Golf swing teaching aids can be effective, but in some cases not as effective as following fundamental instincts.  Teaching aids can even be dangerous to your ability to procreate.

I actually saw a training gizmo in a national golf chain store once that you secured to your arms and around your waist and then attached a hook to, well, it attached to the groin area. 

I did not try this out, but I guessed that the goal to mastering this device was to “not invoke the hook moving in any way”.  I wonder if this “training aid” had been a remnant from the days when they burned people alive if they thought they were witches.

Through the years, there has been no shortage of teaching aids that promise everything from lower scores to oneness with the universe.

I saw a new training aide on TV recently that looked good for teaching the correct putting arc, a simple device that would allow you to lay it down on a practice green for putting while following the arc built into this device.

Another idea that seemed like a great teaching aid is one that lets you to practice swing on uneven surfaces.  I literally thought when I saw this “Why don’t all driving ranges have a few bays with these so you could practice real-world golf?”

Some ideas, such as wearing a coat hanger over your wrists, costs no more than the coat hanger itself and can have a positive impact on learning how it feels to swing correctly. 

Most all products on the market today come from real golfers who have experienced a problem they addressed with a certain device they made.  When these items work well for them and others, they can become available to the rest of us in search of the Holy Grail. You can be sure there is a story behind all of them.  I am still not sure I want to know the story behind the “groin-hook” device.

Once while playing with a friend, he noticed I was having trouble with my irons from about 165 yards in and he asked if he could make a suggestion.  I had little left to lose that day and was open for suggestions so I said “yes”. 

He simply placed a tee in the ground ahead of the ball towards the target & to the right.  I am right-handed, so this would not physically interfere unless I really messed up.  He said, “pretend like you are going to hit the ball AND also swing for the tee”.  I thought this would make me swing so the ball would miss the target to the right, but volunteered to try his prescription for my ailing fairway results.  What happened was incredible in two ways.  First, I actually hit a decent shot, better than I had hit a 5-iron all day.  Second, the ball actually ended up drawing a little to the left of the green.  In general, it gave me a mental target to shoot for that forced me to swing the club in the correct path and I was not coming outside in anymore.

This tee became a free training aid that day and was a revelation that opened my eyes to the thought that there are probably many items on the market that could be of use for certain situations.  We golfers have many bad habits to break.

One device I like for practice golf is the laser pointer putter.  This is something that can literally help millions of golfers who “see one way, and putt another”.  It seems that anyone with a dominant eye can occasionally misread a putt due to one eye being stronger than the other is.  These are not cheap, however.

Another device I found along side our Gotta-Grip product being featured in the same golf magazine, helps with aiming putts without lasers and costs a lot less.  The product is called Correct Sight, by The Correct Setup Golf, Inc.  A simple device clips to your golf cap.  It folds down while you are putting to provide an oval to look through to tell you if you are keeping your head still and if you are swinging true.  It will also tell you if you are moving the putter from side to side.  I got one of these and I think it is a great investment to help where it counts: on the putting green.

Some good advice when trying to improve your game is for you to pick an area of improvement and see what you can find as a tool that helps you. Either buy one or make one.  You might just invent the next great teaching aid.

Practice, practice, practice…Enjoy Golf!

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