This is our review of and guide to the best golf training aids on the market in 2024.

I’m an avid golfer, an 8-ish handicap on my way to a 2 (been a 5.6), and a frequent tester of golf clubs and training aids since 2015.

I’ve tested many of the top golf training aids for every part of your game – puttingchipping, pitching…Aids for swing plane, swing tempo, and swing speed.

  • The bad newsA lot of short game and golf swing aids for golf are garbage…ask me how I know.
  • The good news… Every training aid in this guide is the real deal. 

My requirements for shelling out money for golf training aides and to be in this guide:

  1. It’s gotta do what they say it will do (Will it help my game or your game or not)
  2. It’s gotta be built well. No rinky-dink crap allowed. 
  3. Gotta have solid people behind it.   
  4. That’s it

Our Top 3 Recommendations in 2024

Editor's Pick
Best Putting Stroke Trainer in Golf
Best Swing Analyzer
5.0
5.0
5.0
  • Improves Swing sequence, Timing, & Release
  • Helps you maximize ground forces
  • Audible and tactile feedback
  • Beaucoup Training videos (including from Martin Chuck)
  • Suitable for any handicap
  • Dial in Distance Control & Touch
  • Builds consistent stroke
  • Use at home or at the course
  • Lifetime Guarantee (Refund or Exchange)
  • 30-Day Risk-Free Guarantee
  • Real-time accurate swing data
  • Instant feedback
  • Accelerated Learning
  • Extensive training

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Editor's Pick
5.0
  • Improves Swing sequence, Timing, & Release
  • Helps you maximize ground forces
  • Audible and tactile feedback
  • Beaucoup Training videos (including from Martin Chuck)
  • Suitable for any handicap

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Best Putting Stroke Trainer in Golf
5.0
  • Dial in Distance Control & Touch
  • Builds consistent stroke
  • Use at home or at the course
  • Lifetime Guarantee (Refund or Exchange)
  • 30-Day Risk-Free Guarantee

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Best Swing Analyzer
5.0
  • Real-time accurate swing data
  • Instant feedback
  • Accelerated Learning
  • Extensive training

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Complete List of Best Golf Training Aids in 2024

  1. ONE Club (Best All Around Swing Trainer)
  2. Wellputt Wellstroke (Best Putting Stroke Trainer)
  3. deWiz (Best Golf Swing Analyzer & Modifier)
  4. Tour Striker Impact Sling (Best Sequence, Timing & Tempo Trainer)
  5. GravityFit TPro (Best Golf Posture Trainer)
  6. HackMotion (Best for Golf Geeks)
  7. GForce Swing Trainer ( Lag, Tempo & Timing trainer) 
  8. DownUnder Board (Fast Results: Pivot, Rotation, & Ground Force Trainer)
  9. Tour Striker Smart Ball (Best for proper arm structure/position throughout swing)
  10. Orange Whip (Most popular tempo trainer by far)
  11. SKLZ Gold Flex (Best Bargain Tempo Trainer)
  12. SuperSpeed Golf (Best Swing Speed Trainer) Tour-approved…Especially Bryson!

Best Golf Training Aids Reviewed

The ONE Club Golf Swing Trainer (Editor’s Pick)

Best Golf Swing Trainer
ONE Club Golf Swing Trainer
4.9

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Pros:
  • Improves Swing sequence, Timing, & Release
  • Helps you maximize ground forces
  • Provides audible and tactile feedback
  • Beaucoup Training videos (including from Martin Chuck)
Cons:
  • Instructions could be better
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The ONE Club golf swing trainer is our new #1 Recommendation for best golf training aid.

What we like:

  • Best training aid I’ve tried for grooving good swing sequence, timing, & release.
  • Forces you to use the ground correctly to generate speed.
  • Makes you slot the club on the correct path on the downswing.
  • Provides audible and tactile feedback.
  • Beaucoup Training videos (including from Martin Chuck).

What we don’t like: (kind of)

  • Written instructions aren’t the best. (written by a smarty pants engineer)
  • You’ve got to put in the work. (Nothing wrong with having to earn it)

My swing had gotten jerky and out of sync. I’d lost at least a club distance because of it. I tried to make up for it by just swinging harder – which made the problem worse.

