hitting it 300+ yards can be done.

[jpbg33]

I started working on my swing speed this year back in may 2015, and I posted some of the results I was having when I first started, but before I started working on my speed I purchased a swing speed radar so I could monitor my progress. At the time I was hitting it around 89 miles an hour not that fast. So I started working on it. I loosened my grip so that my wrist could stay more relaxed in my swing an in doing that alone I picked up 10 to 12 miles an hour, and that was when I sent in my first post about hitting it 300 yards. So I went from 89 to 101 miles an hour basically over night. It took me another 2 months to pick up about 5 more miles an hour. So I was hitting it around 106 to 107 and sometimes a little faster, but now I have come up with the last step needed to hit it 300+ yards.

Here it is. Swing with a light grip not to light you don't wont to let go of your club in the swing, but grip it gently. then slowly start your back swing. Then when you start your forward swing make sure you do not tighten your grip but keep it light then just before contact with the ball snap the hinge out of your wrist throw the ball.

With that swing I am now swinging the club around 115 miles an hour which is way faster then my swing of 89 miles an hour. I have actually had my swing up to the low 120's here recently. So if you wont to hit it 300+ try this swing it works.

If you are wondering where the hinge in your wrist is coming from it is because of the light grip if you keep it light your wrist should hinge slightly at the top of your back swing.

[Cody Book]

Do you mind posting a video of your swing? I work better with visuals then with descriptions of what is going on. Have you found you lost a lot of accuracy or was it a marginal loss.

[jpbg33]

I'll post a video as soon as I get the time, and no I have not lost much accuracy I have actually lowered my score a lot I am now shutting in the 70's which I had never done before.

I'll try and get a video up soon.

[Lihu]

Do you mind posting a video of your swing? I work better with visuals then with descriptions of what is going on. Have you found you lost a lot of accuracy or was it a marginal loss.

I'll post a video as soon as I get the time, and no I have not lost much accuracy I have actually lowered my score a lot I am now shutting in the 70's which I had never done before.

I'll try and get a video up soon.

I'd be far more interested in seeing the drills that you did to improve your speed from 89 to 115.

[vangator]

I also try to keep my grip fairly light. Not only does it help me in creating lag naturally, but I believe it actually helps accuracy. When a person has a death grip on the club and it's slightly closed, the impact of the ball won't affect it as much. The club head will sort of "self correct" upon impact with the ball. That's also the concept of wide soled clubs. When they impact the ground, the face will align more with the target line if you don't have a death grip. The trick to distance is muscles that aren't locked.

[iacas]

Here it is. Swing with a light grip not to light you don't wont to let go of your club in the swing, but grip it gently. then slowly start your back swing. Then when you start your forward swing make sure you do not tighten your grip but keep it light then just before contact with the ball snap the hinge out of your wrist throw the ball.

First, I'm glad you've found a way to drive the ball farther and increase your clubhead speed. Distance is very important, at every level of the game.

I have two points I'd like to make. The first is largely done here: . Specifically, this post has an image or two in it that are relevant: http://thesandtrap.com/t/54965/proper-grip-pressure-its-firmer-than-you-might-think/108#post_972201 .

Second, you cannot - and by that I mean it's physically impossible - to "snap the hinge out of your wrist" just before contact. In fact, you cannot tell your body to do anything beyond about the point where your lead arm is horizontal to the ground. There is simply not enough time for your brain to fire off the message and for your muscles to react and do those things. It doesn't happen.

What you're describing is the lag coming out quite late in the swing, like this:

This definitely adds clubhead speed, but it's not something a player consciously does. It's, again, simply impossible.

It happens as a result of proper sequencing . Everything leading UP to this point lets this happen, even forces it to happen. It's not something Tiger (in this case) is "trying" to do. He's not arriving at the position on the left (let alone a later position) and thinking "snap the wrists!" The ball would be about 50 yards down the fairway (or in Tiger's case, 50 yards in some random direction ), before his wrists even started to "snap."

[jpbg33]

technically you are not thinking in the swing it is time to snap the wrist though impact, but that has to happen to get the extra distances, but you are thinking let it snap through out the swing. So what I do is think before I hit the ball that I wont to snap through the ball, and then do a few slow practice swings filling that natural snap. Then I swing at the ball keeping a light grip so that I snap through the ball. If you keep your wrist in a loose grip not to loose but not tight (you should be holding the club not squeezing it), and if you do that you wont have to think snap in your swing it will happen, but while you are learning the swing you are going to have to think about it though out the swing to keep your self from not snapping though the ball..

Maybe I word it a little wrong but I was stating what was happening in the swing, but you do have to anticipate it happening and let it happen or it will not happen.         I know how hard I was hitting it last may and I know how hard I am hitting it now. The swing really works.