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reginaa520
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reginaa520
Post Importance of Golf Swing Speed
on: October 9, 2010, 01:39

Importance of Golf Swing Speed
It is what drive’s the engine so to speak. The distance that the ball travels is in direct correlation to the swing speed. For an example, most of the pros hit the ball with discount golf clubs speed of 110 mph or even as high as 127 mph. Winners of the long ball driving contests hit the ball with club head speeds exceeding 133 mph with some as much as 152 mph.
The long driving contest participants practice a different type of hitting the golf ball with your Callaway 09 X-Forged Irons. Most pro golfers hit the ball using a speed that is approximately 80% of what they are capable of hitting the ball with. Why you ask?
The reason is it is just too much energy consumed to try and hit a ball with all your might. Just watch baseball players during the home run derby contest. They are swinging for the fence on every swing with TaylorMade R9 460 Driver and they are exhausted when they get through during the derby.
Just imagine a quarterback trying to throw the long ball on every down, how long do you think his arm would last. Or how about a hockey player try to score every time he came down the ice trying to exceed 100 mph on every shot with Ping G15 Fariway Wood. The only exception would be the pro tennis player that hits his serve at 130 to 145 mph each and every time or even every time they return a shot.
We as amateurs try to hit the ball with all of our might but very seldom do we even approach the speed required to hit a ball with Titleist AP2 Iron Setclose to 300 yards. Why, well we are using muscles that we hardly ever use to golf with. So these muscles are not trained to reach the level we need for high speed hitting.

stone_mason
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Post Re: Importance of Golf Swing Speed
on: October 9, 2010, 22:49

Yeah, i was wondering why all my balls were hitting cars on the hwy.  I am aiming for the howesound, while driving balls off the split pillar…go figure.

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pomattic
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Post Re: Importance of Golf Swing Speed
on: October 10, 2010, 00:14

Are there any sort of mods on this site?
To get rid of crap like that within at least a day… not like there is crazy high traffic here…

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