I picked up the ONE Club and went to work. Pretty quickly, my swing sequence, timing, and release improved. More speed happened naturally.

I swung faster, the ball went farther, and I wasn’t trying or thinking about it.

The ONE Club is billed primarily as a swing speed trainer. Our testing shows it does a lot more than that. It’s a legit complete swing trainer.

Yes, it’s great for overspeed training. (Which is the second way it helps you swing faster)
Yes, it’s also a weighted club – but so much more than that thanks to the inertia generator – that can help you strengthen your “golf” muscles.

I could not get the ONE club to release at the right time when I swung out of sequence and/or didn’t load properly in my transition. It took me a few tries, but I got it…without much or any thought.

Intuitively, I figured out I had to do something different to get the ONE Club to release at the right time – between my trail leg and the ball. And, once you do that, you can start to repeat it.

Then, you can add weight and/ or resistance bands. Thereby making your swing more powerful and efficient. Warning – this is where the work comes in.

This is me below going through a small part of a training session.

This is Britt – who wrote our review on the ONE Club with a MUCH better swing than me.

There are a whole lot of training videos on the ONE Club website to help get you started. Martin Chuck does an entire series.

Bottom line: An excellent swing trainer…if you’re willing to put in the work.

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Wellstroke Motion Putting Guide (Best Putting Stroke Trainer)

Best Putting Stroke Trainer in Golf
Wellstroke Putting Motion Trainer + App with Instructions
5.0

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Pros:
  • Dial in Distance Control & Touch
  • Builds consistent stroke
  • Use at home or at the course
  • Lifetime Guarantee (Refund or Exchange)
  • 30-Day Risk-Free Guarantee
Cons:
  • Nada
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The Wellstrokeis next on our list for best golf putting aids and is straight-up magic and has transformed my putting stroke and my putting

  • This is #1 for you if you already have a mat to practice on at home

I am a much better putter since putting it to use a little over a month 5 months a year ago.

I thought it would only tighten up my stroke a little bit and help me putt better. Just in a generic sense.

What I didn’t appreciate was how it would give me such a fundamentally solid putting stroke compared to what I had before.

  • My setup is Rock-solid and getting better. The alignment markings help me get my shoulder, foot alignment, and my eye line correct 
  • No more handsy or wristy stroke. I can’t make it through the Indoor Tees
  • I’m now well acquainted with center-face contact with my putter. Putting the ball on my start line is a new sensation. 

The 3 biggest reasons the Wellstroke has improved my putting

  1. The 12* arc on the mat. I have an excellent visual for exactly how my putter head should move and its easy to trace your putter over it
  2. Amplitude lines. This one is killer and snuck up on me. There are 5 lines on either side of the putter alignment line. Practicing going from 1 to 1, 2 to 2, 3 to 3, etc. has dialed in my speed control, touch and made my stroke silky smooth.
  3. Putting gates: I had to get really solid in my fundamentals to not hit the gates with my putter or the tee gates with the ball. I get sloppy… I get immediate feedback. Invaluable

I use it every single day. My putting stroke is now disciplined and trained. I EXPECT to hit my line when I’m playing instead of hoping. Simply put, I hole more putts per round. 

This Wellstroke is 1.a. in my review. I use it every day.

You can read my full review of Wellstroke here.

NOTE: I also got the Indoor Tees to use as putting gates because I knew I would be putting indoors at home much more than the course. They offer instant feedback for balls going offline. 

Bottom line: My favorite putting stroke trainer on (or off) the planet.

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GravityFit TPro (Best Golf Posture Trainer)

Highly Recommended
GravityFit TPro
5.0

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Pros:
  • Ingrains Proper Golf Posture
  • Teaches Correct & Powerful Pivot
  • Get & Maintain Width in Your Swing for Pure & Powerful contact
  • Awesome for Chipping, Pitching & Putting too
  • Comes w/ Extensive Video Training
Cons:
  • Green tubing hard to unclip
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The GravityFit TPro is one of the most effective golf training aid for teaching the fundamentals of correct golf posture and golf movement I’ve tried.

