I built Libro because golfers practise on flat ground and play on slopes, and the gap between the two never gets closed. Range mats are flat. Sim bays are flat. Garden mats are flat. The course isn't. I wanted a simple, portable way to practise the lies you actually get.
I'm Dario. I've spent more than 15 years as a creative director in sport.
The gap
Once you notice it, you can't stop noticing it. Players grind away on a perfectly level mat, groove a strike, then walk on to a fairway where the ball sits above their feet or on a downslope, and that groove doesn't fit any more. The ball starts somewhere else. The contact feels different. And there's nowhere to practise it, short of finding a bank on the practice ground and hoping nobody minds.
The options that do exist sat at two extremes. At one end, a bit of plywood or a sloping corner of the garden, which gives you one rough angle you can't repeat. At the other, motorised stages that cost £20,000 or more. Brilliant machines, and out of reach for nearly every club golfer.
What I wanted it to do
What I wanted was simple. Tilt both ways, so you get uphill, downhill and sidehill lies. Set in seconds, so you'll actually change the lie mid-session. Be exactly repeatable, so you can count reps on a lie the way you count putts. Be light enough to carry to the range. Work with any launch monitor or sim, or with nothing at all. No batteries, nothing to charge, no subscription.
That became Libro. It tilts up to 7 degrees along its length and 13 degrees across, locks with a cam lock, and has laser-engraved height lines so you can set the same lie again. It weighs 4.97 kg. If you want the detail, what is Libro and how Libro sets a lie cover it.
Four years
Simple things are hard to make. Libro took four years of development and prototypes to get right, and I designed it with Aetha, an award-winning UK design studio. Its materials are rated well beyond 250 kg.
Where it's going
Libro is coming to Kickstarter in early 2027. If you want one, you can reserve one for £10 now, fully refundable. And if you want to understand the problem it's built to solve, start with why practising on a flat range mat holds your game back.
Feel what's real.