SKLZ Rick Smith Perfect Plane - Swing Plane Training Board

by SKLZ

Product Features

• Putting stroke training board with uniquely curved shape
• Sets the club on the proper plane throughout the putting stroke
• Helps you develop the roper arc for flush putts
• Orange guides help you even oust stroke length
• Works with any putter; ideal for practice green or home

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Are you putting on the correct plane and squaring the clubface? Find out the easy way with the SKLZ Rick Smith Perfect Plane putter training board. Offering a unique shape that sets the club on the proper plane throughout the putting stroke, the board helps you develop the proper arc for flush putts. Even better, the Perfect Plane lets you use your own putter, so you can translate the feel to real course situations. Finally, the board comes with orange guides to help you even out your stroke length. The Perfect Plane can be used on the practice green, at home, or in the office.

The Perfect Plane's unique shape helps correct your putting stroke.

Orange guides help you even out your stroke length.

About Rick Smith
Famed golf instructor Rick Smith has helped guide some of the most accomplished golfers in the world to major championship wins, including three-time major winner Phil Mickelson and two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen. He's also worked with such golf luminaries as Jack Nicklaus, Vijay Singh, Paul Azinger, Greg Norman, David Duval, Billy Andrade, and Raymond Floyd. Regarded as one of the PGA Tour's best sounding boards for swing advice and consistently ranked one of the top 10 golf instructors in the world by Golf Digest magazine, Smithy currently runs Rick Smith Golf Academies at the Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan, and Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida.

About SKLZ
The flagship brand of Pro Performance Sports LLC, SKLZ was built around the popularity of the company's legendary baseball swing trainer, the Hit-A-Way. After starting with a complete line of baseball and softball trainers, the company expanded into football, tennis, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and most recently, a full spectrum of golf training products. Headquartered in San Diego, the SKLZ team consists of both seasoned professionals and young upstarts in the sporting goods industry who are passionate about delivering the best skill development products to athletes of all ages.

Product Description

Putting Arc Training Board. Are you putting on the correct plane and squaring the clubface? You might be surprised. Use the Perfect Plane to find out for sure and develop the proper arc for flush putts.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0013E0JXK
• Item model number: SWP01-000-02
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,645 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Idea is good, but there's a fundamental flaw with this device..., March 28, 2011

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ROBERT F. Areddy (Oakland Twp, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SKLZ Rick Smith Perfect Plane - Swing Plane Training Board (Sports)

This product tries to instill an inside-to-square-to-inside putting stroke (as opposed to straight back straight through), so make sure it fits your method. However, I used this device at my instructor's teaching facility, and after messing around with it and really thinking about how it works, there's as fundamental flaw with it.

The flaw is that not everybody's putting plane is the same. Some are flatter, some are more upright. The angle depends on the lie angle of your putter and your posture. Obviously this device is not adjustable, so it may not fit your body angles.

The idea is good, but because of this fundamental flaw, I wouldn't recommend it. A better training aid that you can build yourself for about 10 bucks is to get some 1/2" PVC with some fittings, and make a horizontal bar about a foot off the ground, which is supported by some PVC "legs". I can't go into details here of the design, but the idea is that the horizontal bar goes down your target line, and your putter's shaft rides on top of the bar. The result is EXACTLY what this device is trying to do, BUT, it's a "self-adjusting" plane board. It will work no matter your setup or putter lie angle. I also find it easier to putt without your putter head scraping against some board, as the putter shaft rides smoothly on the bar without affecting the face angle at all.