111mph to 119mph club head speed in 3 golf swings w/ Dr Sasho MacKenzie 

The best advice I ever received for my golf swing was to take 2 weeks off and then quit.

This is very valid instruction. Over the past few years I increased my tempo and as an unintended consequence I’ve seen about the same increase in my swing speed as in the video. I went from 105 to 111-112.

I actually noticed this myself watching the long drive guys. I noticed that none of them have the long, slow backswing that I was always taught. Their backswings are very fast.

Imagine dedicating your life to biomechanics so that you can tell someone that the secret to clubhead speed is a quick tempo.

This absolutely works. 65 Y/O single digit handicap, increased driver head speed from 100 to 107. Actually gained control by choking up 1/2 inch and still got ball speed up to 156

If you have a well coordinated swing this is great! When I did not take the club deep enough on the back swing and swing into my right hip/glute, I would never be able to do this. The transition is smoother and faster! Thanks

This really works! Increased my clubhead speed, ball speed and improved my strike through the bag! However, i now need a hip replacement.

I’ve never commented on a youtube video before. No really. 38yo, took up golf 3 years ago, call myself an enthusiast but really it’s become an addiction. Had a trackman session last week for driver - 106mph average, 109mph peak, longest 274m, so managed to just reach 300yards. Pretty damn happy with the numbers considering my age and experience. Watched this video day after, the physics made sense, thought I’d give it a go at a free driver fitting. Saw speeds and distances I’d never seen over and over. Jumped on trackman again the day after to see if it was just a fluke- new average speed 111mph, peak 114mph, longest drive 298m (326 yards). I was nearly averaging 300 yards and have the trackman reports to back it up. Made me realize how much I had been leaving in the tank not applying force to the entire downswing. Having watched hundreds of golf videos in the past 3 years, this one was the biggest surprise. Thanks @golfsciencelab, a happy new subscriber

I tried this on my home 9 hole course yesterday. Not only was I hitting the ball further, but straighter as well. I had one pulled shot that was still long. I knocked six shots off my round from my previous round. I have always used a slow backswing and tempo with mixed results. There are dozens of videos on RU-vid about making a slower backswing and slower tempo. As far as I know this is the only one that touts a faster backswing. But it really works. So for those criticizing this, maybe you should actually try it first.

That last point MacKenzie makes about applying the more forceful/faster backswing but letting it finish before starting back down is so critical. I apply the principle of a faster/harder backswing when I want to step on a shot with driver, but if I fall into the trap of trying to start down before letting it finish getting to the top, strike and direction etc. fall apart and I actually lose a bit of speed in the downswing.

I love seeing this stuff, super excited for this channel going forward. Great work.

Whoa, just found your channel. Good stuff!

What was the ball speed, Carry, dispersion, results?

I'm 54 and my club head speed is 99mph. My problem is my takeaway has shortened as I've gotten older. My driver's distance is also down to 235yds. Thankfully my my 37yr.old ping Answer still keeps me at a 10 handicap. My driver used to be my favorite club, but now I "drive for doe and put for show". Nice video 😃

My husband loves golf but many years ago he was playing a round with a good friend at their club in Calgary, Canada. They would play for a delicious Club steak sandwich which was well worth it in those days in the late sixties when they were just (late teen) teenagers . By the 10th hole, his friend had been having all sorts of problems with his game- and it had been a long time since he had enjoyed a round of golf- and announced on the tee that if he had another bad hole he was going to quit the game forever. The group had a good laugh about that, and when this guy hit his second shot into the creek next to the green , his friend promptly shook everyone's hand , and started walking back to the clubhouse. Two hours later , the three of them staggered into the 'Spike Room' finding their good friend sitting alone in the corner , rather inebriated. He bought them a round of drinks , and then left. The bartender said that he had sold his clubs to another member . He watched him sitting forlornly, and when his friend was asked what was wrong, he said: 'I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.' He never played another game after that. Sad story, but maybe he had saved his sanity? I think he took up tennis.

Thanks for the tips, I'm now swinging at 86 instead of 85. Big gains yo!

Guy is giving him advice on problems he doesn't have. Welcome to the world of golf.

I would like to hear the angular approach I had the opposite issue, I was swinging too fast and had to slow way down on the back swing in order to correct my hand path

Thats gr8 but out of interest could you control the direction? Was there a dispersion increase?

That’s awesome .. I’m going now 🏌🏽‍♂️🔥

Wow nice place to work!

One great tip!

Can’t hurt to give it a bash, I’m sure it will work for some people. Tried it today at the range and ball speed went up with the driver and also wedges had some backspin of all things!!

