WATCH: How to increase swing speed with your driver
This week’s Impact Show will give you ways to help improve your club head speed in the golf swing, helping you to hit your drives longer.
Driver: LA Golf 12-11 (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: LA Golf A Series Mid 60 Stiff
Mini Driver: PXG Secret Weapon (13 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD VR-7s
7-Wood: Cobra OPTM X (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Kai Li Darkwaves 60s
Irons: PXG 0311 T Gen8
Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 S300
Wedge: Wilson Staff Model ZM 50-08
Shaft: Aerotech Steelfiber i110s
Wedge: Wilson Staff Model ZM 56-12
Shaft: Aerotech Steelfiber i110s
Wedge: Wilson Staff Model ZM 60-06
Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold Spinner Wedge
Putter: Machine Hog CSX Milled
Shaft: Machine HOG
Ball: TaylorMade TP5
Driver: Titleist GTS3 (9 degrees)
- SureFirt hosel set A1
- SureFit weight set neutral
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana BF 60 TX
- 2016 release
- Mid launch, mid/low spin
- Firmer handle, medium tip
- 72g, 3.8* torque
3-wood: Titleist TS2 (15 degrees)
- SureFit hosel set A1
- 2018 release
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD IZ-7x
- Firm handle, medium mid, firm+ tip
- High launch, mid/low spin
- 74g, 3.1* torque
7-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D (21 degrees)
- Core model
- Blend of distance, launch, spin
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD IZ-8x
- 2017 release
- 83g, 2.9* torque
Iron: Titleist 150 (4)
- Larger, stronger loft, more height
- Used to add height going into greens
Irons: Titleist T100 (5-9)
- Compact, blade-like players CB
- Internal tungsten for stability
- Great spin consistency out of rough
Shafts: Project X 6.5
- Stout profile
- Med launch, low spin
- 125g
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10
- 46-10F (@46.5)
- 50-08F
- F Grind adds stability to full shots
- Reduced digging
- 56-10S (@55)
- S Grind features trailing edge grind
- Can open the face while keeping leading edge down
- Releases from the turf quickier
- WedgeWorks (60-L)
- Lower bounce (4 degrees) version of V Grind
- Allows JT to manipulate the face for different shots
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
- Mid/low launch and spin
- 132g
- Softer feel for partial shots
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X Torched
- L Neck
- TPU Pure Roll insert
- Stock True Path alignment
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy 1.0PT
- A smaller overall profile
- pistol-style with a more arc under the top hand
- Still features No Taper Technology
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord
- Traditional Tour Velvet rubber and texture
- Brushed cotton cord
- Great grip in wet or humid conditions
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash
- New 2026
- Lower long game spin
- Firmer feel
- Mid launch, slightly lower than ProV1x
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Dirk Digger
Nov 27, 2017 at 7:46 pm
Regurgitating all that knowledge, I bet your driver clubhead speed is 73 MPH!
rga
Nov 27, 2017 at 10:24 pm
That’s not nice to say that about the boys in the video.
SK
Nov 27, 2017 at 5:37 pm
To increase your clubhead speed by ~10%, going from say 90 mph to 99 mph, you must increase the kinetic energy or energy of motion of the clubhead.
Now we know that KE = 1/2 Mass x Velocity squared, so KE is directly proportional to the square of the velocity.
So how much extra KE would you need to generate for a 10% velocity increase?
Simply take the ratio of 99^squared to 90^squared and that’s the percentage KE increase needed to get the higher speed.
Thus 99 x 99 divided by 90 x 90 equals 9801/8100 or 1.21. So you would need to increase the KE of your body and club by 21% to achieve a 10% increase in clubhead speed…. and that’s why golf teachers and pros are impressed with getting even a 5% increase in clubhead speed, or finding an extra ~10% KE.
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I very much doubt you can translate higher gadget speed to a permanent golf club speed because most of the KE is generated from the ground up to the shoulders and then the arms and club are whipped around the core… and if you don’t have the core strength you will not be able to transmit the KE from your hips and legs to your shoulders via your core… not from your gadget or club… plain and simple.
Dirk Digger
Nov 27, 2017 at 7:47 pm
Regurgitating all that knowledge, I bet your driver clubhead speed is 73 MPH!
ken
Nov 27, 2017 at 10:22 pm
… and I bet your IQ is 73 ….
brucee
Nov 28, 2017 at 11:13 pm
Don’t give me all that science stuff and just tell me what to do to speed up my swing. Which driver is the best for power? That’s all I want.