The Same Guys Behind the PlaneMate Just Launched the Widener. Tour Pros Are Already Using It.

ProSENDR, the company that brought back the old Tour Striker PlaneMate under its own brand, just launched a new training aid called the Widener. It’s already showing up on PGA Tour driving ranges, and David Woods, PGA (the instructor behind both products) posted a demo that’s been making the rounds since spring.

The Widener sells for $179.99 on the ProSENDR site, or $199.99 at list price if the current sale ends. It attaches to your lead forearm and tucks the opposite end under your trail-arm armpit, physically forcing your trail arm to stay extended and wide on the backswing instead of collapsing. That collapse (golf instructors call it “chicken winging” or losing width) is one of the most common power leaks in an amateur swing, and it’s a different fault than the one the PlaneMate targets.

Why It Matters If You Already Own a PlaneMate

If you’ve read our ProSENDR PlaneMate review, you know that product fixes an over-the-top swing path using a resistance band and a waist belt. The Widener is not a replacement for that. It’s solving a different problem: arm width and T-spine rotation during the backswing, not swing plane during the transition. ProSENDR is positioning the two as complementary, and the training protocols are built to pair with each other if you own both.

Right-handed golfers only, for now. ProSENDR hasn’t announced a left-handed version.

Update: Wyndham Clark Confirmed as a User, and Early Community Feedback Is In

Since we first published this, more tour confirmation surfaced. Wyndham Clark, who has been using a coat-hanger drill for his lead-wrist angle at events like The Open Championship, has also been photographed with the Widener alongside his other ProSENDR gear, according to ProSENDR’s own Instagram and multiple golf outlets covering his 2026 form turnaround.

We also now have real amateur feedback, and it’s split along exactly the lines we expected. A GolfWRX forum thread that ran from February through July racked up 62 replies, and the tone is more skeptical than the tour-usage headlines suggest. Multiple users compared it directly to a decades-old training aid, essentially a steering wheel lock strapped to the elbow, and questioned whether $180 is justified for what one poster called “a piece of plastic.” A recurring practical concern from posters with longer or shorter arms than average: the Widener’s fit doesn’t obviously account for arm-length variation, since sizing is adjusted by sliding a wrist strap up or down rather than a true custom fit.

The most useful comment came from a PGA-certified instructor active in the thread, who uses tools like GEARS and HackMotion professionally: “I’ve always found that training aids that force you to do whatever it is have very limited success. You still have to do it yourself, but the aid makes you, so you’re not really participating.” Another poster made a similar point about a different ProSENDR product, the PlaneMate: real swing changes come from understanding, not from grinding on a training aid that does the work for you. That view lines up with what we found in our own PlaneMate review, where the anti-flip effect held up but the shallowing claims mostly didn’t survive scrutiny once the device came off.

Right-handed golfers only, still. ProSENDR hasn’t announced a left-handed version.

What to Do Now (Updated)

Our original take gets more confirmed than changed by the new information. The tour-usage story is real and now has a second marquee name attached. But the amateur feedback so far leans toward “clever gadget, not a swing fix,” which is exactly the pattern instructors and long-time buyers warned about in the GolfWRX thread. If you already fight a backswing collapse and have the $180 to spend on an unreviewed product, it’s a reasonable gamble given the tour pedigree. If you want something with a longer track record and lower cost, the PlaneMate at $120 still has the deeper base of real user feedback. We have not tested a Widener ourselves yet and are not changing that status until we do.

Source: Golf Digest and Yahoo Sports reporting on tour usage (2026), ProSENDR’s Instagram, the GolfWRX Instruction & Academy forum thread on the Widener (February-July 2026), and our own PlaneMate review. We’ll update this article once we’ve completed hands-on testing.