SensoGlove

About SensoGlove

Introducing SensoGlove, a high-quality cabretta leather golf glove with a unique difference: it’s the first and only golf glove with a built-in computer that constantly reads your grip pressure. Using small, highly responsive sensors, the SensoGlove provides audio and visual feedback about your exact grip pressure on the club.

Every golfer wants to hit the ball far and the natural instinct is to swing harder and faster. But trying to swing with more power causes a death grip, creating tension in the hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. The result is a less than smooth swing and, even worse, tightened muscles. Tight muscles result in slower – not faster – club head speed.

You can use SensoGlove anywhere… backyard practice, on the driving range or during a practice round. With SensoGlove, you get an immediate readout of your exact grip pressure, on a scale of 1 to 12. Grip too tight, and a gentle audio cue warns you.

SensoGlove isn’t just for your driver either. Lighter grip pressure improves precision, too. Use it for chipping and putting to dramatically improve your short game!

How it works

The SensoGlove computer is a small, lightweight, sweat-proof monitor that analyzes pressure settings from four tiny sensors sewn right into the glove. Other than the computer plug in socket, the SensoGlove works just like any other glove, so you can use it during a practice round on the course.

The SensoGlove computer is incredibly easy to use. Simply dial in your pressure on a scale of
1-to-18 and swing with any club. The SensoGlove reads and displays your pressure and warns you if you exceed your target level. The SensoGlove even shows you what finger is gripping too tight, so you can adjust your grip accordingly.

Best of all, the SensoGlove reads your grip pressure during your address AND swing. Many golfers start out with a light pressure only to grip tighter at take-away and through the backswing and downswing. Using the built-in audio warning, golfers will know if they are gripping too tight exactly when it happens during their swing.

Take the SensoGlove to the driving range to test various pressure settings until you find the setting that gives you a perfect swing. You can store that setting in memory and the SensoGlove will constantly monitor your grip pressure throughout your swing.

Using SensoGlove will improve every part of your game, from the tee-box to the green. A lighter grip delivers distance and power with your driver, accuracy from the fairway and the soft touch needed to sink the hardest putts!

Proper grip pressure has long been a difficult technique to master. Every magazine article and golf instructor explains how important it is to maintain a light grip. Some teaching pros have said to hold the club the way you would hold a tube of toothpaste so that nothing will squeeze out. One quote that’s been around for a while comes from Sam Snead: “Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.” Even still, most golfers grip the club too tight, afraid that they’re going to fling the club off into the woods.

It is a well known fact among golf instructors that a relaxed grip is key to a powerful, consistent and natural golf swing. Yet it is hard to transfer this principle into the golf swing. Even though a golfer might think to hold the club lightly, during an actual swing their relaxed grip is gone, they tense up and then swing poorly.

The SensoGlove provides a solution to this universal problem by providing real-time feedback of the correct grip pressure at every point of the swing, from address through take-away, backswing, downswing, impact and follow-through. This teaches how lightly a golfer can hold the club without giving up control or power.

It’s often said that a lightly gripped club acts like a pendulum. A pendulum naturally swings with a consistent, smooth rhythm. Practicing with the SensoGlove and learning the right amount of pressure leads to a natural, effortless swing that a golfer can repeat every time - for more power, lower scores and a more enjoyable round of golf!

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Split The Grip - Quick Tips on preventing the slice

Split The Grip

We’ve all experienced this one time or another. Midway through the round, after hitting what seems to be a decent number of fairways, the ball starts to slice. And not only does the ball begin creeping to the right, the slice becomes more and more pronounced with each swing. This then causes the body to tense up and limit the needed rotation of the hands through the impact zone. Now that’s an awful thought, isn’t it?

Well, if you’ve suffered through a “slice attack,” here’s an immediate and simple remedy. To help diagram this simple drill, my daughter Carly Ray Goldstein has stepped in. Carly, who’s no stranger to winning her fair share of junior events (she’s won more than 40 junior tournaments at the age of 11!), isn’t immune to a slice, either. But with this simple drill, she’s found a way to get back on track and in the fairway in a hurry.

First, get a hold of your driver. Set up as if you’re going to make a normal practice swing, only lower your right hand on the grip, about two to three inches below your upper hand. This will cause you to have a split grip. Now, in a smooth and slow motion, simulate a three-quarter golf swing  and pay attention to these three critical positions.

Position 1. On the backswing, once the arms reach chest high, the right arm should bend with the elbow pointing inward, and the left arm is to remain straight. The shaft should be pointing vertically. These three lines should form a triangle, between your left forearm, the shaft and your right forearm. See the photo for help.

Position 2. Through the impact zone, the hands should be rolling to a closed position. Because of the split grip, the closing of the clubface will feel more pronounced, which is the desired effect to counteract that slice! At impact, the lower hand (Carly’s right hand) is directly below her left, indicating her hands are in the process of closing the clubface through the hitting zone.

Position 3. About halfway through the followthrough, the hands should act as a mirror image of the hands in Position 1, where the forearms and shaft once again form a triangle. If they don’t, that means you’re not releasing and rolling the hands properly! Practice this drill as often as needed to counteract a slice, and don’t forget it come time to battle the effects of an unexpected banana ball.

Barry Goldstein is a professional golf teacher at Inverrary CC in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.