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My Swing Speed Journey

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When I reduced my swing speed my accuracy improved, my fairways hit improved and I lowered my scores.
That's why I said There's more than one way to skin a cat
yep, sorry. After rereading my post it seems that I was just arguing and it was not my intention... It is exactly as you said, each person is different!
 

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yep, sorry. After rereading my post it seems that I was just arguing and it was not my intention... It is exactly as you said, each person is different!
No problem.
I'm more used to people arguing and telling me they know more about my game than I do.
 

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I'd love to swing the club faster for that extra distance, however, I find a huge increase in distance is achieved when I accidentally find the centre of the club face.
I think I'll try to do that more often before trying to find more speed.
Fi ding the centre of the club face on a regular basis is my own Holy Grail.
 

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I'd love to swing the club faster for that extra distance, however, I find a huge increase in distance is achieved when I accidentally find the centre of the club face.
I think I'll try to do that more often before trying to find more speed.
Fi ding the centre of the club face on a regular basis is my own Holy Grail.
yep, good impact (no toe/heel face contact and hit ball first then ground) is a must for playing good, notice though that the huge increase in distance may be for other factor (better attack angle, improved speed by better coordination, etc...). Use a marker or something to give you feedback and good luck!
 
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First week done
Mon driver started 100 ended 106 wed started 98 ended 103 Fri started 94 ended 102 although Fridays was after 9 holes probably should have done it before I played golf.
Getting slower this week but first week and went gym a few times and was feeling tired by end of week.
Hopefully next week can see me keep driver above 100mph even when tired.
 

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Have been working a little on swing depth this winter and improving thoracic mobility. Haven't done any swing speed training as such but my ball speed on the range today peaked at 174. Surprisingly a decent increase as I used to hover around the 168 mark in summer, last check prior to this was 171 in November.
 

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I got going and have done 2 sessions of week 1.
99mph with the green stick.
Did a baseline at the range with actual driver and had a low of 88 and a high of 94 with most around 90/91.
Goal is to push that along so it's more like 95 at the low end and 100 or so at the top.
I think that would make a big difference to my game.
 

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Have been working a little on swing depth this winter and improving thoracic mobility. Haven't done any swing speed training as such but my ball speed on the range today peaked at 174. Surprisingly a decent increase as I used to hover around the 168 mark in summer, last check prior to this was 171 in November.
That's impressive that's about 116 clubhead speed
 

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I don't see why, unless your trying to compete with the likes of Rory Mcllroy or Scottie Scheffler
Well my current speed is my natural speed, I haven't set foot inside a gym in 12 years or done any form of speed training. I'm currently rehabilitating a non golf related back injury so have just joined a gym, the further mobility and strength training will likely provide some extra speed.

The course I play at in America is around 7200 yards, and the one in the UK is close to 6900, so it certainly won't do any harm providing accuracy isn't sacrificed.
 

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I'd love to swing the club faster for that extra distance, however, I find a huge increase in distance is achieved when I accidentally find the centre of the club face.
I think I'll try to do that more often before trying to find more speed.
Fi ding the centre of the club face on a regular basis is my own Holy Grail.
When I try and swing faster my backswing gets longer and the 70-yard slice comes back, so my hands are a bit tied at the moment. If I could get back to how I was driving in 2022 - 220 yards but hitting fairways - I'd do it in a heartbeat. But those days are gone.
 
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When I try and swing faster my backswing gets longer and the 70-yard slice comes back, so my hands are a bit tied at the moment. If I could get back to how I was driving in 2022 - 220 yards bit hitting fairways - I'd do it in a heartbeat. But those days are gone.
Is this when trying speed training or just trying to hit the ball further with your driver ?
If I can get near 100mph then that will give me the opportunity of 240 plus in carry. Basically to make my current good drive distance my crap one. Even on a relatively short par 4 of say 350 , a 200 yarder that finds the rough is going to make the next shot a real challenge.
Once they become longer than that then even with a fairway finder hitting the green is tough.
 

