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The Impact Wall Drill: Build Shaft Lean and Lead Wrist Flexion with High-Rep Motor Training | Brian Jacobs
Every golfer who scoops knows they're scooping. Their instructor has told them. The ball flight tells them — launches too high, too weak, not enough compr...
New Drill: The Baseline & Plane Drill: Fix a Laid-Off Swing with the Rule of Pointing | David Kuhn
Telling a golfer their club is laid off at the top, or that their lead wrist is bowed, or that their shaft has lost the plane — these are accurate diagnos...
New Drill: The Brick Wall Impact Drill: Fix Pushes and Blocks by Fixing Your Body Position | Janean Murphy
When golfers push or block shots to the right, the instinct is to fix the hands — rotate them more aggressively through impact, feel the release, force th...
New Drill: The Forward Swing Plane Match: Fix Your Slice by Starting Where Most Instructors Don't | Brian Jacobs
Here's an uncomfortable truth: your backswing might be fine. The slice, the pull, the inconsistent contact — those might have nothing to do with how you t...
New Drill: The Setup Consistency Drill: Build a Physical Address Template That Doesn't Drift | Janean Murphy
Most golfers practice their swing and ignore their setup. But if your ball position moves an inch between shots — and for most golfers it moves more than ...
New Drill: The Constant Ball Position Drill: Stop Blaming Your Swing for Setup Problems | Chris Foley
Here's a question most golfers never ask: how consistent is your ball position from shot to shot? Not club to club — shot to shot, same club. The honest a...
New Drill: The Vertical Face Squareness Drill: Fix Your Clubface with the "Truth Detector" | Brad Pluth
Here's the uncomfortable truth about most golf practice: golfers work on path, plane, shallowing, takeaway, body rotation — and never check the one variab...
New Drill: The Swing Path Redirector: Fix Your Slice or Hook with a Staggered Gate | Chris Foley
Most swing path drills fix one thing — either the slice or the hook. Chris Foley's staggered gate setup fixes both, and switching between the two configur...
New Drill: The One-Footed Balance Drill: Fix Your Swing with Proprioception Training | Brian Jacobs
Most golfers chase swing fixes when the real problem is hiding in plain sight — underneath their feet. If you're rising out of your posture, sliding off t...
New Drill: How to Stop Your Hip Slide: David Potts' Lead Hip Brace Drill
There's a fine line between a powerful pressure shift and a destructive lateral slide — and most golfers who slide have no idea they're doing it. It feels li...
New Drill: Fix Early Extension with the Heel Stomp Drill | Brad Pluth
Early extension is one of the most common swing faults in amateur golf — and one of the hardest to fix through feel alone. When the hips thrust toward the ba...
The Origin Story of pathpal Golf
The origin story From Weekend Warrior to Accidental Inventor: My Quest for a Better Swing (and More Practice Time!) Hey there, fellow golfers! Picture this...
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