| When building your best game, make speed a priority. It’s very easy to get so caught up with hitting the ball accurately that overtime, one can begin to unconsciously ingrain a shorter, tighter, less fluid golf swing which can lead to slower swing speeds. Swing speed, to a great extent, determines one’s potential in the game of golf.Two Big Reasons Why Being Faster Will Make You Better:
1) You will shorten the course. A little bit of extra speed matched with solid contact shortens the course immensely. Imagine if you could gain 10 yards with each club in your bag. Let’s say you typically hit 35-40 long shots a round, you would be taking 350-400 yards off of the scorecard. This makes scoring much easier.
2) With speed comes accuracy. Simply put, you will be hitting 7 and 8 irons, where you once hit 5 or 6 irons, and be able to hit 3 woods where you once needed to hit drivers. Being able to use a more lofted club, due to an increase of swing speed, will allow you to become more accurate. Using more loft puts more backspin on your ball which in turn counteracts side spin and thus creates straighter shots. The result: more fairways and more time spent sticking your approach shots. |
