Increasing Swingspeed | How To Bomb It Off The Tee | Padraig Harrington

In Part 1 of the latest Paddy’s Golf Tips video, Padraig talks through what every golfer is looking for, more swingspeed! He explains how this could be obtained by losing your inhibitions, practicing at maximum speed whilst playing tournaments within yourself and the importance of using a launch monitor. Padraig also demonstrates both backswing and downswing thoughts and techniques, as well as how to use ground force in the swing.

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Born in Dublin, Padraig is a proud family man married to Caroline with two children, Patrick and Ciaran. As a three time major champion, Padraig is one of the world’s top golfers and his playing record speaks for itself. Following a very successful amateur career, including winning the Walker Cup in 1995 at Royal Porthcawl in one of his three appearances, he turned professional in September 1995.

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In all things, if all things were equal and you could make a golf swing, right? Say that’s your back swing. If you can make the same back swing, lift your heel up high and get the club two or three inches higher, you’re going to be faster because it’s a longer ramp with the same force. Okay, so using that theory, okay, if you have a long ramp, and that could be club head or hands, okay, assuming everything stays the same, you would hit it further. But most people when they go higher will lose a little bit of their force. So I recommend winner of the gold medal and the champion golfer of the year is Podrick Harrington. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Welcome back to Patty’s Golf Tips. Uh, now we’re going to talk about the big one, speed. Everybody wants more speed. And there’s no doubt this game gets a lot easier the more speed you have. Not just how much if you hit the ball further, which is nice, but also it’s just easier to get a good strike, get more backspin, hit it from the roof, hit it over things if you have the physicality to get more speed. You don’t always have to use it. And and for sure, I would say to everybody when you’re playing practice rounds, when you’re hitting shots at the range, try and be 100% flat out. But when you go play tournaments, you play within yourself. You choose your moments to go for speed for sure. There are going to be a hole that you go 100% flat out. But in general, you’re going to play within yourself, but it’s easier to play within yourself at 90% when you’ve got a lot of speed. Okay. So, what’s number one golden rule for speed? If you’re trying to improve, well, I’m nearly want to say there’s two golden rules. There’s number one golden rule for you have to give up a little bit of inhibition. That’s first and foremost. So, you know, you can go to the gym and do all the workout, but if you come to the golf course and you swing the exact same, it ain’t going to help. What you need to do is you can do your gym work, you can do all that work, but you’re going to have to spend some time losing that inhibition, swinging harder on the golf course, getting a little bit more violent about it, trying to swing faster, and just that’s okay when you’re practicing. It might only be 30 balls a week. You’ve got to lose that inhibition. Second most important thing when you’re working on speed, you got to get a monitor because it’s not about how far the golf ball goes because the golf ball will go different distances depending on how you hit up on it or you hit down on it, your different spin rates. Lots of things affect how far the ball goes. It’s we’re working on the raw speed of the golf club, then followed by getting a good strike and the raw speed of the ball. And you’ve got to go 100% flat out for a few shots every week. But the key to doing it is you need a monitor. So I’ve got a PRGR monitor here. $230, $240, gives great feedback. And because I have feedback, I will go, “Oh, I I can do better than that.” And you give that to any kid, you won’t need to tell him a thing. he’ll look at it and go or she and go just go I want to beat my record. You can’t get a personal best and you try and break it. Just that instant feedback alone will make you faster. And I said that just turns on just like that. It’s very simple. Okay. It’s definitely the best piece of kit you could possibly get in your bag for somebody. Just the feedback. Okay. So, we’ve decided we’re going to be violent. we’re going to lose a little bit of I do agree you can do this with rhythm but you need to be thinking fast. Okay. So what what’s going to make you go faster? Well, you’re going to have to experiment. Everybody’s different in all things if all things were equal and you could make a golf swing, right? Say that’s your back swing. If you can make the same back swing, lift your heel up high and get the club two or three inches higher, you’re going to be faster because it’s a longer ramp with the same force. Okay, so using that theory, okay, if you have a long ramp and that could be club head or hands, okay, assuming everything stays the same, you would hit it further. But most people when they go higher will lose a little bit of their force. So I recommend that we go for force, try and get the most force we can into our swing and then go back to our regular swing. Whereas if you want to go long, you’re likely to get faster, but you’re losing force. And then if you play from here, you’ve just taught yourself to swing with less force. Whereas I would suggest you go shorter. So if you practice from here trying to hit the golf ball, it requires a huge effort to hit the golf ball. Massive. And then if your normal swing is a little longer, you’ve now trained yourself with more force and now you’re playing with your regular swing. So this is all up for you. Everybody has to experiment. So short works nicely for me. Other people 100% fast back swing. Other people high hands if you could do that and not compromise anything that’s great. Definitely everybody who’s going for length should lift their left heel. There’s no way, you know, if you want to be as fast as you can, you got to bring that heel up in the air. Okay? So that’s that’s 100% a given for speed. You’ve got to get the left heel pretty high. if you can and it gives you somewhere to go in the down swing. So, we want to mentally get a bit of force into it. So, experiment. No doubt about it. As I said, long back swing, fast back swing, short back swing. Uh these are all back swing thoughts. Now, we’re going to down swing thoughts. So, for me, I want you to release the club. So, you’ve got to get your arms and hands going as fast you can right from the start of the down swing, nice and relaxed. and then absolutely rip down on it. That’s not a great thing if you hit a slice. Slicers come out a bit too quick from the top, so they will struggle. But everybody else, if you’re just going for raw speed, we want you to accelerate the hands as quick as you can in this area. That is the biggest key, one of the biggest keys, accelerating the hands as fast you can. And believe it or not, once you’ve accelerated, then you have to learn how to decelerate them into the ball. So it’s accelerate, decelerate is actual what real speed is. So we’ve decided got to the top nice and relaxed. Everything here is relaxed in my body and I rip pull down just like if you got a cable pull this whole chain pulls down. I’m not a great believer in separation. Oh that did that come out? Did I actually say that? What I mean by that is they talk about separation. Well, if you can get your hips to rotate, there is nothing in that rotation that’s coming to my golf club there. So, I do want to push my hip back out away, but in many ways, I feel like it’s a it’s kind of like a cog system or a pulley system. As this is pulling, it pulls the next section and the next section pulls down my arm. It pulls down my wrists. So, everything is pulling the next section. I’m not actually the ability to do that is not going to add anything to my golf swing because it’s not getting out to my arm. The ability to pull it like if you were pulling and I do recommend go in and pull something even even pull something that’s static. Pull a weight in the gym. Just pull out something and you can feel how everything is the whole chain is being pulled from the lower part all the way down. That’s the feeling we’re getting. not spinning. That’s not going to add anything to the club head. Okay, so we’ve made a nice back swing. Okay, we’ve got the heel up. So, where does the speed come from? Well, we want to get as hard as we can into our left side. The more that’s in the ball of the foot and the big toe, the more it’s going to spring backwards at you, which is what we want. So, we want Now, the way to get that, it’s very hard to go back of the swing, squat. That’s adding nothing. But if you go, I want to get to the back of the swing and I want to jump. I guarantee you, you will squat a lot more. So, you watch how much my head drops here and my squat by going for a big jump. So, So there we go. So all very nice. 120 club head speed, which is grand for the talking here. So watch my squat again. Now all I’m thinking about is pushing back. I’m not raking. I’m certainly not straightening. That’s terrible. I’m not spinning. I’m pushing. And this is why we do a lot of the step drills. We’re pushing back up. So out from that direction. Okay. Okay. If you have a comment or suggestion about future videos, please put it in the comments below. 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