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Hello welcome to your simple golf swing I’m Matt in this video I want to do a follow-up to a video that I made about 11 months ago called the swing speed lie in that video I showed clips of Troy Mullins who’s a female long drive Champion hitting a drive of 398 yards
With only a swing speed of 116 mph in that video I explained why swing speed doesn’t create distance and I gave some reasons for that and I explained how Troy was able to generate such incredible distance with such a considerably low swing speed if you compare that to some of the other long
Drivers and how far they were hitting the ball well this caused a lot of negative comments on my channel a lot of people got on there and were saying I didn’t know what I was talking about um they were all saying it’s a matter of basic
Physics you need to go back to school quit spreading disinformation you should be deleted from YouTube and that’s all fine I know they all meant well maybe some of them maybe a couple of them anyways there’s a lot of people out there that have bought into the swing speed Theory
There are people out there that are actually making a living teaching swing speed speed theory in fact one of the guys that left comments he’s got an entire school where that’s all he teaches is swing speed Theory and he was not happy with what I was putting out
Well I want to discuss some of their arguments and in particular I want to talk about the physics that most of them kept referring to and I just want to double down that on my whole concept that swing speed does not create distance and I’m going to prove that to
You if if you just sit back bear with me I’m going to go through a lot of information it’s going to cause you to do a little bit of thinking and it’s going to cause you to do a little bit of critical thinking especially for those
Of you out there that believe in swing speed Theory you’re going to have to critically look at the facts and make a new assessment on what actually creates a distance I think you’ll be a little bit surprised and hopefully entertained before I get into that I’d
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Can learn the entire swing in no time at all okay so let’s get into today’s video okay so again the premise of that first video was that swing speed does not create distance so a lot of people came out of the woodwork and like I said they
Were saying you need to learn basic physics and it’s funny because they all use the exact same formula and that formula was force equals mass time acceleration wait a second Force equals mass time acceleration well then according to that formula aren’t they saying Force creates distance we all know that’s the right
Formula for distance right Force equals masstimes acceleration what is force force is the amount of energy that you’re putting into the back of that golf ball at contact that’s what creates distance but I thought it was swing speed no it’s force force creates distance they all agree on the same formula yet
In their own reasoning they don’t understand that what they’re saying when they’re telling me I need to learn basic physics they’re not getting it wrapped around their head that it’s not swing speed it’s Force so what makes up Force mass times acceleration okay well what’s Mass well
Mass is the amount of matter that an object object is made up of it can be seen and it can be weighed okay I’m 6’3 206 lb got a lot of mass here compared to somebody who is 5 fo5 135 lbs can be seen can be weigh the amount of matter
Makes up my mass I have more matter making up my mass than somebody who is 5’5 135 pounds simple as that so we need to take Mass and we need to give it a measure of unit or a unit of measurement and then we need to multiply that by
Acceleration so what’s acceleration well first let’s talk about what it’s not acceleration is not speed it’s not club head speed speed is distance traveled in a unit of time it’s a measurement of a distance traveled in a unit of time well what does that mean well you’re in your
Car you’re flying down the highway it takes you 60 seconds that’s your unit of time measurement to go one mile that’s your distance traveled you’re going 60 M an hour that is what speed is that’s the definition of speed well what’s the definition of acceleration isn’t it the same no it’s
Not the definition of acceleration is the change in velocity over the change in time what does that mean well what that means is let’s get back in that car now you’re sitting at a light it’s a red light you’re stopping you’re waiting you’re kind of in a hurry
That light turns green and you take off and you want to measure how long does it take you to go from zero up to 60 M hour you’re changing your velocity you’re starting at zero which is zero velocity no velocity and you’re going to speed speed up to 60 MPH
And in doing so you’re going through 1 mph 2 mph 3 mph you’re changing your velocity and you’re going to measure how much time it takes you to make that to to change that velocity to to your ending point 60 mil an hour that is acceleration it’s not speed it’s not how
Fast something is going it’s how fast something is accelerating how fast that velocity is changing in a certain amount of time okay so let’s look at that formula again Force equals mass time acceleration where does Speed come into that where does Club head speed factor into that you might think it does an
Acceleration but it doesn’t and I’m going to point that out to you I’m going to show you something but we’re going to start with mass first let’s say that you have two people that both swing at 100 Mil hour cuz we’re just going to go ahead and use
Swing speed cuz that’s what all the swing speed nuts talk about they both swing 100 m hour let’s say they both have ex the exact same acceleration okay but let’s say one of those people is 5 fo5 135 lb let’s say that other person is 6’3 206 lb which one of those two
According to this formula is going to hit the ball further remember mass times acceleration equals force now we’re going to assign units of measurement to make this simple for you let’s just use small numbers just for the fun of it let’s say our Mass has two units of measurement okay and our
Acceleration has two units of measurement two * 2 = 4 so 2 * 2 we get a a force of four that’s our Force okay now let’s say we’re going to pick somebody with more mass let’s say the person has considerable more mass let’s say they’re twice as big so now our Mass
