Golf shafts come in different lengths, weights and have different kick points. Not only will the right shaft help with your distance, but it will play a significant role in your accuracy. A good club fitter will take the time to educate you on the importance of what you need in your game from a club fitting perspective.
Even if you do not take the time to see an official club fitter, make sure you are testing out different drivers with different shafts on a swing launch monitor. You will want to track your club speed, ball speed and your spin rate. So many amateurs golfers lose sight of the importance of a low spin rate to maximize your distance. The pros will oftentimes switch out the shafts in their drivers until they are comfortable and have the right combination of power and accuracy.
The proper swing mechanics will go a long way in ensuring that the speed of the swing is in the right place and that you can maximize the ability of your body to hit your peak performance. Several of the biggest speed destroyers are hitting down on the ball, moving off of the ball and poor transition leading to a bad kinetic chain.
Hitting down on the ball causes an increase in spin rate. The higher the spin rate the shorter your drive. There is a sweet spot somewhere in the 2, RPM range, but once you get above 3, RPM the majority of golfers will start to lose distance. This will also impact your ability to hit the ball straight as well.
Finding your maximum launch angle will be a key to maximizing the speed and speed right that matches your swing speed. Moving off the ball on your downswing takes away your ability use ground forces to maximize your speed. The right foot for a right handed golfer becomes similar to the starting blocks for a sprinter in track.
If you move off of the ball and outside that right foot, you have nothing to push off of to create speeds and force. The movement off the ball can often feel like turn and rotation when it truly is just a false feel that makes it feel like you are creating speed.
A poor transition from backswing to downswing will cause the speed right away at the downswing instead of right at the before or even slightly after contact. As the transition occurs the shaft of the club will lay down slightly and store up energy to be released by the driver. The swing fault you will see in those that struggle with distance is a casting move from the top, where the angles are released too early.
The proper use of the kinetic chain helps ensure that your speed is in the right place. It is hard to control all of these positions, but here is a quick video on using natural movements to help increase speed and maximize your kinetic chain.
Tip: Monitor your ball speed or club speed through different launch monitors that are on the market. I personally use my SkyTrak Launch Monitor , both indoors and outdoors to track my ball speed and the angle that I am launching the ball at. The spin rates are the biggest eye opener as you can feel what a 2, RPM spin rates feels like compared to a 4, RPM spin rate.
Online Golf Instruction: Here is one my favorite videos to help you naturally hit the ball further maximizing gravity and the human anatomy.
One of the great things about golf in the online world that we live in is the easy access to many of the top golf instructors in the world. I have spent a great deal of time researching and implementing the different philosophies and considering what is best for my game. I provide an overview of who I believe are the top 5 online golf instructors. In the past, you only really had your local pga teaching pro, now we have access to the best in the world!
When it comes to mechanics there are many great options. My suggestion is to consider your different options and then try to swing with one philosophy or approach.
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz in the golf world about different speed trainers. The one that has caught my attention is the SuperSpeed Golf Trainer. They promise to improve your swing speed by Miles Per Hour from the first time you use this speed training system. This has caught my attention and it is on my list for the next golf swing aid I will purchase and provide a full review for. Also check out what products we recommend — You will find our top 5 Recommended Swing Aids.
They provide a speed training protocol to follow to maintain that initial speed burst and to increase over the months. Options exist for many for different ages of golf as they provide trainings systems for youth, seniors and super long drive golfers.
The golfer who you hear most often associated with this training system is Phil Mickelson. Late in his career he has actually increased his swing speed and is competing with the many young studs even as he approaches This system provides you with three swing sticks of different weights.
The idea is to swing two clubs which weight less than your driver to get your body used to swinging faster. The third club is heavier than your driver and helps you train and build strength.
When you see these stats it is little wonder that professionals hit the ball great distances not only with their driver but other clubs as well. This can leave people wondering how to increase club head speed as they see it as a great way to cut shots off their game. Below we highlight how club head speed is generated and how you can add more golf swing speed to your game.
You may be wondering what your own club head speed is and where this stands against other golfers. Increased club head speed is a contributing factor to the extra distance that you will see from PGA Tour professionals from the tee. Golf ball speed can be a key factor for you too! It is reasonable to expect a good club head speed for a male golfer to be above 90 MPH as this would be the typical range for a non-professional golfer who can carry the ball over yards consistently.
The average swing speed is 94 mph which means that on average a PGA Tour player will swing This means an average male golfer swings around The reason for the decreased swing speed vs distance compared to men can be attributed to women on average having less upper body power than men which is a swing speed cause. These findings correspond with our driver distance findings which show there is a closer correlation between key driving stats for PGA and LPGA tour players than for amateur male and female golfers.
