Easy Golf Swing for Senior Golfers – Effortless Speed Without The Strain!

Easy Golf Swing Speed for Senior Golfers | Effortless Power for Over 50 Golfers

Are you over 50 and struggling with golf swing speed and distance? You’re not alone. Many senior golfers work too hard trying to generate power, often overusing their bodies and losing both consistency and contact quality.

In this video, you’ll discover an easy golf swing technique designed specifically for aging golfers. Learn how to use your hands and arms more effectively to create natural speed and improve clubface control — without putting stress on your joints or back. This is a golf swing made simple for senior players, helping you generate more clubhead speed and solid contact with less effort.

We’ll break down:

The common mistake older golfers make (hint: too much body!)

How to train your arms and hands for better swing mechanics

A smoother, pain-free swing that delivers effortless power

Why senior golfers lose distance — and how to get it back!

✅ Perfect for golfers aged 50, 60, and up
✅ Gain more consistency, accuracy, and distance
✅ Improve your golf swing without complex changes

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Hey, Barry here from Over 50 Golf. Are you losing distance? Are you struggling to hit the ball solidly and it seems like you’re swinging harder and harder and trying harder and getting less and less out of it? That’s a common problem, especially as we get older, right? We start losing some distance and we start swinging harder. I’m going to try harder, going to try to get more out of it, and it doesn’t happen. In fact, it gets worse. Part of the problem is I see with golfers, they overuse their body. They turn too much and they don’t use their hands and arms enough. Right? That’s counterintuitive to what we’re taught. We’re taught lots to kind of, oh, we got to rotate and we got to use our body and all that. And that’s important, but golfers overlook educating their arms and hands to generate easy speed and power. It’s an easier way to swing the golf club. It’s a lot easier on the body, and it can be very effective for good square contact and hitting the ball solidly and maintaining your club head speed rather than trying to overturn and muscle the ball with your body, which causes a lot of exertion. and causes a lot of contact problems. It’s not going to be very solid. So, in this lesson today, I’m going to give you a few tips on how you can regain your speed easily and hit the ball effortlessly with good, solid contact and take the stress off the body. Now, if you’re new to the channel and you like our videos and content, please subscribe. It helps us grow our community of golfers, and we love hearing from our community. If there’s any lessons or tips you want to see for your game, shoot us a message, throw it in the comments, and we’ll be happy to include it in our video series. Now, let’s get into it. [Music] So, here’s what I see with golfers that are they’re struggling with their distance and they’re trying too hard. They end up overturning. So, what happens on the back swing? They make these big massive turns where they’re rotating around with their upper body and they’re just making these huge huge big back swing turns really torquing themselves around and club goes back way behind them. They might even get into some drifting and sliding around going back and looks a little bit like this from a down view. You know, it’s club wraps around them and it’s arms are brought in very shallow. It looks hard to do. It is hard to do. You’ll feel it in your body when you try that. you know, and then, you know, they’ve turned around so much here. What’s going to happen on the down swing? They’re just going to throw their upper body at the ball. So, they’re unwinding their shoulders down into the ball. And actually, you know, their body’s less effective doing that cuz they’re they’re throwing the club so much with the upper body and they’re not using the lower body at all to swing the golf club. So, the contact’s very oblique. You know, it’s kind of a slapping action. club bottoms out behind the ball, pass the ball, open club face, whatever, closed club face. It’s all over the place and it’s a lot of effort for little results. Instead, you know, let’s swing a little bit easier. Let’s educate the hands and arms to create a little bit of speed and let the body react to that. You’ll find the results will be much more consistent and a lot easier. So, first drill I want to show you is a little chipstick drill. So you can feel that action in the hands and arms and loading the club and unloading the club as we come through. So I’ll just grab my chip stick. So these are just alignment sticks, driveway markers. You go to the hardware store, pick them up for four bucks. They’re light, they’re flexible, they’re easy to swing to give you the feel for that action in the golf club. So I I’m standing here and I’m just whipping this thing with my arms and you can hear it. There’s a lot going on here. A lot of speed. I’m loading it going back. So when I go back, you can see there’s a free hinge in my wrist. Coming down. Going back. And then as I come down, it drops in front of me. I still got that little bit of a hinge. And then I just let it whip through. There’s not a lot of body action going on here. It’s mostly in my hands. Rotation in the forearms. Boom. That’s pretty easy speed. And I can do it in the right hand. And the right arm is where a lot of golfers struggle with because what do they do on the down swing? They’re overturning and they do this. Not much not much in that. That’s a lot of work, right? Rather than up here, swing it back. It loads. Then the arm comes drops to toward me. I’m not doing this. I’m just standing here and I’m letting the arm drop to me. And look at the lag there where the end of the stick is way behind me here. My wrist is still hinged and cocked and then boom. So there’s a lot of easy speed there with that. So that’s the first thing to feel getting those arms just to swing back and through and getting those wrists to load and unload. Just like that. Then I’m going to put both hands