The Simple Speed Trick Every Golfer Should Know!

If you’ve ever felt like you’re swinging your golf club with all you’ve got—and still leaving yards on the table—this video is for you. In today’s Athletic Motion Golf Video, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb break down a crazy simple speed trick that instantly boosted club head speed by up to 11 MPH without a single workout or training aid.

Using Trackman data, we compare an amateur’s swing to the Tour Average and then to Rory McIlroy’s explosive takeaway. The difference? It’s all about timing your club speed early in the swing, not swinging harder. This timing-based club speed hack not only increases your speed but also improves your sequencing, feel, and control.

You’ll see a side-by-side swing analysis, hear practical coaching tips, and even get a pre-shot routine to help you load your swing like a pro—without overthinking. This is about swinging smarter, not harder, and the impact is immediate.

Stick around to the end for a surprising comparison to Rory’s max takeaway speed—and how close YOU can get with this single swing adjustment.

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Video Chapters:
00:00 – Setting up the stock 7-iron swing
00:20 – Baseline speed test on Trackman
00:41 – Intro to the “Speed Trick” concept
01:23 – Comparing amateur vs Tour average swing graphs
02:06 – Understanding steep vs gradual swing speeds
02:46 – John’s pre-shot routine to gain speed
03:06 – Testing faster takeaways
03:26 – 7 MPH gain explained
04:14 – Shape of swing speed over time
05:12 – Impact of early load on downswing rhythm
05:48 – High-speed swing demo with audible swish
06:24 – Rory McIlroy comparison: explosive load
07:09 – Applying the drill on-course
08:04 – Why timing beats force in your swing
09:04 – Reverse test: what happens when you go slow
09:43 – Final thoughts: rhythm vs mechanics