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Is this when trying speed training or just trying to hit the ball further with your driver ?
If I can get near 100mph then that will give me the opportunity of 240 plus in carry. Basically to make my current good drive distance my crap one. Even on a relatively short par 4 of say 350 , a 200 yarder that finds the rough is going to make the next shot a real challenge.
Once they become longer than that then even with a fairway finder hitting the green is tough.
Just tying to hit driver full stop these days. :LOL: I have not tried any speed training, my point being that I can barely keep it in play at the moment already, and I'm not sure that more speed will be helpful in this pursuit. More carry = more lost balls.
 

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No sure I agree with this. I used to be of the opinion drive for show putt for dough but not anymore distance is the most important thing in my opinion and obviously it has to be controlled.
In the past two weeks I’ve shot -4 when winter greens have been on and winter greens can be very tricky to putt on but that extra 40/50 yards a hole shorter all of a sudden makes golf very easy.
I very much believe if I can gain 40/50 yards this winter off the tee I’ll easily be a plus golfer next year.
Yep, playing winter golf really highlights it for me as well. I've played what felt like pretty poorly the last 2 rounds but I've shot +4 and +2 simply because my short game has been crap. We are still on full greens but winter tees so the course is much shorter, no par 5's, 3 par 4's over 400 yards but the rest of them are basically pitch shots for approaches. It's like golf on easy mode.

You probably don't even need 40/50 yards based on your current speeds. 20/30 yards would be enough as that's how far I am behind the lads I play with who are scratch/plus golfers. If I kept my same dispersion but had that extra distance I think I could get down close to scratch as it means par 5's are easily reachable in 2 and those long 440 yard par 4's are now driver/8 iron rather than driver/hybrid most of the time.
 

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Week 2 finished and driver speeds Monday started 101 ended 106 Wednesday started 102 ended 105 and Friday just finished now started 101 and ended 103. Goal this week was not to be under 100mph so happy I did that but just feel as if progress is slower than I would like.
Hopefully I can keep gaining speed each week.
 

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Did my first superspeed session in months, was expecting everything to be slow but I was actually surprised. Last session back in May I started at 122 with the green, 120 with blue and 115 with red and finished at 132 with the green. Today I was 125, 120, 117 and 125 and I think the only thing that slowed down the last green set was I was knackered as I'm totally out of shape.

According to the superspeed chart a 125 green, 121 blue and 117 red will usually translate to a 105mph driver on course so it looks like I've not lost much since I last did them 8 months ago.

I don't ever stick at these things every year, I do about 2-3 months of them, get a decent jump in speed and then pack them in as I'm usually happy with the jump. I checked each year of the spreadsheet and since I got them in 2019 I usually start out much slower, these are my first and final green speeds for each year.

2019 - 106, 127
2020 - Covid, didn't see the point in doing them
2021 - Looks like I couldn't be bothered again
2022 - 108, 121
2023 - 109, 128
2024 - 117, 132
2025 - 125

I don't know if my swing mechanics have just improved over the last few years as I know for a fact I'm not fitter. I'm heavier, stiffer and more out of shape. This is the earliest I've started them in a year, maybe that's why. Last year was mid Feb and the other years were April time.
 

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I did all 3 sessions this week at home into a net with foam balls and I’m sure it affects the speed, has anyone else experimented with this ?
Last week no shots were under 100mph but this week all 3 sessions started under 100mph. They were 96/94/97 and after routine went to 102/103/100 the reason I think the foam balls affected the speed was because the speed sticks were not down and hit a new PB with the green stick so i definitely believe foam balls affected the speed.
 

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I did all 3 sessions this week at home into a net with foam balls and I’m sure it affects the speed, has anyone else experimented with this ?
Last week no shots were under 100mph but this week all 3 sessions started under 100mph. They were 96/94/97 and after routine went to 102/103/100 the reason I think the foam balls affected the speed was because the speed sticks were not down and hit a new PB with the green stick so i definitely believe foam balls affected the speed.
FWIW, hadn’t seen any difference in the club head speed using foam balls. Using them regularly when I just want to really “go for it” and not damage the surroundings 😂
 
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