Golf training device

Abstract

A golf training device is disclosed for teaching body movements during a golf swing designed to substantially maintain fixed the intersection of the user's torso axis with the user's body axis to thereby improve the user's swing. Relatively free body movement is permitted through use of the device, with the exception that the head of the user is constrained to rotate around the user's torso axis and to rotate about the user's body axis. Certain limited movement of the head along the body axis is permitted. Both the torso and body axes are established by the initial stance of the user, with the device serving to maintain the intersection of those two axes relatively constant throughout the golf swing. The device comprises a rigid upright carried on a base with a rigid arm extending from the upright and adjustably mounted thereto. A head movement control member includes a first shaft carried in a housing with the shaft mounted for free rotational head movement about the user's body axis and provides for limited movement along the same axis. A second shaft mounted eccentric to the first shaft permits free rotational head movement about the user's torso axis. A cap worn by the user is fixed to the second shaft with the two shafts thereby combining to constrain the movement of the user's head to promote an improved golf swing.