The Straight Stick, Lag Shot & Gabe Golf Swing Trainer // GOOD, GREAT & AWFUL

are these hittable training aid golf clubs any good or are they just a complete waste of your money and something you should entirely avoid that's what I want to find out in today's video so in front of me I have three golf clubs the lag shot the Gabe golf swing trainer and the straight stick these are all hittable golf clubs that are training AIDS when I was growing up there was golf clubs that were training A's but they were not hittable there was the Medicus and then the momentous or the momentum when I was growing up a weighted Golf Club it was meant to get you in great positions and then a breakable golf club that if you didn't swing in the right position the club would break and you get instant feedback you're never getting feedback of the strike and things have progressed now where these clubs are allowing you to strike a ball and get feedback if you did it right based on your strike one of them has been in my golf bag since 2016. one I've had for about three years and I just can't quite figure it out and one I got just two weeks ago and I'm not too sure yeah this thing's meant to ingrain perfect contact you're meant to hit twice the amount of Greens in regulation um I think that's a Croc honestly I don't know what this thing does and I don't think any decent player would benefit from this the clicking mechanism it's cool but as I tested it I couldn't get myself to click it before impact I would only get it to click slightly after impact which it's the release of the golf club it's kind of showing you where you should release the club you're not meant to be releasing it right at impact you should be kind of releasing it slightly after impact but even in rehearsing I couldn't get the magnet to fly off early unless I set it on a really low speed and that's another little criticism I would give this thing you have speed settings for the speed of your seven iron eighty ninety percent of golfers don't know how fast they swing a seven iron so how on Earth would they know what setting to put it on I'd probably put mine on right around 100 as I was practicing with that it's not like it was really helping me with anything The Click was cool I could tell when I clicked right at impact or slightly after impact in rehearsals same thing I have anything this would benefit a better player by lowering the speed and making a slower rehearsal swing a slower practice swing a slower swing hitting the golf ball to make sure you aren't throwing it a little too soon or a little too late in terms of the aesthetic the look I mean they say this is designed by one of the greatest Club designers of all time who made golf clubs for so many of the world's number ones and best it it just looks like a Walmart golf club I'm sorry it just doesn't look it looks almost identical to the lag shot the club head looks almost identical to the lag shot I will say the molded grip is an incredible incredible idea I don't understand why every golf training aid doesn't come with a molded grip and graining the right way to hold a golf club with every swing you make obviously it's just a no-brainer every golf training age should have one of these this one is kind of cool too because you can adjust it between neutral strong and strong plus I fight getting a little weak so having this if I were to be practicing with this would just be doubly beneficial because it's giving me feedback on how I should be gripping the golf club in a more strong position to kind of combat when I get a little weak straight stick you're all over the internet right now I think this would benefit a higher handicap player by giving them some feedback on how to release the golf club and how they want impact to be but beyond that you're never going to see a tour player use this I don't think you're ever going to see a top amateur use this so ah it's linked below if you want to test it out for yourself if you don't believe me but take with that [Music] I've had this for a few years I like it but I still don't really know what it does and I don't really see a lot of benefit from it nine times out of ten I hit it poorly but even if I do hit it well I don't really know what I'm doing to hit it well it's claimed to help you get a tremendous lag and load the golf club yeah it definitely helps with your Rhythm and your sequencing I will give it that it's Rhythm it's Tempo it's balance it's a lot of good things kind of matching up the arms with the body the lag shot does a lot of good things and there's so many options that is an amazing thing there's a Junior's one so there's extra long ones for long drivers there's women's one there's wedges there's drivers there's seven irons this product is amazing but you got to spend a lot of time with it to fully understand and reap the benefits and it also needs to match up with what your kind of faults are this isn't really anything that would benefit my fault so for me the lag shot I never experience it's great benefit from it but I gave it to my father-in-law when we were having a little lesson one day he made about five Swings with it figured out how to hit it solid he he stopped shaking it he was fighting the shanks did this so the leg shot can help so many players aesthetically it's nice it's got some weight the flimsy the flimsy shaft is is definitely strange but then when you swing your regular Club afterwards it's almost like the old momentous where it's the weighted thing gets you kind of moving better the grip I would love a molded grip on it the grip that comes with it it's a bit mad they could have um or you could put your own grip on that's my only critique about kind of the overall build make of this thing I like it it just doesn't benefit me I watch good players use this so I'm not saying like the straight stick like this just wouldn't benefit a good golfer I watch really good players warm up with this and lean on this and trust this just for me and my motion and my flaws the like shot just look all of my strikes are just out on the toe on this thing no matter what I do I just hit this thing dinky off the toe and uh it's just it's just not for me but it's for a lot of players hopefully I pronounced that right played on the PJ tour played on the web.com tour I believe he won on the web.com a couple times he's an amazing coach now I first hit one of these I think in 2015 from a tour player who was working with Gabe who had this this thing you see it on tour gave students use it other tour players have been using this and continue to use it this is an incredible training aid for really good players all the way up to novices because even a novice you can teach them some good things with this club it feels like a regular Golf Club it looks like a regular solid kind of cavity backish Club at a dress it doesn't look budget I've regripped it but it came with a good grip and what this is is essentially there's ball bearings in the shaft and there's two two modes or two speeds you get it to the top wait for the ball bearings to drop fire or if you want to get it a little closer to like real swings the minute you start to hear the ball bearings move you fire this has been incredibly beneficial for many many years of practice this lives in my golf bag it's a warm-up Club it's a check-in Club it's so good for me because I struggle with loading it rushing transition and this is a sequencing wizard it gets you loading the golf club properly it gets you ready to fire and transition and it gets you using your body properly through transition and that's what I would fight I would rush transition the arms get out of sequence my sequencing gets wonky this thing when I was playing my best golf in the last seven years was was definitely part of every warm-up and every practice session it would give me instant feedback of what I needed to do to load the club properly let the lower body fire and get a lot of speed in the process because you can really crank this and try to get those ball bearings moving as fast as you possibly can in sequence and Rhythm this is my favorite of these three I would say this is the best of these three I would highly recommend this one over the other two but all three I think could benefit varying types of golfers but the Gabe golf swing trainer is an absolute five-star can't recommend this training aid enough I hope you enjoyed this little dive into these three golf clubs hopefully there's something in here for you because at the end of the day if you practice with purpose if you practice with efficiency you will get better at this game you will enjoy it more so I can't recommend getting the proper training AIDS enough