How to Care for Golf Training Aids

A five-minute maintenance habit

Training aids are easy to neglect once they’ve served their purpose for a session. Foam rods crack, impact bags split at the seams, putting gates lose calibration, and tempo trainers develop wobbles that change the feedback. Check before each use.

Try this routine:

1. Inspect foam or rubber surfaces for tears or deformation that would alter feedback before any session.
2. Check adjustable joints, pins, and tracks for secure locking before starting.
3. Store flat or rolled aids without kinks — a bent alignment rod gives a misleading visual line.
4. Retire any aid whose feedback has become vague or impossible to interpret clearly.

Small habits, big difference

A training aid whose feedback is still precise and clear is the one worth returning to. An aid that has lost its accuracy will train the wrong pattern just as efficiently as a good one trains the right one.