Training Aids

[ScienceBoy]

If only I could by a V-Easy in instalments, then I could afford one

 

[richart]

I have got one as a prize at the Blackmoor Meet.






Best professional score (Senior Section)

 

[bobmac]

I have got one as a prize at the Blackmoor Meet.






Best professional score (Senior Section)

It's just as well I like you

 

[Tiger]

V-Easy and a No 3 Putt (hapless you've got to stock these). Looks like a giant polo and makes the hole smaller. Two different sizes depending on distance. Get a V-Easy to improve your stroke and a No 3 Putt to improve your short range accuracy.

To practice longer putts use the penny putting drill. Putt to the fringe and place a penny about 3 foot in front of the ball. Try to get the ball to roll over the coin (accuracy) and stop on the fringe (pace). My putting has improved immensely using the above and all for less than £35.

Hope this helps. Happy putting

 

[Scott1505]

I am hoping my V-Easy will be arriving today.

After reading the review by craw and what other people have said in the past seemed like exactly what i was looking for as am looking at improving my alignment plus the added benefit of being able to use it for putting and chipping.

Excited about getting home tonight and start putting with it on the carpet tonight. How sad!

 

[haplesshacker]

I'd thought that I'd let you have the honour for that Bob. After all you did invent the thing!

Back to the op. Some get on with aids, and some don't. Some buy them expecting a miracle cure, some are prepared to put the practice in and see improvement. It all comes down to the individual.

I was lucky enough to of had quite a long chat with Dave Pelz and he swears by training aids, otherwise, how do you know what you're doing from one practice session to the next.

Some aids I rate, some I don't. But that doesn't mean to say that it'll be the same for you or anyone else.

Cynically, you might think that I'm biased anyway. But I've always worked on honesty. If I don't get on with a particular product, I'll say so, and why. But it might at least give the customers a more informed choice than just a bunch of sales spiel from some retailers.

Have a nose around, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

just had a look at ur website and if we take putting for example u have 25 products there which would you recomend? im quite poor at putting generally leave it short, mis-read, or when i do put enough power into it it goes way past and have about a 6-8 fotter left, dont have a handicap yet as just got back into golf in the last year and the only space i have it very small in the house or the practice green up at the course. any recomendations would be much appreciated.

cheers

From my own experiances and feedback that I've had from customers.

First thing I would consider is a simple ball alignment aid. My preference is for the Softspikes one, but any will do, but with one proviso. Make sure that it not only does lateral lines, but also a perpendicular one, at right angle to the first. The reason for this, is that you use the first line to line up your put or even tee shot, and use the perpendicular line to line the edge of the clubface to.
Like this.

This is probably one of the cheapest and most effective ways to help. You could of course use the small markings that are already on the ball, but I find that the lines help focus my mind on the line of the put and getting the club face right.

Stage 2.
I know that alot on here like the V-Easy, and they'd be right. For taking out flicky wrists and generally producing a good repeatable action, it's great. It also helps to stop some from opening their shoulders during the stroke. Having a repeatable stroke will help with your distance control. You'd then just need to put some time in and practice. I'll let Bob explain about pace of the stroke etc.

Both of these will help massively, I've knocked 5 shots off my average score just on putting alone over the last year, and that's without a shed load of practice. I was that bad.

After that it comes down to personal preference. The Pathfinder that Homer suggested is a good piece of kit, but others have found the putting mirror useful. Personally I don't get on with 'on-plane' type putting aids, like the perfect plane etc. But having said that, we do have some happy customers that have them.

Reading breaks on the green is another matter, experiance and watching what everyone else does is as good as anything. But spend some time on a real practice green, and you'll soon get it.

But the important thing for now is alignment and pace, and the ball alignment aid and V-easy will help with that.

Hope it's been useful.

On another note, I'm no pro, far from it, I can hack about with the worst of them. But I can pass on what I and my customers have learnt. Though I sure that some might disagree with what I've said. As always. Each to their own.

Graham

 

[grumpyjock]

Whats my commission siting at now Boab?

Twa and six

thats now 12 1/2 p
when was whisky last 12 anda tanner a bottle?

 

[bobmac]

I am hoping my V-Easy will be arriving today.

After reading the review by craw and what other people have said in the past seemed like exactly what i was looking for as am looking at improving my alignment plus the added benefit of being able to use it for putting and chipping.

Excited about getting home tonight and start putting with it on the carpet tonight. How sad!

If you have any questions Scott, pm me

 

[Garush34]

I'd thought that I'd let you have the honour for that Bob. After all you did invent the thing!

Back to the op. Some get on with aids, and some don't. Some buy them expecting a miracle cure, some are prepared to put the practice in and see improvement. It all comes down to the individual.

I was lucky enough to of had quite a long chat with Dave Pelz and he swears by training aids, otherwise, how do you know what you're doing from one practice session to the next.

Some aids I rate, some I don't. But that doesn't mean to say that it'll be the same for you or anyone else.

Cynically, you might think that I'm biased anyway. But I've always worked on honesty. If I don't get on with a particular product, I'll say so, and why. But it might at least give the customers a more informed choice than just a bunch of sales spiel from some retailers.

Have a nose around, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

just had a look at ur website and if we take putting for example u have 25 products there which would you recomend? im quite poor at putting generally leave it short, mis-read, or when i do put enough power into it it goes way past and have about a 6-8 fotter left, dont have a handicap yet as just got back into golf in the last year and the only space i have it very small in the house or the practice green up at the course. any recomendations would be much appreciated.

cheers

From my own experiances and feedback that I've had from customers.

First thing I would consider is a simple ball alignment aid. My preference is for the Softspikes one, but any will do, but with one proviso. Make sure that it not only does lateral lines, but also a perpendicular one, at right angle to the first. The reason for this, is that you use the first line to line up your put or even tee shot, and use the perpendicular line to line the edge of the clubface to.
Like this.

This is probably one of the cheapest and most effective ways to help. You could of course use the small markings that are already on the ball, but I find that the lines help focus my mind on the line of the put and getting the club face right.

Stage 2.
I know that alot on here like the V-Easy, and they'd be right. For taking out flicky wrists and generally producing a good repeatable action, it's great. It also helps to stop some from opening their shoulders during the stroke. Having a repeatable stroke will help with your distance control. You'd then just need to put some time in and practice. I'll let Bob explain about pace of the stroke etc.

Both of these will help massively, I've knocked 5 shots off my average score just on putting alone over the last year, and that's without a shed load of practice. I was that bad.

After that it comes down to personal preference. The Pathfinder that Homer suggested is a good piece of kit, but others have found the putting mirror useful. Personally I don't get on with 'on-plane' type putting aids, like the perfect plane etc. But having said that, we do have some happy customers that have them.

Reading breaks on the green is another matter, experiance and watching what everyone else does is as good as anything. But spend some time on a real practice green, and you'll soon get it.

But the important thing for now is alignment and pace, and the ball alignment aid and V-easy will help with that.

Hope it's been useful.

On another note, I'm no pro, far from it, I can hack about with the worst of them. But I can pass on what I and my customers have learnt. Though I sure that some might disagree with what I've said. As always. Each to their own.

Graham

Thanks very much for your advice Graham very informative and ill definetly look into what you said and see if any of it helps me out, ill see what the pro says on monday when i have my lesson as he'll get to see my whole game as its a round with him at north berwick golf club, but will defo get a v-easy bought probs order one tonight

 

[haplesshacker]

Your post gave me an idea for the blog on the website that I posted tonight. All about golf ball alignment aids. I won't post a link, but the blog can be found easy enough near the top left of the website. It has a few more (bad) drawings of their uses.