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Many golfers try to hit the ball further by swinging harder. The thought is that if they swing harder then they will increase their club head speed. This video shows you why that is a poor strategy. A better ways to hit the ball further is to maximize your launch angle and to find center face contact.
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This video is the easiest way to gain distance.
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So many golfers come to the site,
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obviously wanting to hit the ball further,
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because the long ball is a whole lot of fun.
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The challenge is most golfers that come to the site
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say that they want to hit a further,
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so they need to pick up some club head speed.
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Now, the standard math shows that for every mile per hour
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of speed gain you get, you can gain up to about 2.8 yards,
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somewhere around there.
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In order to gain, let's say, 30 yards,
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that means that I'm going to gain 10 miles per hour.
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And while we've had students going through this program,
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pick up 5, 6, 7, even 8 miles per hour in club as speed,
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gaining 10 yards or 10 miles per hour is actually quite a bit challenging.
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What's easier to do is to maximize your lunch characteristics.
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So a lot of the movements that we teach in the program
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will help you improve your spin loft or your compression
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and get more out of the speed.
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So the times when golfers rapidly gain 40 yards, 50 yards,
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60 yards, that happens more from improving
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your lunch characteristics, not from gaining 20 miles per hour
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in club that's speed like that.
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It's pretty unrealistic to imagine
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that you could gain 20 miles per hour in club head speed
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just from one quick tip.
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But it's possible to change your lunch characteristics
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and actually hit it that much further pretty much overnight.
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So if you're working on trying to find the easiest ways
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to maximize your distance and you don't have access
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to a lunch monitor, you want to try to look for a ball flight
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that's going to be tending to launch higher but flatter.
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So it'll kind of come off more like this
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as opposed to launching lower and then spinning up.
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When you start getting that launch low high spin shot,
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you're losing a lot of distance to the field.
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The other way to look at it is if you play with a lot of people
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and you hit your irons about the same distance
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but then they hit their driver significantly further
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and you notice that trend, their driver is a little bit flatter.
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Yours is a little bit more spinny kind of like that.
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You know that your angle of attack is probably a little bit too steep
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and your face to path relationship is probably a little bit too open.
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Those two will produce that low launch high spin combination.
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Where in order to produce the high launch low spin combination
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you need to have your upper body working away from the target
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or behind the golf ball and you need to de-loft the club to the path.
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So even though the path is going up,
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the club face is closing compared to that path.
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So it hits this higher launching ball but has a lower spin profile.
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To visualize that we can take a look at something called spin loft
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where the amount of spin is roughly the difference between this angle,
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the loft of the club it impact and the angle of attack.
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So if this driver stays the same, this is going to have a lot of spin
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and that's going to have virtually no spin.
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These are some exaggerated angle of attack numbers.
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But if you have more of a downward strike kind of like so,
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the goal is to get to an upward strike kind of like that
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to help maximize your speed.
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That's a whole lot easier than trying to find a way to pick up
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10 miles per hour in actual club head speed.
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So maximize your launch characteristics first
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and then if you need a secondary approach,
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I would work on face contact.
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It's only after I've maximized those two that I would then start looking at trying to
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develop either bigger swing, faster swing, more explosive,
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trying to actually gain club as a second point.
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What I mentioned is looking at contact point.
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So using something like the Dr. Scholes foot spray
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to be able to look at contact location because if you're
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contacting it, three quarters of an inch and inch off the sweet spot,
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you can easily be losing 30, 40 yards just from contact,
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obviously depending on your club head speed.
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So maximize your launch characteristics,
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maximize center face contact and those two combination will help give you
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the easiest speed gains.
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If you gain some distance from working on your sequencing and working on
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your energy transfer, that's great,
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but it's rarely going to be more than 10 to 15 yards.
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When you're looking for those 30 to 50 yard gains,
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it's going to come from those first two characteristics of just maximizing your physics.
