The £800 Golf Training Aid That Won't Let You Hit a Single Ball - And Why It Works
It looks intimidating and forces a strict single plane, but this giant calibration hoop delivers the exact swing feedback most amateurs desperately need.
A highly effective, robust piece of equipment that provides instant kinesthetic feedback. By removing the golf ball from the equation, it allows amateur golfers to focus entirely on pure movement patterns and train the feeling of a repeating, neutral swing plane. This would be an incredibly useful training aid for many golfers.
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Setup is remarkably fast and easy despite its size
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Immediate feedback on how the club should move
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Removes the distraction of ball flight and strike
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Brilliant winter calibration tool for consistency
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Requires a significant amount of indoor or outdoor space
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Forces a one-plane swing, which may be counterproductive for elite players with established multi-plane patterns
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At first glance, the PlaneSwing is an imposing piece of hardware.
Consisting of a large, multi-adjustable hoop, stance alignment mat, and a weighted 'PowerSLIDER', you could be forgiven for feeling intimidated when it arrives. However, while it looks incredibly complex out of the box, it was remarkably easy and quick to set up by following along with the very helpful YouTube guide video.
It took me just 30 minutes from start to finish to have it fully assembled and ready for use.
Despite featuring a lot of components, construction was relatively quick and easy
For me, the genius of the PlaneSwing lies in its constraints. I love that you don't actually hit golf balls with this training aid - it is simply guiding movement patterns.
In my opinion, not enough training is done without a golf ball; it's simply training movement and positions, without the distraction of attempting to create specific ball flights or strikes.
While you aren't using it to hit shots as such, the PlaneSwing gives immediate feedback in terms of how the club "should" be moving throughout the swing, which is fascinating to compare with what your normal swing would feel like. You essentially trace the hoop using the weighted slider, gently influencing your golf muscles while building repeatable motor skills.
One of the pushbacks against such a training aid that I have heard would be that many of the world's best players operate on a couple of different planes during the swing. Someone like Sergio Garcia, for example, swings down on a significantly shallower plane than his backswing, while world number one Scottie Scheffler somewhat steepens in the downswing.
The PlaneSwing, on the other hand, forces you into more of a one-plane scenario, and I hear that critique.
For those players with established, highly repeatable, and successful patterns, this would not make much sense and may even be counterproductive. But for those new to the game, or with plane issues that aren’t producing the outcomes of Garcia and Scheffler (which is most of us!), this is a quite brilliant guide to functional swing positions.
Construction is excellent with a number of important safety features
My daughters (9 and 11) are just showing signs of getting interested in the game a little more, and I am very much looking forward to helping them get started on the right track by getting them moving on the PlaneSwing trainer, hopefully ingraining some good habits that will last them a lifetime.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my use of the product thus far and will be consistently implementing it as a calibration tool for my golf swing over this winter in an attempt to improve the consistency of my delivery. If you have the space to accommodate it, it is a tremendous investment in your mechanics.
PlaneSwing Specs:
Price: £799.00 (Par Package) / £899.00 (Birdie Package) / £999.00 (Eagle Package)
What's included: Multi-adjustable hoop, PowerSLIDER(s), PlaneGUIDE, PlaneCHECKER, Stance Alignment Mat, Numbered Decals
Space Required: H: 7 ft 6 in / W: 11.5ft / D: 4 ft 10 in
