The Best Golf Training Aid Only Costs $35

The Lightstick is Coach Ed’s favorite training aid that he’s been using for decades. He has taught thousands of private students how to build this golf training aid, and now he’s sharing it with all of you on YouTube!

Materials needed to build the lightstick:
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Mini Maglight Flashlights:
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PVC Schedule 40 3/4″ Pipe:
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Electrical Tape:
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* The pipes and tape are much cheaper at a hardware store, but here are Amazon links in case you can’t get to a store.

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I don’t care if you’re a brand new player or a very experienced player this is the best training aid in golf you can make it yourself for under $35 and it will greatly improve your golf game it will show you immediately the mistakes you’re making I’ll show you

How to make one I’ll show you how to practice with it today I’m going to show you um how to make my favorite training aid I’ve been using it since 1995 um I was taught to play with this kind concept prior to to figuring this training aid out um and in my opinion

It’ll show you exactly what you need to practice with and learn how to make a correct golf swing what it is this is PVC pipe uh plumbing pipe 3/4 in schedule 40 plumbing pipe cut 30 in long um the reason it’s cut 30 in long is you

Can swing in an 8T ceiling and not hit the ceiling in so um if you make it longer than that longer like a golf club it’ll feel more like a golf club but if you only have 8ft ceilings at home to practice in you won’t have enough room

So 30 in long is perfect you also need two mini mag flashlights and these are the only fls that I found that work the best uh they’re getting harder and harder to find I order them from mag light directly um but they turn on and

Off at the top so there’s not a switch so when you put this flashlight inside the PVC pipe you don’t need to have a switch to turn it on you can turn it on with the turning the outside of the flashlight so all I do is take this 30in

Piece of PVC pipe two mini mag flashlights and some electricians tape uh this one’s vinyl that I have here today they also make make rubber electricians tape um that tends to work a little better it’s thicker and you don’t need as much and I just take this

Tape and I just wrap a little bit here in the middle and um you just kind of got to experiment with um how thick it has to be to fit in there snug enough to hold in that’s about perfect it’ll snug that in pretty good one more little wrap will

Work perfect for this one as I’ll show you in the demonstration here later it’s pretty important that they fit in here snug or you’ll swing them through your television or your wall don’t ask me how I know that so fits in here snug they’ll turn on both ends and this my

Friends is the best training aid in golf you can make it for about $30 and use it at home I have thousands of people people that have that use this on a regular basis you can only make two mistakes in golf you either make a club path mistake or a club face

Mistake and club path is determined by the angle that the shaft swings on during your golf swing and what this does is it shows you exactly how to swing a golf club correctly if the face is square at a dress and you keep the club on the correct path or the correct

Plane you’ll also keep the club face Square automatically so I think learning to swing on the correct shaft angle is the most important thing for most players this will teach you this it’ll also teach you how to hinge your hands correctly and you’ll see that by swinging the club correctly it’ll also

Make your body move the way it’s supposed to move automatically and we’ll demonstrate that a little later I can focus the beam down pretty tight I can turn this one on Focus the beam down tight I need some type of Target line on the floor a lot of my students if they

Do this in the basement will take masking tape simply and put it on the floor you can also do it outside in your driveway on the expansion crack all you need is a straight line it’s your target line the ball happens to be on it as well and so if I set

Up with a nine iron you can see that this shaft is supposed to represent the shaft of my golf club this pipe and this light and so you’ll also find that you can take a nine iron or a pitching wedge could set up the correct distance away

Put a little piece of tape on the floor and say that’s where my nine iron is I can do the same thing with my driver I can set up put a piece of tape on the floor and now I’m practicing my driver swing one of the things that you’ll find by using this

Light the definition of Swing plane with the shaft is that whichever end of your shaft is closest to the Target line it should point at the Target line during your swing so here I have a shaft of a golf club without a head if I’m on the

Correct plane my shaft should point at the Target line as I go back this ends closer so it points here as my hands hinge on my back swing that’s also going to point at the Target line on my down swing this ends closer it’s going to

Point at the Target line past the ball and then as this end gets closer it’s also going to point at the line and then on my finish that points at the line as well nineiron swing that’s a very upright swing driver I’m much farther from the ball but the principal still the same

My butt of the club my shaft is pointing at the Target line the whole time this will teach you that the most common mistake I see um with probably 90% of my students is that they’ll be like this on the back swing where they have too flat

A back swing and the light will Point way out here across the line and I’m really not exaggerating this is probably the most common mistake I see the only way from here that they can get back to the ball is to go that way and that’s

What they do but it’s the back swing mistake that causes the downswing mistake that everybody sees by simply learning to swing this flashlight and have it point at the Target line all the way through as your swing it’ll really help you now you can cheat with this as

