Golf lessons went great!!!

[fastfed]

I was on my forth lesson this morning.. We worked ONLY on my driver..


Ever since I went to this new hibore I couldn't hit it at all..

I had a 975 8.5 degree before and always hit it straight and about 230 or so yards..

Well I have a 105-110mph swing speed at 100% so they upgraded my shaft on my driver and I was still slicing the hell out of it.. It was so bad and so annoying.

First off I would never swing the club, I was always scared to give it a good powerfull fast swing, so I would only swing about 70mph.. My pro really taught me how to swing this driver. Not only this driver but any driver. My problem was I was swinging it like an iron and almost hitting down on it, my back swing was like an iron as well.

Needless to say my final swing almost got me on the record board for their machine.. They have the top 5 guys who drove the furthest, lowest being 325, highest 355, My final swing with 104 mph swing speed, with impact tape on my head, dead middle sweet spot and it went 316 yard with no wind..

It felt great and I am once again excited to go out and swing this bad boy.

Gonna go to the driving range later :)

[iacas]

Needless to say my final swing almost got me on the record board for their machine.. They have the top 5 guys who drove the furthest, lowest being 325, highest 355, My final swing with 104 mph swing speed, with impact tape on my head, dead middle sweet spot and it went 316 yard with no wind.

Not to burst your bubble at all - I'm glad you had a good lesson - but 104 MPH and 316 yards is impossible. Theoretically the most you could reasonably expect to carry the ball with 104 MPH swing speed is about 260 yards.

Tiger's 300+ yard drives are a result of his swing speed being over 120 MPH, and you know his launch conditions are pretty close to perfect, too.

[fastfed]

Not to burst your bubble at all - I'm glad you had a good lesson - but 104 MPH and 316 yards is impossible. Theoretically the most you could reasonably expect to carry the ball with 104 MPH swing speed is about 260 yards.

Well remember, it was a machine, so its obviously off here and there. But I did have a ton of roll, so even if I carried 260 yards it still would of went about 280 or so with the roll I had :) That being said, is there a chart that you're going off of?? I am curious to see swing MPH and max. distance

[iacas]

That being said, is there a chart that you're going off of?? I am curious to see swing MPH and max. distance

Swing Speed * Smash Factor (1.5 for perfect contact) = Ball Speed

Swing Speed * 2.5 = Approximate carry yardage for near-perfect launch conditions and contact I learned the second rule (I knew the smash factor one beforehand) at the Titleist Science Van driver fitting sessions I attended. Obviously it doesn't account for wind or whatever. Want another 2.5 yards? Add 1 MPH to your swing speed without worsening contact. Adding 25 yards, as you can see, is quite difficult. Not many people can add 10 MPH swing speed.

[fastfed]

Hit about 70 balls at the range before and must say I pretty damn excited..

I realize my problems quickly. First off I had my right thumb on TOP of the grip and not on the side, which was an issue. I was hitting my driver like an iron before and not sweeping it and finally I was not extending my arms to generate power.. All in all, at the range, and the markers in place I would say I was hitting around 250ish.

At the end I tried some crazy stuff, I brought my back swing all the way around till I could see the head again, and whipped it with all my might, I tried about 5 balls and completely missed all but one, I hit one so hard and so perfect I am pretty sure it went 300 yards or pretty damn close to it..


Now tomorrow I will see if I can put all of this to use.

[nykfan4life]

Hit about 70 balls at the range before and must say I pretty damn excited..

exactly what you don't want is to see the clubface whene you bring it back, that means you are bringing it around on too steep a plane(your wrapping it around your head). my teacher told me you never want to bring it any further back than perpendicular to your head

[Titan124]

exactly what you don't want is to see the clubface whene you bring it back, that means you are bringing it around on too steep a plane(your wrapping it around your head).

I think what he was trying to say was that he was just fooling around with different things at the end.

[fastfed]

I think what he was trying to say was that he was just fooling around with different things at the end.

True and their are a couple of pro's who actually do bring the club head around that far.