Watson The Hanger Golf Swing Aid Review

TheHANGER uses visual cues to help set the golfer up to his or her shot. Instant feedback via the tactile contact of TheHANGER to a player’s forearms lets you know as soon as your wrists have strayed from the optimal positions. The black reference club face can be used to easily align the device to the proper angles and makes setting it up a breeze. 

The target areas of the golf swing theHANGER isolate for improvement are the club plane during the backswing and downswing, a golfer’s lead wrist at the top and critical last arm parallel checkpoint, and a player’s club face control at impact.

Many players of different swing types and skill levels can improve their game by leveraging their wrist angles for more powerful impact positions. One of the most common mistakes made by amateur golfers is cupping the lead wrist, also anatomically referred to as an extension. 

This wrist extension often results in a clubface that is open to the path of the golf club and produces shots that begin right of target or slice violently away from fairways and greens. Wrist flexion or bowing of the lead wrist often results in iron and wedge shots that are impacted with more compression and create the longer more penetrating ball flights associated with highly skilled golfers.

The things that excite me most about training aids are when they are simple to set up and easy to use by yourself. Many golfers spend a lot of their time outdoors on the golf course playing golf or in brief range session. Having a training aid that you can use indoors is also crucial for creating long-term muscle memory. theHANGER is a versatile training aid that can be easily used in your home or office and packs neatly into your golf bag while you head to the course or practice facilities.

Putting theHANGER to the test, I wanted to see how easy it was to find my ideal wrist positions by aligning the reference clubface. Once I had the aid in place I began chipping as the protocol instructs. Right away, I noticed how well my wedge was responding through the grass and rough around the green. I was impressed by how well theHANGER aided me in allowing the wedge to work through the turf smoothly and without digging or turning down too much into the dirt. Each time I have gone to the golf course since I have used theHANGER to practice my pitching and chipping.

As a right-handed golfer that typically misses left when my swing is misbehaving, many training aids are not aimed at my swing. theHANGER is possibly the best full-swing training aid I have ever tried for stabilizing my impact and helping me create more solid contact by enforcing better rotation through the golf ball with my lower body and torso. I found that the feedback provided by theHANGER allowed me to swing freely and know that my golf ball was not going to overdraw or hook out of the air. I also loved that theHANGER was attached to my golf club and not my body so it is not weighing me down, especially in the heat.