Speed vs. Power in the Golf Swing

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One of the most common misconceptions in the golf swing for golfers who are trying to hit the ball further is that they need more power in the golf swing and not not that power is not important but it’s the understanding of what really helps the ball go further is the

Key and I have a stick here doesn’t weigh anything very very light and the reason I want to use this to illustr is to illustrate a point that it’s not power that you need in the golf swing because when I think of power I what happens for most golfers is they start

Thinking about taking their whole body their hips and their torso and everything and putting all this Mass into the ball and while that feels very powerful it’s not in fact it actually impedes the release of the golf club and actually can tend to slow the golf club

Down and put a lot more wear and tear on your body as you’re working harder to rotate on your hip and your spine through impact what you need to realize is that all you’re really looking for is speed speed is what’s going to make the golf ball go further apart from Square

Club face and all those other things we’re just going to assume that those things are correct what we’re looking for is speed and so you can imagine that just by sitting here and getting a little bit of snap in my wrist I get a tremendous amount of speed with no

Effort I can do this all day long and you can hear the stick whipping through very fast that should be your concept to the golf swing not that you’re trying to flip it with your wrist but that’s where the vast majority anywhere from 65 to 75

80% of your Club head speed depending on Whose research you believe in provides that it provides that much of your cled speed so when you realize that your hands even for the top players in the world the the fastest longest hitters on the PGA tour the Hank keenes

Of the world his hands at impact are only moving about 21 mph with a driver but he’s is producing 124 mph of Club head speed 10 times or excuse me five times 6 times the speed that his hands are moving at impact is how fast the club head’s moving now part

Of that can be accounted for by the length of the shaft obviously the longer it is faster it’s going to be moving and two the release of the wrist he’s not trying to drive his body into it cuz all that’s going to do is maybe move his hands a little bit faster potentially

But that’s going to delay the release of the golf club what he’s trying to do is get his hands to impact and then let them release so this should be your feeling of the golf swing not I’m going to rip through it as hard as I can so if

You don’t have a stick around a great way to start changing your concept of how you swing the golf club is to just take your Club when you’re warming up and flip it upside down and start making your golf swings and get the feeling of a release

This is what we’re really looking for is not a tremendous amount of power my body’s not really doing anything but I can get a tremendous amount of Club head speed by getting the concept of not trying to move my body really fast trying to move my body in the right

Sequence to accelerate everything to really get speed only here it only matters down here at the bottom I don’t care how fast your follow through is or your back swing I’m trying to produce speed at this point and so that means sequencing is the key and not just

Driving your body through as hard as you can so rather than thinking about trying to produce power and hit with these big muscles in your body all the time think about using your body to move in the right sequence to get the right alignments and positions and so on and

So forth and then at the bottom we want to learn to release the club with speed so just practicing with the club upside down can get you the feeling of notice how quiet my body is but there’s a tremendous amount of speed and that’s what you want to feel in your golf swing