Am I the only one that thinks that putting greens at your local golf galaxy have some type of trick to them. (larger holes) Now that is ridiculus larger holes, but I do see the green slanting into all of the holes. Expecialy at my golf galaxy. Same deal where a putter is a great one inside, once u take it outside it is garbage, best description of this is a putter called the purestoke, I dont know If you have heard of it but it is amazing indoors then it sucks real bad outside.
this is the purestoke

http://www.equip2golf.com/oldsite/images/p...purestroke2.jpg

I read your post and then laughed out loud to myself ... when I lived in Minneapolis for a year I frequented your local Golf Galaxy and thought that exact same thing. I don't have one near me now so I don't know if they are all the same. I was trialing a putter at that store and made 3 in a row from about 20 ft. when another guy looked up at me and said "are you gonna buy that thing already or what?" It didn't turn to garbage when I left the store with it but it sure made a lot more putts on their green.

as you have hinted at, it is a genius marketing technique, and certainly increases sales on putters since most people associate a good putter with making a putt

Why do they have greens that act like velcro....Golf Galaxy's indoor greens are horrible.

I think that is exactly what most of us do. If you can not make a putt with it you need to be looking at something diferent. Even the pros do that.

I think we all know the store greens and it is not limited to golf galaxy either.

It's the same with the EW here in Montgomery, AL. The area around the hole all slants into the cup. It's funny because I could put a putt just past the hole and watch it slide back into it. I mostly go with the feel on the in-store greens than anything else.

Up here it is, the second swings have old crappy greens that minus well be the carpet. But u r right other stores have the same technique also

I was just saying that you can make a good putting stroke with a putter that feels good and the putt rolls perfectly but doesn't go in, and people tend to associate it with a bad putter, where as any old crappy stroke with any putter that happens to go in....well, you see what I'm trying to say

I've got a better story. The golf galaxy in Orland Park Illinois has the toughest indoor green to put on. It is hilarious. The breaks are vicious. Talk about making a set up to decrease your sales, that would win the award hands down.

im considering just going and taking pics the green is so unreal handz98 know what Im talking about

They'll do whatever they have to do to make a sale

I never really noticed a bias but the green at the 2nd Swing I was in on Monday was about a 17 on the Stimp. That was the fastest thing I'd ever putted on. You could wave the putter a foot over the ball and it would roll 3 feet from the breeze.

I knew what you were trying to say I was just ragging you. The whole thing is getting the confidence in a putter. Does not matter, if you have no confidence in your putter you are not going to make many putts. Some of the store greens gets the confidence in the right place until you get on the course. You may still have it or loose quickly if you can not get it to perform like it did in the store. Even if the store was not built to help you make a putt. That putter is going to work different once you get to a true grass green. The store green got you in the correct frame of mind, sold you a putter. So now the rest is up to you. Just look at how often some pros change putters. While other never give up on what got them there. Putting like all of golf is a mind game.