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John, on this next swing, I want you to hit your stock swing that you would hit with that seven iron on a par three. Same speed, all of that. Okay. Missed it. Okay, that’s golf. That happens. Was probably normal speed. Okay. Speedwise, was it You said it was pretty normal. Yeah. See what Trackman says here. Pretty damn close to my normal. Okay. We know what you cruise at on the course. Right around 87 88. That was 87 miles an hour. Yeah. Okay. So, we are going to now get somewhere where you’re going to stay right there. Y. Okay. So, what we’re going to do now is overlay that with the tour average and we’re just going to see when that speed was applied. Okay? Cuz what we want to give you guys is a really simple I say simple, it’s going to be simple to see a really easy speed trick to gain more club head speed. Okay? So, you’re not gonna have to go work out, not have to buy anything. and we’re just going to change the timing of what you do to improve your club head speed. It also improves the sequence of your swing. Uh is a lot of benefit in this. So, what we’re looking at here is your club head speed graph compared to the tour average graph. Now, you’re in yellow, he’s in blue. We’re only talking low 20s of club head speed. So, all of you can swing the club faster than 20ish miles an hour. So, this isn’t something that is unattainable. It’s not one of those tour only fitness kind of things, right? We can all swing the club 20 miles an hour. Your hill, your graph produces this little bunny slope, right? So, if you were going to go have fun with a snow sled, we wouldn’t want to play on your hill because it’s it’s kind of gradual and flat. It’s the speed is is gradual. Very gradual. And it tapers off really gradually. Exactly. If we look at the tour player, the tour average I should say, we say it’s much steeper. It’s about a 3 mph difference in club head speed, but look how quickly it tapers off. That’s to me that’s the difference between the high performance swings. Yes. And like if I played golf for a month and it was playing from 70, 300 yards, my swing would probably start morphing into more like that. But we’re in here teaching golf, posing a lot. You have to be careful with that, right? You know, you start getting this slowish takeway, real controlled motion, and you what you want is a little more ballistic motion here in this first part of the swing so that graph can have a sharper slope to it. Okay. So, with no other thought other than trying to make the club head go faster sooner, Yeah. Let’s see what happens. Yeah. And I got my ultimate hack for this. And and this is what I do on the golf course when I start feeling like I’m getting too careful and start steering the ball. This is my pre-shot routine is starting the club here and swinging it back. So I’ll do a few of those. Okay. Just to feel that stretch in my body earlier and loading the muscles earlier and I’ll get in there. All right. So let me see if I can put that into the motion. You ready? Hold on one second. Okay. When you are missed it a little. Did that feel we’re working on club head speed? A little out of control, but I’m gonna mis hit it when you’re trying to get I know that’s the right idea. Okay. Did you get it going faster off the bat? I did. Okay. Quite a bit difference. Yeah. So, you’ve gone from 21 mph of max club head speed to now 28. And look at the club head speed at impact now. And you had a much sharper hill there. Up and down. Up and down. So you increased 7 miles an hour of club head speed at the ball by getting it almost exactly seven miles an hour off the ball. That’s such a good point. You want to do like a lot of work early in this back swing. And then another way to think about this, let’s say that Mike and I take 75 to make a back swing, right? You and I take the same amount of time to make a back. I was just saying even one second. One second. What we’re saying is if Mike takes it back at a very even pace on that one second and hits, he’s still making a one second back swing where I’m going quicker early and letting that thing die. It’s a totally different shape to how the graph on how we get to the top of the back swing and it loads the muscles differently. You want to be and we talked about this before. You want to be breaking going into the corner so you can come out faster. You just don’t want a granny turn around the corner, right? Because this is a hairpin turn at the top of the swing. Just like if I wanted to jump as high as I could, I wouldn’t go. Exa Exactly. You’ve got to load. Exactly. So, let’s do one more and I’ll I’ll I’ll even do a little more exaggerated. I was going to say I want to see if you can maybe put some more body in it. Really see if we can crack that 30 mph. Yeah. In the takeaway. Now, before we do that, I want you to notice on the graph how not only higher was the club head speed earlier, but how much earlier it happened compared to the tour player. So, you’re you’re really doing what you described is load. You gather it, right? We’re not trying to carry all that speed into the top and have the club bouncing around at the top. That’s the kiss of death for this. The cool part about this is if you do it right, you feel like you have a lot more time in transition. If you’ve never felt that before, it’s such a good feel. on the golf course, you just feel like there’s more time to make the weight shift and unwind and you’re not so hurried coming out of the top, which is kind of the opposite of what you would think, right? All right, so let’s get you set up. This is just going to be kind of a wild swing, but I just want Again, we’re speed training. We’re not going to play at that speed, but we’re improving the overall speed, so our our cruising speed is going to be faster. Hold on one second. Okay, let’s go. You ready? I think so. All right, we’re going to get a swoosh in the back swing here. All right, I’m going to try to make some noise right in here. Ready? Yep. All right. Oh, that’s I definitely heard a swish in the back swing. That’s not a speed I’ve ever seen you swing at with an iron. But but it’s a good training drill to get things again. We’re increasing club head speed by not trying harder in the down swing. And I say we as in you doing all the effort. Damn. Almost. By not trying to swing hard in the down swing, but by swinging faster earlier. So you have to apply the brakes earlier and then ramp it back up. So I got 98. So almost 100. Yep. Now we are going to compare you. Instead of the to average, we’re going to ramp it up and put you beside Rory. He has one of the more explosive swings off the ball in the game. Okay. So again, just what you see in this graph, Shawn is the yellow. So he got to almost 37 miles an hour. That’s crazy. And right there was when Rory hits his max speed, which is right at 26 miles an hour and roughly the same time. Now, the cool part about that is now when I make my normal motion, that’s it’s it’s going to be more realistic. Okay, so let’s do that. Okay, so let’s go to the par three. Okay, same par three. And now you’re going to have that same idea of make this go away faster, not lose your shoes fast. Yeah, this is just a golf course shot. Yeah, you’re trying to hit a shot now. Exactly right. Give me one second. Okay, when you’re ready. Did that feel different than the first swing we captured? Yeah, definitely. It’s just way more dynamic. So, it’s more acceleration, more brakes, and then go. It’s like the down swing almost happens for free. Exactly right. All right, we’re going to go pull Roars back up. Look at the face center. This is 94 mph without trying. It really is incredible how. So now we’re getting very close to overlapping now with one of the best players in the world, one of the longest players in the world. And there you go. Right. There’s probably not that many ways to load the body enough to where you don’t have to work so hard on the down swing. You get kind of get it for free. Yeah. This this is really cool to see here. Basically similar timing. Yeah. And you both hit the brakes very similar there at the top, which is the goal. You’re not swinging so fast. And then this is again if you want to delineate amateurs and pros with regards to timing, you’re going to see ams have speed way too late, pull themselves out of posture at the top. We should try one reverse spine. Okay. You’re going to try to take speed into the top. Yeah. I’m going to go I’m going to do the slow and low. Okay. And listen, we’re not saying everybody does this. You got tour players that have that that slowish, but the majority of them on that point, even when you’re looking on video, cuz video has a tendency to especially good swings smooth out the speed. Yeah. Even players that look like they’re going really slow, when you put them and measure them, it’s brisk. Okay. So, we’re going to go low and slow and try to hit it hard in the down swing. Is that what we’re I’m going slow start and kind of I feel like a slow start you have to get some energy in the swing somewhere. So you got it’s almost a rebound we see golfers make. Okay. Ready? Yep. Should be a totally different look. And I felt super rushed. Right. Cuz I I mean you got this is what players tell us when they feel like they don’t have time in the down swing. You got to put some energy in somewhere and you ended up this graph should look completely different. Wow. There we go. So, that’s a graph that we will see quite often. It’s crazy. And it’s just it’s a a lot of thinking sometimes, right? Making sure I’m in the right spots in the right spots. Oh, I got to apply speed now. And you just the club will come out differently every time and your your max club head speed there in the back swing was not quite 16 miles an hour and it happened super late. That would not be a fun hill to go bob sledding on. So, I think when you’re, you know, you’re looking at golf swings and like, “Oh, I really like Mroy swing, right? I’m gonna try to copy his positions.” It’s, it’s one thing to be able to maybe swing the club through the positions, right? It’s a whole another animal to learn his timing and rhythm, which is the glue that kind of makes the swings work. And this is very interesting to have the ability to do this. When players do something is more important a lot of times than what they’re doing or how much they’re doing it within of course reason, right? But when they do it, whether you’re talking about ground forces, whether you’re talking about rotation, whether you’re talking about the release, the wind is the key, especially applies to