![]() Spend your sixty dollars getting a putting lesson instead – it’ll go a whole heckuva lot farther than the ProAim glasses. It’s quite easy to duplicate a simple putting grid with tees, tape, some shafts or dowel rods, or string. Not only is the ProAim not worth $59.95, but I feel it could be detrimental to your putting game. Cock it a little to the left and you’re warmly welcomed to Pull City. Tilt your head a little to the right and the ProAim dutifully helps you push your putts. What’s worse, if your head is cocked to the side a little, the ProAim will steer you in that direction. We carry a complete selection of golf trainers including training aids designed to improve your driving, putting, alignment, tempo, distance, swing path, grip & short game. For most people, that means the grid will be two to three feet away from their ball. As the illustration to the right shows, the ProAim projects its grid where your face is aimed, not where your eyes are looking. Most people don’t jam their chin into their chest when they putt and their faces are not pointed straight down at the ground. Where are you looking? Probably not straight down at your feet. Close your eyes and let them move back to the center so they’re looking straight in the direction of your face. ![]() The ProAim projects its little grid just fine, but it does so where your head is pointed, not where your eyes are looking. My problem is paying $59.95 for something that simply doesn’t work. My problems with the ProAim were far more serious than wearing glasses and needing an Aleve now and then. Whether it’s because my eyes were having trouble focusing without my glasses or because the ProAim was squeezing my temples I can’t say for sure. The headache went away fifteen minutes after removing the ProAim. The first time I tried the ProAim for more than just a few minutes, I got a headache. The ProAim is also fairly small: my head isn’t abnormally large, but the ProAim’s frame squeezed my head like it was an orange and the glasses had a hankering for some fresh OJ. If you’ve not got 20/20 sight or a pair of contacts, you’re simply out of luck. First, if you wear glasses, you’re simply not going to be able to use the ProAim and to see clearly at the same time. In the end, my problems with the ProAim were plenty. The pendulum stroke requires some wrist pronation and supination to keep the putter face square throughout the motion. Proponents of the hinged door method say that the putter remains square to your body the whole time, which is much easier to control than the pendulum stroke. Interestingly enough, Pelz’s current star student – Phil Mickelson – employs the stroke used by most of the greatest putters: more of a “hinged door” stroke that opens the putter face on the way back and closes it on the way through. A straight-back, straight-through stroke (also called the pendulum stroke) is preached by legendary short-game guru Dave Pelz and is employed by many good, solid putters. The ProAim’s goal is to ensure a straight-back, straight-through putting stroke that keeps the putter face square to the intended target line. You see a simple putting alignment grid (again, see image just below). Thicker pieces of plastic concentrate the light in a parallel-lines-with-crossbar pattern and bounce the light off of a darkened lens back to your eye. Daylight enters the yellow piece of plastic beside your right eye. The product is endorsed by Butch Harmon (hardly a short game guru), Natalie Gulbis (who’s yet to win on the LPGA Tour), Mark Calcavecchia, Craig Parry, and the most respectable man of the bunch, Irishman Darren Clarke. The ProAim is the Professional Golf Teacher’s Association’s “Training Aid of the Year” and a Golf Digest “Top 10 Training Aid.” “Straight back, straight through” others say. It does not store any personal data.“Drive for show, putt for dough” they all say. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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