Today's video is a little bit different but it poses a problem that I think you might relate to. The winter months are grim time for golfers, horrible weather, short days and courses close, meaning we struggle to maintain our hobby and in my case my job and I need a solution to this problem quick. So I'm making a commitment this winter to find some indoor practice solutions and potting is a great place to start. And for that I need an indoor facility that won't break the budgets. So I've got myself four different potting mats to test to see if I can find a solution to practice putting indoors with realistic similarities to that of a potting green. I also want to be able to use the mat in future months to test and review potters on a pure surface. So let's start with mat number one and the lowest price to 88 pound and it's called true birdie. Now I describe this as a decent piece of carpet. As you can see it doesn't roll out truly flat and therefore needs to be unrolled permanently to become anything like flattened enough to take serious. It's not overly keen about being off the mat on a different level, this is now you would pot, is it? Visually I like the look of it. It seems to roll fairly true. For the price it was good phone but not a serious piece of kit. Next up in terms of budget was perfect practice and this is a 129.99. Now the first thing I want to say if this is endorsed by Dustin Johnson then I'm Tiger Woods. Ooh my favourite bit about this mat is the fact that the ball comes back to me down a little wooden trough, small things. It was just terrible. I can't even get the ball in place to go with that. Nah, I don't think you're learning anything on this. The material used for the surface is pretty terrible if I'm honest and I've zero positives apart from the mini rollercoaster ride the ball takes when it's on its way back to you. There is a jump up in price to the next two mats I'm going to look at and what I want to know is will I recognise the benefits of that extra investment. First of all I'll look at a put in mat called Big Moss. It was $389. Now clearly this is a decent piece of kit. It's a heavy weight surface and it's got a phone backed underlay that allows you to create the cup holes. It has a phone back stop which is a nice touch. I'm a bit surprised that these humps and bumps from when you've rolled a mat out. They're not having a massive impact or it doesn't look to have on the roll. But if you've got this in the house and you want to roll it back up each time and then get it back out then these creases are going to be ever present. So I'm not too sure if I like that idea or not. All the same. They still seem to roll pretty true. That's a really good roll and what's interesting is that quick. I mean this is like, I don't know, it seems like sort of 10 on the stem. The ball rolls super quick but not altogether a true roll and to be honest with you there are times those undulations on the put in surface reminded me of the fairways in forfe. There was an interesting concept to create a break in the put but again whilst it worked to a degree I wasn't overly convinced. And once again this would have to be a permanent fixture. It's not something you could take in and out of the box because those folds would just simply not disappear. The last map that I'm going to take a look at is probably the most simplistic in its design. It comes from a company called Prime Putt and it was £317. Now the big deal for me was there was no creases straight out of the box. A different level of putting surface altogether and this really did seem next level. This was a realistic proposition to create an indoor put in facility at a realistic price point. Now whilst I was a massive fan if there was anything I'd like to see changed it would be some minimal markings on the map to assist as a visual aid when practicing. But other than that it really was difficult to pick fault with this one. The first thing that strikes me about this one is it's by far the best quality and it's the one that rolls out of the box and it's kind of flat straight away. That's the first thing. Oh, I hold on. The ball rolls really true as well probably not the fastest. I think they say this runs at 8 on the stem so it's a little bit slower by far the best rolling. It's good you know because it says it replicates a real cup and that just grabbed enough to fall in. It's very lifelike. So we started today's video with what was a very selfish motive. I wanted to find a put in map that I could use indoor during the winter and improve my put in stroke. My conclusion is quite simply that Prime put was the most simplistic of the maps that I tried and the sense that it's very stripped down, no markings, all the things that I've already said in its individual review. But for me it was by far the highest quality and the best representation of what I would find out on the fair is at least on the greens. And if I wanted to practice my put in stroke seriously then it was the quality of the material used in the map itself which was the real standout feature. So that's my conclusion for Matt's tested. Three go on eBay. One finds its way probably into my spare room. As ever thanks for watching. I'll see you all soon.