Fix & Cure Your Hook!
Training Aids....
This is not to say that they're all bad or can't help. Many can be effective in addressing one or two aspects of a golf swing.
It's just that any one of even the most expensive training-aid gizmos and gear probably won't fix your undesired ball-flight curve. You might try buying and using every one of them every day. This might actually work. But it's terribly expensive and time consuming.
And the truth is that the gizmos aren't necessary to fix almost any swing flaw. It takes information and the knowledge of how to translate that infomation into repeatable muscle memory. This book, Cure Your Slice in Three Weeks!, provides that information for a fraction of the cost of just one of these gadgets.
Let's talk about some of the better-known infomercial training aids - their strengths and limitations:
Swing Setter: This click-click training aid really can help bad golfers improve the set and release of their wrists. This can increase club-head speed and the resulting distance. However, extra club speed can also make your slice or hook worse unless you address the root cause, which is never the set of your wrists. Other swing flaws are addressed in the instructional DVD with pretty familiar tips. It also assumes that there is one perfect grip strength for everyone - which is not true. Also, our slice-cure book shows how to improve wrist set and release without a gizmo.
Momentus: A shortened, weighted club can help you groove a more pendulum-like swing. So if you have a horrible over-the-top swing, this may help - but not necessarily cure your slice - or not help at all. A close review of even their video-taped testimonial subjects reveals "improved" but not cured swings, with ongoing early release - casting of the club - thereby losing power and distance. Also, their improvement is "after a lesson with the Momentus." Hmmm. Would their swing changes be due to the magic club or the lesson from the pro?
Dual-Hinge Medicus: This can help slow down your too-speedy tempo and tune other major club-position flaws. However, your slice or hook may be caused by mechanics not revealed by the hinges. This is because some curved ball flight is rooted in body movement, not club position, during the swing. Also, if you look carefully at the "after" swings of the testimonial subjects, like those in the Momentus infomercial, their improved swings still look totally amateur, having little wrist set and release. This means, of course, their distances are totally amateur too. They might have done better saving some money and ordering a slice-cure book.
Swing Glove: This product is designed to help you keep your leading wrist in line with its forearm. There can be benfit from learning the position encouraged by this device. It can help to tame a slice, but certainly not most of the time. Most of the benefits it touts speaks to golfers lacking the most basic athletic ability.
The Hip/Leg Gizmo: I've seen this infomercial but can't remember the name of this gadget, but it's a black plastic thing that straps to the upper thigh. Hokey as it may appear, this does point to an important aspect of the swing - and one that may well affect your slicing or hooking. Does it work? I don't know, but I do know that, again, not every golfer makes his swing work with the same leg and hip position. I also know that you can tune this part of your swing without a hundred-dollar (or more) alarm strapped to your leg!
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The Bottom Line
Training aids such as these are not necessary and are often not the complete solution to a given golfer's problems. To paraphrase Roy McEvoy, the main character from the movie, Tin Cup, these gadgets are for lost and desperate souls.