The worlds best golfers are hitting the golf ball longer and longer distances with increasingly faster swing speeds.
You can’t watch pro golf without being amazed by the swing speeds and distances that are partly fuelled by impressive golf gym workouts.
Rory McIlroy is one the new generation of golfers with huge power – he’s stated adding 30 yards to his drives since he first joined the PGA Tour.
But how can your average weekend golfers even hope to keep up?
I took a PGA Tour style fitness test and got hold of a golf training program just like Rory Mcilroys Workout Plan – I’ve now been following this golf gym program for 10 weeks.
Here are my results and the answer to the question – DOES STRONGER EQUAL LONGER?
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13 Comments
Great job. Now the test is to keep it going and convert the extra speed into improved shot making. 👍
Great content as always. Funny you are 5% faster than me on the speed sticks but I average 108mph on the driver. 🤷♂️ Not sure what that comes down to, must be strength I guess
Great progress!! Keep at it 💪
You will get to those 320 yard drives soon.
Unless this results in significantly lower scores, then all of this is just minutiae unless the goal is to represent the Australian Olympic team in the decathlon.
Jon, love your channel and your videos. You have inspired me to start training in the gym, with super speed sticks and to see if I can get to single digits from a 12 handicap. Your videos give me lots of guidance. Thank you!
Gym definitely should be apart of any golfer’s training. Heck even any regular person should be in gym 3-5 times a week. Right now i can top out 130 with driver swing speed ball speed 160. But man so hard to control it.
I've seen you post several playing videos, I think you just need to keep more drives in play and work on your wedges and short irons, you won't make many bogeys that way
Your strength is clearly your touch with with your shorter clubs
If you can control your spin and trajectory with your wedge shots you'll save par from anywhere, even from 100 yards. Inside 50 yards you'll be getting up an down more than half the time and you'll be aiming to hole any chips just off the green
You can shoot under par golf with like 95mph swing speed
Hi Jon, just some of my own research in gaining distance on the pursuit of 300 yard drives: The average PGA tour player weighs 180 lbs and produces around 0.63 mph of clubhead speed per pound of body weight. (Average 114 mph club head speed on tour) Rory produces 0.76 mph/lb, (160 lb body weight) up there with a few super efficient drivers for their body weight. I think a powerful weight lifting routine combined with consistency over a long time allows him to achieve the efficiency without the high body weight. If you don't mind me saying, you don't look very massive or powerful in your swing. How much do you weigh? What is your deadlift, squat, and bench weights? I personally started at 128 lbs, 5'7" with no training a little over a year ago, now at 145 lbs deadlifting and squatting 210 lbs, benching 140 lbs. My drives went from 210 carry, 230 total to 250 carry, 270 total. My PR long drive is 287 yards total. My rough efficiency is around 0.66 mph/lb, so I'm hoping that with continued weight training and 1 lb/week weight gain for the next 3 months, I should be able to hit 156 lbs body weight for a 300 yard total PR. I love your videos and they keep me inspired on my journey. Hope these thoughts help!
Good stuff. I think if you combine the training w getting a decent coach, you’ll start to see a lot more gains. We have a guy at our club weighs no more than 145 lbs and hits it 300-310. He’s just got great technique.
One sidebar: be very careful w those resistance bands near your face. A buddy of mine was doing some P90x exercises when one of the bands snapped and hit him in the eye….exploded his cornea. Had a couple procedures, walked around blind for about 9 months in one eye and still not 100%.
How did you find out Rory’s program?
Great work Jon! 👏
Thanks for the content. I will definitely start using superspeed and weight lifting. I generally swing my driver 108mph but this inspired me to train to get to 115/120mph! Love it