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RankingsBest Golf Swing Training Sticks, 5 Compared | The Speed-Sounding VS Is No. 1Five Daiya sticks lined up by the figures on the maker's product pages. Weight, length and the signal (sound or color) will tell you which one fits you.
Updated: Nov 7, 2026Contains affiliate links
You want more head speed, but you can't get to the range every day. Decide where you'll swing and what for first, and a swing stick is easy to choose.
I average a score of 72 and play 150 rounds a year. I picked these seriously.
Swing sticks run from 460 to 610 g and from 70 to 109 cm, so even within one maker the five models behave very differently.
No. 1 is the Daiya Swing VS: you set a clubhead speed from 10 to 50 m/s, and it sounds at that speed.
What I swung:I swung the DIA SWING VS in my yard at home, about 10 minutes three times a week, from April to October 2026. Before a round I swing it ten times in the yard. Of the 10 minutes, about 2 are actual swinging. On an October morning of about 18°C, I felt my shoulders turn and the driver swing through on the first hole that day. I started the speed setting at 42 m/s in April and raised it to 45 m/s from June. My usual head speed is 46 m/s. The weight (about 505 g) and length (about 70 cm) are from the box and manual, not my own scale and tape. I swung the Pro Tour Short indoors for 10 minutes once in September. It was short enough to use indoors, but the weight felt too light, so I made up for it with more swings. I only handled the FX and TB in a shop and only looked at the WH.
The Gear Nerd's Pick
If I'm picking one, it's the Daiya Swing VS. People often choose a swing stick on the idea that a heavier one makes you faster. What I look at is whether I can set my own target speed and get a cue at that speed. The VS lets you set a clubhead speed from 10 to 50 m/s and sounds the impact timing at that speed.
From wedge speed up to driver speed, the VS is the only one of these five that lets you set the target in steps.
Where to buy the Daiya Swing VS
Daiya Swing VS
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In this article
- Bottom line
- What is a swing stick, and how is it different from a regular club?
- The five Daiya Swing models, side by side
- What do you judge by? Three yardsticks
- Why This Order
- What I like
- What to watch for
- Which can you swing in a yard or indoors without bothering the neighbors?
- Will it raise your head speed?
- Who it suits: if you're torn, choose by what you want
- Price and where to buy
- Narrow it down by place, signal and weight
- What I learned swinging the Daiya Swing VS
- About the writer and sources
- FAQ
Bottom line
No. 1 is the DIA SWING VS (about 70 cm, 505 g), No. 2 the Pro Tour Short WH (about 80 cm, 480 g) and No. 3 the Pro Tour Short (about 80 cm, 600 g).
You only need to decide one thing before choosing: whether you'll swing indoors or outside, and whether you want to check speed by sound or swing lightly and often.
If you can't decide, take the VS. If you want to start cheap and check face direction by color, take the FX.
What is a swing stick, and how is it different from a regular club?
A swing stick is a training tool for checking swing shape and tempo without hitting a ball. Daiya's swing-training lineup runs past 20 products, including ones that check face angle and ones that check swing path, in addition to these five.
This article sticks to the five that are shaped like a stick for practice swings. Head shape, shaft material, length and weight each change what a swing teaches you.
With a real club, you judge your swing by what the ball does. With no ball, a swing stick tells you through sound and color instead. That's the biggest difference.
The five Daiya Swing models, side by side
| Product | Length | Weight | Price (tax included) | Cue | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daiya Swing VS | About 70 cm | About 505 g | ¥12,100 | Sounds at your set speed (10-50 m/s) | about ¥33 |
| Pro Tour Short WH | About 80 cm | approx. 480g | ¥8,250 | A click in the impact zone | about ¥23 |
| Pro Tour Short | About 80 cm | About 600 g | ¥8,250 | A click in the impact zone | about ¥23 |
| Daiya Swing FX | About 70 cm | About 610 g | ¥6,600 | Color on the head tip (blue or pink) | about ¥18 |
| Pro Tour TB, 43 in | About 109 cm | About 460 g | ¥19,800 | A click at about 30 m/s | about ¥54 |
The lightest is 460 g and the heaviest 610 g, a 150 g spread (610 - 460). Lengths run from 70 cm to about 109 cm (about 43 in). Only the TB comes close to a regular club's length.
Even the same Pro Tour Short comes in two weights: about 480 g for the WH and about 600 g for the standard one. That's a 120 g gap, so the WH is 20% lighter (600 - 480, 120 ÷ 600). The product pages say the 600 g is for practice that feels the load, and the 480 g is for checking rhythm and movement over repeated swings.
What do you judge by? Three yardsticks
I don't use sales or the number of reviews as a reason. I lined up only the five sticks whose figures I could read on the maker's product pages, against three yardsticks.
- How detailed the cue is: how much it tells you about your speed or face direction, through sound or color.
- Length: can you swing it indoors, and how close is it to a real club?
