22 Golf Training Aids to Lower Your Scores in 2024

No matter what area of your golf game you want to improve, there's a golf training designed to help you. You can spend just a few dollars to train a sound putting stroke, or spend hundreds to get a shock-like sensation delivered to your wrist the moment your swing breaks down. 

So, how do you know which training aids are gimmicks, and which are game-changers for your golf game? We're here to help. I spent a good chunk of time at the 2024 PGA Show, and a good amount of the last several years, testing, trying, and experimenting with all sorts of golf training aids, and I hand-selected these 22 training aids that I recommend to any golfer looking to improve.

Whether you're lookng to gain more club head speed and distance, built a more fundamentally sound golf swing, learn a better way to read greens, or anything in between, checking out this list of the best training aids of 2024 is your first step to better scores.

How does two less clubs into every green sound?

SuperSpeed is the original swing speed trainer, and in my estimation, is your easiest and most direct path to gaining significant distance. The set of three weighted speed training sticks includes access to over two years worth of speed training protocols.

The Level 1 Overspeed Training protocol is an easy way to gain about 20 yards of distance – I’ve personally done it and can confirm those results. And when I say it’s easy, it takes about 10-15 minutes per session, three times per week with at least one day of rest in between. I did mine during my lunch break a few days a week and saw those 20-yard gains.

I visited with the folks at SuperSpeed at the 2024 PGA Show. The best news that came from that conversation, and I’m not even sure if I’m supposed to mention this yet but here goes, is that SuperSpeed is releasing an app this year that will optimize your training and help you continually build on your distance gains even after you’ve snatched those first 20 yards.

Warning: the Devil Ball from PuttOUT may cause frustration. But if you play golf, you know how to handle frustration.

I love the Devil Ball because it gives you immediate feedback, and rather than trying to teach you technical positions, it simply forces you to return the putter square through impact. That’s really the only moment that matters. 

The Devil Ball is flat on one side, and it will only roll straight when you strike it with a square face. Leave the face open or closed, and the ball will shoot dramatically to the right or left.

The good news is, once you learn how to putt the Devil Ball straight, your putting stroke is sound. It’s as simple as that.

Are you tired of changing your swing, but not actually improving it? While deWiz is a bit of an investment, it’s also highly capable of delivering results that stick.

Yes, deWiz is much more than a shock collar for your golf swing, it is partly a shock collar for your golf swing. I’ll elaborate.

When you make a swing wearing the deWiz – you wear it like a watch but it doesn’t tell time – it pairs with the app where it displays an animation of your swing and evaluates 14 different metrics. It measures things like hand speed, swing plane, and swing length. You can then set benchmarks within each metric, with the help of deWiz’s AI. If at any point during your swing, you don’t meet those benchmarks, you take the club too far over the top on the downswing, for example, you can set deWiz to deliver a mild (or medium) sensation to your wrist in real-time. This helps you identify the precise moment your swing goes off the rails, and improve it. 

Of course, you don’t have to use the shock collar (my words, not theirs) feature to benefit from deWiz. You can take advantage of the app and deWiz’s AI to improve without the shock.

I used deWiz at the 2024 PGA Show and I must say, seeing an animation of your swing, with a the breakdown of the good and the bad, was really exciting. I think it would be fun to train with deWiz to groove a whole new, and much more solid, golf swing.

SuperSpeed might be the OG swing speed trainer, but the Stack System is king of the space today. Not only does the Stack do speed training better than anyone else, but they also offer Stack Putting, which is a game-changer on the greens.

The Stack is a weighted overspeed training club with adjustable weights. The accompanying app basically tells you everything to do. It gives you precise instructions for every training session, including when to do your session, and how much to rest between sets, and every detail in between. The Stack uses AI and all the data from every Stack user, to deliver the most optimal training program to you at all times.

I spent about 25 minutes with Sasho Mackenzie, who created the Stack System, at the 2024 PGA Show, getting a first-hand demo of how it all works. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that I’m convinced the Stack System is easily the best speed training system available today. You’ll get big gains quickly, and continue to make progress with your speed and distance even after you’ve captured the low-hanging fruit.

Back to the putting aspect. This part of the app works similarly to the speed training element, in that it prescribes specific putts, tracks your results, and optimizes each session to get you working on the putts that make the biggest difference on your score. You don’t even need to be a speed training user to take advantage of Stack Putting, either.

