Fix the flaws that cost you strokes.
Structured swing breakdowns, drill-backed fixes, and training-aid guides — built around the specific ball-flight problems real amateurs actually face.
The wall drill has been a staple of junior golf instruction for decades because it solves the most common developmental fault in one imme...
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Vertical Backswing Drill — Shawn Koch's Portable Wall Drill for Junior Swing Plane Correction
The wall drill has been a staple of junior golf instruction for decades because it solves the most common developmental fault in one immediate, physical lesson: the club can't go flat and inside if...
Train Tracks Drill: David Potts Fixes Putting Path and Chip Takeaway in One Setup
The train tracks drill has been a short game staple for decades — simple to set up, universally applicable, and unambiguous in its feedback. Two parallel rod...
Stuck Behind the Ball? David Potts Uses Tommy Fleetwood's Own Drill to Fix It
The vast majority of instruction — and most of the pathpal drill series — addresses the most common amateur fault: a steep, over-the-top downswing that produ...
The Runway Drill — Grayson Zacker's pathpal Gate Fix for Pushes, Pulls & Path Problems
If you've ever walked off the course frustrated because your ball keeps starting left, then right, then nowhere near where you aimed — your swing path is the...
The "Over The Top" Elimination Barrier Drill — Eric Barlow's Exit Zone Fix for Pulls & Slices
Here's something most golfers don't realize about the over-the-top move: you can't feel it while it's happening. The downswing is too fast. But you can see i...
Stop the Backswing Sway: Eric Barlow's Trail Leg Barrier Drill with pathpal
If you slide through the ball, you've already been told to stop sliding. What you probably haven't been told is why you're sliding in the first place. For mo...
Sliding Is Killing Your Contact. Eric Barlow's 10-Second Lead Leg Fix
Of all the lower body faults in golf, the hip slide is the one most golfers don't know they have. It feels athletic. It feels like a powerful drive toward th...
Start Line & Rise Angle Putting Drill — David Potts' Dual-Feedback pathpal Setup
If your putts hop, skid, or start left of your aim — or all three — you're dealing with two separate but related problems: a descending stroke that punches t...
Shallow the Downswing for Junior Golfers: Shawn Koch's 40-Degree Chipping Drill
The fastest-growing demographic in golf is juniors and younger players. And the training aid market has largely ignored them. Most swing plane trainers are c...
Stop "Hitting" Your Putts — Cody Carter's Rail & Stroke Length Drill for Better Distance Control
The single most common distance control mistake in putting isn't deceleration — it's over-acceleration. Golfers who try to "push" the putter through the ball...
Linear Putting Stroke Drill — Jason Kuiper's pathpal Setup for Path, Start Line & Stroke Length
Most putting drills fix one variable. A gate drill trains start line. A tempo drill trains stroke length. A path drill trains the arc. Jason Kuiper built a s...
The Putting Arc Myth: Brad Pluth Fixes Straight-Back, Straight-Through with pathpal
"Straight back, straight through" is the most widely taught putting instruction in recreational golf. It's also geometrically impossible. The putter shaft si...
Match the flaw to the tool.
Every article in this blog links back to a specific swing problem. Here's which PathPal tool fixes which flaw — so you can go from reading to reps in one click.
- Over-the-top swing path (slice)
- Inside-out path (hook / snap)
- Setup & alignment errors
- Inconsistent ball-flight shape
- Fat & thin contact
- Low-point control
- Ball-first strike discipline
- Inconsistent irons
- Gate drills for putting
- Path barriers & visual guides
- Short-game alignment
- Anywhere practice