  • Don’t underestimate this – It’s crucial for getting and maintaining swing width for better consistency.
  • Your contact will improve dramatically once you lock in the correct posture, as well as arm & upper body structure, and learn how to move off the ball and back through it.

I learned about it only a few months ago and it’s my favorite new training aid.

The TPro Super Kit (pictured above) comes with 3 resistance bands for light (yellow) medium (red), and heavy (green) resistance.

  • It helps me get in the correct golf posture and keeps me there.
  • It helps me create and maintain width in my swing – FUNDAMENTAL for solid & consistent contact from the putter to full swing.
  • It helps me feel arm-body connection and improves my move or pivot off the ball and in my downswing.

There’s a ton of training on the website and on their YouTube channel. I highly suggest going through the training. It will greatly improve your progress.

I do reps with the green band every day to try and cement good posture and movement and to strengthen my core muscles and the smaller muscles in my arms.

I grab the yellow band when I want to hit shots. Either putts, chips, pitches, or full swings. It immediately improves my contact with all three by cueing me to maintain my swing radius (width).

Bottom line: A remarkably effective training aid that far outperforms its simple appearance.

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Tour Striker Impact Sling (Best Timing, Tempo & Swing Sequence Trainer)

Superb Sequence, Timing & Tempo Trainer
Tour Striker Impact Sling
4.8
Pros:
  • Improve Swing Sequence & Timing
  • Improve Swing Path & Release
  • Plug Power Leaks
  • Increase Swing Speed w/ Less Effort
  • Great for warming up pre-round or pre range session
Cons:
  • Pricey
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The Tour Striker Impact Sling is our runner-up for the best golf swing tempo trainer.

What we like:

  • Excellent for improving swing sequence and timing, smoothing transition, and setting the proper tempo.
  • Forces you to use the ground correctly to generate speed.
  • Improves your swing path.
  • Video training series from Marting Chuck.
  • Premium materials and construction.

What we don’t like: (kind of)

  • A little pricey

I’ve been training with and swinging the Impact Sling for months now. It stays in my bag, and I swing it before every range session and every round.

I find it helps me with a few things:

  1. It helps to prevent me from yanking on the club at the start of the downswing and trying to create club speed by jerking on the club.
  2. It slows my hands down and forces my body to set the correct tempo, sequence, and timing for a much smoother swing.
  3. It helps me sync everything up and puts me in a position to make better swings.

You can not jerk the Impact Sling around our swing erratically without beating yourself up with the rope sling.

Bottom line: A great corrective for when your swing gets a little (or a lot) erratic.


deWiz Golf Swing Analyzer & Modifier (Best Golf Swing Analyzer)

Editor's Pick - Golf Swing Analyzer
deWiz Golf Swing Analyzer & Modifier
5.0

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Pros:
  • Real-time accurate data on your swing
  • Instant feedback
  • Accelerated Learning
  • Extensive training
Cons:
  • Price
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The deWiz is our best golf swing analyzer and swing modifier (what sets it apart…way apart).

Swing Analyzer– It measures swing length, hand speed, tempo, and whether you are on plane, over the plane, or under the plane of your backswing at the start of your downswing. (It measures more, but these are the most important metrics)

Swing Modifier – It helps you improve your numbers by coaching you with real-time audio and physical feedback.

  • You set parameters within the app to notify you – either by sound and/or electric stimuli/shock/pulse – when you are outside of the parameters you set.

The deWiz is the training aid I didn’t know existed or that I needed…until a few months ago.

Sure, there’ve been similar products before, but they looked shoddy to me, and reviews from buyers confirmed my suspicions.

Not so with deWiz. Everything about deWiz screams quality to.

  • The device itself.
  • The app.
  • The tour pros putting their name behind it: Annika Sörenstam, Vijay Singh, Bryson DeChambeau, and Henrik Stenson. (Not to mention some big-name teaching pros).

