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Improve your golf game without buying the latest equipment


Seeing is believing. People learn in different ways. Visually is clearly one style. Unfortunately, in golf its impossible to see yourself swing. Video cameras have been enlisted as an extra pair of eyes for teachers and students to use but for the average player there are many days when no two swings seem alike... Experience is another tried and true way. Analysis are clearly the most popular method many in the golf industry revert to. However it can lead to the infamous paralysis by analysis. Auditory is another learning tool that frankly has been a popular if not proven method in the academic world. 

Perhaps that is why a Yale professor with a Ph.D. behind his name came up with a system/method to help golfers improve by exploring sound on a real time basis while swinging a club. Dr. Robert Grober, a Yale University physicist, created a swing aid that can be used by any level of golfers. Many players focus on various data points throughout heir swing: shoulders; hips; legs; head; spine angle and of course hands to name just a few. If anyone of these items break down during the time it takes to swing a club the results instantly appear through the ball flight.  

Grober has developed a system that turns a swing into sound. It isn’t constant but grows louder when the swing moves fasters. The system allows teachers and players to focus on tempo and rhythm to work in concert with the moving parts of a swing to try and find some harmony for best results. 

Sonic Golf's System-1, the commercial entity behind the product offers an alternative way to approach the age old dilemma of getting better. The application is perhaps best for teachers as they can approach students with a different method towards improving their swing. Just as individuals learn in different ways and at different rates, the system builds sound into real time while hitting a ball. Players and teachers will understand immediately, for example, when and where in their swings is the point when the greatest amount of speed is generated. It may be when the club is taken away from the ball at address or at the top of their swing. Maybe its just prior to contact or after the ball has left the club. There is a high probability that inconsistent consistencies are present in many recreational players swing tempos and it will be immediately identified through the properties of sound. 

Sonic Golf's System-1 has been validated by two players at the end of the spectrum. There doesn’t appear to be anything that is common between Vijay Singh and Charles Barkey’s golf swings. However, both men have used the system. Singh started using the Sonic Golf System-1 training aid last June and he went on to win The World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, The Barclays and the Deutsche Bank Championship en route to the season ending FedExCup bonus check of $10 million.

Sonic Golf System-1 was featured on the Golf Channel program The Haney Project: Charles Barkley.  Hank Haney, best known as Tiger Wood's coach, was enlisted with the tasked of working on correcting Charles Barkley's infamous golf swing.  In the second episode of the reality series, Haney choose Sonic Golf System-1 to help Sir Charles with the tempo and rhythm of his swing which Haney described as "pretty much devoid of any rhythm."  "It made a great impact. He said he hadn't hit shots like that in at least 10 years",  said Haney. "It was fun to see the smile on his face." Barkley simply stated "Unbelievable," about the system and its impact on his swing.

For those looking for the path less travelled in working on improving their game or an alternative to finding a solution, Sonic Golf’s System-1 helps develop a fluid and consistent swing motion. For more information visit http://www.sonicgolf.com/

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Phoenix Golf News Examiner

Terry has covered the golf industry for the past 15 years from equipment to travel, and has interviewed architects, Tour players, club company CEOs...

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