Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Hit The Ball Then The Turf | FLATBALL Training Aid Review"

In today’s lesson…

…I’ll give my personal rating on the “Flatball” training aid (for better ball contact)…

…and I’ll show you how it stacks up against my personal favorite training aid, the Divot Board!

Check this video out and let me know of any training aids you’d like to see me review.

To More Solid Contact,

Clay Ballard

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:44

Video Transcription:

Hey. Welcome back to Top Speed Golf. I'm Clay Ballard, and we're doing the top speed golf training review where I review all kinds of different training aides and give them a score one to ten and tell you whether or not I think they're going to be good for your game. So pretty interesting one here. This one, actually, we've been recommending on and off for probably five or six years called a flatball.

It's made by a company called Izzo. These things are dirt cheap. You get like an eight pack for eight bucks. They're basically indestructible. They're made out of this kind of rubber flexible material, super lightweight. You can walk around in your backyard, you can hit in your living room into the couch if you wanted to. And it gives you a little feedback on where you're hitting the ground.

Oh, these aren't perfect. And let's talk about some of the limitations with these some things I like and don't like. But you can pop these down. If you got a mad at your house, you want to get a little practice in while you're watching TV. Hit him into the couch. Like I said, you can hit them just about anywhere because they're so light.

They're really not going to break anything unless you just smack it into something like a piece of glass or whatever. I wouldn't recommend that. But this is a quarter inch thick ball. So it's the same diameter as the ball. But if you turn it sideways, it's only a quarter inch and thickness. So the idea with these is that if you swing and you would hit it, then you just swing right over top of this golf ball, the or the flatball, you wouldn't hit it all.

So gives you some feedback that you're hitting it, then that's OK. But you kind of know if you're hitting it then anyways, if you swing on a mat and you miss the mat or you know, if you miss the mat, it's not really like rocket science there. Now, if I hit the hand, it, it can tell me kind of where I hit the ground because if I hit way behind it, it'll almost just pop up and go over top of the golf ball.

You got to be pretty far behind it to make that happen. But I can usually tell you can start to feel when you're hitting these what you want to do is come down, hit that quarter inch thick piece of plastic first and then take the divot in front of this ball. And to be honest, you get a pretty good feel after you've used this for a while.

And whether or not you're doing that. So let me go out and try to hit one here. And that felt pretty good. I could tell like you can get just enough sensation from this. It's just heavy enough to where you can feel if you're hitting the mat or the ball first most of the time. Another limitation, though, is I can't quite tell if I'm hitting it a quarter inch behind this ball.

Or a half inch an inch behind the ball. Sometimes it's tough to know. It also doesn't give you very much feedback on how much you're hitting down into it. It's just kind of a blur as you're hitting this golf ball and if I'm trying to work on hitting a draw like on that one, I can't tell if I was just slightly heavy or I hit it pretty solid.

It's just it's a little gray area in there. I can't work on hitting a draw doesn't tell me if I'm slicing and hooking at any of that kind of stuff. I do like that. You can hit them in your back yard, but when you put them up on the grass is really only work well on mats. He team up on some thicker grass.

Well now all of a sudden you got an inch long grass and then this ball floating around on top of it so you can hit anywhere into that grass of the ball and the flat ball is going to shoot up out of there. So really if you put them on grass, they really don't do anything at all, to be honest.

It's just kind of suck it in the wiffle ball. But if you just want something to hit that won't fly a long way, that'd be fine. But that's kind of limitation with that. So another one is if I'm, if I'm making a bad swing, so let's say I'm coming down really steep and that's causing me to be inconsistent with my strike into the ground.

It doesn't really give me any feedback on whether or not that's happening or what I should do to fix it. So a pretty solid product. Now, my ratings one would be something that I just hate I don't like it at all. I think it's going to hurt your game. I think you should steer away from it. If somebody gave it to you, you should throw it in the trash.

That's the number one. You get into the fives and those are good products. But a little bit limited. Maybe they don't do. They wouldn't be great for everybody. You get into a seven, that's a really solid score and eight is a fantastic score and there's only a handful of nines. Now, the leader in the clubhouse right now is the divot board.

That's this little device here. It's a 9.4, and it's a lot like this flat ball on steroids. So if I'm comparing these two products, this is a 9.4. These things are dirt cheap, these flat balls. I'm going to say it's probably we get a 5.8. So it's a good product. It can help with some things, but it has some limitations, too, in comparison to the divot board.

The reason this is so much better, it gives you tons of feedback. So now when I hit this board, it shows me exactly where I made my divot and I can see if I'm a quarter inch behind the golf ball. I know it right away. It also helps me. Let's see, you're hitting this way toward me. You want to swing a little inside out?

I know. OK, that's an inside out type motion. I'm swinging inside out. If I go this way, I'm outside and across it. That's going to help me tell if I get a slice or a draw or whatever type of shot shape of making exactly where I'm hit on the ground. It also even helps me if I if I get a little angle like that with my divot, then I know my heel was hitting first and then the toe.

I'm not going to get in all the details here, but this is kind of like this flatball on steroids. It's great. You can still use it inside. You don't have to hit a golf ball with it. Lots of advantages on that. So these flat balls, I don't get any affiliate commission. I don't get anything from that. If you want to pick them up you can do a quick Google search.

They pop up everywhere. Amazon, all those there, handful of bucks. Great little product here. I do have an agreement with the divot board. I get a small commission for every divot for that. So feel free to buy them for me if you don't buy for me bound for somebody else because it's just a pretty drag on good trade. I'll put somewhere on this page.

There's going to be a button, a link in the description, buttons on the screen, something going to be popping up here. If you do want to get one of those divot boards, help support the channel, help support may help support top speed golf. And what we're doing put out some more videos, some great training content in the future. Then by all means, click one of those.

And I think this is this is like the no brainer. This is the one training aid part two or three that you just can't do without. That's one of them. So hope you enjoy the review. I'll see you very soon.