How Hard Should I Swing?

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

For years, the consensus advice for golfers was to swing smoothly. We've all admired the superb players who seem to exert no effort at all. But in more recent years, we've learned the value of distance, and increasingly we've seen swings (even at the highest levels of golf) in which golfers swing so hard that they finish off-balance, recoiling the club back around. So what are we supposed to be doing? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg give their advice for how hard we should be swinging if we want to shoot our best scores. Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How hard should you swing the golf club is what we're going to talk about today, and this is going to apply to all levels of golfers.
0:07.2	I think this is a really interesting discussion actually, because it's a very common thing that I get told by amateurs is that they went too fast.
0:15.0	Or I topped that one. I went too fast. And I have lots of, and have done over the the years students who don't hit the ball outside of
0:22.2	their shadow trying to swing slower, which I think is always interesting. It also then
0:26.9	gets confused a little bit with tempo and actual speed. So people say I went too fast and I think,
0:33.4	oh, do you mean as in physically too fast? Like you swung at 275 miles an hour or was your tempo wrong
0:40.7	whatever that means so it's an interesting question um Lou how hard should you swing how hard
0:46.2	should amateurs swing the golf club it's a really interesting question and I think it it really
0:51.0	dovetails into the overspeed training and trying to add distance.
0:56.7	And one of the concepts behind there is you want to raise your ceiling so that your absolute
1:04.7	maximum fastest swing that you can achieve during speed training raises your cruising speed that you're going to take on the golf course.
1:15.6	And if you can swing the club at 130 and your cruising speed is going to be like 90% of that,
1:26.2	your cruising speed is 117, You have the ability to move at
1:30.3	130. Cruise at 117 and cruising at 117 is going to give you a lot more control of your ability
1:39.1	to keep, kind of keep the ball in play. And if you listen to long drivers talk about this concept,
1:43.3	I think Sosho talked about this concept, I think Sasho talked
1:44.4	about this concept when he was on and where like Matt Fitzpatrick was when he started with his
1:49.8	overspeed training. And what is interesting is a lot of golfers are already swinging almost as
1:56.3	hard as they can. Like Sasho had told us when Fitzpatrick started speed training, he was at like 98 or 99% of his
2:05.0	maximum speed. And then he raised his maximum speed up during swing training. And now he was swinging
2:14.1	at the same speed, but it was much less effort, if that makes sense.
2:17.9	It does. It makes total sense. Greg, for you as a player with a proven history of winning
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