on it. I’m still standing in place, feet close together. I’m just going to do a few little swings here. Arms stay close to me. I’m just trying to load it and unload it. And you can see too what happens when I’m doing this. My body starts to move instinctively. I’m balancing myself on my lead side, my left foot here, and my body starts to instinctively rotate toward the target. I’m not even thinking about that. All I’m thinking about is I’m just trying to use my arms and hands to get this thing to whip around me, you know, in that release action. I’m not holding it off. It’s not this. I’m not trying to drag the handle across. I’m not trying to create lag or anything. I’m loading it coming back. My arms stay close to me. They drop in front of me. and then to release it and strike the ball while my hands are here. Just going to get my forearms to rotate and then through. Some golfers do this with the hands and they kind of flip it early, right? It’s not that. So, as I drop it down here, it’s the rotation in the forearms. And we’ll actually get a little bit of kind of downward cocking of the wrists to strike the ball like that rather than this kind of flippy crossing over business. If you just think of kind of using the forearms a little bit more, you’ll get better hand action to release the golf club. You’ll get rid of this sort of early flip and early crossover. So, I’m just doing a few of these again. And you can see there’s no rush to the rhythm of it. It’s like I’m waiting for it and I let it drop and then boom. Just like that. Just using my arms and hands. You can just hear it. And then feet apart. I’ll do a little bit of a breaking drill. Again, this just helps with the delivery coming into it. And I’m just going to be So, I’m just kind of cutting it off and shortening it up a little bit. And that lets me move into it and lets me release it. I’m not overusing the body, right? Like I’m not doing that business. I’m putting the brakes on that rotation. I’m putting the brakes on that swing. I’m just letting it release here. And you can hear it. And I’m going to put a little bit more force into it now with my hands and arms. I’m not using my lower body. I’m not trying to shift faster or turn faster. I’m just going to put more force into the handle of it with my hands and arms here. There we go. That’s a good workout. But there’s You can hear the speed to that, right? And I’m I’m using the force through my hands and arms to get that thing to whip. And I’m not gripping it very tight either. Just enough to hang on to it. So, do a little bit of that. Now, I’m going to translate it over to the golf club. So, I’ll grab a short iron. So, first drill we’ll do is with our feet together, touching if you can. If not touching, just close together. Flip the club club over. Just do a few swishes. Get the feel for the weight of the club and getting the butt of the club to swish just like you’re using that chipstick drill, that alignment stick. Okay, I got a little bit of a feel for that. So now I’m going to do the same thing with the golf club. Going to flip it over and hit the club face there. Ball on the club face. Get a feel for that. Weights over here. Boom. Use my arms and hands. Not worried about the body. The body’s going to react and do its thing. Back and through. Weight stays here. And look what happens. My body turned. I wasn’t even thinking about it. And this little eight iron went over 100 yards. Club head speed was 70 mph. I was just swinging with my hands and arms. Boom. Again. I feel like I’m doing the chipstick drill. Again, 108 yards. 70 mph again. So, it’s amazing how much speed you can generate just using your arms and hands and educating and training them properly to load the golf club going back. I’m not overturning. Arms swing up. Wrists hinge. Arms drop down. Forearms rotate through. Club unloads. Boom. So, weight on the lead foot. I’m just going to turn around that using those arms and hands and smash. Let it go under 18 yards again. 76 mph. Not bad. Okay, feet apart. I’m just going to do some little half swings. And I’m just going to feel like I’m rotating those forearms to strike the golf ball back and through. Do the same thing again. A little bit of weight over here on that lead side. Just going to make a little swing. Let those arms and hands rotate through. 74 miles an hour. Not bad. 115 yards carry. Not that much farther than when my feet are together. Got to work a little bit on the timing of that. But that just shows you boom. Right. How effective the arms and hands can be for generating some speed for you. Try that again. Boom. Get set and through. 126 yds carry 77 mph. Getting some speed there. Just using my arms and hands and then the body reacts to that. Then I’m going to lengthen the swing out. And I’m just going to rotate back a little bit more. Rotate through a little bit more. And I’m going to feel like my arms are controlling the motion. I’m let my arms swing. wrists hinge, come back down, the club drops, hands and arms release coming through. The body reacts to that. I don’t have to think about rotating and turning or shifting my weight or all that. I’m just thinking about swinging the arms, letting the club swing around me. And I’ll just make an easy swing at first. Not going to apply too much force to the handle. Just back and through. Let it release back and through. 150 y in the air. Not bad. at 80 mph. So, decent contact. Do that again. Back and through. 82 mph. 145 carry. Not too bad. Maybe hit behind it just a little bit. Little more force, a little more swing. Again, 83 mph, 160 yard. But primarily just focusing on using my hands and arms and letting the body react with that. So working on loading the club going back, unloading it, coming through, educating the hands and arms for good contact. Back and through. Back and through. And this way you can start to make some easy swings. You train the arms and hands to swing the golf club. You feel like you’re swinging the club a little bit easier. You’re going to make better contact. You’re going to get more out of it. And that’s what we want. Barry from Over 50 Golf. Let’s keep playing golf. Let’s keep having fun.