I got a mini-lesson from Martin Chuck with the Impact Sling at the 2024 PGA Show, and it felt like a game-changer. In just a few short minutes using the Impact Sling, I experienced the feel of the proper way to load the club at the top, and a fundamentally sound takeaway.

On top of that, the Impact Sling, which builds on the old swinging-a-rope drill with a gripped handle and resistance bands, gives you a variety of strength and flexibility workouts on top of the drills prescribed to improve your golf swing. I consider that a win-win.

I told you there was a version of a weight shift board coming up and this list, and here it is.

As I alluded to, many brands make a version of this Power Shift Board, but I like this one the best because it gives audible feedback during your swing to let you know when your weight has shifted to the front. The board makes a satisfying click sound when you get your weight to the front.

When I first tried this at the PGA Show, I was surprised (although I shouldn’t have been) at how late in my swing my weight was getting to my lead leg. My miss on full swings is fat, and this is exactly why. After re-calibrating for a couple of reps, I found the proper timing for my weight shift, a move that already feels like it will create much better ball-striking.

Perfect Hands is the perfect training aid. There’s a velcro belt, some clips, a glove, and a resistance band. On top of that, it promises the moon. Fix a slice, cure a hook, add more power. Longer, straighter shots.

The thing is, it works. In fact, Perfect Hands guarantees it, promising a minimum of 8-10 miles per hour of increased club head speed, plus better on-plane efficiency in 4-6 weeks when you follow the recommended training, which takes about five minutes a day. The rough conversion says that each mile per hour of club head speeds equates to the potential of three yards of distance, which means you can expect to gain 20-something yards in about a month of using Perfect Hands.

I actually put Perfect Hands Golf to the test, and I gained 23 yards off the tee in two months of sticking to the routine as best as I could, but not perfectly.

Once you get hooked into the Perfect Hands properly, the resistance bands guide your hands to the proper swing plane with a more connected swing. Taking advantage of those resistance bands, it comes with four “acceleration” bands, Perfect Hands is a unique form of overspeed training, which helps you gain speed and distance. 

If you want to go all-in on your distance gains, you can opt for Perfect Hands’ accelerated training program, or do the free recommended program.

Everybody learns the proper golf grip, and sooner or later, everybody forgets it. Seriously. I asked my friend, a PGA pro who gives golf lessons for a living, and he estimated that about 90% of his students show up to lessons with their grip out of whack.

So even if you don’t think you need this True Grip Training Glove from Me and My Golf, it’s probably only a matter of time before it will help your game. 

Using the proper grip is important because your grip influences your club face, which controls the direction of your shots. With very specific markings on the glove that guide you to the perfect grip, you’ll not only have a consistent grip, but a fundamentally sound one. And if you’re wondering, yes, it conforms to the Rules of Golf and you can use it during play.

If you want one of the most advanced training tools in golf, check out SportsBox AI. This AI swing trainer is really cool.

Film your swing using SportsBox and the app creates a 3D animation that not only includes specific measurements of how your body moves, but also feedback on whether those measurements are within your prescribed range. It’s a great tool for improving your swing, and checking in to make sure those improvements stick.

You can use SportsBox AI on your own, or if you’re working with a coach, you can use it with your coach to take your instruction to the next level.

The SKLZ Golf Grip Trainer is a quick and easy tool for perfecting your grip with any club in the bag. It attaches to the grip of your club and essentially makes it impossible to put a poor grip on the club. 

It’s small enough to conveniently fit in your golf bag, and easy enough to get on and off your club that you can give your grip a quick check-up before you practice or play. On top of that, its affordable enough that if you play for a couple bucks with your golf buddies, it will pay for itself pretty quickly. The only downside is that it’s only for right-handed players.

The Pressure Putt Trainer from PuttOUT is becoming a bit of a legend in the putting training aid space, with PuttOUT announcing over 500,000 units sold. 

The trainer is essentially a target that you can put on any practice putting green, indoors or out. There is, of course, a standard 4.5-inch target, but beyond that there’s a pressure putt target. That secondary target is much smaller and it’s up a small ramp. To hit that target, you must make the putt dead-center and with perfect speed. By reducing the size of your target and narrowing your focus, you significantly increase your chances of putts dropping on the much larger, standard-sized holes out on the course.