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.
If your iron contact feels like a coin flip — sometimes crisp, sometimes chunked, sometimes thin — there's a good chance ball position is...
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New Drill: Stop Guessing Your Ball Position — Shawn Koch's Two-Rod Drill for Consistent Iron Contact
If your iron contact feels like a coin flip — sometimes crisp, sometimes chunked, sometimes thin — there's a good chance ball position is the variable you've been ignoring. Most golfers set up by f...
New dril: You're Not Chunking Because of Your Swing. Eric Barlow's Low Point Drill Proves It.
Fat shots feel like a technique problem — the club digs, the ball goes nowhere, the ground wins. But the root cause isn't usually a swing flaw. It's a low po...
New Drill: Even Elite Teachers Have Swing Faults. Shawn Koch's 55-Degree Drill Fixes Both Sides of the Plane.
Golfers often assume that elite instructors have solved their own swings. Shawn Koch — Golf Digest #7 Best Teacher in Georgia, Georgia PGA Teacher of the Yea...
New drill: Kevin Sprecher's 3-Point Path Corridor Drill: The Complete In-to-Out Swing Fix
A slice doesn't start at impact. It starts on the backswing — when the club gets too far inside and then has no choice but to go over the top on the way down...
New drill: The Wedding China Drill: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Fix for an Over-the-Top Slice
Golf instructors have used the Wedding China Drill for decades. The concept is simple — put something valuable on the ground just outside the ball, and sudde...
New Drill: Stop Three-Putting: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Putting Isolation Drill for a Repeatable Stroke
Most golfers spend the majority of their practice time on the range — full swings, wedges, driver — and then wonder why their scores don't drop. The math is ...
New Drill: Stop Blocking and Hooking: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Fade Drill for an Overcorrected Slice
Golf instruction is heavily focused on the over-the-top move — and for good reason. But Jacob Tilton teaches a category of golfer that rarely gets addressed:...
New Drill: Fix Your Shank, Slice, and Early Extension at Once: Jacob Tilton's Dual-Barrier Drill
If you've ever hit a shank, you know the specific horror of it — that violent deflection off the hosel that sends the ball shooting 45 degrees right. What mo...
New Drill: The TrueStrike Precision Gate Drill: Fix Both Path Faults with Jacob Tilton's 9-to-3 Method
Tommy Fleetwood has been seen doing it. Elite instructors build entire lesson plans around it. And Jacob Tilton uses it as the capstone of his entire path co...
New Drill: The Shaft Plane Match Drill: Club-Specific Plane Training with Janean Murphy | pathpal
Most swing plane drills use a fixed angle. One rod, one setting, applied to every club in the bag — driver, irons, wedges. The problem is that every club in ...
New Drill: The Slapshot Rotation Drill: Why Hockey Players Stripe It and How You Can Too | Brad Pluth
Ask any hockey player to pick up a golf club and there's a decent chance they'll flush it on the first swing. It's not luck. It's physics — and it's the same...
New Drill: The Kneecap Setup Drill: Find Your Athletic Stance for Every Club | Brad Pluth
Most golfers set up the same way regardless of what they're hitting — same spine tilt, same knee flex, same forward lean for a pitching wedge as for a 5-iron...
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