Are Golf Training Aids Necessary?


by Lee MacRae - Date: 2007-01-11 - Word Count: 416 Share This!

Football players have tacking dummies, blocking sleds and kicking nets. Boxers have speed bags and heavy punching bags. Baseball players have fungo bats, weighted bats and pitching machines.

Golfers?

Golfers have the golf training aid.

It only makes sense that you take advantage of training devices to improve your abilities and skills. That is what athletes do in other sports and it's what golfers should do as well.

In the other sports we mentioned, you will find different training devices used for the development of different skills. The boxer has a heavy bag to work on his power and heavy body punching as well as the lighter overhead "speed bag" where he develops his hand-eye coordination, improves his hand speed and learns to keep his hands up when fighting.

The golfer also has various training aids that will focus in on specific areas for improvement or accelerate the development of various skills. Some golf aids are used for developing the golf swing. Others for developing or reinforcing the proper hand grip and hand position on the golf club. Other golf aid is used to train you in keeping your head down when you putt or how to swing properly when chipping or using a sand wedge.

The important point to remember is that a good golf training aid can greatly benefit your game if chosen properly. Some people seem to feel the golf training aid is unnecessary and may even teach bad habits. If you're concerned with that happening, just make sure that you check out what other people are saying about the particular training aid that you're looking at. That's the kind of research you should be doing with anything that you're going to buy. Check out your golf training aid on the Internet. Just type in the name of your training aid along with the word "review" and up will pop up the experiences, comments, recommendations, rejections, problems and successes that ordinary people have had with that specific device. Learn all you can, especially with regard to the skill you are trying to develop or the habit you are trying to eliminate.

Well chosen golf training aids can do a great deal in reinforcing the good habits you learn from golf lessons and even from the devices themselves. A good golf training aid will give you feedback on what you are doing right or wrong and reinforce the right habits that will lead to a better golf game.

Are golf training aids necessary? Only if you want to become a better golfer.


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