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- Personal training from David Leadbetter
- Improve your game, skill and judgement
- Learn how to position, move, swing and change techniques
- Monitors your personal progress
- Specifin drills tailored to your swing needs.
Product Description
David Leadbetter- Wii Personal Golf Trainer… Instant Swing Feedback! In a world-first, and featuring advice and personalized feedback from the worlds #1 golf instructor, David Leadbetter, Wii Personal Golf Trainer uses the Wii Balance Board and the Wii MotionPlus Controller (not included) to analyze your full golf swing in 3D space. Following Leadbetters best-selling7 Steps to a Better Golf Swing principles,Wii Personal Golf Trainer offers instructional videos and… More >>
November 6, 2010 at 5:28 am
I bought this a few months ago, i had hit a plateau in my golf and i can’t afford to have professional golf coaches standing by me every weekend. However this software is amazing, it identifed by horrible hook action first time and since then i have been consistently working on that aspect using David Leadbetters corrective drills. It records your swings, so you can monitor the improvements over time.
I now have far far better direction and with my stance also improved, i get about 20% more yardage as well. I have a grudge match with the boss next month……revenge will be sweet, he thinks i am not playing golf because i am working the weekends, but 4/5 nights a week, the worlds No. Golf Trainer is coaching me…heehee superb!!!, buy this you won’t regret it.
Oh and i got mine from [...] for the same price as here, because they have demos of it in action and there is an email contact helpline direct to the actual game developers. They answered my questions the same day.
Rating: 5 / 5
November 6, 2010 at 7:31 am
This was a birthday gift from my family. At first I thought, huh, another Wii game. It’s not a game at all. While it comes with 18 holes to play, this is really a great instructional application. Well done is what first comes to mind, David Leadbetter really helped put together a fun way to practice and improve at home. I would like to see a heavier putter option, but all in all it’s been great and I do recommend.
Rating: 4 / 5
November 6, 2010 at 9:01 am
Echoing the first review, the program is very time consuming. Almost every other swing forces you to recalibrate the controller or balance board. Which means stopping, setting everything down and standing still for 30 seconds. It also takes 3-4 minutes to re-load each 60 second tutorial. Very tough to stay interested.
The game seems quickly put together, the stock videos don’t translate well to the Wii. Leadbetter is on a course giving non-wii specific guidance. The game does it’s best to pick up the motions he wants but has a lot of trouble. I’m young, flexible and a fairly good golfer. In many of the drills I had to swing/pose very awkwardly to get the Wii to pick up the movement it told me to take. It’s not precise.
The driving range is nice and helpful in picking up what is happening in your swing. The tutorials are very, very lacking in helping you fix the flaws.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 6, 2010 at 9:57 am
This game/trainer is a Jekyll and Hyde type of a product. As a swing trainer it is unparalleled, there is nothing else like it. Feed back with the Wii remote is very accurate and the work I’ve done on my swing using this feedback has helped my actual golf game. I highly recommend this trainer if you want to improve your real golf swing!!
The problem with the game is that as a game there is actually no fun involved in the “Play a round” portion of this software. The horrible graphics are not the problem. The design of the golf course is the real issue. First example would be the first hole. I have hit everything from driver to 8 iron off the tee and NEVER hit the fairway. In real life I am a 4 handicap. I also make what would be pretty good swings in real life and end up hitting an 8 iron 95 yards on this “simulator”. My real 8 iron is my 140 yard club. So the “Game” is not accurate and no fun, but the “trainer” I feel has real merit and the skills it helps you to develop do translate to the real world.
Rating: 3 / 5
November 6, 2010 at 10:51 am
I had this for a few months, it is not the same or even close to a leasson with your local pro, or even less with Mr. Leadbetter but it’s a nice tool to train golf at home at the end of the day that can make a difference. It provides useful information to analyze your swing and it seems fairly accurate. It is a good start and I am looking forward to version 2.0.
PROS: Drills useful to cure big flaws such a slice. Tremendous feedback many aspects and elements of YOUR ACTUAL full swing, including visual feedback. You can use this feedback to train at home with the program and improve your golf game in the virtual driving range or using the drills presented by Mr. Leadbetter. For the cost of a few leassons you can have this at home.
CONS: Not their fault but you will miss the club weight and ball positioning. The Wii platform is slow and a program that uses so much resources becomes very slow as a result. It will be much better without the need to re-calibration of the board every other shot.
What can be improved?:
- Driving range feature shall allow you to use every club and shot (currently can only use Driver).
- It should be easier to repeat drills without having to go through menus and recalibration again. Drills should be at least 10 repetitions not just three.
- There is a very serious flaw with this program. The balance board needs recalibration way too often. Really frustrating. For instance every single shot in the golf course requires re-calibration of the balance board, a painful process that takes time and makes you lose focus and concentration.
- There is need of recalibration also if you want to restart a drill, and you probably would like to restart because each drill only offers three repetitions.
- The driving range is the only place where you can repeat shots without re-calibration of the board, but the only club you can use is the Driver.
- The golf course feature allows you to use every club but requires re-calibration of the board every shot. So you will be feed up very quickly with this arduous process. Graphics are not good and the use of putter is awkward. I would have removed the golf course and added more features to the range.
- The drills are presented in video by Mr. Leadbetter. He is in a golf course with a real club on his hands and never refers to the wii remote. The drill presentation appears always before a drill, even after you have watched it and done the drill many times.
- Mr. Leadbetter does not take into consideration that you have a wii remote on your hand and not a club. Especially frustrating when he stresses how important is to feel the weight of the club head. In other words the drill video presentations seem copied and pasted from a Leadbetter DVD #you can buy his DVD’s online for $20#
- Expensive tool $99.99 for the program, $99 for the Wii fit and $199 for the WII (WII BOARD AND REMOTE NOT INCLUDED). I do not play videogames and had to buy the entire set.
- Only right hand players.
- It does not measure partial swings
- No drills for short game or sand game.
- In many drills balance is part of the drill but it will be great to include drills only to improve balance.
- Other reviews complaint that feedback appears after every shoot in the course or driving range. I like that feedback but an option to turn off automatic feedback on the range or course could have been easely added.
- You cannot use your Mii. The default player is bold, not that I care but is weird.
– Sometimes the wii remote does not respond properly and you end with a very odd position to complete the drill, or cannot just complete it.
EDIT:
three months later, I have used it around 25 times for 20-30 mins, my scores in the real course have gone down 2-4 strokes per round. Pretty much no slice anymore. It is however very hard to be motivated and keep up with the program. And sometimes the wii remote does not read properly on the WII. One star goes.
Rating: 3 / 5