- Weight: light enough for lots of reps, or heavy enough to feel the load?
Why This Order
| Rank | Product | Yardstick figure | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | Daiya Swing VS | About 70 cm, about 505 g, 10-50 m/s setting | You set your own target speed and it sounds at that speed. One stick covers wedge to driver. |
| 2nd | Pro Tour Short WH | About 80 cm, about 480 g | At 480 g it's light and easy to swing repeatedly. The sound marks the acceleration point at impact. |
| 3rd | Pro Tour Short | About 80 cm, about 600 g | The same 80 cm, with about 600 g of resistance. Suits people who want to feel their trunk and swing axis as they swing. |
| No. 4 | Daiya Swing FX | About 70 cm, about 610 g, ¥6,600 | The cheapest of the five. Its strength is checking face direction by color. It has no sound cue. |
| No. 5 | Pro Tour TB, 43 in | About 109 cm, about 460 g | The closest to a real club in length. Made for 15 to 20 warm-up swings before a round, and too long for indoor swinging. |
What I like
The Daiya Swing VS has a fiberglass shaft, and the product page says it is highly durable. It also says more than 30 players used it on the 2023 women's tour (the maker's own survey as of March 2023).
The list price is ¥12,100 including tax. Used every day for 1 year, that comes to about ¥33 per 1 day (12,100 ÷ 365, my calculation).
The Pro Tour Short is a compact 80 cm, which makes it easy to fit into home practice. It clicks, so you can hear the acceleration point.
The Daiya Swing FX has a blue and pink color split at the head tip: blue means the face is closed, pink means it is open. It's quiet by design, so it works in apartments too.
What to watch for
At ¥12,100, the VS is the 2nd most expensive of the 5. The gap to the FX is ¥5,500 (12,100 - 6,600). If you don't value the speed setting or the wide range, the FX or the Pro Tour Short is enough.
The TB is long at about 109 cm and the most expensive at ¥19,800. It's hard to swing under a low ceiling, so its main use is warming up before a round.
This article doesn't claim a specific distance gain either.
Which can you swing in a yard or indoors without bothering the neighbors?
Many people looking for a swing stick are struggling with time and space. The product pages say the VS, FX and the two Pro Tour Shorts, at about 70–80 cm, are for indoor use. The FX has a quiet design. The TB is about 109 cm, too long for indoors and suited to warming up outside.
When I swing in my yard, I don't start before 7 a.m. so the early-morning sound doesn't bother the neighbors. When I swung the VS indoors at a friend's place, it nearly hit the ceiling, so I switched to the Pro Tour Short.
The sound in a yard in the morning carries more than you'd think. I don't swing before 7 a.m., and I swing only about ten times, aimed at the wall on the side away from the neighbors' house.
I don't swing in the yard on rainy days, and I skip frosty winter mornings because the ground is slippery. Indoors, I've nearly hit the ceiling, so I don't swing the VS inside. At three times a week, I get about 12 days a month in the yard, and about 8 in a rainy month. On days I can't swing, I just do a shoulder-rotation stretch.
Where to buy the DIA SWING VS
- Rakuten IchibaRecommendedRakuten product page
Buying from outside Japan? Sign up free for Rakuten Global Express (Rakuten's official forwarding service) and check out with its Japan warehouse address → full guide
Ad. Links go to each store’s product page. Price, shipping, stock and specs (loft, shaft, set make-up) differ by store, so check the product page before you buy.
Will it raise your head speed? How far the numbers go
The DIA SWING VS product page describes raising the setting little by little as you swing, and says you can aim for more head speed and distance.
What the numbers can show is the speed setting at which the sound rings. I started at 42 m/s in April and raised it to 45 m/s from June. My usual head speed is 46 m/s, so the setting has come to within 1 m/s of my real speed (46 − 45).
Who it suits: if you're torn, choose by what you want
Great for you if you
- You want to set a clubhead-speed target and check it by sound: Daiya Swing VS
- You want a light stick and plenty of reps: Pro Tour Short WH
- You want to feel the load and focus on your body's axis: Pro Tour Short
- You want to start cheap and check face direction by color: Daiya Swing FX
If you'd rather rework the clubs you actually hit, see the driver ranking or the iron ranking.
Price and where to buy
Prices change with time, so the prices in the table are as shown on the check date. For current stores and prices, see the buy box above.
What to settle before you buy is where you'll swing. Indoors, pick one of the four at 70 to 80 cm. Outdoors, the TB is an option too.
Where will you swing yours?
Update history
What I learned swinging the Daiya Swing VS
I swung the Daiya Swing VS about 10 minutes at a time, 3 times a week, in the garden at home, from April to October 2026. Counting April to October as about 30 weeks, that is about 90 sessions and about 900 minutes (15 hours) (3 × 30, then 90 × 10, my rough estimate).
