Why Do My Golf Clubs Vibrate When I Hit Some Shots? (Video) - by Natalie Adams
Why Do My Golf Clubs Vibrate When I Hit Some Shots? (Video) - by Natalie Adams

Why do my golf clubs vibrate when I hit some shots? Vibration happens in a golf club when you’re not hitting the ball from the middle of the club or from the sweet spot. If you look at the club face, the very middle of that clubface is where the sweet spot is, it’s about the size of a small coin. And if the ball is struck from this area on the sweet spot, you just won’t feel any vibration at all. It’s where you’ll achieve maximum accuracy and maximum distance for your golf shots. And the feel will be very sweet, at times you’ll go through the ball and you just almost won’t even feel a connection at all. But the more that you strike away from that sweet spot, the further away that you move, the higher the vibration feel in your hands. Until you get to the point where you are hitting right on the outside of the club, either on the heel, the toe or at the bottom, and it really does sting in the hands. So that shot just come from the outside, the maximum point away from the sweet spot.

So how much vibration you feel, is an indication of how far away you were from the sweet spot. So here’s a great drill for you to play to help you improve your connection and for you to lose that vibration and get that much better feeling through the golf shot. What you want to do is imagine that right in the middle of the club there, you’ve got a bull’s eye. And hitting right from the sweet spot, right from the middle of the bull’s eye, scores you a 10-10. It’s a 10 because you’ve hit from the middle of the club, left to right or heel to toe, and it’s also a 10 because you’ve hit at the correct height; so between the top and the bottom of the club. As you move away from this towards the outside, the number drops to a zero so in every direction. So what you want to do is play your golf shot and then decide where did it feel, what number would I give it for left to right, and is it a particular number towards the toe or towards the heel, and then what number would you give it for dropping down towards the bottom of the club with a connection. So if we set up, and I hit a golf shot, I know where the middle of the club is, I hit and I’d say, yeah, that pretty much feels like a 10-10 from the middle of the clubface. Now, if you can’t tell where the ball is coming from, what I’d suggest you do is buy some face tape and all you have to do with this is take one of the stickers, place it onto your clubface and then you can start to get some information back from where you actually connected with the ball. So if we just place that sticker on there, it now just covers the face. So now when we hit a golf ball from here, it will leave an impact mark, so we can play the 10-10 and we can kind of try and work out where the ball fell from, and then we can have a look at the evidence that’s left on the sticker to see if we’re getting the right feel of the club. But if you use the face tape and you work on getting the ball much more from the centre of that club face, you should find that you really cut down the amount of vibration that you’re feeling on your golf shots, and that your distance and your accuracy massively improve because you’re hitting from the sweet spot. 2014-05-22

Why do my golf clubs vibrate when I hit some shots? Vibration happens in a golf club when you’re not hitting the ball from the middle of the club or from the sweet spot. If you look at the club face, the very middle of that clubface is where the sweet spot is, it’s about the size of a small coin. And if the ball is struck from this area on the sweet spot, you just won’t feel any vibration at all. It’s where you’ll achieve maximum accuracy and maximum distance for your golf shots. And the feel will be very sweet, at times you’ll go through the ball and you just almost won’t even feel a connection at all. But the more that you strike away from that sweet spot, the further away that you move, the higher the vibration feel in your hands. Until you get to the point where you are hitting right on the outside of the club, either on the heel, the toe or at the bottom, and it really does sting in the hands. So that shot just come from the outside, the maximum point away from the sweet spot.

So how much vibration you feel, is an indication of how far away you were from the sweet spot. So here’s a great drill for you to play to help you improve your connection and for you to lose that vibration and get that much better feeling through the golf shot. What you want to do is imagine that right in the middle of the club there, you’ve got a bull’s eye. And hitting right from the sweet spot, right from the middle of the bull’s eye, scores you a 10-10. It’s a 10 because you’ve hit from the middle of the club, left to right or heel to toe, and it’s also a 10 because you’ve hit at the correct height; so between the top and the bottom of the club. As you move away from this towards the outside, the number drops to a zero so in every direction. So what you want to do is play your golf shot and then decide where did it feel, what number would I give it for left to right, and is it a particular number towards the toe or towards the heel, and then what number would you give it for dropping down towards the bottom of the club with a connection.

So if we set up, and I hit a golf shot, I know where the middle of the club is, I hit and I’d say, yeah, that pretty much feels like a 10-10 from the middle of the clubface. Now, if you can’t tell where the ball is coming from, what I’d suggest you do is buy some face tape and all you have to do with this is take one of the stickers, place it onto your clubface and then you can start to get some information back from where you actually connected with the ball. So if we just place that sticker on there, it now just covers the face. So now when we hit a golf ball from here, it will leave an impact mark, so we can play the 10-10 and we can kind of try and work out where the ball fell from, and then we can have a look at the evidence that’s left on the sticker to see if we’re getting the right feel of the club. But if you use the face tape and you work on getting the ball much more from the centre of that club face, you should find that you really cut down the amount of vibration that you’re feeling on your golf shots, and that your distance and your accuracy massively improve because you’re hitting from the sweet spot.