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

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

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

Upon receiving the training club I noticed how heavy it truly was. I ordered the heaviest one I could (3.5 pounds) thinking i’m quite a strong player with a need for some extra weight…..i’m glad I did but it was very heavy and my wrists and forearms knew about it the first few swings… If your not the strongest player int he world then i’d say get a slightly lighter one.

Does it improve your swing?? Well in theory it is meant to smooth out your swing, get you back on plane and physically cause you to align your hands and therefore the clubface correctly on the downswing….causing muscle memory to kick in and allowing you to take this into your normal swing. In practice??? Well, I was astounded at the results. Maybe its just that i’m smoother in my take-away and down swing now, maybe it that i’m using a lighter club on the course and feel like i’m swinging a feather or maybe its all just psychological, but I can see a huge improvement in my driving on the course. I am now out-driving all the guys I play with using a 3 wood while they are taking drivers…ok so as I said i’m a strong player and distance has never been a problem but the other thing is i’m straight as an arrow and right down the line where i’m aiming, which gives you a lot of confidence to hit those trickier tee-shots and fairway lies.

I would highly recommend this training club to anyone interested in strengthening their swing and straightening out their shots. The trick is to not get carried away with power and let the swing trainer mold your swing and then take smooth strokes on the course … you will clearly see a difference!
Rating: 5 / 5