It benefits your game in 3 ways: (I go into deeper detail in my full review)

  1. Hit the ball longer by increasing your backswing length.
  2. Hit the straighter by improving your swing plane.
  3. Hit the ball closer to the pin by dialing in your backswing for finesse wedge shots.

I’ve been working on swing plane & finesse wedge shots.

My swing plane got squared away in one session, but I go back from time to time to spot-check or when I see my ball flight change from a tiny draw to any kind of fade.

Finesse wedges are ongoing. I’ve got my baseline wedge swing lengths, but they’re not ingrained yet. That takes more time and I’m on the case.

Bottom line: Golfers serious about their game and willing to spend a nice chunk of change can improve their game quickly and continuously.

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HackMotion Golf Swing Analyzer & Wrist Angle Training Aid

Golfer Geeks Approved
HackMotion Swing Analyzer & Trainer
4.8
Pros:
  • Effective for fixing a slice
  • Improve contact, distance, accuracy & consistency
  • Lots of training and guides provided
  • Putting mode to help work on short game
Cons:
  • A lot of data points & steep learning curve
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The HackMotion is golf swing analyzer that focuses on improving your wrist angles to help you get the club face in the correct position for impact.

What we like:

  • It educates you on the proper wrist angle (and clubface angle) at impact for more power and accuracy.
  • Real-time feedback gives you valuable insight into the position of your clubface throughout your swing.
  • Combination of data and feel leads to faster improvement.
  • Will help make your swing more efficient.
  • Tons of data.
  • Tons of training and resources.

What we don’t like:

  • So much data means a steep learning curve.
  • Will take time to learn about wrist angles.
  • Calibration can be a pain (but nothing you can’t handle)

HackMotion can work for any handicap golfer. However, this is a tool that is going to appeal more to golfers who like data, stats, and analytics.

Although HackMotion can teach you to “feel” what you must do with your wrists, it’s not a wrist brace or a swing jacket. It’s a measuring device. 

Bottom line: Like the deWiz, this is for serious golfers willing to invest significant money and time into their game.

Lag Shot Swing Tempo Trainer (Best Golf Lag Trainer)

Best Lag & Tempo Trainer
Lag Shot | Best Lag Trainer in Golf
5.0

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Pros:
  • Teaches lag instinctively for effortless power
  • Forces you into correct positions to make solid contact
  • Excellent for Timing, Tempo & Swing Sequence
  • 10-Video Training Series by Adam Bazalgette
Cons:
  • Requires patience & perserverance
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The Lag Shot is our new pick for best golf tempo trainer. But, it does tons more. 

It’s also a great golf training aid for building lag and and good swing sequence – all without swing thoughts swimming in your head. 

Why? It does everything the best tempo trainers on the market do plus:

  1. Realism… It’s 7-iron length, so I can get into my actual golf stance and swing on my correct plane. 
  2. It comes with beaucoup training from Adam Bazalgette (3-time PGA teacher of the year and founder of Scratch Golf Academy)
  3. You can hit balls with it. Is my feel real?

But, you can Not hit balls well with the Lag Shot if you jerk the club from the top or are otherwise, not in the slotAt least I can’t.

The Lag Shot will expose you quickly if you swing sloppy or, otherwise, incorrect. It is a Training Club for your golf swing.

I am a tempo player obsessed with good tempo. I’m obsessed with good tempo because I’m obsessed with effortless power and playing without excess effort in my golf swing. 

I also like writing “tempo” and “good tempo”

Bad things happen for me on the golf course when I “try” too hard. Proper swing sequence goes out the window and my shots can, and do, end up anywhere. Goodbye, handicap.

I also believe having good tempo and swing sequence gives you much sought-after lag (Picture Sergio)

Enter the Lag Shot…I’ve had the mine about a year now and it is my go-to golf training club for putting me in the slot and forcing me into my best tempo and sequence. (Check out my Lag Shot review for more details)

How I use it:

  • Before range practice: hit it well with the Lag Shot and you will hit it well with your clubs.
  • Before a round: see above.
  • At home every single day: ingrain good tempo and lag.

Bottom Line: It does what it says it does and will be your most used golf training aid by far. 

