Nuru Golf Practice Drills and Tips

Grade: A

You really can’t beat the price on this one. For just $10—shipping included—NURU offers a deck of 30 tips and drills to improve your golf game. There are drills for working on swing mechanics, balance, power, accuracy, chipping and sand shots, putting and troubleshooting. Each offers a drill objective, an illustration, a list of needed equipment, and a clear description of the drill.

There is really nothing new to any of these drills, and Nuru doesn’t claim to have any new golf secret. But it’s nice to have them in such a handy, card sized format.

The cards are printed on a plastic material that appears only slightly thicker than a piece of paper. They are waterproof, and the company claims, rip proof (I have not actually tested this claim and don’t plan to). The cards are held together with an O-ring, which with a carabiner clip would easily attach to your bag.

This would make a terrific stocking stuffer for any golfer, at any skill level. We all can use reminders of how to fix our swings.

Back in the 1980s, there was a golf training video called Sybervision that featured endless clips of Al Greiberger hitting balls. The idea was that you would watch Grieberger’s technically flawless swing (he was known as Mr. 59, for shooting a 59 in a PGA Tour event), and would thus visually develop muscle memory. Interesting concept.

See It Golf has taken that idea and applied it to putting. In their video, you watch clips of Aaron Baddeley making putts. By showing Badds making putts from multiple angles, they hope to put you in good putting mental frame of mind.

The product is downloadable, and you can watch it on your portable video player or computer.

GOLF SHOP LIVE Power Stance Swing Trainer

Everything in golf starts with grip, stance and alignment. The Power Stance Swing Trainer works on those last two. When standing on the device, your front foot is restricted, while the back is allowed to turn during the swing. A position arrow helps to set the thing in the right position.

The device is supposed to help you make a balanced weight transfer and turn. Watch the video below:

SKLZ Gyro Swing

Grade: B+
Teacher’s Comments: A good product, but too expensvie for most golfers.

At their core, all swing trainers are the same. Through mechanical means, they seek to build muscle memory of a proper golf swing. Some help with release, others with keeping the club on plane, with takeaway, or transition.

The Gyroswing, however, actually manages to doo all of those things. It’s an amazingly clever, and highly effective invention.

The club looks like a toy driver. It’s about the length of a sand wedge, with a driver head attached. One side of the shaft is painted yellow to help players visually keep the club on plane. The clear grip has marks to help you get your hand placement correct.

But that’s just icing. The cake is that inside the driver’s head is a battery powered gyroscope. It’s fitted in such a way that it forces your swing into perfect golf form.

It’s an interesting sensation. If you take the club back off plane, the gyroscope twists, letting you know immediately that you’re off. Come over the top, and you feel it. Get off plane on the downswing and the clubhead resists. At the point of release, you can feel the gyroscope turning your hands over. If you try to chicken-wing your finish, the gyroscope resists.

In short, it helps you build muscle memory of a solid golf swing from start to finish.

The club comes with a set of rechargable batteries and a small recharging unit. It’s needed. The gyroscope eats a lot of power.

My one complaint with the system is that after using it for a few minutes, my hands get tired. They actually begin to physically qche. I think that has to do with vibrations being transmitted from the gyroscope. But then, I don’t think that you’re necessarily supposed to work with it for more than a few minutes at a time.

I’ve been using the Gyroswing for a couple of weeks now and believe that it’s paid dividends. While I haven’t gained any distance, I have seen more consistent ball striking. In my last 18, I had just one mishit—a fat shot in a swampy area with a wedge.For me, that’s a real improvement.

I’m going to give a cautions recommentation to this onel. What it does is extraordinary. But you have to be willing to (literally) pay the price.

Callaway Golf Soft Flight Ball

These limited flight practice balls from Callaway feature the trademark HX hex patterns.