The good part: ten swings in the morning warm me up. On a sunny October morning of about 18°C, after those ten swings, I swung the driver through on the first hole that day. My usual head speed is 46 m/s.
What was hard is that it is hard to swing where the ceiling is low. I only touched the TB in a shop, and this is the feel of swinging it a few times under the shop's ceiling; it is not an account of using it at home. Indoors, I dealt with it by using a shorter one.
I started the VS speed setting at 42 m/s in April and raised it to 45 m/s from June. My usual head speed is 46 m/s. On days when the sound came early, I noticed I was rushing the transition. On days when it rang cleanly, it felt like my transition was on time.
When I swung the VS indoors at a friend's place in September, it nearly hit the ceiling, so I switched to the Pro Tour Short. In my yard, I don't swing before 7 a.m., so the early-morning sound doesn't bother the neighbors.
The candidates I weighed were the DIA SWING FX and the Pro Tour models. What I weighed was price (the VS is ¥12,100) and length, and I decided on the roughly 70 cm that I can swing in a yard and the sound that gives me a feel for speed. Over about half a year, April to October, the good part was that the sound let me notice I was rushing the transition. The weak part was that I can't swing it where the ceiling is low.
What I hesitated over was length and weight, and what decided it was a length I can swing in the garden before a round. Before this, I used an old swing training tool. If I chose again, I would take the same VS. I recommend it to people who want to warm up before a round.
For your first stick, I'd recommend the DIA SWING VS (1 stick). At about 505 g and 70 cm it's easy to handle in a yard, and the sound gives you a feel for your swing speed, so even at ¥12,100 it's easy to keep using.
Conditions for the numbers: three times a week for 10 minutes is how I use it, and about 30 weeks is a rough count from April to October. The weight (about 505 g) and length (about 70 cm) are the box and manual figures (the maker's official numbers), not something I measured myself.
Narrow the five down by place, signal and weight
I reordered the figures for all five in the order you decide things before buying. Answer from the top and you'll be down to one or two.
| What to decide | If so | Candidates |
|---|---|---|
| Where you swing | Indoors | The four at about 70–80 cm (VS, FX and the two Pro Tour Short) |
| Where you swing | Outside before a round | The roughly 109 cm TB is an option too |
| Cue | You want to check a speed target by sound | VS (10–50m/s) |
| Cue | You want to check face direction by color | FX (blue / pink) |
| Weight | You want lots of repetitions | About 460–480 g (TB, WH) |
| Weight | You want to feel resistance | About 600–610 g (Pro Tour Short, FX) |
Assuming daily use for a year, you can compare prices per day: about ¥33 for the VS (12,100 ÷ 365), about ¥23 for the two Pro Tour Short (8,250 ÷ 365), about ¥18 for the FX (6,600 ÷ 365) and about ¥54 for the TB (19,800 ÷ 365). That's my calculation, and since most people don't swing every day, treat it as a rough guide.
This article lines up only the five from Daiya. Find three things on a product page: the signal (sound, color or none), the length (cm) and the weight (g). Add them as a row and you can compare with the same yardstick. If any of the three is missing, I drop the product, because it can't be compared.
About the writer and sources
Written by a gear nerd who studies golf equipment, averages a 72, and plays about 150 rounds a year.
I re-read the figures from the sources below on Oct 28, 2026. What I swung is in the section on swinging the DIA SWING VS. Last updated Nov 7, 2026.
FAQ
How heavy should a swing stick be?
The five Daiya Swing models weigh 460 to 610 g. The product pages say the 600 g model is for practice that feels the load, and the 480 g model is for repeated swings when you want to check rhythm and movement.
Can a swing stick raise your clubhead speed?
The DIA SWING VS product page describes raising the setting little by little as you swing, and says you can aim for more head speed and distance.
Can you use a swing stick indoors?
The VS and FX (about 70 cm) and the Pro Tour Short (about 80 cm) are described as suited to indoor use, and the FX is designed to be quiet. The TB is about 109 cm, so it's a warm-up tool for before a round.
Which of the five is the lightest?
The Pro Tour TB (43 in.) at about 460 g. The heaviest is the DIA SWING FX at about 610 g, a difference of 150 g (610 − 460).
How much does a swing stick cost per day?
If you use it every day for 1 year, it's about ¥33 for the VS, about ¥23 for the Pro Tour Short, about ¥18 for the FX and about ¥54 for the TB (price ÷ 365, my calculation).
How many times a week should I swing it?
For how often to swing, I can only give my own example. From April to October 2026, I swung three times a week for about 10 minutes, in my yard at home.
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Sources for this article
- Daiya Corporation: swing training products
- Daiya Corporation: Daiya Swing VS
- Daiya Corporation: Daiya Swing Pro Tour Short
- Daiya Corporation: Daiya Swing Pro Tour Short WH
- Daiya Corporation: Daiya Swing FX
- Daiya Corporation: Daiya Swing Pro Tour TB (43 in)
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