We get the question often about which length of SKLZ Gold Flex should someone buy, the 40” or the 48”?

First, let me start by saying that I highly recommend this training tool. Whether you purchase the name brand or the knock off doesn’t really matter but the concept is highly effective. It can be used as a warm up tool, it can help you with rhythm, and most importantly, it’s a heavy whippy club so it can help you with your kinematic sequence.

Kinematic sequence is the sequence of movements your body goes through during the golf swing and there IS a correct sequence. Very often I see golfers start their down swing with their upper body which is not the correct sequencing for an efficient golf swing. If you start the downswing with your upper body, your hands will move out toward the ball and you will catch the ball with an out to in swing path.

We spend a lot of time trying to get people to start their downswing with their lower body. Some of the ways we do this is to have the student imagine they are skipping a stone. This is the same motion. However, there are a lot of people currently playing golf who may not have grown up playing sports like baseball or football or other throwing type sports. So that motion isn’t really familiar, comfortable, or intuitive to them.

The whippy club helps with that motion and really encourages the golfer to implement the correct kinematic sequence. So back to the question:

Should I get the 40” or 48” whippy club?

I can’t see a reason why you would want the long one over the short one. Honestly, they are both great products and they really accomplish the same goal.