IME a super fast tempo causes an overly tight grip on the club, and tenses the muscles which negates any added “load” on the club head.

The fast back swing enables FLEX in the shaft when you immediately transition to the down swing.. if you pause at the top the flex is generated later in the down swing and your release will be slower..

Hahaha....that guy got it all to start with. The only thing he needed was someone to tell him to swing faster :)

As somebody with a high chs and terrible ball spread I can already see my ball 2-3 fairways over lol definitely something for the range first

How insane! I had the same problem. 7 iron; 92 mph clubhead speed, but my driver was stuck on 105 mph... So I ended up with a shorter swing, but more body rotation through my shoulders, I ended up wiht a clubhead speed of 115 mph with my driver. This was today XD. Keep it up man

Cool tip, I’ve never heard anyone recommend a faster backswing. With a faster backswing are we sacrificing accuracy for distance or is there no correlation? Thanks!

Wish I had a 111 mph swing speed. I certainly could live with that as a week end golfer !

Love this@ thank you

I am 52 and only 5'7"... I have a used Trackman and have a portable swing speed radar. My average swing speed is 125 Mph and 300+ drives are not an issue. The # 1-factor multiplier in swing speed is hip rotation. I hike and hunt in the mountains of Montana which gives me strong hip flexor muscles. Swing speed is FUN when it comes to distance but it takes a LOT of practice to keep it on the fairway. My best games are when I slow everything down and focus more on accuracy than distance.

It’s amazing to hear the difference in the sound of impact at 111 vs 116+. 111 sounded good but 116 sounds mean as hell. I’m always forcing myself to take it back so slow, something I fight on every swing for most of my life. Maybe I’ll just stop trying lol.

aaaaand my slice is back! thanks!

TREEMENDOUS SHOT!!!

Distance vs accuracy. Tiger has slowed his swing considerably and is way more accurate off of the tee now. 111 swing speed is good enough for 270ish carry. Nothing wrong with that.

Mike Austin. Longest drive in a pro tournament. He was 64 in 1974 and hit hit 65 yards over the green to 515. Without modern testing equipment, he was reportedly swinging at 160mph and properly recorded at 133 at age 70. ‘Supple quickness’ was his motto and his swing based on his degree in kinesiology did not unduly stress the spine. I’m 67, adopted Mike’s method 3 years ago and now swing at 103-105 for 245-260 carries. At 62 I was down to 90-92 mph. I was 22 living in Pasadena just 45 minutes away from where he was teaching in LA. (Damn.) Mike’s protege, Mike Dunaway offered $10,000 on the cover of Golf Magazine to anyone who could outdrive him. When Daly won the PGA, an interviewer said, “You must be the longest back home” to which John replied, “No, there’s a couple of guys who are longer.” Dunaway was one of them. Jaacob Bowden, another student was also a LD champ. As is John Marshall in the seniors. Bowden (swingmangolf.com/average-golf-swing-speed-chart-2/ ,) Marshall and Steve Pratt (m.ru-vid.com ) I believe are the last remaining instructors who knew Mike directly. Mike passed on at 95 in 2005. Also check out MikeAustinFan and MikeAustinRules. Many ways to swing a club but Mike’s way is the only viable way to swing fast into your 80s. Thanks for this vid! Fairways and greens!

So is it just a case of 'stretching' the core muscles, especially the back to create more elastic energy?

Drivers are so good now and the philosophy of bomb and gouge is so popular on tour that it's probably worth the loss in accuracy for some people. I'll definitely be experimenting but a slower no tension backswing is delivering great results for me. I'm hitting fairways with good distance.

The phenomenon could be explained either by physics or physiology. As a former researcher in kinesiology field and now a mini tour pro, physiological explanation makes more sense to me, but harder to comprehend if without knowledge of relative info about how muscles and tendon works. Faster/more abrupt transition USUALLY generates more speed because muscles are already engaged before the moment of initiating downswing. The main fuel for muscles is calcium, when we fire a muscle, there is a lot of calcium being released into the muscle cells. So muscles being already engaged means that there are some pre-existent Calcium ions in the muscle cells, and if you fire the muscles with some already-existing calcium in them, the total amount of calcium available in the muscles will be greater, therefore can flex faster. It’s kinda like if you rev up the engine of your car up to 5000 rpm then let go of the pedal to let the rpm drop to 3000. From there if you want to hit 6000 rpm you would only need to tap the pedal slightly instead of going hard on it when starting from idling speed. Another physiological reason is the more tension in the tendon when the tendon is being stretched dynamically than statically. This reason is actually more predominant. If you pause like Hideki, you are stretching your tendon as well when pausing at the top, but the amount of tension in the tendon is less than if being stretched dynamically(stretched also getting longer). Unlike muscles, tendon isn’t something our brain can consciously control(like bones), but more tension in the tendon means more help to the connected muscles to exert force on the bone(for golfer bones of hip, leg, shoulder...), therefore generate more speed. HOWEVER, with quit a few golfers I have seen/worked with, more powerful firing of muscles with all being said does NOT produce higher club speed or at least not always, mainly due to the reason of uncomfortable tempo which leads to inefficient firing sequence. IMO, firing sequence matters much more than how powerful the firing is, in terms of both consistency and speed.

