Clubhead Speed

[golffish]

I haven't played in a few years and I'm trying to work on my distance off the tee. I'm hitting on avg 230 ish. I'm 27 years old 5'11'' and 200 lbs. I used to hit the ball further years ago. What excercises or tech. can I use to get my clubhead speed faster? Thanks!

[tim31x]

the biggest thing for me to keep and maintain my club head speed(average 120), is to do core workouts. when i go into the gym i'll do my usual bench or squats or whatever i do that day, but i also do 100-125 situps. about half of those i come to the top and twist, working the obliques. i also think working on your chest and arms helps too, i do alot of bench and bicep curls as well as tricep pulldowns.

[Uber$winG]

I’ve taken a drill from my years as a baseball player which helped to increase my bat-head speed. Swing a club while you are immersed in water. You will of course want to use a crap club for this as the shaft will most likely fill with water and ultimately become useless (I use a 50 cent driver that I got at Good Will).Get into a pool so that the water is chest high - first work on your toe-up and toe-left mechanics. Keep going deeper into the pool so that you are able to work on your full swing. Now, you can either hold your breath or get accoutered like Jacques Cousteau with a snorkel and hookah-line to remain submerged and get the full effect. This may sound stupid, and even look more ridiculous, but when you are able to hit a 5 iron 225 yards it really doesn’t matter.

[mako224]

Swim. It will build the muscles you need without bulking you up or skrewing up your flexibility.

[SubPar]

Strength helps with posture, balance and endurance, but clubhead speed is determined by mechanics and properly controled grip pressure.

The more you reduce tension in your hands, arms and upper body the faster the club travels.

SubPar

[kyldo]

If you're looking for pure clubhead speed work on core strength, lower body strength, and explosive power, like plyometrics and isometrics. Also work on golf specific muscles by swinging a weighted club. Make sure to swing a light club like a swing fan or shaft without a head too.

I'd also strongly suggest working on your swing fundamentals in general. I guarentee that many of the people on this forum claiming to swing in the 110s and 120s can reach those speeds but can hardly hit the ball swinging that hard.

[thumper07]

i would worry more about fundementals than stregnth. i was watching the gc junior drive chip and putt and some kids were hitting drives about 260yds or better and that kid couldnt have weighed more 140lbs soaking wet. i am 6`1" and weigh around 210lbs and could never swing fast maybe around a 100 or so now i have been working on my swing and am around 115 feeling like i am swinging easier. swinging correctly is way more important than being strong atleast if you want to shoot low scores that is

[1dayIllBaPro]

this is what I learned by studying golf swing and try it myself. These increase my club head speed.

If you see those baseball players throw a ball, you will see that they lift their front legs (the weight now tranfer to the back foot), then put back down as they start throwing (weight transfer from back foot to front foot). Football players do the same thing, transfer the weight. This increase their ball speed.

The best thing is to try yourself. Try throwing a tennis ball with you weight either on you front foot or back foot the whole time and see how far the ball will go.

Now, try throwing a tennis ball again. This time transfer you weight from your back foot to your front foot when you throw. The ball should go further this time.

Same thing happen to the golf swing. You should feel you weight transer to you back foot during backswing. Then to your front foot in down swing. BUT REMEMBER, TRANSFERING YOUR WEIGHT IN GOLF SWING DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO SWAY YOU BODY. So, at this point, golf fundamental is needed.

In golf swing, there's really an energy store in your body. For me, my energy store in my right hamgstring (I feel tension everytime in my right hamstring). Now it depends on you if you can transfer that eneregy effecitently from your body to the club head.

Energy transfer order (for me)
right hamtring --> hip --> core --> shoulder --> arms --> hand -->club head.

YOU CAN TRY IMAGINE YOUR ENERY TRANSER IN THIS ORDER. THIS WILL HELP YOU SWING DOWN TO THE BALL IN THE RIGHT ORDERS.

If you have watch SPORT SCIENCE on Discovery channel. There' a part that show how energy transfer from the body to the club head of that golfer(don't remember the name)

Power also comes from your hip. The faster you turn you hip in the downswing, the greater club head speed. You should start downswing with your hip while all your muscles are relaxed. But this move is nothing if you don't know how to transfer the energy to the club head properly. Again golf fundametal is needed here.