Well if I just stay still with my body and I don’t move I can still make this swing and pretty much swing on the line without moving but that would not be correct I also like to keep the club in front of a person so at a dress you’ll

Notice that this end will point of my belt buckle and then as I take it back even halfway back here I should still have this part of the golf club and this light pointing at my belt buckle from here to there that should be in front of me in those

Positions and so as I set up here is I would take this back to this position here my checkpoint here is is this still pointed at my belt buckle from here then my hands are going to hinge the club up correctly I’m going to be

Down a lot of people get hung up on lag but see if this shaft points at the Target line past the ball I’m going to create lag lag is created by swinging the shaft of the club on the correct plane and so that’s what this flashlight

Will teach you and so it’s by far the best thing I found to learn how to make a correct golf swing whichever end of the shaft is closest to the Target line should point at the Target line so once again there we go there we go is my

Hands hinge at the line down the line through here to even on the finish I’m swinging in a complete circle all the way around and I promise you it’ll improve your game if you’ll make you one of these um I’d love any feedback from

Any of you uh after you get to use it um it’ll help you keep the club face Square um and it will greatly greatly improve your swing and you’ll be able to get immediate feedback whether you’re doing it right or wrong and that’s what I like

About it the most what I find with people whichever end of the lights closest to the Target line should point at it and if we swing the club correctly Patrick what you’re going to find is your body’s going to move exactly how it’s supposed to move that most people

Try to make it do and you don’t have to make it do anything if you swing the club correctly your body will respond correctly and here’s what I mean so if I have you in this position and then I hinge your hands correctly um where’s your

Weight back on my right side it is but did you shift it I didn’t feel like I shifted it but it kind of did automatically it did that’s my point and so as so weight transfer occurs by having the club move through the correct positions Mak sense not but not that

We’re moving it right okay so here I have you in this correct position at this point in the back swing we we’ve got our wrist fully hinged already and that’s pointing at our Target line probably four or 5T behind the ball yep and your weights all on your back foot

How much have your hips turned about 45 degrees Yeah it’s a pretty full hip turn for me that’s right Y and your shoulders yep I’m 90 yeah already do you see that and as I would continue to follow the target line back I’m going to be at 90

You see that you got to do more yoga for that one that’s right now on the way down if this points at the Target line through the ball where’s your weight it’s starting to become more centered again yes and even left I would say would you agree but did you shift it

It didn’t feel like I shifted it not cons Club did it does that make sense because it’s on the correct angle correct plane and it’s pointing out in front we still have a 90° angle from here with the shaft and our left arm do you see that that’s perfect then as our

Hands would unhinge this would Point down the target line here would point the target line here and if I’m over here where’s my weight no it’s fully forward yeah fully forward you didn’t have a choice though right n yeah no and so if you’re thinking about weight

Transfer if you’re thinking of hip turn and shoulder turn there’s not many people that can do that consciously and perform a golf swing yeah but if you understand that by swinging this light stick that if the club’s in the correct position my body is going to assume correct position it’s

A consequence of swinging on the right plane yeah makes things a lot simpler so I I like my students to think about the golf club and to use it correctly and our body will respond accordingly makes sense okay awesome awesome good you folks at home if you’re

Watching you could draw a line on his shaft like the plane shafts and you’ll see he’s almost perfect on his way back and he’s way through just because of this light awesome good swinging make sense yeah one of the areas I run into trouble is on the follow through I lack some

Flexibility to get turn turned over and I I notice that with the light stick because I if for me to keep it still on plane I really start to feel stretching so that’s another thing for me to work on at home is just getting more out absolutely and one of the things you

Taught me a while ago is the mistake of having a making sure you have a good takeaway instead of cheating and just moving just your body or just your just your hands instead of correct and the in front of you yes that’s been that was a big so then I

Like that see so with this flashlight if you start over see it’s pointing at your belt buckle now right so if you move a foot back with the light it still should be pointing at your belt buckle yeah now your hands are going to start to hinge

Up and so it points at the Target line so which what point do you want it to start switching to a hinge probably when your hands get right here by your back hip okay so like right around right in here yeah and that that’s when that’s

Going to start going because by the time by the time you’ve hinged back about four or five feet behind the ball you should be fully hinged already there and then the other thing is here do you want to what like how much are you thinking about your wrist angles as

Your I don’t think you need to think about it at all if you’re pointing at the line you’re doing it correctly for you based on how you’re holding the club okay because as you that’s a pretty strong grip so if I was to do this then

Then you need to be that’s right you see the difference yes cool one thing I’ll say too is like um whenever you give golf lessons for a living you work with all level of players and so um you know I used to get a lot of beginner women players you know