I was struggling to get to 93mph. I sped up my swing and increased to 98-99. I’m 67 and fit. This does work.

that is so cool! I actually came to this conclusion as well at the driving range, I feel I can hit it farther this way. The only thing is that I don't do it as much in play because it takes more energy and I feel more tired afterwards, so to save energy I do the normal not-so-fast backswing. If I could get in better shape then doing this consistently would be great for my game.

Just watched a video last night on ways to increase swing speed presented by Greg Rose of TPI. Here is the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VpnSwHoAh5M.html In sum, here are 8 possible ways to increase club head speed: 1. Speed up the backswing, as outlined in this video. From TPI: 2. Lift the left heel on the backswing, without losing posture and without swaying. 3. Allow the left foot to spin open and point along the ball target line during the downswing (similar to when pitching a baseball). 4. Load the right hip and the right leg during the backswing with a full hip turn and weight pressure shift to the right foot. 5. Hip hinge (lower the head while staying in posture) during the backswing and then extend the hips explosively in a back and left direction at a 45 degree angle to the ball target line as the arms swing down...this also promotes a forward weight shift which is part of this power tip. 6. Lift the arms as high as possible during the backswing...to increase the amount of time to generate speed during the downswing. 7. Bend the left elbow at the top of the backswing to add another link in the power chain, with the understanding that width of the swing arc is only critical at impact. 8. Increase club shaft lag by keeping the forearms and wrists more relaxed during the downswing (exercise, carrying heavy loads, to get your grip strength as high as possible, then you can hold the club grip with a higher relative tension level, but still be relatively relaxed and loose). Have fun experimenting. Greg suggests finding the power tips that work for you...but he says the two that help most golfers generally is to load the right leg on the backswing and spin the left foot open during the downswing...but it depends on the player. BEWARE! TPI's mission is to help golfers be more fit and extend the years they can play golf, so they will buy more Titleist balls. Maybe teaching golfers how to smash the ball with reckless abandon is another strategy to sell more Titleist balls! Haha

New subscriber here - this video is golden. I love the physics :) I’ll be implementing this. THIS is how to teach. Especially younger students. Teach them to hit the ball as hard as they can and learn to straighten it later. You don’t see DJ or Brooks saying how they used to swing like a grandpa and then decided to speed it up. The best players have innately known to swing faster.

Is it really a faster backswing or just a quicker transition? Looks to me like a quicker transition, but that may be just a visual thing.

Thanks for the sweet tips! After watching this, my SS went up from 120 to 140 and I'm carrying my driver well over 330 yds. (Closer to 400 with roll) Now that I can drive within 100 yds of any green (ANY), I just need to figure out how to actually golf. Im working down from a 37 HC but I drive farther than Spieth!

Following my golf pro’s advice my swing has become more elegant and consistent but my swing speed is only 90mph and my drives are only carrying 220yds! At 58 and strong I should be swinging at 110mph so now I know where to start adding more speed….more backswing speed!

What is the expected average speed difference between a driver and 7-iron?

Any idea what brand the practice mat is?

Love this. My swing thought now is to kill it. In order to do that I had to relax my wrists, plant my feet more evenly and swing back hard. Not only longer but straighter! Thank you!

To gain clubhead speed swing harder. Genius advice. Im sure no one thought of this

Ball speed is the factor you want to increase, club head speed is a factor that can be misleading in the distance one can generate because of contact location etc. but ball speed doesn't lie!

Gosh, there are a lot of 115mph - plus and 300 -plus yard drivers here - even at over 50 years of age! Amazing! Strange that in real life, an average, steady 8-handicap duffer such as I can only hit the ball 240-odd and have a 95 mph swing speed with a driver. And around 80-85 mph with a 7-iron (150 yds max). Best advice for an average club player to hit 300+ yards? - hit it twice!

