As I stated, the Divot Board is not a swing trainer; it’s a diagnostic tool. But I believe that most golfers can see improvement simply by paying attention to their patterns and making adjustments. Noticing Your Patterns Your swing will change the turf from green to white where a normal divot would appear. After you finish the swing, now it’s time to do some detective work and read your divot. Is it straight at your target? Right? Left? The sooner you can understand the basic ball flight laws, the sooner you can become a more consistent ball striker.

When looking down at the board, you will start to do anything you can with your golf game to try and get those perfect smooth marks of the club. Seeing a club path that goes outside in or inside out can be frustrating and will require you to make swing adjustments.Not to mention, it’s very user-friendly without any extensive setup on your end. How To Use Divot Board So my wife — serving as my photographer — and I trekked out to the short course to see how the product works, and how it could improve my short game. While amateur golfers might make some bad moves and end up hitting grass, then the golf ball. This results in all kinds of mishits. Ideally, you want it about 1-2 inches in front of the golf ball to ensure you hit down and through the shot. We show you how to replace your Divot Board pad to insure that the sequins point the right way and you have a stong adhesion between to board and the new pad. With the Divotboard, the inventor is conservatively estimating 2 000 swings of functional use – but he even has testers still going strong after 6000 hits.

Most golfers don’t have access to a grass driving range. Because of the high costs of maintenance, you see more golf clubs switching to artificial turf. As such, hitting off mats is the tradeoff we all make. In my 25 years playing golf, I would say 95%+ of my range sessions are on hitting mats, and I believe it’s had a somewhat negative influence on my ground interaction on the course. Another word that’s commonly used to describe the skill is called low-point control. To be clear, turf interaction and low point control are not the same but related. However, for a product that’s getting pummeled but a lump of metal moving at close to 100mph, the Divotboard is about as durable as it gets. Even if you can’t make it to the driving range or course as much as you’d like, this training aid will help you groove a great swing at home. Plus, it’s so small and portable that you can take it to the practice tee for a more efficient session. When you stand on grass, typically the ball (which weighs less) sits on top of the blades of grass, while your feet sink into the grass more (as you weigh more). Thus, having the ball slightly above foot level is better to replicate the on-course situation.You could raise the area where you are standing by an equivalent height (don’t ask me, I’m the least handy person in the world)