About Us

Stuart Shay,Co-Founder

I spent 54 years in the aerospace industry after graduating with degree in Mechanical Engineering from City College in NYC. My career path included applying all engineering disciplines of product design, manufacturing, production, product support, sales & marketing with VP /Presidential & Corporate Management roles at United Technologies Corp. and Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp.

I began playing golf in 1964 and have maintained an ongoing active interest since. With a handicap in the 18-20 range, I have always realized that putting was my weakness and for years I have searched for the perfect tool to help me develop that part of my game.

In February 2022 I found a fellow searcher in Colby Lewis , Club Golf Pro at Frenchman’s Reserve Country Club , Palm Beach Gardens, FL and we began an ongoing discussion around the art of putting.

Bringing together my own engineering background and Colby’s broad range of experience in teaching putting, in April 2022 we developed metal prototypes of what would become our optimized design for a unique putting training device that we called “PUTTSTR8! - In a Class of it’s Own”.

With the help of PUTTSTR8!, my handicap is now in the 12-14 range.

Contact Stu at: stu@puttstr8.com 


Colby Lewis,Co-Founder

After growing up a multi-sport athlete, I chose golf as the sport I would pursue with a single-minded focus beginning in my college years. While first studying at Rockland Community College, I earned 1st place at regionals my Freshman season - followed by a 2nd place finish at the NJCAA Nationals my Sophomore season.  This landed me a scholarship to Division 2 St. Thomas Aquinas College where I played for two successful seasons while earning a Bachelor's Degree in Sports Management.  

After graduating, I found myself drawn to learning the business of golf and had the privilege of working at several top notch NY and Florida private golf clubs as their resident teaching pro – always with a personal focus on how improving one’s putting game was the quickest path to lowering golf scores.

 

I met Stu Shay, a life-long golf enthusiast, at Frenchman’s Reserve, where we would often brainstorm on what elements were needed to create the very best putt training device.

 

As I described to Stu how, as a youngster, I used to practice putting by placing tees in the ground in such a way as to force a straight back throughout the entire putting motion, his own love of the sport and engineering background combined with my own experience teaching folks the importance of consistent form in the putting game - and our vision quickly began to take shape.

 

Stu and I have created the PUTTSTR8! training device based on the idea that time and dedication of practice are the key ingredients to making anyone a better putter – leading to consistently lower golf scores.  

 

PuttStr8 isn't only something that will make you better at golf - it will give you confidence every time you tee it up, and that is why we it truly is "In a Class of its own."


Contact Colby at: Colby@puttstr8.com