The Stimpmeter

A common challenge all golfers face when playing the game is accurately assessing and striking the golf ball to establish the proper pace and travel distance of a long or lag putt so that the ball goes in the hole or the 2 putt is achievable. Since 1935, when Edward Stimpson invented the Stimpmeter for the determination of green speed, this device has been used universally throughout the golf world.

The Stimpmeter is used for determination of green speed, at most if not all golf courses, for professional, amateur or recreational play. Although the Stimpmeter has been the golf standard device for measuring green speed from its time of invention to the present, it provides only the relative speed of the of the green surface from a low number as 4 indicating slow green speed to a number like 12 indicating fast green speed 

Pay attention to this while on the practice green setting your course putting by the numbers!