You can spend hours on the driving range watching shots project errantly to the left and right while trying to remember all of the swing tips that you have ever heard and never hit a straight shot. A training tool with a specific purpose can target the weak spots in your swing and make your practice sessions more effective, especially if you are an amateur without the luxury of a coach watching you at all times. Golf gadgets are made to tinker with many different facets of your swing but if you are a beginning player you can get the most for your money by using training tools that focus on the basic fundamentals of the golf swing, including form, tempo and impact position.
Swing Tools for Form
Among the best-selling training aids in golf designed to detect errors in your form are dual hinged drivers. During your normal swing, the driver's shaft will break down if there is a flaw in your swing plane or swing rhythm. Once you have achieved proper form you will be able to make impact with the ball. The dual hinged driver by Medicus is the best-selling piece of golf training equipment and has been endorsed by Masters Champion Mark O'Meara.
Tempo
You can maintain consistency, improve your control of the ball and make solid contact on your shots if you improve the tempo of your swing. Celebrated golf teacher Hank Haney endorses a product called the "Swing Tempo Trainer Driver" which features an extremely flexible shaft that will not support jerky or uneven tempo. This product also requires the use of centrifugal force to encourage a swing tempo that will improve club head speed.
Impact Position
A very simple training tool to measure the impact position of your club is a golf ball on a pendulum much like Dennco Indoor and Outdoor Swing Groover. With this device, you simply set up to the ball and take a swing. The ball will spin in a circle at an angle according to how your club face was aligned at impact. You know your impact position is perfect if the ball is spinning fast and straight. If your club face was opened or closed, the ball will spin on an angle similar to the direction an actual shot would have traveled.
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