Training With the Smart Swing

How Smart Swing Works

Slide your Smart Swing device onto your club and measure your grip pressure, and other key metrics--at every point of your swing--in real time.

View your swing data on your phone with the Smart Swing mobile app and use our Swing Visualizer desktop app for more detailed information including your swing path. 

What Smart Swing Measures

Hundreds of data points are measured within every swing. These metrics including Grip Pressure, Whip Speed, Hand Speed, Tempo, Swing Plane, and Face Angle help you improve your golf swing.

A Use Case Example

Incorrectly flicking the wrist through a putt

Putt #1

This is a putt recorded by a student of one of our Smart Swing ambassadors (right-handed golfer). For this putt, we are going to focus on a few key metrics shown by Smart Swing. These are left and right-hand grip pressure, hand speed, and whip speed. At an initial look at the Swing Visualizer, you can see this student flick their wrists at the impact of the putt and we will show the data to confirm this.

Putt #1 Analysis

During this putt, you will recognize that during the approach to the golf ball, the right grip pressure increases as the left grip pressure decreases as the impact is made. In addition to this, hand speed decreases and whip speed increases during this phase as well. This creates a pivot point with the left hand (slowed hand speed), while the right hand pushes the club through the ball (increasing whip speed) creating a flicking motion of the putter.

Putt #2

Here is a second putt. As you will see even though right-hand grip pressure does increase at the impact of the swing, left-hand grip pressure does as well at a similar rate. In addition to this, hand speed does not decrease at impact but in turn, both whip speed and hand speed slightly increase at impact. This defeats the opportunity to create a pivot point with the left hand and flick the club through with increased right-hand pressure.

Introduction to gpi

Smart Swing uses Grip Pressure Indicator (gpi) to illustrate golf grip pressure in numerical form. This takes a formely subjective topic and turns it into an easily measured function of the golf swing. The days of using the analogy to hold the club like a bird or a tube of toothpaste can become a day in the past as measured values can now be attributed to grip pressure.