RIMER SHORT GAME TRAINER
Introduced on social media in early 2019, the Rimer is inventor Dave Riffey’s lightweight, portable gift to the short game — and to those of us who should practice our chips and putts far more often, and with more serious intent. The Rimer is a seventeen-and-a-half-inch-long, narrow plastic bar, marked every inch with letters from A to O and fitted with a sliding pointer that gives an immediate point of reference for ball position, on both putts and chips, to help a golfer groove where he’s most comfortable in his stance depending on the shot at hand. For putts, the Rimer can also aid in putting stance width to help square up the feet to the target line, and even to help lock in optimum distance from feet to ball. For the short wedge game, the Rimer might be even more useful. Depending on the trajectory you want from your 56-degree wedge, you can move the marker forward for higher shots, further back for a low-angle skidder and somewhere in between for your stock pitch-and-run. It weighs next to nothing so it’s a natural for toting to the outdoor practice green, and works great indoors, too.
$19.99 | www.therimergolf.com
— Vic Williams
