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Golfers are always trying to find ways to increase their club head speed. The golf manufacturers would like you to believe that if you simply buy a new driver you’re going to start swinging the golf club a lot faster. However, to truly increase your swing speed, you must actually work on the mechanics of your golf swing. No new driver is going to help you swing any faster.
To understand how to increase your club head speed, you must first understand where your golf swing speed actually comes from. If you look at my video on the three sources of club head speed above, you know this answer already. If you haven’t, click here to watch it now. Your three primary sources to increase your club head speed are:
When it comes to increasing your swing speed, these are all of the choices you have to work with. Most golfers I see trying to increase their swing speed focus primarily on rotation. That’s because the pundits on TV will have you believe that if you simply spin your shoulders as fast as you can or rotate your hips as fast as you can, you’re going to swing the club head faster. However, I have proved time and time again that is not true. In fact, rotating faster actually tends to have the opposite effect on club head speed. That’s because you create centripetal force too early in the golf swing. The result of centripetal force is centrifugal force, which actually causes you to throw the club head away and lose lag in the golf swing.
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Which brings us to our primary source of club head speed: leverage. Leverage can be thought of in many different ways as it applies to the golf swing. To keep things simple, you should think of your primary source of leverage being the angle between your forearm and club shaft that is made at the wrist joint. This little angle makes up more than two thirds of your club head speed. That’s right — 66% of your club head speed comes from the release of your wrist angle. So if you’re looking for sources to increase your club head speed, start by looking at your wrist angle first. You can use an AI swing analyzer to see exactly how well you’re maintaining lag and when your wrist angle is releasing — all from a single video upload.
Now I’ve done tons of golf instruction videos on how to increase lag in the golf swing if you haven’t seen them. Here’s a quick list of just a few of them below:
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