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Orange Whip Swing Trainers (Best Golf Swing Tempo Trainer)

Most Popular Tempo Trainer
Orange Whip
5.0
Pros:
  • Improves swing sequence, tempo, & timing
  • Stretches and strengthens golf muscles
  • Helps lengthen swing
  • Improves swing efficiency and power
  • Quality construction
  • Tons of training on website and YouTube
  • Made in America
Cons:
  • None, delivers on promise.
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The most popular tempo trainer in golf is the Orange Whip.

Quick Take:

  • Excellent for pre-round or pre-practice warm up.
  • Improves strength and flexibility.
  • Improves tempo.
  • Smooths transition from backswing to downswing.
  • Tons of training on their website.
  • Very solid reputation.

Simple and straightforward in design, it provides a wide range of feedback about your swing.

In addition to tempo, it helps you perfect your swing balance as well as your plane. It’s made to mimic the feel and motion of a driver and it’s weighted so that you can feel the swing and make the necessary adjustments from this information.

Most notably, this tool helps with the transition between your backswing and downswing. It’s perfectly designed and weighted so that you don’t rush or stall this important transition moment. Because its is weighted, it’s actually a strength-building workout too.

I’ve got a buddy who owns the Orange Whip and I own the SKLZ. It takes a little time to get used to this extra weight, but the results will speak for themselves.

Bottom Line: It does what it says it does and will be your most used training aid.


SKLZ Gold FlexSwing Trainers (Best Orange Whip Alternative)

Best Bargain Tempo Trainer
SKLZ Gold Flex Golf Swing Trainer Warm-Up Stick
4.6
Pros:
  • Improves swing sequence, tempo, & timing
  • Stretches and strengthens golf muscles
  • Helps lengthen swing
  • Improves swing efficiency and power
  • Quality construction
  • Good Value
Cons:
  • No training provided
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The SKLZ Gold is the best bargain golf swing trainer aid for tempo and lag. 

Quick Take:

  • Excellent for pre round or pre practice warm up
  • Improves strength and flexibility
  • Improves tempo
  • Smooths transition from backswing to downswing

Like the Orange Whip, the SKLZ Gold Flex Trainer utilizes a weighted shaft design to improve your tempo. It’s comfortable, flexible, and just about the perfect weight.

Practice your swing for a few minutes per day with this training aid and you’re sure to experience serious results on the course in short order. Like other weighted swing training tools, the SKLZ Gold Flex Golf Trainer does take some getting used to.

It’s probably quite a bit heavier than you think (at least it was for me). That said, it’s easy to get used to after fifteen minutes of swinging. And from there, using the golf trainer is all gravy. The key feature of this trainer is the exaggerated flex. That added flex helps lengthen your swing and create the perfect transition between backswing and downswing.

The flex also takes the SKLZ Gold Flex Golf Trainer to the next level by enabling it to actually increase your flexibility and extend your backswing in addition to creating the perfect rhythm, tempo, and weight transfer.

I consider the SKLZ Gold Flex one of the few No-Brainer purchases for swing improvement.

  • It doesn’t cost much
  • It will last Forever
  • Practice with this thing on a semi-regular basis and you virtually Can’t have a herky-jerky inefficient swing.

Bottom Line: Does what it says it does and will be your most used training aid


DownUnder Board 2.0 (Best Golf Swing Trainer Aid for Pivot & Power)

Editor's Pick
Down Under Board 2.0
5.0

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Pros:
  • Plug Power Leaks
  • Improve contact for solid, crisp shots
  • Better ball striking first range session
  • Light weight and portable
Cons:
  • Tight fit in my stand bag
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One of my favorite and the highest immediate impact golf swing training aids of the bunch.

  • If you’ve got a reasonably good swing and just need to plug some leaks, get your hands on the DownUnder Board.
  • New to the game? Perfect. You get to avoid the most common swing faults the rest of us crusty veterans have to unlearn. 

The DownUnder Board addresses a problem I’ve been battling for a loooooong time…Swaying. I sway off the ball WAY too much in my backswing and to a lesser extent in the downswing. 