To improve your swing speed there are four different key factors that you should focus on. These factors are:. This is because every golfer is different and different gear will work better for different players. This can be the case for your whole bag from driver to wedges to putter. However, the main club which will see benefits from enhanced club head speed will be the driver.
Picking a great driver for distance such as the Callaway Epic Flash Driver that is designed for achieving great distance and consistency. Doing this would provide a great addition if you are looking to increase driver distance and to practice your drills to increase club head speed. It is also worth considering your skill level. This is because beginners have a slower swing speed and would be better off looking for a specific driver for high handicappers.
However, a driver for mid handicappers is better suited to somebody who has played golf for a while. These clubs will give you the maximum advantage when looking to add distance to your tee shots. They will also give you more confidence with your swing when looking to add club head speed to your golf swing on your drives. This is because these golf driver shafts are designed with increasing club head speed in mind and are often more flexible and lightweight than the shaft on your original golf driver, especially if it came as part of a set or is a mediocre driver.
Our second extra club head speed tip is to ensure that you measure your driver shaft length. We believe this is important to increasing club head speed and increasing driver distance because not only will you be able to have better distance control but you will also be able to develop more confidence by having the correct length driver shaft for you.
Additionally, you may look to increase your club head speed by using weighted golf clubs in practice along with a specific overspeed training program.
Therefore by perfecting your technique you can give yourself a solid foundation to improve your swing speed in golf. Before we look at some of the best drills to increase club head speed we need to look at technique and what golfers can do themselves to improve their own swing speed. By adopting great technique you can still improve your club head speed.
Firstly, rotation is important to generate club head speed in golf. By having a nice, smooth full rotation which focuses on the movement of the shoulders and hips you will be able to generate as fast of a swing speed as possible. The second way to generate club head speed with technique is to focus on the downswing. Too many amateur golfers try to hit the ball as hard as they can which leads them to having a wild backswing and downswing. In other words, your average of mph for the cohort is actually above TrackMan's 99th percentile!
Also, you can't say 1 golfer out of 26 or 1 golfer out of 96 achieved a Maybe that one person in each group was extremely special.
If you look at PGA tour averages since , the 99th percentile is closer to mph. In that case, it seems there's really no practical benefit to swinging that fast. Anecdotally, I also find that targeting higher clubhead speed can be counterproductive if you're already high. I averaged around mph with a 2 handicap, then I went on this stupid crusade for distance IMO, if you are already above , you should be really careful about increasing your speed, or do what you can to maximize distance through fitting.
Even with , you can average over yards. Good points Jason. I'm sure Tiger in was able to swing well over mph if not mph, but as he matured, he realized that he needed to focus more on his accuracy. Even Bubba seems to tone it down and rarely goes all out because accuracy is just as important as distance. If you look at the guys on the long drive tour, they are lucky to hit 1 50 yard grid out of 10 balls. The average golfer will struggle mightily to square a clubface even with a swing in the mph range.
So I say just try to get to the PGA tour average or a speed where youc an hit a high percentage of fairways. Also realize that genetics play a huge role. Case in point is Kyle Berkshire who is a bigger than average guy but not particularly strong and when he turned 20, he randomly started hitting it yards. Great insight Jason. We did note in the article that the sample size in each age group as broken down needs to continue to grow.
We are using flightscope so no concern if technology we are using is flawed, great question though. Average clubspeed for all men is not a very helpful number as it combines men in their 70s to 20 year olds, hence the start of building this database. Sorry to hear about your injuries, that is what the other parts of our database actually look at is how much speed can your body handle. It sounds like the s were above what your body was able do handle. Happy to chat offline with you about all this if your interested in more detail.
My contact is on our website or my tpi profile. Thanks again for taking the time to read what we are doing! Getting to conclusions on potential club head speed levels utilizing your measures this early in the process seems to biased, premature and not valid. Thanks so much for the insight Jim!
We need people like you in the industry to help educate people who read this that it is not finite and that there are outliers. This was just the start and the goal was not to suggest this is finite for the exact reasons you suggested. There is no resource like this out there, hence it has to be built.
Since this was published he database is close to golfers now. It is a work in progress as stated in the article and we need people like yourself to continue to push our field forward and demand more and better data. The selection of year olds obviously varies based on where they are biologically, but with a large enough sample size we should see a wash out of all outliers talking hundreds of datapoints needed here per group.
Thanks for not accepting this as final and pushing us to keep making it better. Agreed, these samples are way too low!
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