Generally it is not advisable to swing weighted golf clubs. They tend to mess with feel and timing, which are generally more important for golf swing speed than muscle.
More than that, your body will utilize different muscles to compensate for the weight of the club, which means you won't be working the muscles that matter. Shaft flex can affect your golf swing speed and influence your timing which is just as important. It is a good practice to base your choice of shaft flex on your swing speed and tempo. In general, the faster your swing speed, or the quicker your tempo, the stiffer you want your shafts. Remember, it is not always how fast you swing the club, it is how you swing it fast.
A well-timed swing with the proper shaft flex that matches how hard and fast you swing will always produce a better result. The average clubhead speed for many male, amateur golfers is between mph. Leading LPGA players come in around mph. Tour pros tend to have average golf swing speeds in the mph range or even higher, and long drive competitors are all the way up in the s.
However, an equally important number is your ball speed. If you have the chance to hit your driver on a launch monitor, ask about your ball speed. You want it to be as close to 1. This shows how effectively you have used your club speed.
Ball speed can quickly show you if you are not getting as much as you can out of your swing. The slowest swingers on tour all still swing above mph. Swing Align helps you increase your club speed by improving your set-up position and keeping your swing synchronized and connected from takeaway through the finish. Swing Align is particularly effective at helping you release the club freely and squarely without trying to steer the club through impact or coming through with the dreaded chicken-wing finish.
Steering and guiding the club through impact always reduce your speed, so get a Swing Align and start hitting it more solidly in no time! Instruction Instruction Blog. Swing Align Blog. According to TrackMan the average male golfer has Generally when measuring clubhead speed we see golfers with a lower handicap recording the highest speeds.
For example the average male scratch golfer swings it at mph, 9mph faster than the average five handicapper and 15mph faster than the average 10 handicapper. If you compare this to the average PGA Tour player they are nearly 10mph faster at mph.
He has an average club speed of mph and hits it The highest ever recorded clubhead speed on Trackman is mph. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below, or you can tweet me.
What is the average clubhead speed? If you are interested in finding out some ways you can add distance without increasing your swing speed, check these articles out:. Jon Sherman is the owner of Practical Golf, a website dedicated to being an honest resource for the everyday golfer who is looking to enjoy the game more, as well as improve.
He is the author of the bestselling book Mistakes All Golfers Make and how to fix them. You can find him on Twitter here - practicalgolf , where he is happy to chat about golf with anyone. I see a lot of charts about swing speed and handicap comparisons, but I never see how the handicap is compared to average yardage the golfer plays. It would be nice to see how the average yardage weighs into these statistics. I imagine that a lot of single digit male handicaps are because the golfer is playing a yard course on a regular basis.
Do you know if there are any handicaps stats that also include course yardage? GHIN asks which teebox when you enter the score and course rating accounts for distance from that tee box. I played in a competitive league one year and played with other guys. Of the , about claimed to drive right down the pipe. You know the story from here. But… in the left rough usually! Thanks Justin. Nobody would go into a pickup basketball game expecting to dunk like Lebron, or drain a bunch of threes like Steph!
This is a very good article and certainly speaks to what is realistic for amateur golfers. Last year, I took a golfing buddy of mine to a golf shop which had a golf simulator which measured swing speed and carry distance.
How do they not realize their drives are not when they still have over left on the approach to a yrd par 4? There is a strong relationship between swing speed, GIR, and other variables with our score and handicaps. For sure you will find exceptions of someone that has such good short game or putting that finds the way to pull out great scores without speed or GIRs, but this is what it is, an exception.
I just play on saturdays, no training, and take around 15 classes with a pro per year. Normal weight and body structure, nothing special. My driver swing speed is 99mph on Tackman. I think everyone can do this. Keep trying! Good golf for everyone! Pga tour courses are set up for max distance so a yard carry often means yard drives.
His overall skill outweighs the fact that he usually only hits ish on most holes. Consistent straight distance will make any average golfer around a 5 handicap without much skill as his eagles and easy birdies will negate his terrible holes. It used to be was a good drive now pga tour players hit their 5 wood that far and yards is kinda the standard given the roll helps their still attaining mph driver speed.
You will see young players who are more pounds to all of them will be pro athlete caliber and gone will be the days of club pro type golfers. Good college players will look like minor league basketball players,or college football players compared to nfl pros there is just a huge gap there linemen are pounds and fast where college players are just big but not quite cut out to be pros.
I have no doubt the pga tour set up will follow a par 4 standard and yard par 5 norm. Short courses with yards par 4 means driver and wedge make some birdies save some pars and you shoot 3 under all day.
I advocate playing from the correct tees to make golf challenging and fun I mean why not and why make yourself hit hybrids into greens? My previous statement holds true I believe and it will be very common to see pga tour guys hit an average drive of and some holes yards. The tour commissioner will probably have a short par 4 as yards and an average of The average par 5 will be in the ball park all the way to to make it a 3 shot hole.
Mark my words the future will be drivers with yard 3 woods this would leave them a gap wedge into that 3 shot yarder. I believe baseball would be a great analogy for this because you see mlb players attain the highest skill as pitchers and hitters whereas the minors are full of dead read power hitters and straight throwing mph pitchers that would go knowhere in the mlb.
This would be very boring for the viewer and terrible for ratings seeing guys hit it again and bubba watson hitting his booming yard drives,but it might be the best direction for the game overall. I can definitely agree that someone that rarely plays golf or practices needs to lower expectations and get real. At all. Tom Wishon says golf club technology has been maxed out for a while now.
I would think ball technology is almost at its peak as well. So with the greatest equipment advancements behind us and water conservation on the rise, courses are likely near max yardage as well. While swing speed is certainly important in relation to distance, better struck shots and rhythm seem to be the biggest points that fall by the wayside. Sometimes a shorter back swing can help with consistency, accuracy, and distance.
Many pro golfers actually have shorter back swings, but are hitting the ball just as far, if not farther than a lot of these highly athletic golfers that depend solely on their physical fitness.
Another point to make is that in order to crush the ball accurately at Professional Speeds, your whole body has to be able to keep up with it. The faster you swing, the more your body has to work to accomplish this the more that can go wrong. This also places a tremendous amount of wear on the human body. Tiger Woods, along with many other pro golfers are prime examples. Where is Tiger? How many back surgeries has he had?
Most definitely that 95 mph for the driver is the low end for handicappers. Were you studying 70 year old handicappers?? B Says- While I agree that it is not true that hdcp have an average swing of 95mph. That is for sure the low range. Most swing in the range. However, your claim to carry a PW and see it as average is just as ludicrous.
For the last 5 years of swingman data which includes every shot hit on the PGA tour, the tour average PW travelled yards. With the exception of the driver and 3 wood my iron yardages are like his.
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