Consistent contact is near-impossible. I can manage ok if my timing happens to be good that day, but that’s no way to live. 

This is a common problem….even with tour players, though to a much lesser extent. Bradley Hughes knows this and created this uber-simple but ingenious solution.

Honestly, I cold topped my first 10 shots. This is a different way to swing than what I’m used to, but I can’t argue with what I saw once I figured it out.

I started flushing the ball on my start line and began taking shallower divots.

My thoughts were/are: This thing is legit and I’m going to use it Every Single Time I go to the range…and I have.

This is the golf swing trainer aid that hits the range with me every time. 

Here’s what I suggest

  1. Get the DownUnder Board from downunderboard.com
  2. Watch the training videos.
  3. Rewatch the training videos and pay attention to what Bradley is telling you to do.
  4. Get to the range and hit some balls. 
  5. DON’T start at 18 inches wide. I found it impossible and frustrating to swing at this width.
  6. Go down to 14 inches and get used to hitting balls…then start going wider and inch at a time. I’m two sessions at 15 inches and I’ll be moving to 16 inches next range session or the one after. 

It is going to feel weird at first. No getting around it. A teeny tiny bit of perseverance and you’ll be flushing the ball in that very same range session. I darn near guarantee it. 

Check out our DownUnder Board review for more details. 

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SuperSpeed Golf Training System (Most Popular Swing Speed Trainer)

Best Swing Speed Trainer
SuperSpeed Golf Training System
5.0

#1 speed training system on the PGA tour... By FAR

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SuperSpeed is the best golf swing trainer for swing speed in the game. Not even sure who #2 is. 

It’s used by over 600 tour professionals the world over. Hard to argue with that. So, I won’t. 

You need more speed through the bag? You probably want to take a look at SuperSpeed.

Here’s what it can do for you…pretty simple

  • It teaches you how to get used to swinging faster by using progressive training with the light, medium, and heavy training clubs using a very specific protocol located on the SuperSpeed website.
    • This is a PGA tour and user proven product.

Bottom Line: This is the #1 golf speed training aid and system for your swing.

In the market for a training aid proven to increase the speed of your swing and distance? SuperSpeed is it.


Tour Striker Smart Ball (Best for proper arm structure/position throughout swing)

Best Arm Structure Trainer
Tour Striker Smart Ball
4.7
Pros:
  • Teaches proper arm structure
  • Connects your arms and body in your swing
  • Keeps the club in front of you and unstuck
  • Makes your swing more efficient
  • Video training series from Martin Chuck
Cons:
  • Frustrating at first
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The Tour Striker Smart Ball is used by some of the best ball strikers and golf teachers in the world, most notably- Players Justin Rose and Darren Clarke and teachers Sean Foley and Martin Hall. It’s the best golf training aid to kill the old chicken wing. 

What does the Smart Ball do for your swing:

  1. Teaches you how to use your body and body pivot to generate effortless power, distance and consistency.

How…

  • Forces your arms into their proper position eliminating the power-leaking chicken wing
  • Teaches a one-piece takeaway from the putter to the driver by connecting & syncing your arms and your body
  • Forces or promotes the proper swing sequence for tour-level rhythm and timing

The Smart Ball was created by another of the top 100 PGA professional teachers in the world, Martin Chuck. 

The Tour Striker Smart Ball operates on a very simple concept of sequencing and connecting your swing, but…you will need a bit of patience because you are learning to putt, chip, pitch, swing with a whole new level of connection between your arms and body.

It’s not easy to swing while keeping the ball between your arms, at first. Even though I don’t have a chicken wing in my swing, this took some fairly serious getting used to. That’s the point of it all. You are learning a better way to move your body and swing much more efficiently


Types of Golf Swing Trainers

Golf Swing Plane Trainers

“Swing Plane” is a VERY popular topic in golf these days…and with good reason. You are compensating the second your are over or under your ideal plane. 

The more compensations, the more chances for mistakes. Mishits. Errant shots. Lost balls. High scores. Etc. 

So what is swing plane?

  • It is simply the vertical angle between the ground and the circular angle that the club head follows during the backswing, downswing, and follow through.

