How to Assess & Increase Your Golf Swing Speed with TPI Instructor Chris Finn

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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662: Chris Finn has just presented 2+ years of research at TPI's annual World Golf Fitness Summit. After studying amateur golfers between ages 10-68, he and his team at Par4Success.com have established the top three tests related to swing speed. If you’re interested in increasing your swing speed up to 50%, depending on your age, in only 12 weeks, then you will find this interesting and helpful.WIN! WIN! WIN!! Congratulations to Michael R of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada who just won an online lesson from Mark Durland of DurlandGolf.com.Each week we’re giving away a different prize including free online lessons, a SeeMore putter, and more. Go to golfsmarter.com/giveaway. Deadline is Midnight PT/3aET each Sunday. The winner will be announced by random drawing at the end of each new episode. Some restrictions apply, see details on our website. Congratulations to Gary McCormick of San Jose, CA! He is our first listener to confirm he's joining us for Topgolf Crush in San Francisco, can’t wait to meet you! Hey Kenneth Cestari of Shrewbury, NJ, Conrad Branson of San Francisco, Steven Hollar from Stanley, NC, you each have till 5pPT, Monday, November 12 to RSVP. If you can’t make it or don't RSVP, your space will be forfeited. Prizes are not transferable. Transportation and accommodations NOT included.Thank you so much for your tax deductible donations to the Tony Manzoni Memorial Golf Smarter fund. Tony Manzoni passed away on 10/13/18. This fund for The First Tee of Coachella Valley benefits the children in the Palm Springs, Palm Desert greater area. For details please visit golfsmarter.com/tony to learn more, make donations, and visit many articles, tributes, podcasts, and videos that have featured Tony.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golf Smarter number 662.
0:03.4	Stay tuned after this conversation to hear your name announced as our weekly prize winner,
0:08.6	or even as the winner of our Top Golf Crush giveaway.
0:14.2	How to Assess and Increase Your Swing Speed for Greater Distance with PTI certified instructor Chris Finn.
0:21.4	This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you
0:28.6	lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
0:32.1	Here's your host, Fred Green.
0:34.5	Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Chris.
0:37.4	Thanks, Fred.
0:38.1	It's an honor to be here with you.
0:39.9	I don't know about honor, but it's nice to have you on the show.
0:44.5	Thank you very much.
0:46.6	I'm excited because in our last episode, we talked about low back pain and some of the
0:52.6	studies that have been done and what people are figuring
0:54.6	out but but your company par for success and the number four at par four success.com
1:01.2	is more about golf fitness overall fitness it is yeah we definitely deal with
1:08.8	back pain we have a physical therapy practice as part of our business, but we really were founded in the world of golf. We started, I started from the back of my car treating golfers and telling them, you know, how they could stay fit to play longer to hit the ball further. And, you know, as we're all aware, back pain is the most
1:29.0	common injury in golf. So that certainly is something we deal with all the time with golfers.
1:34.0	Why do you think back pain is the most common problem with golfers? I think unfortunately
1:40.7	it's because of our just day-to-day lifestyle.
1:45.4	I think that's one factor.
1:58.5	I think most people sit for 40 plus hours a week, and then we get up, and then we expect to be able to go from zero to 100 miles an hour and under a second without any real preparation during that week. And while you're sitting, your hips tighten up, your thoracic spine, you know,
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