Using golf training aids in your golf game is a good practice. There are training aids for everything from putting to hitting a driver. How about the training aids that you use on your body to keep yourself connected or lined up on the target line correctly. The only problem is, there seems to be confusion as to how the wrist cocks in the backswing. This especially true for beginners, because the wrist cock needs to be felt. How can a golf training aid help you to feel how the wrist cocks?

There are plenty of places that you can learn from about how the wrist cocks in the golf swing. You can find them in online golf instruction, golf magazines, and especially my favorite, infomercials.

Seeing a golf tip in action is always better for you than reading or hearing about it. Let’s see what an infomercial can tell us about how the wrist cocks in the golf swing. Here’s some you might have seen.

* Greg Norman’s Secret

* The Medicus

* The Glove

* Kallassy’s Swing Magic

Now you don’t have to rush out and go buy any of these golf training aids if you don’t want to. By watching some of these infomercials though, you can start to pick up on a central theme. How and where your wrists are supposed to be during the golf swing. Better yet. How they are supposed to feel.

Take a look at Greg Norman’s Secret. If you watch the infomercial, you might pick up the fact that your right wrist shouldn’t be moving much at all. It’s movement is fixed. The stationary piece of plastic won’t allow any back and forth movement of the hand, only a slight raising of the thumb towards the wrist. Greg even tells you that the wrist cock is like shaking hands with someone. I want you to take this feeling with you. Try to keep the ‘V’ of your right thumb and forefinger pointed at your right shoulder all the way through the swing. This feeling will allow your wrists to hinge naturally.

Then there’s the Medicus. It doesn’t matter if you want to talk about the iron or the driver. That shouldn’t matter much to you. What you need to pick up on is how the hinge is oriented to the club face. The hinge is facing the same way as face of the club. So if you were to break your wrist backwards on itself, wouldn’t the hinge on the Medicus also break. The only way to take the club back without making the hinge break is to cock the wrist upwards. Watch the Medicus infomercial sometime and try to pick out the feeling that you are trying to achieve with this training aid.

The next time that you’re watching The Golf Channel and you see an infomercial from one of the golf training aids mentioned, take the time to really watch it. Study what it is about the training aid that is helping golfers improve. Are you feeling the same thing that the training aid is trying to teach? Are you making your golf game more complicated by cocking your wrists too much? Or the wrong way?

These products, the golf training aids, are helpful if you own them, but you can learn a lot just by watching how they are being used.

Playing golf at Loch Lomond golf club is a unique experience.

The course was designed by Tom Weiskopf and opened for play in 1993. In the last fifteen years it truly has established itself as one of the worlds great golfing venues. The course itself is manicured to perfection and the surrounding scenery with Loch Lomond itself and the surrounding hills and mountains makes for the golf experience of a lifetime.

From the back tees on a windy or breezy day it provides a very stern test of even the best golfer. But in normal play and with the sun on your back you’ll find her a dreamy and forgiving mistress.

The signature hole is probably the eighteenth with a long carry over the loch which hugs the fairway close up the left for the length of the hole – but there are numerous other contenders too. Rossdhu castle – now in ruins – forms the perfect romantic back drop to the final green. Recently restored Rossdhu house is the clubhouse with bars and restaurants and service that will meet your every whim and then more besides. The club also owns residential accommodation around the property which is available to let to members or their guests. Expensive yes, exclusive certainly – and fully booked for most of the year.

The golf course stretches to over seven thousand one hundred yards at its longest reach and is rated as one of the top one hundred in the world. It hosts the Scottish Open championship every year and has also played host to other major competitions and tournaments. At par 71 it is a great test of golf at anyone’s level but the remarkable course record of 62 is held by the South African Retief Goosen.

In all likelihood the chance to play at Loch Lomond may never come your way but if it does then you should grab it with both hands. You may never play a finer golf course.