Website design By BotEap.comThere are over 400 golf training aids available on the market today, each addressing some aspect of the golf swing. Golf swing training aids range from thumb and grip aids, to flat aids, rhythm aids, impact aids, release and follow aids and all other aspects of the golf swing. Many of those training aids focus on putting.

Website design By BotEap.comThe golf swing has many moving parts and many different aspects, so it’s understandable that there are so many aids available. All but two of the aspects can be discussed and are opinions of the Golf Pro, Instructor or Inventor of the aid. The two irrefutable points are: 1. The golfer’s head MUST remain behind the ball at impact; 2. The golfer MUST maintain their spine angle throughout the swing. Only the PRO-HEAD Trainer focuses on those two aspects. And the PRO-HEAD Trainer can even be used to address head movement during putting and chipping.

Website design By BotEap.comJake Zastko, PGA golf professional and former Tour champion, has taught golf for more than 50 years. Jake says that the biggest problem he has observed in all his years of teaching him is the golfer’s head sticking up and out of the shot. The golfer does not keep his head behind the ball at impact.

Website design By BotEap.comPGA instructor Jack Grout recognized this flaw in Jack Nicklaus’s swing when young Jack was 10 years old. It seemed that no matter how many times Grout told Jack to stop moving his head, young Jack couldn’t keep his head steady or behind the ball during impact. One day, completely frustrated, Grout grabbed Nicklaus by his curly blond hair with his outstretched right arm and hand and forced young Jack to hit balls for three hours. Young Jack cried from the pain of pulling his hair. But he got the message, and Nicklaus went on to become perhaps the greatest golfer of all time. Users of the PRO-HEAD Trainer have referred to the swing aid as a “mechanical Jack Grout”.

Website design By BotEap.comPhysiologists and psychiatrists tell us that the brain receives information and retains it from three sources: 1. Visually, a person reads data or watches videos or observes physical examples of the new information. 2. Auditory, a person listens to information or instruction. 3. Kinetically, a person touches or is touched (tactile feedback) or repeats movements until the movement or skill is retained. Such tactile feedback is extremely valuable for kinetic learning that ultimately leads to muscle memory. Though young Nicklaus was shown his swing flaw (visually); he was told about his defect (auditory feedback); It wasn’t until he received tactile feedback (kinetic learning) that Jack Nicklaus learned to keep his head steady and behind the ball at impact.

Website design By BotEap.comSome people can learn visually by reading a book, golf tip, or watching their swing on video, or being emulated by an Instructor or Coach. Hence the plethora of golf books, magazines, videos, DVDs, and swing tips readily available to golfers who want to improve their swings. Similarly, by hearing about their swing failure from a professional golfer or instructor, golfers can learn to improve their shots. They can also hear and see their shortcoming of a good teaching professional, which is why professional swing teachers and coaches are valuable and plentiful. And why almost every touring pro today has their own personal swing coach.

Website design By BotEap.comKinetic learning on its own, or combined with visual and auditory awareness, has proven to be the best approach to improving your golf swing. It is within this form of learning, which leads to muscle memory, that the best training techniques and training aids have been focused. Here are some examples:

Website design By BotEap.coma.tea doctor It has been voted the best training aid for years due to the tactile and kinetic feedback it provides the golfer. I tried and used the doctor and while it helped me with my swing plane and rhythm, it gave me no feedback on head motion and didn’t help me correct this swing defect.

Website design By BotEap.comb. Similar with the explanatory, an $800 plastic swing aid that forces the golfer to maintain the plane of the swing. This device provides tactile feedback to the golfer if the golfer’s swing deviates from the required plane. Once again, however, there is nothing to help a golfer learn to keep a steady head.

Website design By BotEap.comagainst swingrite it’s a complete swing workout that provides auditory feedback, a click, when the golfer releases the clubhead at the point of impact. Nothing however for a stable head.

Website design By BotEap.comd. SwingPerfect offers feedback via a vibrating device inserted near the grip of the club Tactile feedback but not for any head movement.

Website design By BotEap.commy. swing jackettea inner Focus, perfect pitch There are other full swing aids that provide some form of feedback, but none of them focus on head movement, which is the biggest flaw of most golfers.

Website design By BotEap.comSteve Williams, Tiger’s former caddy, was seen on television just before a PGA event placing the grip end of a club over Woods’ head during a warm-up session. And popular Instructor Hank Haney has published several articles and tips using this same Jack Grout technique to help the golfer keep their head behind the ball at impact. Here is a short animation showing what the golfer will see if he swings correctly and keeps his head behind the ball at impact. Visit http://www.proheadgolf.com to view this 7 second animation.

Website design By BotEap.comAs Jake Zastko discovered, most golfers have this tendency to go up and off their shot. It may be because they want to see where your shot went. Or they don’t want to slow down their fellow players; or lose your ball. Whatever the reason for doing otherwise, the golfer must learn to keep his head behind the ball at impact, as Jack Nicklaus did and as leading instructors try to teach. When this becomes a memorized aspect of one’s swing, the golfer will greatly improve his swing and lower his scores.