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.
This weekend is my annual golf trip with my guys group! This is the WITB that I work towards all year as I need to play the same 14 clubs and shafts!
Driver: Titleist GT2 (11 degrees @ 10.25)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana WB 63x
3-wood: Ping G440 LST (16 degrees @ 16)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei AV RAW Orange 65TX
7-wood: TaylorMade Qi35 Tour (21 degrees @ 20)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 8s
Utility: Titleist U505 (4)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD HY85-s
Irons: Callaway Apex Ai150 (5-PW)
Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Golf Mid 115 S
Wedge: PXG Sugar Daddy III (50-10S)
Shaft: Project X Wedge 6.0
Wedge: PXG Sugar Daddy III (56-10S)
Shaft: Project X Wedge 6.0
Wedge: Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks (60-A+)
Shaft: Project X Wedge 6.0
Putter: Kevin Burns 9306 2.0 (33 inches)
Grip: Iomic Standard
Ball: Titleist ProV1x
Bag: Titleist Links Legend Member
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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.