The correct plane will differ for each golfer (mostly related to your height and body posture as well as the club you’re using) and the best swing trainers for plane can help you find your perfect  plane.

Not only do these tools help you discover the optimum plane, but they also allow you to practice your swing on plane time after time after time.

The goal is to teach your body and mind that this is your new normal swing. In other words, the movements become muscle memory and the swing becomes second nature.

Though there are dozens of tools created to improve your plane, not all of them are created equal and, of course, some are better than others.

I’ve taken the time to test and review a few of the top golf swing plane trainers.

Golf Tempo Trainers

Consistent tempo is the glue that holds my swing together. It’s the strongest part of my swing and game and I play my best when I nail my tempo. 

My fundamentals have never been the best, so I go to tempo to solve most swing issues during a round or practice session. That’s why I’m especially attracted to any aid or training that enforces good tempo.

My tempo does get out of wack from time to time…especially with a driver or any longer club. That’s when I start making “lazy” swings and let the weight of the club, my arms, and my upper body create speed and power by turning my hips and letting everything fall.

Having a good golf swing tempo trainer reinforces this…and I’m all for that.

Tempo training tools enable you to slow down your swing use less effort to generate MORE speed and consistency for greater distance and accuracy…Who doesn’t want that?

Golf Swing Speed Trainer

Seems to me you are/will be getting left behind if you aren’t, at least some way, training for swing speed in your golf swing. There are a number of ways to attack this issue:

  • Flexibility and mobility training (Think Joey D and Golf Forever)
  • Swing Speed training clubs (Think SuperSpeed and the like)

I believe a combination of the two, with an emphasis on flexibility and mobility, is the best path forward. To be clear, I would do only flexibility and mobility training if I had to do only one.

I think its a bad idea to force or teach a body to swing faster that’s not physically ready to take on the stress and forces involved. Injured back, knees, hips, etc. are no joke and should be avoided at all costs. 

The speed should be as natural to your body as possible. 

Golf Swing Analyzers

You were SOL not long ago if you wanted to get your swing analyzed accurately and in real time.

You had to have access to a Very successful pro that had the money to invest in Gears technology or something similar.

There are a couple of options on the market these days. The deWiz you see on this page and Hack Motion. (I haven’t gotten my hands on Hack Motion, yet)

The deWiz gives you crucial data on the shape and length of your swing as well as the ability to help you improve your swing using this data as a benchmark. This massively speeds up the process of getting better.

FAQs

Do golf swing aids work?

Yes, golf swing aids work…without question. I equate golf training aids to tools. (Not a perfect analogy, but close enough) They help get the job done faster, but you have to choose the right “tool”. I’ve listed a few outstanding golf swing aids on this page. 

Do pro golfers use training aids?

Yes, pro golfers use training aids. There are endless pics and videos on Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere, of the best players in the world using many of the very training aids listed on this page.

What swing trainers do PGA Tour pros use?

Tour Striker PlaneMate
PlaneSwing
DownUnder Board
Tour Striker Smart Ball
Orange Whip
SKLZ Golf Flex
Superspeed Golf
Many, many more

What is the best golf swing trainer?

The best golf swing trainer is the ONE Club. It teaches the most important aspects of the golf swing intuitively and is a fantastic swing speed trainer on top of all that.

Verdict on the Best Swing Training Aids

You don’t have to spend a ton to get an effective training aid that will have a positive impact on your golf game – though you can.

My advice is to choose one or two that address your most pressing problem(s). Use it as designed and take advantage of the training that comes with it. (You may find you’ve eliminated more than just the one swing issue.) Then, get other training aids as needed.

While we’ve included a solid list of golf training aids for different purposes, I recommend the ONE Club as our new best golf swing training aid for 2023.

Thanks for checking out our review of the best golf training aids.

Editor's Pick
ONE Club Golf Swing Trainer
4.9

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Pros:
  • Improves Swing sequence, Timing, & Release
  • Helps you maximize ground forces
  • Provides audible and tactile feedback
  • Beaucoup Training videos (including from Martin Chuck)
Cons:
  • Instructions could be better
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