This presumes, of course, that once the putting greens have been installed they are being used on a regular basis. It also won’t help those golfers who have always had, and probably always will have, a case of the yips.

But for everyone else, shelling out the dough to put an artificial putting green in the back yard would be motivation enough to get out there and use it as regularly as possible. I know it would make me want to put in a big effort to take out the upcoming four-ball championships.