Understanding concepts of the golf swing is one thing but applying it to your swing is another. The use of training aids can make your swing become more functional as it will give you instant feedback and help you to change bad habits and develop the feelings for the proper motion.
1. Sway away golf shoe insert. This shoe insert should help you to prevent from swaying over to the right side on your back swing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsLBm3M6Stc.
1. Sway away golf shoe insert. This shoe insert should help you to prevent from swaying over to the right side on your back swing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsLBm3M6Stc.
Website http://www.practicerange.com/Golf-Training-Aids/Sway-Away-Golf-Inserts.aspx Golf lesson to prevent swaying and sliding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlvAY218b5Q
If you want instant feedback whether you are swaying on your backswing you can build your own teaching aid for less than $5. Screw a 12 inch wood ruler (1/4" thick) to a L bracket that has 3 inch legs, one end of the ruler should be flush with the bottom of the L bracket. For safety purposes make sure that the screws you buy do not protrude beyond the depth of both the thickness of the ruler and the L bracket, or if you can't find the right screws you can always glue or use tape to affix the ruler to the L bracket instead. At the range place the shorter leg of the L bracket under your right foot (if you are a right handed golfer) so that the longer leg (with the ruler on it) is standing up and positioned on the outside of your right leg. This ruler is now your "fence." Take a couple of practice swings without a club in your hand (for safety purposes) your right leg should not go past this vertical fence during your back swing.
If you want instant feedback whether you are swaying on your backswing you can build your own teaching aid for less than $5. Screw a 12 inch wood ruler (1/4" thick) to a L bracket that has 3 inch legs, one end of the ruler should be flush with the bottom of the L bracket. For safety purposes make sure that the screws you buy do not protrude beyond the depth of both the thickness of the ruler and the L bracket, or if you can't find the right screws you can always glue or use tape to affix the ruler to the L bracket instead. At the range place the shorter leg of the L bracket under your right foot (if you are a right handed golfer) so that the longer leg (with the ruler on it) is standing up and positioned on the outside of your right leg. This ruler is now your "fence." Take a couple of practice swings without a club in your hand (for safety purposes) your right leg should not go past this vertical fence during your back swing.
2. If you looking for a training aid to help develop clubhead lag, this device could be of some benefit to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oau7ubwXbFU, see also this swingyde aid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXUCqYdT0BE. For an advanced tip by professional golfer Jason Day on how to develop and get a sensation of club head lag see http://www.golf.com/instruction/jason-days-5-tips-pick-15-yards Comment received from one of our readers: "I tried that club lag drill by Jason Day on the driving range this afternoon and after about an hour and a half I started pounding some drives. Can't wait to play a round and see what happens."
3. Tour Striker Training Iron - teaches you how to have forward shaft lean at impact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmibSvQmezU. See this golfer's review of this club http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmibSvQmezU .
5. Impact Snap selected as Golf Digest's best training aid for 2016 - This is a golf training aid to help you with supination, bowing and pointing your thumb down at impact position: http://impactsnap.com/ (watch the video by its inventor at http://impactsnap.com/p/training-video. Impact drill for better ball striking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBQi2CA-zYw
6. Wally Made Power Hanger - Training aid for full swing, chip shot, pitch shot, and putting http://www.wallymadegolf.com/power-hanger-how-to/ and see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1OUjXS84g.
7. Golf whip training aid (flexible shaft) - helps with gaining more power in your swing, getting the timing right, club head lag and learning the proper sequence of the downswing (transition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66jjpJqTlY. The following article by a PGA golfer and top instructor discusses the 'swoosh drill', this exercise will help many golfers increase their clubhead speed through proper sequencing of the upper and lower body movement, http://archive.naplesnews.com/columnists/sports/jim-suttie-creating-more-clubhead-speed-ep-394536200-343289602.html.
8. A golf aid to find the slot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W0w91tAano
DRILLS AND LESSONS:
1. Lesson: How to hit your irons more pure and crisp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WixemQhFp3E#t=178.715356 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aAczB-cP5Q (your divot should be in front of the ball). Another drill to take a divot in front of the ball is to place a towel behind your ball and take half swings without hitting the towel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if42dSmug7A. Iron play faults https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFa-iqNQztw.
2. Hitting the ball with your irons fat or thin? Here is a drill using a plastic hanger to square your club face at impact to prevent hitting the ball fat or thin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIsQ4GCsaFI. Tension can cause a lot of problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNpUzMGRt10. Other swing faults for hitting it fat or thin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if42dSmug7A.
