Understanding Golf Swing Power (Video) - by Pete Styles
Understanding Golf Swing Power (Video) - by Pete Styles

The majority of what we try to achieve within a golf swing is done with a simple desire to try and get the club head to accelerate as fast as possible to make contact with a golf ball with a nice accurate ball strike. But that club head speed is king. We can hit the golf ball the distances we need to knock it around 6000 or 7000-yard golf course without plenty of club head speed.

So what golf is ambition of accelerating that club head towards the golf ball can often drive the reasons why they make good and also bad movements in their swing. Often a golfer will stand over the ball with a desire to try and accelerate the club head as quickly as possible and that will actually cause the problem in their backswing of getting very quick and very narrow. You see a golfer move the club away super fast, super narrow here trying to accelerate the club down as quickly as possible. And actually the desire to swing the club quickly right from the start can be one of the major reasons why when they get back to the ball the club head is traveling slower than it should be. And actually if they made a wider and slower movement away from the ball the club head would return back a lot quicker. If we could look at how that happens for a golfer, we know the club should be on a wide up. We've got this straight line of the straight golf club, the bigger and wider the arc is the faster that club will be traveling as it comes back to a point of impact. Any time that arc gets shorts and narrower the club is going to swing slower. Hence your pitching wise swing is always slower than your driver swing just because the length of shaft is different effectively the length of arc is different. The other consideration to make is that when you get to the top of the backswing, if the club is moving backwards very quickly, it takes a huge amount of force and effort to stop the club to change direction to bring it back down quickly. So if it was going back let's say 30 miles an hour it is going to take effort and time to change direction to reverse it like reversing your car at 30 miles an hour uses an awful lot of engine power breaking to then change direction to accelerate. If you are reversing back slowly you can accelerate connect far more quickly. Same thing in a golf swing; if we can make a wide, low, slow takeaway wide to the top when we decide to pull the trigger and start down we can start down instantly but if we were going back quickly it would take some time to slow the club down before we could come down. So let's focus in this backswing but making a big, wide, load, slow takeaway. Actually, in order to come back down a lot quicker to accelerate the club into the ball faster increasing club head speed should therefore increase distance on the shots. So the wide and slower takeaway will mean more club head speed where it matters. 2016-10-17

The majority of what we try to achieve within a golf swing is done with a simple desire to try and get the club head to accelerate as fast as possible to make contact with a golf ball with a nice accurate ball strike. But that club head speed is king. We can hit the golf ball the distances we need to knock it around 6000 or 7000-yard golf course without plenty of club head speed.

So what golf is ambition of accelerating that club head towards the golf ball can often drive the reasons why they make good and also bad movements in their swing. Often a golfer will stand over the ball with a desire to try and accelerate the club head as quickly as possible and that will actually cause the problem in their backswing of getting very quick and very narrow.

You see a golfer move the club away super fast, super narrow here trying to accelerate the club down as quickly as possible. And actually the desire to swing the club quickly right from the start can be one of the major reasons why when they get back to the ball the club head is traveling slower than it should be. And actually if they made a wider and slower movement away from the ball the club head would return back a lot quicker.

If we could look at how that happens for a golfer, we know the club should be on a wide up. We've got this straight line of the straight golf club, the bigger and wider the arc is the faster that club will be traveling as it comes back to a point of impact. Any time that arc gets shorts and narrower the club is going to swing slower. Hence your pitching wise swing is always slower than your driver swing just because the length of shaft is different effectively the length of arc is different.

The other consideration to make is that when you get to the top of the backswing, if the club is moving backwards very quickly, it takes a huge amount of force and effort to stop the club to change direction to bring it back down quickly. So if it was going back let's say 30 miles an hour it is going to take effort and time to change direction to reverse it like reversing your car at 30 miles an hour uses an awful lot of engine power breaking to then change direction to accelerate. If you are reversing back slowly you can accelerate connect far more quickly.

Same thing in a golf swing; if we can make a wide, low, slow takeaway wide to the top when we decide to pull the trigger and start down we can start down instantly but if we were going back quickly it would take some time to slow the club down before we could come down.

So let's focus in this backswing but making a big, wide, load, slow takeaway. Actually, in order to come back down a lot quicker to accelerate the club into the ball faster increasing club head speed should therefore increase distance on the shots. So the wide and slower takeaway will mean more club head speed where it matters.