Putting impact tape gives you a way to measure your sweet spot impact pattern and improve over time. It will help you improve your distance control and improve your accuracy. Improve your skill and shoot better scores.
For most of my golfing life I sprayed my clubs with Dr. Scholl’s to view impact. All that time, I ignored my sweet spot contact when using my putter.
Let’s take a look at two different brands of putter impact tape and see how well they work.
One of the knocks against putter impact tape is that it may not work well on shorter putts. Let’s see how they match up.
Pelz Teacher Putter Tape
Pelz Golf – Putting Impact Tape
Pros
What I like about this impact tape is that it has a bullseye set of rings marked 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. It gives you immediate feed back about the relationship between the ball and sweet spot.
If you miss, you know exactly how far you missed by. I find this typical of the Dave Pelz system of recording your shots or measuring your putts.
There is a notch in the top and bottom of the tape to help you line it up.
Cons
I almost didn’t buy them because you get 36 individual pieces of impact tape for $14 dollars.
That’s about 38 cents a piece.
Made in China.
Longshot Impact Labels
Pros
You get 350 impact labels for $18.21. They are made in the USA. There are some instructions and guidance in a small manual.
Cons
There isn’t much for markings on the impact label at all to tell how far you miss by. They have a + plus sign on the heel and toe. There is an oval with their logo on the sweet spot.
No line up marks.
Test Putts
I think the key here is going to be whether out not you can see a ball mark on the label and at what distance.
I’m starting with five foot putts. The surface has a 10 stimp reading.
Pelz Teacher Putter Tape
The Pelz Impact Tape clearly showed a mark when I took a five foot putt. Not a big one, but there was a mark.
I thought the label was going to be a little on the small side. However, I took 10 putts from 5 to 50 feet and all of the marks on the impact tape were within about a half inch.
The outlier was my first putt. I was close to the sweet spot, but toward the heel two rings.
I don’t think you would want to take more than 10 putts per piece of impact tape.
The tape came off easily.
Longshot Impact Labels
The Longshot impact tape did not show a mark on the first five foot putt.
In fact, I started over. It just barely showed up on the second attempt.
In fact, after 10 putts….it wasn’t easy to see where I’d hit ten putts.
The tape came off easily.
Conclusion
The photo below shows the Pelz Putting Impact Tape at the top and the Longshot Impact Label at the bottom.
I took ten puts with each product.
There is an obvious difference. You can even see on the top right of the Pelz product where I grabbed it to take it off the putter.
I think the better of the two was clearly the Pelz Putting Imapct Tape.
The Longshot product isn’t bad. However, you really need to see ball marks better. That’s the whole point.