3. Setting wrist hinge in back swing with drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfFBTMWJmRQ (flick the mud off the club drill, at around 8 o'clock begin to cock your wrist).
TWO KEY CHECKPOINTS OR FRAME OF REFERENCE TO SEE IF YOU HAVE MAXIMUM CLUB HEAD LAG: If you do not have a video of your golf swing then I encourage you to get one if you lack distance with your clubs, take notice of where your club head is when your arms are dropping down during your downswing you will be able to determine if you have maximum club head lag or not, just as an example the first checkpoint if you will is that when your hands arms are in the nine o' clock position on your downswing, your wrist and club shaft should have a narrow hinge and your club head should be over the top of your head. If your club head is to your right side of your body and away from your head then you have unhinged and cast the club head, basically releasing your wrist cock too early in the downswing, consequently because there is no club head lag your swing speed is compromised resulting in a significant loss of distance. The second checkpoint is just when your right hand is in front of your right thigh during the downswing, at this position the club shaft should be parallel with the ground. Videos of your golf swing are extremely important if you want to identify what you are doing wrong and what you need to work on in order to improve your golf swing, or in this case to get more distance.
4. Drill to learn how to post over your left leg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OXlMWaLcQw.
5. Exercises to increase your swing speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4s5JO5cHQA
6. How to hit your driver 300 yards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCN3Zj5i5s
4. To learn the proper swing plane, Medicus has a device that will give you instant feedback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95pxOsdVdnM.
6. Wally Made Power Hanger - Training aid for full swing, chip shot, pitch shot, and putting http://www.wallymadegolf.com/power-hanger-how-to/ and see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1OUjXS84g.
7. Golf whip training aid (flexible shaft) - helps with gaining more power in your swing, getting the timing right, club head lag and learning the proper sequence of the downswing (transition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66jjpJqTlY. The following article by a PGA golfer and top instructor discusses the 'swoosh drill', this exercise will help many golfers increase their clubhead speed through proper sequencing of the upper and lower body movement, http://archive.naplesnews.com/columnists/sports/jim-suttie-creating-more-clubhead-speed-ep-394536200-343289602.html.
8. A golf aid to find the slot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W0w91tAano
DRILLS AND LESSONS:
1. Lesson: How to hit your irons more pure and crisp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WixemQhFp3E#t=178.715356 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aAczB-cP5Q (your divot should be in front of the ball). Another drill to take a divot in front of the ball is to place a towel behind your ball and take half swings without hitting the towel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if42dSmug7A. Iron play faults https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFa-iqNQztw.
2. Hitting the ball with your irons fat or thin? Here is a drill using a plastic hanger to square your club face at impact to prevent hitting the ball fat or thin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIsQ4GCsaFI. Tension can cause a lot of problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNpUzMGRt10. Other swing faults for hitting it fat or thin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if42dSmug7A.
3. Setting wrist hinge in back swing with drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfFBTMWJmRQ (flick the mud off the club drill, at around 8 o'clock begin to cock your wrist).
TWO KEY CHECKPOINTS OR FRAME OF REFERENCE TO SEE IF YOU HAVE MAXIMUM CLUB HEAD LAG: If you do not have a video of your golf swing then I encourage you to get one if you lack distance with your clubs, take notice of where your club head is when your arms are dropping down during your downswing you will be able to determine if you have maximum club head lag or not, just as an example the first checkpoint if you will is that when your hands arms are in the nine o' clock position on your downswing, your wrist and club shaft should have a narrow hinge and your club head should be over the top of your head. If your club head is to your right side of your body and away from your head then you have unhinged and cast the club head, basically releasing your wrist cock too early in the downswing, consequently because there is no club head lag your swing speed is compromised resulting in a significant loss of distance. The second checkpoint is just when your right hand is in front of your right thigh during the downswing, at this position the club shaft should be parallel with the ground. Videos of your golf swing are extremely important if you want to identify what you are doing wrong and what you need to work on in order to improve your golf swing, or in this case to get more distance.
4. Drill to learn how to post over your left leg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OXlMWaLcQw.
5. Exercises to increase your swing speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4s5JO5cHQA
6. How to hit your driver 300 yards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCN3Zj5i5s
GOLF INSTRUCTIONAL BOOKS:
If you are just picking up the club for the first time, you may want to take a look at the following golf instructional books, dvds, links, etc:
Ben Hogan - Five Lessons, The Modern Fundamentals of Golf
Dave Stockton - Unconscious Putting, Guide to Unlocking Your Signature Stroke
Dave Peltz - Short Game Bible
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