PGA Tour Ball Speeds
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In response to some recent (inaccurate) comments about professional ball speeds, Lou assembled a list of the ball speeds of the top-ranked players on the PGA Tour. In this episode, he shares that list with Mark and Greg, and they discuss the biggest surprises, the effect of speed at the highest levels of golf, and the need for accurate data when making decisions about the future of the game, and the
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk ball speeds. PGA tour player ball speeds. I think this is a really interesting |
| 0:05.4 | discussion, one that often gets talked about more as an emotional-based idea, fueled by, |
| 0:13.0 | I would call poor journalism. And let's look at some of the actual numbers that are really |
| 0:18.3 | happening in ball speeds, because obviously there is talk at the |
| 0:21.0 | moment and has been for a while about the ball going too far and ball speeds are off the spectrum |
| 0:25.4 | and everyone's one 90 mile now ball speed and they're all going to end up there which there are |
| 0:30.0 | some little truths in amongst all those panic statements but there's also some absolute |
| 0:34.7 | brammer agenda-based lies, you could argue. |
| 0:38.8 | So Lou has done some of the things that Lou does well. |
| 0:42.2 | Lou, I do everything well. |
| 0:44.7 | I'll go into well. |
| 0:45.9 | What don't I do well? |
| 0:47.4 | That's a much smaller list. |
| 0:49.5 | Let's ask athletic motion what you don't do well. |
| 0:51.8 | Take lessons from Mark or anybody else. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:55.6 | That's fair. |
| 0:56.6 | That's burned, isn't it? |
| 0:58.8 | That backfired. |
| 1:01.2 | Lou went into his little world of numbers. |
| 1:05.2 | I'd love to see what I'm out of that world. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm always in that world. |
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