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David Leadbetter’s My Personal Golf Trainer for the Nintendo Wii was unveiled in the U.S. at the 2010 PGA Merchandise Show.
It looks like a very cool and very useful tool for golfers who are looking to improve their game without having to brave the elements or find time to head to the range.
Incorporating David Leadbetter’s Seven Steps to a Better Golf Swing, “My Personal Golf Trainer” analyzes: grip, posture, alignment, ball position, coil, swing shape, and tempo. Offering instructional videos and drills within each of these seven basics, players can improve their swing step-by-step and then graduate from training mode to the practice range and onto a full 18-hole game where after each shot the golfer has the option to get feedback from David Leadbetter and suggested drills for improvement.
Taking advantage of the new gyroscopically controlled MotionPlus controller, introduced in June 2009, David Leadbetter’s “My Personal Golf Trainer” is the first home golf product to record and analyze a full golf swing from address to backswing, impact to follow through, in three dimensions and over time. It then offers the opportunity to compare the users own swing with an ideal swing to identify areas for improvement. Swings can then be replayed in 3D so the user can view his/her swing from any angle for detailed analysis.
This trainer then goes further and provides step by step corrective drills which it guides you through in an interactive process. To date, a few golf training devices have been available for the home, but have only given basic feedback limited to just the impact portion of a swing. “My Personal Golf 
Trainer” is comparable with professional golf trainers costing thousands of dollars and similarly provides complete analysis of clubhead speed, angle and force through the entire swing process, and includes weight transfer, swing plane and tempo.
My Personal Golf Trainer features an hour worth of golf video featuring David Leadbetter demonstrating a series of swing drills and fourteen interactive drills designed to correct various aspects of your golf swing.
Every swing you take is analyzed and gives you immediate feedback on what you’re doing wrong and how to improve it. Once swing faults are identified, David Leadbetter’s My Personal Golf Trainer suggests drills that will improve the particular fault that’s been identified in your golf swing.
According to the gents at the booth, it is incredibly accurate, the Wii Motion Plus is a gyroscope designed to give you one to one feedback capturing a detailed swing that some of the big dogs in the space cannot duplicate.
As you play and get some swings logged, the software will customize for you a series of golf drills for you to follow to aid in improvement.
Presently the software only offers full swing golf tips, evaluation and drills and no short game or shot shaping drills or training are included.
That is something that they’re going to be implementing in the next iteration of the software.
Something else that broke my heart, this release of the David Leadbetter’s My Personal Golf Trainer is for right handed golfers only, there’s been no functionality built into it for us southpaws.. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? First club manufacturers and now software companies! Curses on you all!
David Leadbetter’s My Personal Golf Trainer release date is sometime in March, 2010 with a suggested retail price of $99 and they’ll be available in golf shops and sporting goods retailers throughout the country.
Something that shocked me and something, from a business standpoint, I disagree with, they’re not going to be selling them in electronic retailer or gaming stores. They’re very adamant that David Leadbetter’s My Personal Golf Trainer is NOT a game, but a training tool for golfers who are looking to improve their game.
Does this look like something you’d be interested in using and if so, do you think it’s worth the $99 SRP?
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A fellow lefty I feel your pain.
The video game sounds gimmicky.
Does the Wii controller attach to something with a regular golf club grip? I can’t imagine the feel being anywhere near right. If I refuse to buy Callaway drivers because I don’t think the feel is right how would a glorified TV remote be any good as a training tool?
THANK YOU for your review. I also am a fellow southpaw and I was considering buying this program. In fact, I really could not wait for it to be sold in the US. I’ve been following it’s progress since late last summer. But nowhere could I find if it supported left-handed play. Now I know.
It’s a shame, really. I would think, from a software standpoint, that it would be fairly easy to incorporate left-handed play.
Hey Darren!
Fellow Lefty! Yeah, I’m with you, I was surprised that they didn’t incorporate left-handed play, like you said, it doesn’t seem like it’d be that difficult from a software perspective.. but who knows. What I do know is they won’t be getting $100 bucks from me. Seems like the industry norm to exclude us “right” handed golfers, no?
From the developer: Sorry about not incorporating a left handed option. It really is a lot harder than it sounds. We have a lot of interactive tutorials on how to get the right positions, and we provide live feedback saying, lift it higher rotate the face etc, we have hundreds of responses for each of hundreds of positions. A left handed player is the opposite directions, and rotations, as is the weight shift, leaning forwards is backwards when you stand the opposite way around. Much of the video presentation is set up for facing the screen, and your facing is also opposite. The ‘ideal’ paths for the swing planes which we use all have to be re-recorded as the paths are different. We have already completely filled the space on the DVD, with the current data, code and graphics. We did not have the spare space to even fit in a second language option, so duplicating the whole data for a left handed player was unfortunately not possible. Sorry !
As of April 10th, as it been released yet ? When and where can we expect to see it ? I read somewhere that only golf shop would carry it; I can’t imagine why they would, they would be competing against themselves or they would only offer it ridiculous mark up’s.
No left handed? Lame response. Check out the DDI entry at Wikipedia. Not inpsiring.
Stewart-DDI So the answer is no to lefties? While we may be a minority in the percetage of golfers, we ARE golfers who want to improve OUR game. Eliminating a market right off makes no sense. Golfers take their sport seriously. We are willing to spend hundres or even thousands of dollars on ways to improve our game The sales are out there waiting to buy this product. I can’t believe after you doing all this work to build what appears to be the best training product available, that adapting it to work for lefties is that much of a stretch. Please look into the possibility of engineering a Left handed version. It can’t be because you can’t afford to include a second disk at the $100 price tag. Tell us there is hope for a lefty version in the next release.
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