Why this training aid is the perfect hotel-room companion, according to a Top 100 Teacher

Improving your game within the confines of a hotel room may seem like an impossible task, but there’s one training aid that a Top 100 teacher says is an ideal travel companion: an impact bag.

What makes the bag so useful?

“It’s multifunctional,” said GOLF Top 100 teacher Krista Dunton. “It gives you the feeling of the cub swinging into the ball, getting the clubhead and the hands in the right position, getting your weight into the lead side, and that smack and pop of the clubhead actually coming into the ball, instead of the club bottoming out way too far behind the ball, or never getting into the ball and topping it.”

If you have the room in your luggage, an impact bag is the perfect way to get some useful swing reps in while you’re traveling, or even if you’re simply stuck indoors in the winter months. (You also can create your own bag with a couple of pillows — but make sure they’re durable!)

The best part?

“You can even customize the bag with a picture, so you can attack it with a bit more gusto and energy,” Dunton said with a laugh.

Dunton said her favorite part about the impact bag is that it produces a feel you can take to the course, instead of focusing on a swing thought or clubhead positions. That means the feedback is purely positive, which can put you in a good frame of mind if you use it as a warm-up before your round.

“Swing into the bag five or six times,” Dunton recommends. “It gets the club lined up at impact correctly and gives you the feel of the hands and clubhead coming into contact with the ball.”

Ready to add an impact bag to your training-aid arsenal? Check out the model below.

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SKLZ Smash Bag

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Learn the feeling of the correct ball impact for your swing with the SKLZ Smash Bag Golf Training Aid, a high quality impact bag that’s great for practicing your accuracy. Hitting into the Smash Bag helps eliminate fat and thin golf shots, and helps cure slices.

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