What Do Golfers Mean When They Talk About Smash Factor (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Do Golfers Mean When They Talk About Smash Factor (Video) - by Peter Finch

What do people mean when they talk about smash factor and how does it relate to my golf drives? Now the smash factor is something which has only recently come to light in the last decade or so with the growth and the actual accuracy of the launch monitored technology. Now launch monitors actually gauged the spin race, the club face position, the ball speeds, the club heads speeds at the point of impact and one of the things they can tell is your smash factor.

Now your smash factor is your ball speed divided by your club head speed. Now the higher the overall smash factor the better it will be. If you have a club head speed of 100 miles an hour but your ball leaves the club face at 200 miles an hour you’re going to have a smash factor of 2.0. Most players will have a smash factor between 1.2 and 1.5. If you get on to 1.5 that is normally a very good number to hit. But some of the top professionals can rise higher than that and get greater balls speeds from their actual club head speed. Now when you’re actually on the course and you’re hitting shots your smash factor won’t be a factor because you won’t be able to tell what it actually is. The only way you’re going to be able to tell what your smash factor is, is by getting on a launch monitor, using launch monitor technology, and it’s often utilized when you are trying to choose a new driver or you are judging how well your current driver is performing. So if you’ve not come and known about smash factor in the past, that is what it is. If you do not know what your smash factor is, it won’t be the end of the world, however it is certainly an interesting tool to tell how your club head speed relates to the ball speed. It’s also a great way to test new balls. If you want to get the ball a little bit further with a bit of a harder cover, you’ll tend to see that the ball speed increases in relation to your club head speed. You can get so deep into it and it’s a very interesting kind of faucet, a new piece of golfing terminology that modern technology has brought in. So if you have not been on a launch monitor before give it a go, see what your smash factor is and try and increase it because that will increase overall distance. 2014-11-21

What do people mean when they talk about smash factor and how does it relate to my golf drives? Now the smash factor is something which has only recently come to light in the last decade or so with the growth and the actual accuracy of the launch monitored technology. Now launch monitors actually gauged the spin race, the club face position, the ball speeds, the club heads speeds at the point of impact and one of the things they can tell is your smash factor.

Now your smash factor is your ball speed divided by your club head speed. Now the higher the overall smash factor the better it will be. If you have a club head speed of 100 miles an hour but your ball leaves the club face at 200 miles an hour you’re going to have a smash factor of 2.0. Most players will have a smash factor between 1.2 and 1.5. If you get on to 1.5 that is normally a very good number to hit. But some of the top professionals can rise higher than that and get greater balls speeds from their actual club head speed. Now when you’re actually on the course and you’re hitting shots your smash factor won’t be a factor because you won’t be able to tell what it actually is.

The only way you’re going to be able to tell what your smash factor is, is by getting on a launch monitor, using launch monitor technology, and it’s often utilized when you are trying to choose a new driver or you are judging how well your current driver is performing. So if you’ve not come and known about smash factor in the past, that is what it is. If you do not know what your smash factor is, it won’t be the end of the world, however it is certainly an interesting tool to tell how your club head speed relates to the ball speed.

It’s also a great way to test new balls. If you want to get the ball a little bit further with a bit of a harder cover, you’ll tend to see that the ball speed increases in relation to your club head speed. You can get so deep into it and it’s a very interesting kind of faucet, a new piece of golfing terminology that modern technology has brought in. So if you have not been on a launch monitor before give it a go, see what your smash factor is and try and increase it because that will increase overall distance.