After college I became very interested in the famous PGA instructor, Ernest Jones, and his “swing the clubhead method”. It was clearly a universal principle that all other instructors valued, but didn’t necessarily emphasize.
However, if you notice, the key intangible that separates bad golf from good golf, and ok golf from great golf is that of rhythm/tempo/timing. Just listen to a PGA Tour winner talk about why they played well that week,
“I don’t know…my rhythm was just on…my tempo was there….etc.”
And why do even bad golfers hit the occasional great shot or putt?
Their mechanics didn’t suddenly change. They happened to time their swing correctly. If only they could do it consistently!
Ernest Jones always used a simple device with his students to help them garner the sensation of proper rhythm and timing in a golf swing: a penknife on a handkerchief, i.e., a weigh on a string. And, indeed, he advocated for students to use any weight-on-a-string type of device to hone this same skill; the skill of creating a true swinging motion, which is the only type of motion that results in a consistent, powerful, accurate, and repeating arc.
However, I noticed that as effective a conceptual device as a weight-on-a-string was, you couldn’t practice striking golf balls with it in any consistent manner - even for a putt. There was no device, no training aid on the market, that offered the feel and feedback of a weight-on-a-string in the procedure of striking an actual golf ball. Neither product nor patent existed for such a concept.
So we set out to make one...
The result is the String Theory Putter training aid–a weight on a string with which you can practice stroking actual putts. Guaranteed to give you perfect feedback developing a true swinging motion.
