PuttView, a free green-reading app, gets Rick Shiels' putting test

H.I.T Golf's five uploads also took in new Srixon drivers, a Titleist tour truck and the Nike irons Rick calls the brand's best.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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An ordinary day on H.I.T Golf, Rick Shiels' equipment channel, brings in around 140,000 views. Lately it has been running at about twice that, and five new uploads explain most of why.

The one that has gathered the most so far is not a club at all. In "This FREE App Reads Greens For You!" Rick takes PuttView onto the putting green to see whether a phone can help pick a line and hole more putts. It has passed 178,000 views. The comments read like a clubhouse debate. Several golfers worry about slow play and picture rounds stretching by an hour or more. Others see it as a practice tool for warming up or getting their eye back in spring. A few with famously sloping home greens want to know how it copes with double breaks, and one suggests handing it to Ben and Guy for a nine-hole match, one putting with the app and one without.

The Takomo putter test, which we covered here when it went up, is now the video gathering views fastest, well past 150,000 in under two days. Further down the shelf, "These are the BEST irons Nike made..." looks back at the years when Nike still made golf clubs. There is also a first look at Srixon's new drivers and a trip inside the Titleist tour truck.

Among the sports channels nearest its size, only TNT Sports Cycling and the Dern Brothers drew more views over the week. Golf Channel and Alex Elliott had a quieter one. Rick's review channel, meanwhile, added about a thousand subscribers.

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The videos drawing views on H.I.T GOLF right now

I Test Takomo's NEW Putters154,305 views · 2026-10-07 These are the BEST irons Nike made...🤯19,923 views · 2026-10-07 The Brand NEW Srixon drivers 😳13,351 views · 2026-10-05 Inside the Titleist tour truck 👀7,440 views · 2026-10-03

The numbers

Here is how H.I.T Golf's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

TNT Sports Cycling

4,777,454

Dern Brothers

2,445,312

H.I.T GOLF

1,275,078

Golf Channel

869,164

Weightlifting House

829,925

AlexElliottGolf

737,578

Waltz Skateboards

601,784

GOLF LIFE

554,590

Surfline

347,210

subscribers

378,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

65,094,828

views per day

277,524

typical day: 137,649

first-day views of each video posted this week

This FREE App Reads Greens For You!

75,734

I Test Takomo's NEW Putters

126,430

These are the BEST irons Nike made...🤯

13,409

The Brand NEW Srixon drivers 😳

6,704

Inside the Titleist tour truck 👀

4,198

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

AlexElliottGolf

412,000

TNT Sports Cycling

408,000

GOLF LIFE

398,000

Weightlifting House

396,000

Surfline

394,000

Waltz Skateboards

382,000

H.I.T GOLF

378,000

Golf Channel

370,000

Dern Brothers

362,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.