WATCH: How to increase swing speed with your driver
This week’s Impact Show will give you ways to help improve your club head speed in the golf swing, helping you to hit your drives longer.
Kristoffer Reitan just won his first PGA Tour event at the 2026 Truist Championship. He is a Ping staff member and has a complete set of clubs from the brand. He did make a late driver switch this weekend that helped propel him to victory.
Driver: Ping G440 Max (9 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 60 TX
3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX
7-wood: Ping G440 Max (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 85 TX
Irons: Ping Blueprint S (4-9)
Shafts: KBS Tour X
Wedges: Ping S259
46-S
Shaft KBS Tour X
50-S
54-S
58-S
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Ping PLD Custom Ally Blue H (white finish)
Grips: Golf Pride MCC Midsize
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
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Right now, I am tied for first place in my league! Don’t worry, the wheels will fall off as we get further into the year, but let’s keep the train rolling with 14 brand new clubs this week. We are off on the back nine again, so the driver is back in, and the 7-wood is out, as the course dictates what clubs I tend not to use. Excited to get these New Level irons out there and see if I can catch some of that driver magic I had down at Pinehurst with the Wilson Dynapwr+.
Driver: Wilson Dynapwr Max+ (12 degrees @ 11)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6s
3-wood: Cobra OPTM Max (15.5 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD VR-7s
Utility: PXG 0311 X Gen8
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI-85s Hybrid
Hybrid: Ping G440 4h (22 degrees @ 21)
Shaft: Ping Tour 2.0 Chrome 85s
Irons: New Level 702+ (5 & 6)
Shafts: Project X Red 6.0
Irons: New Level 702 CB (7-PW)
Shafts: Project X REd 6.0
Wedge: Titleist Vokey SM11 (50.12F)
Shaft: Nippon Modus Tour 105 S
Wedge: Titleist Vokey SM11 (56.14F)
Shaft: Nippon Modus Tour 105 S
Wedge: Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks (60V)
Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold S200
Putter: PXG Hot Rod ZT
Ball: Titleist ProV1x Left Dash
Bag: Ghost GT-14 Patriot
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Dirk Digger
Nov 27, 2017 at 7:46 pm
Regurgitating all that knowledge, I bet your driver clubhead speed is 73 MPH!
rga
Nov 27, 2017 at 10:24 pm
That’s not nice to say that about the boys in the video.
SK
Nov 27, 2017 at 5:37 pm
To increase your clubhead speed by ~10%, going from say 90 mph to 99 mph, you must increase the kinetic energy or energy of motion of the clubhead.
Now we know that KE = 1/2 Mass x Velocity squared, so KE is directly proportional to the square of the velocity.
So how much extra KE would you need to generate for a 10% velocity increase?
Simply take the ratio of 99^squared to 90^squared and that’s the percentage KE increase needed to get the higher speed.
Thus 99 x 99 divided by 90 x 90 equals 9801/8100 or 1.21. So you would need to increase the KE of your body and club by 21% to achieve a 10% increase in clubhead speed…. and that’s why golf teachers and pros are impressed with getting even a 5% increase in clubhead speed, or finding an extra ~10% KE.
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I very much doubt you can translate higher gadget speed to a permanent golf club speed because most of the KE is generated from the ground up to the shoulders and then the arms and club are whipped around the core… and if you don’t have the core strength you will not be able to transmit the KE from your hips and legs to your shoulders via your core… not from your gadget or club… plain and simple.
Dirk Digger
Nov 27, 2017 at 7:47 pm
Regurgitating all that knowledge, I bet your driver clubhead speed is 73 MPH!
ken
Nov 27, 2017 at 10:22 pm
… and I bet your IQ is 73 ….
brucee
Nov 28, 2017 at 11:13 pm
Don’t give me all that science stuff and just tell me what to do to speed up my swing. Which driver is the best for power? That’s all I want.