Fix Pushing Shots Right: 4 Aids I Tested, $15-$345

I pushed my driver into the right trees for an entire season and nobody could tell me why. My buddies said “you’re coming over the top.” I was not. A teaching pro said “you’re leaving the face open.” Sort of. I read twelve articles about fixing a slice and none of them described my miss, because my ball was not curving. It was launching straight right and staying there, like a laser beam aimed at the wrong county.

That is a push. Almost nobody writes about it because a slice is sexier and a hook is more dramatic. But if you are losing three balls a round to the right tree line with zero curve, the push is your problem. I spent $200 on the wrong aids before I figured out a push has three different causes and each needs a different tool. The four tools below cost about $180 total. Diagnose your cause first, then buy only the one that matches it.

Why Your Push Is Bad

A push is not one swing flaw. It is three possible flaws, and you need to know which one is yours before you buy anything.

Your path is too far in-to-out. The clubhead is traveling too far to the right through impact. If the face is square to that rightward path, the ball launches straight right with no curve. This is the classic push. You feel like you are swinging out toward right field, and the ball obeys.

Your ball position or alignment is off. The ball too far back in your stance catches the club before it has released, leaving the face open. Or your feet and shoulders are aimed right of the target, and you are simply doing what your setup tells you to. This Titleist team thread lists aiming right as the number one cause, and it is the most embarrassing one because the fix is free.

Your face is not squaring. You hang back on your trail side, fail to transfer weight, or freeze your wrist release. The face arrives pointing right of where you aimed. The ball goes right. No curve, because the face is square to your path, but both are aimed at the wrong place.

You need feedback to tell these apart. That is where training aids earn their money.

The Aids That Fixed My Push

1. Alignment Sticks: $15 to $25

Boring, I know. But I spent $157 on a path trainer before I spent $15 on sticks, and the sticks told me my aim was 8 yards right of my target. I was literally set up to push. The path trainer could not fix that.

The drill: Lay one stick on your target line. Lay a second stick parallel to it where your feet go. Address the ball, then step back and look. If your toes are right of the foot-line stick, you found your push. Second check: lay a stick across your stance to mark ball position. For a driver, the ball should be inside your lead heel. Mine was two inches behind that, catching the club before it released.

Time commitment: 5 minutes before every range session. Set the sticks, hit 10 balls, then remove them and hit 10 more to confirm the feel transfers.

What it fixed: The free problem. My alignment was wrong and my ball position was too far back. Two sticks, $15, one session. Half my push was gone before I touched a swing trainer. If you have never used alignment sticks to diagnose your setup, do this before buying anything else.

2. Tour Striker Educator: $40 to $60

If your sticks confirm your setup is clean and you are still pushing, your face is the culprit. The Tour Striker Educator is a bracket that straps to your lead wrist and holds it flat to slightly bowed. If you cup your wrist through impact, the bracket presses into your forearm. You feel the wrong position instantly.

Cupping opens the face. A push is often a face that arrives open because the wrists never released. The Educator trains the flat-to-bowed wrist that squares the club.

The drill: Strap it on. Hit 10 half-swings with a 7-iron, focusing on keeping the bracket off your forearm at impact. Then 10 three-quarter swings. Then 10 full swings. The first day, half my swings flagged me. By day five I was clean on almost every one.

Time commitment: 5 minutes a day for two weeks. Dry swings in the backyard work. You do not need a ball for the muscle memory to take hold.

What it fixed: The open face. My push shrank from 20 yards right to 5 yards right in two weeks. I wrote about this same tool in my slice fix guide because it fixes the face regardless of which direction you miss.

3. PlaneMate 2.0: $127 to $157

The PlaneMate connects a belt around your waist to a clamp on your club shaft via a resistance band. Swing on plane and the band stays taut. Let the club drop too far inside, which creates the extreme in-to-out path that pushes the ball, and the band goes slack. You feel it immediately.

Most people know the PlaneMate as a slice fix because it stops the over-the-top move. It works the other direction too. If your push comes from the club getting stuck behind your body on the downswing, the band teaches you to keep the club in front of you on a more neutral path.

The drill: Put it on in the backyard. 10 slow swings, feeling the band stay taut from the top of the backswing to hip-high on the way down. If it goes slack, you dropped the club inside. Then 10 medium swings. Then hit 10 balls at the range with it on.

Time commitment: 10 minutes a day for two weeks. This is a feel tool, so keep using it as a warm-up.

What it fixed: The in-to-out path. My club was dropping too far inside, and the band taught me to keep it in front of my chest. The push turned into a push-draw, which is a shot I can actually play.

4. HackMotion Core: $275 to $345

This is the most expensive tool in this guide, and I would not recommend it unless you have tried the Educator and the sticks and want data instead of feel. HackMotion is a wrist sensor that measures your lead wrist angle in real time and shows you the numbers on a phone screen. It tells you exactly how many degrees open or closed your face is at impact, and tracks it across every swing.

If your push is stubborn and the physical feedback tools are not clicking, HackMotion gives you numbers. You can see whether your wrist is 6 degrees extended at the top and 3 degrees open at impact, and track whether your drills are moving those numbers.

The drill: Wear it during a normal range session. Hit 20 balls and look at your wrist angle data. Focus on the impact number. If it is consistently open, run the Educator drill with the sensor on and watch the number close.

Time commitment: One 30-minute session per week to collect data. The sensor does the work. You just read the numbers.

What it fixed: It confirmed my face was 4 degrees open at impact and showed me the Educator drill was closing it to 1 degree over two weeks. The data kept me honest when the feel was unreliable.

The Three-Week Plan

Week 1: Alignment sticks only. Diagnose your setup. Fix your aim and ball position. Hit 50 balls per session, twice. If the push shrinks, you found your cause and you are done for $15.

Week 2: Add the Tour Striker Educator. 5 minutes of dry swings daily, plus 20 balls at the range with it on. If your push is a face problem, this is the week it dies.

Week 3: Add the PlaneMate. 10 minutes daily as a warm-up, plus 10 balls at the range with it on. This handles the path problem if weeks 1 and 2 were not enough. HackMotion is optional. Add it only if you want to track the numbers.

What I Would Skip

The DownUnder Board 2.0 at $60 to $90 is a great tool for lower-body stability, and if your push comes from hanging back and not transferring weight, it can help. But it does not give you direct face or path feedback. Try the sticks and Educator first. If your weight transfer is the real issue, a $60 board is cheaper than a $157 path trainer. Diagnose first.

Where to Buy

• SuperStroke Alignment Sticks: $15-$25 at Amazon
• Tour Striker Educator: $40-$60 at Amazon
• PlaneMate 2.0: $127-$157 at Amazon
• HackMotion: $275-$345 at Amazon or brand direct

Prices updated August 2026. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.