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• Featured Golf Training Aid – The Smart Stick

  
  

  The Smart Stick is a golf swing training tool that provides continual, visual feedback throughout the entire swing. It utilizes green lasers and an innovative wrist bar that will teach you the flat left wrist at the top of your swing, how to hinge your wrist 90 degrees as well as how to maintain club head lag on the downswing. With the green lasers the Smart Stick can be used indoors as well as outdoors.

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• Q – I’m interested in fitting my clubs but I’m not sure if my swing is consistent enough. How do I know if my swing is stable enough for club fitting?

  
  

  A – Club fitting is about engineering a set of clubs or a single club relative to your physique and individual swing. For newer golfers it is more about getting the correct club length and lie angle to allow you set up in an athletic stance and matching a shaft flex, and weight and a clubhead design and loft to aid getting the ball airborne. Further characteristics such as grip size will aid in improved control of the golf club. For intermediate or advanced golfers it’s more about dialing in on characteristics such as shaft deflection point and spin rates particularly in the woods and driver club to maximize carry distance and incremental difference in distance between clubs.

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• The Power of the Launch Monitor in Club Fitting

  
  

  Perhaps the biggest development in golf club fitting in recent years is the addition of the launch monitor. The launch monitor provides vital data of both the golf ball and club head prior to, during and following ball impact.

  The following data is compiled by the launch monitor after each shot.
  - Clubhead speed
  - Ball speed
  - Dynamic loft (loft of the clubhead at ball contact)
  - Launch angle (the angle the ball is launched when leaving the clubface)
  - Club head path
  - Clubface angle
  - Angle of attack of the clubhead
  - Rate of ball back spin and side spin
  - Displacement of the ball during and after flight
  - Carry and total distance
  - Efficiency or smash factor

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• The five elements of golfing performance

  
  

  
  Are you serious about effective learning and game improvement?
  Regardless of your ability, new golfer or professional golfer, strong consideration must be given to each element of the game.

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