If you’re an avid golfer like me, you’ve no doubt heard about the Tour Striker. It’s the talk of the golfing world, with Gary McCord hawking it nearly every 2 hours (or so it seems) on the Golf Channel and forums like GolfWRX.com, Golfrewind.com, TheSandTrap.com and ShotTalk.com devoting multiple threads and thousands of posts to it. But the question  remains–is it really the golf training aid we’ve all been searching for?

First of all, let’s take a close look at the Tour Striker itself. The Tour Striker looks like a normal golf iron from handle to hosel. But it’s at the face where things get interesting. Instead of a flat face like regular irons, the Tour Striker has a smaller hitting area from the top of the club to the middle. The rest of the club to the bottom is made up of bounce. This drastically reduces the hitting area on the face of the iron, or the “sweet spot”.

The idea of the Tour Striker is simple: By reducing the sweet spot to the top 2/3rds of the club face, the Tour Striker forces you to “hit down” on the ball to make consistent contact with the face area. If you try to sweep the ball or flip through impact, you’ll only make contact with the bottom part of the club, or bounce area. Which means all your shots will dribble harmlessly a few feet in front you.

Hitting down on the ball is a mantra we’ve heard for years as golfers. Virtually every teaching style includes this as part of their technique. Why? Because it’s VASTLY important. When you hit down on the ball, you trap the ball between the club face and the ground, producing the optimum angle and spin needed to send the ball high, far, and straight. This delivers the signature “crack” sound we all love to hear when we make perfect connection between club and ball. And this is what practicing with the Tour Striker promises to deliver time and time again.

But is it really all it’s cracked up to be? Apparently, yes. I’ve searched through countless forum threads have yet to find more than a handful of people who are not crazy about the Tour Striker (and most of these were still lukewarm, but not adamant against it). But the overwhelming majority of Tour Striker users rave about the results. They go on and on about how easy it is, how little time it takes to groove your swing, and how it’s changed their game forever. And the best part? It’s CHEAP. The Tour Striker only costs about as much as a new wedge–yet can shave 5-10 strokes off your scores (and have your buddies staring envy) in a little as one range visit.

So the word is out: The Tour Striker is the one golf training club that actually WORKS. And unlike most other wacky golf swing aids we buy that only end up in a garage sale (Medicus driver anyone?) the Tour Striker is hard to find on the used golf club circuit. In fact, I’ve been searching in the classifieds area of my favorite forum–GolfWRX–for weeks to see if one shows up. But they’re few and far between. And when one actually is posted for sale? It’s literally snatched up in minutes. That’s how amazing this golf swing trainer is.

There’s six different models to choose from, including a Tour Striker 8, Tour Striker Pro 7, Tour Striker Pro X7, Tour Striker Pro 5, Tour Striker 56 degree wedge and the Tour Striker Ladies/Junior club.  Simply pick the one that fits your game best and start dropping those double-bogeys and nightmare holes like bad habits. For more information on how you can get the Tour Striker (including any Tour Striker coupon or discount available currently) go here now.