In their 50s or husband’s retiring they figure they better learn how to play golf to to ever see him cuz he’s going to be playing golf every day now that he’s retired um and it used to take me they haven’t done anything athletically for years and it used to take me two or

Three lessons to get them to hit the ball Airborne once you know um and so whenever I hear that story and they’ve never played before this is the first thing that I do is give him this flashlight because if I have it’s one of the interesting

Things if I have a bad grip like if if if you watch somebody come to you and they’re holding a golf club like this it’s obviously wrong but see the reason it’s wrong is that it’s impossible with that grip for me to get that light on

The line and so even a brand new player that I don’t even tell them how to hold the club if they’re holding it wrong they can’t get it on the line correctly and So eventually for them to get it on the line they actually have to move

Their hands into a better position and it almost teaches them how to hold the club without even thinking about is that amazing I find that amazing and that same beginner player that it might take me two or three lessons back in the old days when you talked about grip stance

Posture and all that stuff at the beginning now I just tell them you know set up here it’s got a point here and it’s got a point over here and once they can do that after 15 or 20 minutes I just go to the driving range with them

Put a ball on the tee and say swing like that and they almost hit it up in the air the first time so and what took me 3 hours before takes me about 15 minutes with one of these somebody that’s new so any of you folks at home that are

Watching if you’ve got you know 8y olds 10 year- old 12 year old kids that you’re trying to teach how to play golf make one of these it’s 30 in long for an adult if you had an 8-year-old you might only make it 20 in

Long for them but this would be the best way to teach them how to play they’ll use their hands correctly from the very beginning and it’s a pretty cool way to do yeah to to learn to swing a golf club correctly absolutely well you’ve talked before a little bit about you like the

Flashlights more than just the lasers too cuz it’s a little bit more broad yeah it’s a little more forgiving and you can see it there’s some people that have made some training AIDs that screw into the butt end of the club that are laser pointers when you start going

Pretty fast it’s pretty hard to to watch that laser pointer so I I actually like this flashlight stick better yeah um and I like working if you’re trying to improve your golf swing Es at any level a lot of times with no ball no Club um it’s a lot more productive than just

Beating balls at the driving range and and uh I tell people you know if they’re getting ready to go play golf they got a 1:00 tea time at 11:00 before they leave the house I tell them to swing their flashlight for just a couple minutes to

Get the feeling Y and then if they go play golf and they have a lousy round I say well man come back inside and just swing the way you were swinging out outside you’ll usually find that they’re over here somewhere and they’ll say oh

Man I see what I was doing wrong so but it’ll really teach you and like I said I you know 95% of the people that I’ve had use this um the lights over the line on the way back that they’re too flat and then everybody knows their swings over

The top but once you’re too flat going back you’ve got to get the light back to the ball and so the only way to do that is to go that direction so I mean so you’re stuck so you have to fix your back swing if you want to um if you want

To fix your downswing yep and so uh the other thing that I would tell you for more advanced players that’s interesting with this is that I would say rarely anymore do you see a tour player that’s ever too flat on the way back but you’ll

See many of them that are steep and so Jim furick would probably almost point at his toes here on the way back back in his younger days especially um but many other players are that way too Cameron Young’s very steep Matthew wolf would be a very steep swing um on the back swing

So being steep is not an issue because what these players do is that they’re steep going back but then this club reroutes on the way down and they get on this perfect plane on this way down through here and hit it what I found is I think a player that

Is steep and then shallow probably is about 10% more powerful 10% more Club head speed interesting than the guys that are on the same plane back and the same plane through with the shaft angle however the guys that are on the same plane back in through are typically the straightest

Hitters makes sense more consistent tas’s almost perfect at it he’s he’s probably the poster child for Swinging with this flashlight stick yeah Fred Funk was too and so you know those those guys that are very straight um their shaft is very much on the target line so

Makes sense you learn to swing and point your shaft at the Target line you’ll be a better player and the other thing with thisam teaches you too is that the you need to learn that the swing’s not the same here I am with sand wedge that’s

Going to be a lot steeper angle here here I’d be with driver the principal’s still the same but my light’s going to point at the Target line the clubs aren’t made the same the shaft angle is not the same tell you one quick story Joe hallet’s A friend of mine he works

With Stacy Lewis she won the ladies British Open a few years ago and while they were over in Scotland one morning I get a call early in the morning I’m asleep it’s Joe howlet he saw me give a demonstration at a PGA seminar with this flashlight and there

In Scotland he’s trying to find a hardware store where he can make one to show it to Stacy and show her something with her golf swing so he asked me how to make it again um they were at St Andrews and um she went on to win the British Open that

Year it’s so pretty cool so uh there’s been a lot of people that have used this