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A good golf swing trainer can make a big difference in improving your swing, contact, putting, and more. However, there are a lot of tools out there that are all hype (or no hype at all) and zero performance. There are dozens of swing trainers that make many promises, but only very few are worth your time and money. Those few, though, can help a great deal.
We've tested dozens of products and have had students and clients try many out as well. Based off of our experience, as well as what helped our students get the greatest results, we created a list of our top picks for swing trainers. You will find our top recommendations as well as how they can help you.
Our Picks for Best Golf Swing Trainers
Our #1 Golf Swing Trainer Pick
Orange Whip Golf Swing Aid
Review
The Orange Whip is one of the most popular swing trainers out there. It is also one of the most versatile. You may have seen others using them or somebody with an Orange Whip in their golf bag. We said it is extremely popular and versatile. That's because it not only works, players of virtually any skill level can benefit from it.
There are 3 primary uses for the Orange Whip:
1. Improve flexibility and strength specifically for golf
2. Provide more rhythm and balance for a smoother swing
3. A very good warmup tool before hitting balls on the course or the driving range
Two of the most important elements to a golf swing are proper balance and rhythm. Yet, these are two of the things a lot of golfers struggle the most with. For students of ours that struggled with a jerky, out of rhythm swing, there was not a tool or drill that yielded better results than the Orange Whip. It can smooth the kinks out of a swing better than anything. It is also a great tool for helping people stay nice and balanced as they sort through shifting their weight throughout the swing.
Overall, this is our very favorite golf swing training aid. Whether you are brand new to the game or a scratch golfer, golfers young and old will find great benefit from this tool. You can check out our full Orange Whip review here.
Best Impact Position Golf Swing Aids
Impact Snap Swing Trainer
Review
The Impact Snap is another widely known, very popular, award winning golf training aid. It has the appearance of a gimmicky, wannabe tool. That's absolutely what we thought when a colleague first recommended that we test it out. But we were pleasantly surprised at the improvements several of our students experienced just from using this trainer.
The Impact Snap trainer is designed to help improve your impact position. What is impact position? It's simply the position of your arms and the club at impact with the ball. The overwhelming majority of beginner and intermediate golfers struggle with getting their hands in front of the ball. And this is one of the most challenging problems to fix. You can watch it done correctly and be told a thousand times to do it differently, but until you've really felt what it's like, it's very difficult to get there.
Enter your text here...The Impact Snap provides feedback through an audible snap that occurs when you've used it correctly, i.e. performed correct impact position. This tool is great because it can be used anywhere, indoors and outdoors, and you don't need to hit any balls. It can easily be taken on business trips or vacations. Now, the DST Compressor (reviewed next), is all around a better swing trainer for impact position. However, for beginners to intermediate players, we recommend the Impact Snap because of its portability and far less frustrating feedback delivery.
Most Effective Impact Position Swing Trainer
DST Compressor Golf Trainer
Review
DST stands for Delayed Strike Trainer, and the DST Compressor helps improve impact position masterfully. The reason this tool is called the Delayed Strike Trainer is because it helps get your hands out in front of the ball at impact, or it "delays" the contact until your hands are past the ball. It is an actual golf club that forces correct position at impact, or you will mishit the ball.
The DST is second to none at helping players feel and consistently achieve correct impact position. However, it can also be frustrating while you are learning because when used incorrectly, you will mishit the ball badly. As a full-fledged golf club, you also need to hit balls to really get feedback from it. The DST Compressor is a tool that players of any skill level can benefit from. You can read our full DST Trainer review.
Best Golf Swing Speed Trainer
SuperSpeed Golf Swing Speed Trainer
Review
You will be hard pressed to find a golfer on this planet that wouldn't like to hit the ball farther. However, most golfers try to achieve greater distance by swinging the club harder by flexing every muscle in their body. This usually results in poor form, mishits, and worse yet, injuries. They (and you) would be better off learning to swing the club faster, rather than harder. That's where the SuperSpeed Golf swing trainer comes into play.
The SuperSpeed Golf trainer uses overspeed training to improve your shot distance. Overspeed training is simply the process of training your body to move faster without any more strain or flexion. The SuperSpeed Golf training system is a number of weighted shafts designed to provide optimal overspeed training. And it works. Really well. But it is a training program and you've got to stick to it. We highly recommend this product to those of you interested in increasing your swing speed and distance.
Most Simplistic Swing Trainers
Tour Striker Smart Ball Swing Aid
Review
The final trainer on our list of recommendations is the Tour Striker Smart Ball. It is a tool that is so simplistic in its application, yet very effective. All you do is inflate a small ball (takes just a few seconds) that is connected to a lanyard around your neck. Your goal is to keep that ball between your arms throughout the swing. What this does is ensure your arms are properly synced, and that your arms are moving together with your body. This tool is aimed at beginners and intermediate players. These skill levels can see marked improvements in their swing in a short amount of time using the Smart Ball.
FAQ
There are many ways you can practice your golf swing at home! You can get one of the swing trainers mentioned above, specifically the Orange Whip or the Impact Snap would be great at-home training devices. You can get yourself a golf mat and some plastic or foam balls; or get a ball return hitting net and hit real balls. The very best thing for improving your golf swing at home would be to invest in a launch monitor and/or golf simulator.
Put simply, absolutely! There is a reason it is one of the most popular and used training aids in the world. That's because it is easy to use and it works really well. Scroll up on this page to find out a bit more about the Orange Whip trainer.
The original Orange Whip is not necessarily designed to improve your swing speed. It's more for improving the flow and rhythm of your speed. If you scroll up this page, you will find information about SuperSpeed Golf, one of the best training aids out there for increasing your swing speed.
If you scroll up, you will find a much more detailed answer to this question. But here are the best golf training aids right now in our opinion:
Orange Whip
Impact Snap
DST Compressor
SuperSpeed Golf
Tour Striker Smart Ball