost. Limited scoring gain.

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7. Back-offs matter.

One reset adds ~6 seconds.

Non-AimPoint players back off 4–5x more often than AimPoint players.

Resets signal indecision—and they add time.

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6. Up-the-line visuals are a bottleneck.

Non-AimPoint players use them ~69% of the time.
Pure AimPoint: 0%.

They carry the largest visual time penalty in the dataset.

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5. After adjusting for putt length:

Fastest → Pure AimPoint

AimPoint reads reduce movement by reducing view angles and speed up the read and execution time.

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4. Viewing angles are expensive.

Each additional angle adds ~9 seconds to read time.

Three angles vs one?
You’ve nearly doubled your read time.

Multiple angles are a structural delay.

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3. The strongest predictor of execution time is footsteps taken.

Each additional step adds ~0.7 seconds.

Movement inflation = time inflation.

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2. First: where is time actually spent?

Average breakdown:
• Total Execution time: ~63 sec
• Read time: ~38 sec
• Setup: ~14 sec
• Over the ball: ~10 sec

Standing over the putt is NOT the problem.
The read phase consumes nearly all available time.

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1. People think structured green-reading slows play.

We measured it.

~200 PGA Tour putts.
Full execution time tracked. All behaviors recorded.

The data says something very different.

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For people concerned about walking around the hole, this happens all day at tournaments between players and caddies and it’s never spoken of.

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What’s your opinion: are structured green-reading methods like AimPoint slower, faster, or the same as traditional green-reading?

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DCP will use a 40 second shot clock this year. How long do you think it takes on average to execute a putt longer than 3 feet on PGA Tour?

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If you think AimPoint creates more footprints on the green than a traditional read, I recommend you actually count the difference. “Normal” reads create at least 5 times more footprints than AimPoint. It’s not even close.

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Seeing Is Deceiving. How the surrounds create dis-harmony in your brain. https://t.co/Q8y2vqi5lA

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2025 PGA Tour Putting Stats:

- 1st SGP: uses AimPoint
- 1st Total Putting: uses AimPoint
- 1st Putts Per Round: uses AimPoint
- 1st One Putt %: uses AimPoint
- 1st Avg Distance Putts Made: uses AimPoint

No evidence AimPoint works?

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