A Look At Golf Swing Training Aids
There are a lot of golf swing training aids on the market. Some are quite effective and some are not so effective. The effective ones are categorized by a simple definition: they actually work. That is, they truly provide for the enhancement of a set of golf swing skills. While it would be impossible to truly catalogue and endorse every golf swing training aid on the market, here is a brief list of truly effective golf swing training aids.
Right Grip Gloves
Are there some tall trees with thick leaves in your way? Do you want to hit below them? You can easily do this. First, the lower the number the club, the less loft you will get with that club. Secondly, if you close your club face you will decrease the angle and the loft. Careful though! Closing your club face can also cause you to slice the ball.
These gloves provide for excellent golf swing training aids. The purpose of these gloves is to align the player’s hands with the proper grip position on the golf club. Without proper grip alignment or positioning, how good could ones swing be? These are must-have golf swing training aids.
Putting Arcs
A helpful tip when it comes to golf is to make sure that you are gripping the club correctly. This is incredibly important because it is one of the easiest problems to fix, if your shot is suffering. Make sure that you match up your grip on the club with how your hands hang naturally at your side.
Putting Arcs are golf swing training aids that are overlooked by most novice golfers as they dismiss the put as an easy golf swing that requires no true skill to master and allows for improvement of one’s game without much effort. Putting arcs are wooden devices that act as a buffer between the golfer and his putter. Putting arcs are perfect alignment training tools.
Swing Jackets
Try carrying around a stress ball to use in order to release your frustration. Damaging your golf clubs in anger may help your momentary need for aggression, but it could cost you in play. A club that was deliberately damaged cannot be replaced until the round has been completed.
Swing jackets look like bullet proof vests. If you show up on the range wearing one you may confuse the other golfers into think the SWAT team has shown up on the range.
All kidding aside, swing jackets are excellent golf swing training aids. They swerve the same purpose as the aforementioned “Right Grip Gloves,” but serve to correct alignment on the entire torso. (Hence, they are jackets and not just gloves) Swing Jackets are somewhat bulky and take a little time to get used to, but they are worth the effort in the end as your golf game will improve dramatically. Swing jackets are very valuable addition to the world of golf swing training aids.
If you want to increase the distance of your drive, use a ball color that really contrasts against your pants and shoes. When you are looking down at it, you will quickly instinctively think "I need to get this thing out of here". It's not about whacking the ball harder, but meshing with your own clothes psychologically so you use your whole body in the swing like you know you should.
Inside Approach Clear Path Device
This device looks like one of those goofy splits stretching devices found in health clubs and gyms. (You know, the devices covered in dust because NO ONE uses them.)
Always keep an extra ball in your pocket. This way, if you hit a poor shot into the water or out of bounds, you can take the ball from your pocket and hit your penalty shot quickly without holding up your playing partners by having to go back to your bag or cart to get a new ball.
Well, someone found a use for them when they applied them to their golf game and game up with another addition in the golf swing training aids catalogue. In short, the Inside Approach training device helps develop a golfer’s swing so that it follows a ‘clear path.’
