What's NOT in your bag?

[alcyone]

We've all got them. Some have spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on them. Some use them all the time and some have them stashed away. But we can't use them when playing.

Training aids. I'm not talking about videos, books, etc. I mean the golf related items that we swing, use for alignment, or adjust our swing plane with.

What do YOU have? Which were a good investment, and which were a waste of time and money?


Besides the obligatory putting mat and chipping mat, I have:

Medicus duel hinged driver...good

Medicus duel hinged 5 iron...good

David Leadbetter Swing Setter...I like the Medicus products better

Home made Weighted shaft Driver...works like the ones you buy only cheaper

Home made Weighted shaft 5 iron...same as driver

Home made Weighted shaft wedge...same. I filled the shafts with lead shot.

Home made laser swing plane indicator I made for about $10...I like this one.

Home made swing path alignment device that sells for $50+ in pro shops and I made from PVC for $2.50...works just like the ones you buy. Foam arm flys off if you come over the top on downswing.


As you can see, if I can make it, I don't buy it.

[DavidFehertysBike]

I must say i have never bought or owned a single training aid except a book and some crappy yes! putter DVD a friend of mine lent me.

[Hustle]

Z Factor - Putting... I think this is the best training aid on the market.

Momentus Swing Trainer... 20 minutes a night.

[DavidFehertysBike]

  Hustle said:

Z Factor - Putting... I think this is the best training aid on the market.

That thing costs too much damn money..

[Wisco-Kid]

I have a putting rug/cup that was well worth it, I used it all winter and it defintitely helped my improve my stroke.

Bit the bullet and bought the Inside Approach last week for $25 at Target. I never even hit a ball with it. I set it up made a couple of swings with it and knew right away that I already had an inside-out swing, so that is not the cause of my slice. I gave it to my buddy, hopefully it will help him.

[jamesbei]

  Hustle said:

Momentus Swing Trainer... 20 minutes a night.

i got given one, and have never used it, you can get it to click however you swing, also i think it wants you to swing really wristerly <---- yes its a made up word

[Hustle]

  jamesbei said:

i got given one, and have never used it, you can get it to click however you swing, also i think it wants you to swing really wristerly

lol... i like that word.

I really do not use it for a swing path trainer as much as I do for a weighted club. But on the same token if you use it wrong you would be strengthing all the wrong muscles.

[Hustle]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

That thing costs too much damn money..

Spend the money. It is the only thing out there that will take strokes off your game.

[DavidFehertysBike]

  Hustle said:

Spend the money. It is the only thing out there that will take strokes off your game.

It looks like a nifty device, but the only real thing out there that is going to take strokes off of my game is me.

[Dent]

Ive got one of those little plastic putting things where its triangle shaped, you putt it in, and it spits it back out.

$20

[Hustle]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

It looks like a nifty device, but the only real thing out there that is going to take strokes off of my game is me.

lol... You are kidding right.There are lots of useful tools to help take strokes off your game. Z Factor, weighted club, training program, teaching lessons, etc.

If you keep doing the wrong thing long enough it will take even longer to get it right.

[alcyone]

For $300, I'll make a Z Factor myself now that I've seen a picture of it.

[Gerry18]

I got the Smart path, to correct my swing, I have hopefully had, an outside-inside swing that causes a great slice.

I just got it last week, I will tell you in 2 or 3 weeks if that helped me.

[Hustle]

  alcyone said:

For $300, I'll make a Z Factor myself now that I've seen a picture of it.

lol.. Please do post pics when you are finished...

[joseywales]

This winter I invested in 15 golf ball sized nerf balls. I spent the winter chipping with them hitting lob shots on my berber carpet in my basement. It made the springtime hardpan on my course easier to hit off of and now my chipping and pitching is way ahead of all other aspects of my game. Best $15 I ever spent during the offseason.

[iacas]

  Hustle said:

Z Factor - Putting... I think this is the best training aid on the market.

See, I'm not the only one who says so.

  alcyone said:

For $300, I'll make a Z Factor myself now that I've seen a picture of it.

Uh hmmm.......

[Big_M]

  iacas said:

See, I'm not the only one who says so.

I'm pretty sure you have stock in the Z-Factor

I have been interested since I first got a look at it on Fore-Inventors... To answer the original Q... I have never bought a training aid... but my list of things I want is... -mini-dv video recorder w/ some sort of swing software -Z-Factor (Erik better be right!) -pole barn complete with synthetic putting green, practice bunker, and hitting net. Of course I need a house first and I'm moving into a Townhome, so????

[Doctorfro]

  alcyone said:

Besides the obligatory putting mat and chipping mat, I have:

Holy Cow! That's crazy. I own nothing but a nice hitting mat to pitch balls off the driveway into the backyard. At my old house I could hit a full sandwedge to the edge of the woods. My wife didn't like divots in the front yard so I got the mat. That's all.