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Best golf training and practice aids for improving your game and lowering your handicap

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Are you suffering from a nasty case of the yips? Or, maybe double bogeys, shanks, hooks or worm burners are your problem?

No other sport has such a broad glossary to describe a terrible shot, or bad play, like golf does. Thankfully no other sport has such a broad range of training and practice aids to help you fix the problem. 

Tools that will help you minimise the time you spend in bunkers, in the rough, or wanting to run over your putter with the golf cart. 

However, there are more gadgets and gizmos available to today’s amateur golfer than there are balls at the bottom of the local golf club lake, so you need a targeted approach which should begin with asking the question: “What areas of my game need the most work?” 

For example, if you regularly let fly off the tee, only to end up in the right-hand rough, there will be a specific aid to help you improve. Or, if you’re currently spending more time in bunkers than on the green stuff there will undoubtedly be another tool out there that will claim to be able to keep the sand permanently out of your golf shoes

Whatever the challenge is, the best training aids work by establishing a muscle memory connection after repeated use and will allow you to learn through feel and touch, so that good form and technique are encouraged, established and feel natural the next time you play a shot in anger. 

With that in mind, we called in

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