Thank you

Very interesting

Take one and 1/3 second for the entire swing. Everyone rythme and tempo is different from one another. Start downswing with lead arm and lead elbow. Trail side will then become more reactive and follow along to the end of your swing. I am no professional teacher or player; but at age 75 this works well for me. Cheers

Today; even at my age of 74. a faster backswing is essential for me as well and can be done safely by the immediate activation of my obliques using both sides from the very start to the very finish of my swinging my club In order to protect both back muscles and spine I highly recommend every one try what I call The Crunch & Turn Golf Swing. I am 74 and I finally learned to swing within my own body’s capabilities. After i did some personal research on the obliques and the golf swing; I am now swinging better then ever before and with absolutely no straining of my back muscles or putting too much pressure on my spine I simply used my obliques more. I started my swing with my lead side obliques tilting and turning until they stop my backswing; and, then for my downswing I start with you trail side obliques crunching and turning until they stop me at the end of my swing. I find i have less swaying of my body and I stay into my golf posture much easier then ever before. Also the ground forces and my lower body responds naturally. Our obliques i found are what actually starts and stop both on our backswing; and, then our downswing; and are essential to a core driven golf swing. i like to call my swing The Crunch & Turn Golf swing. Your obliques are located attached at the border of your rib cage down to your pelvis region and are the muscles groups that supports your abdomen and keeps all your guts in place. The obliques are extremely important in protecting your spine as you swing your club as well. Your obliques are the true X factor that can be seen in any great golfers swing and yours as well. By the true X factor I mean simply draw an imaginary diagonal line from the point of your lead shoulder to the point of your trail hip, and then draw an imaginary diagonal line from the point of your trail shoulder to the point of your lead hip both lines crossing your spine. Try my Crunch and Turn Golf swing with your hands together first and without your club in hand. You will get and feel what I am talking about instantly especially if you Crunch & Turn more vigorously with your trail side obliques on your downswing. I could write an entire chapter as to why and how our obliques are the turning key to everyone’s golf swing. Cheers and Happy New Years.

Were did higher swing speed shots land? In play? We can all swing out of our shoes , but you can’t score if you not in play?

RU-vid needs to have English captions for your Sciencese.

That's amazing. Too bad it's winter here. I've been trying to increase my average swing speed for years. I want to get it between 90 to 95. So simple and makes so much sense.

I usually carry my 5 iron 192-5, carry my 7 163-5 , but I only carry my driver less than 255? Am I swinging my driver wrong?

I went from 95 to 107 with exercise and stretching. Then up to 122 after reading Kelvin Miyahiras stuff. And I got it in a few evenings practicing in my garage. To hard on my knees though.

Only issue with the likes of the 119 swing is that you're more warmed up. Hitting a shot, walking around the course, waiting to hit, etc causes the body to cool down a little. Not saying this isn't effective (have tried it myself), but you might not get the same numbers on the course that you get with trying one after the other on the range.

So if my 7 iron is 84 to 85 what should my driver speed be? There’s only 25 to 30 yds carry distance between my 3 iron and driver.

they have to show the dispersion of the shots. His normal speed might be shorter, but it could also be in the fairway - while the 'fast bs' swing might produce faster club head speeds, but you might be spraying it all over the course. Which one would be beneficial?

Pretty sure Jack said to take it back slower to hit it further Who do you trust??

Interesting stuff

This is a stretch-reflex response like squatting down and jumping up. How high can you jump if you went down slowly? Anyone can do this but can they remain balanced and in control?

Kind of… it also depends on how much you can torque your lower body while the upper body is finishing it’s turn. You can have a slow backswing and still get plenty of torque at the top if you’re flexible. Im long and lean with a pretty slow backswing, but there’s tons of torque at the top because I’m already turning my hips before the backswing is done. I don’t struggle with clubhead speed and quickening my backswing doesn’t help. Again, depends on your body and your swing.

Why was the GC Quad not showing distance numbers?

Got it. Short fast back swing is better than long slow back swing.

If you think about this logically, it would take more force to stop a club at the top when you crank up your backswing speed. So, it takes more time for the club to stop. During this time, your muscles will stretch further, giving your muscles more length to travel. This is the reason why a faster backswing MAY improve speed. But half of club speed is strike. The more of the ball that you catch in the middle of the face, you get less resistance. When you hit one on the heel or toe, the club experience lots more resistance and takes lots of speed away.

So many experts here in the comments section.

As a retired Tour Pro, I can tall you that the vast majority of professionals would never do this to try and increase their club head speed. Unless they didn't actually care where the ball was going. It might help someone who just wants to hit it a little longer, but they will also hit it much wider, too. Go and see a reputable coach for advice, YT isn't the place that is going to help most players.

Hooke's law. If the equipment is correct, then applying more load to the shaft will produce more speed. I remember this law of physics best... because I tend to hook when I over torque the shaft and don't maintain the shaft tension until impact.

Under pressure most will swing faster fast back fast down...... Have you seen the results? Snaphooks ob ...Or blocks way right. Good luck.

NASA called, they found his golf ball on the moon. My goodness, that's proper driving right there!

On your back swing get your club head in your eft eye peripheral. Then start your own swing.

Smash factor increase executed !!!

awesome info - thank you for posting - didnt know until now - thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get the tour tempo app. If you can match the 18:6 ratio. You are bringing it.

How can I contact him for lessons?

A lot of amateurs are going to miss the center of the club face more by focusing on making a faster back swing.

In my 60's now and went from 107-8 to 98-99 over last few years. Gonna try it, but I'll bet I hit a lot of off center shots.

for the doubters of the science behind this, take the slowest backswing possible, then come down with your normal speed. see how far you hit it lol. and yes, it looks like he's swinging out of his shoes, but obviously he's going to be more off balance because his body is not used to that 8mph jump. he did hit one that was in pretty good balance, but the amount of recoil he has is causing most of his balance problems.

However…..if you rush too much and don’t finish the backswing you’ll get disconnected and more often than not throw open your lead shoulder and the extra kinetic energy will simply result in an even bigger, longer slice.

Actually hitting the ball farther with the driver can be done in many ways. Getting a high smash factor with a relatively slow swing speed will give you pretty good distance with your drive without having to swing out of your shoes to do it. Your body has to make a lot of adjustments to swing a golf club fast. The fewer adjustments you can get away with the better and the longer your golfing "career." So how do you get a high smash factor? You do it by releasing all the energy in the club at the instant you hit the ball. It is the similar to the chain of actions that a baseball pitcher uses to throw a fast pitch. It is a matter of combining all the motion your body does to get the club swinging to focus at the instant the club hits the ball. And yes it is much easier said that done and some will never be able to fully realize it. Sure you can try swinging faster but there is a timing component there. You might just release all the energy too soon or too late. You will still hit the ball pretty well but not with the optimum force. Part of the secret to get the optimum swing is having a loose grip on the club throughout the swing. You have to let the club swing. Most, when trying to swing the club fast, will grip the club too tight which will actually eliminate the possibility of hitting the ball with optimum force.

To me, I would think the faster backswing will cause you to have more lag in the club coming down since it may still be going back as you start down. Lag is what creates speed at impact and you have to have loose wrists and forearms so the club can whip through impact faster. Applying more force to the grip would cause the opposite of loose wrists as more grip force should equal tighter wrists and forearms. Unless "grip force" is meaning something else when he says it.

anytime I try swinging faster in the backswing its bye bye fairway and ball

Freddy Couples at 59 years old doesn't look like he swings fast; it's because he doesn't believe in swinging hard. He says that he puts all his effort into hitting the ball at the bottom of the swing; he said he feels like the release point is after the ball.

if you want longevity in this game go slow back, period. 30 years a teaching pro

This is definitely not for everyone. I personally get more speed/distance and consistency from a slow and well synced backswing. When my backswing gets quick and snappy is when I lose my transition at the top and my swing falls apart.

hes all over the place when he swings harder

So swing speed up so what is smash factor....higher splash factor equals better distance

Teaching that Mike Austin "throw out" technique, basically.

Does Sasho give private or group lessons or seminars?

Make sure all you hacks swing faster and harder. A timeless key to success...

Sounds like a sacrifice of accuracy for distance

Fact: each driver is designed to a specific swing speed that delivers the maximum spring effect. . If a greater speed than the one designed for the best spring effect is applied, then the spring effect becomes in effective. then it's just pure power giving that ball distance. Yes, then you are looking for 119mph. I bet if he asked his Driver manufacturer at what speed was his spring effect tuned to on his driver the would tell him it only needs a speed of 105 to get the best spring result. and it would equal a faster speed. Also the shaft stiffness would vary it as well.I found that with my driver I can get the same distance if not further buy swinging slower, meaning I found the optimum swing speed my driver was designed for. it would puzzle me when I hit 4 balls, 2 at at 102mph and got 270m then I hit 2 at 96mph and got 268m and 271m. that's my experience . Faster is not necessary longer on every driver.

So did you hit it straight?