Instead of two is going to be four and our acceleration and our clubhead speed and everything else remains equal it’s still going to be two now we’re doing four * two so now what does that do to our Force 4 * 2 it’s not four anymore is it it’s eight what generates distance
Force now we have a factor of eight of force going into the back of the ball the larger person same swing speed same acceleration is going to hit the ball further now let’s say that we have two people with the exact same well wait a
Second let that sink in before I go on the next point I want you to let that sink in and I want I want you to think about how many times have you been on a golf course and you get paired up with a very large guy okay uh don’t mean to be
Disparaged okay we all have different body makes makeups but you know a few weeks ago I was out playing golf and I got paired up with this young guy he was probably around 510 and he was probably pushing about 260 270 lbs he was cranking his drive he was cranking every
Club in his bag did he have a really fast swing speed no he didn’t he had a pretty mellow gentle nice relaxed smooth swing speed but because of his Mass he was able to launch that ball out there because his Mass was so much bigger than
Anyone else in the group even though he may have had even a slower swing speed his Mass helped make up for that you can have somebody with a slower swing speed but greater mass make up for it because of their mass and their acceleration think about that for a
Second you’ve seen it for yourself they’re not swinging super fast just because they’re big they have more mass that they’re putting behind that club which creates more Force now let’s take two people that have equal Mass exact same mass and let’s say that they’re both swinging at 100 miles an hour the
Person that has better acceleration through the ball is going to actually hit the ball further despite their swing speed same mass but now we’re increasing the unit of measurement for acceleration so again we go back to the formula go back to the equation mass times acceleration higher unit of measurement
In acceleration it’s going to to create more Force right isn’t that logical isn’t that simple math isn’t that simple physics let’s talk about that acceleration again okay everybody out there who knows anything about the golf swing will all agree on this point they all agree that you want to be accelerating through the
Ball okay EV everybody will agree on that right even the swing speed freaks you want to be accelerating through the ball well wait a second if you’re accelerating through the ball that means you’re increasing your velocity after you’ve hit the ball you’re increasing your speed after you
Hit the ball so if swing speed creates distance then if you can generate 105 mil per hour swing speed but you want to accelerate to the ball so your max swing speed is 105 so you’re accelerating so that means when you’re at contact you’re at about a
100 and then when you get out here you reach that 105 because you’ve accelerated through the ball well wouldn’t that be going against the concept that you want swing speed to create distance why would you want your max swing speed out here instead of at contact if it’s the swing speed that’s
Going to give you the distance it’s because they all know intuitively that it’s acceleration not swing speed acceleration is in the formula mass time acceleration equals force oh let’s talk what what’s Force again force is what creates distance and you create Force there’s no two ways of around this there you just
Can’t get past this force is created by mass times acceleration it is not created by swing speed so let’s go back to Troy Mullins how was she able to hit that drive 300 198 yards 116 mph swing speed now if you look at the video you’ll see that she
Flew that ball at least to the 360 yard mark it looks like it may have landed around 362 then rolled out to 398 okay so that’s an incredibly long drive if you look at the way that Troy is built she has extremely big leg muscles they’re they’re solid they’re huge she’s got
Really big big leg muscles that’s part of her Mass her whole body makes up her Mass her arms her hands her entire body makes up the mass then what’s the swing that she’s doing she’s throwing that mass into that ball very efficiently and effectively and she’s creating
Acceleration into the ball okay it’s not swing speed that is getting her to launch that ball all the way out there 362 yards on the Fly it’s her mass and her acceleration look at her swing speed 116 mph according to swing speed theorist 116 mph isn’t going to get the ball out
That far unless you’re using a 4dre lofted driver and a modified golf club but she doesn’t she’s used a 9 Dees standard regulation driver that she could use in a golf tournament on the pro circuit she’s using her mass and she’s using acceleration and she’s launching the ball out there now for you
Guys out there that you know you’re never going to get up to 125 mph some of you older guys I’m not even up to 125 mil an hour yet I can launch the ball out there pretty far and I want you who are only swinging it at
80 M an hour or 90 M an hour don’t get discouraged because if you’re using your mass properly and you’re accelerating properly you’re going to be able to hit the ball along long ways Troy Mullins hit that golf ball 360 yard on the Fly with 116 mph swing speed okay so most
Models would say that for every m per hour of swing speed you’re going to get about 2.58 miles of carry or 2.58 yards of carry so you know with that in mind it would take 100 m hour swing speed to hit a 28 yard drive but Troy at 362 on
The Fly 116 mil per hour swing speed she’s generating 3.1 yards per mile per hour now again I’m not buying into mile per hour I’m just want to let you guys know who can only swing at 90 miles per hour and you think you need to get it up higher so
You can hit the ball further and you know because if you look at that those numbers you’re never going to hit anything even close to 250 at 90 mph but the truth of the matter is if you’re using your mass your acceleration properly you’re actually going to be
Able to hit that ball using Troy’s numbers of 3.1 yards now you’re driving the ball more than 270 it’s very important for you to understand this and realize this don’t buy in to you have to increase your swing speed don’t believe the ads that say you need to buy these funny weighted
Sticks and learn how to swing your arms faster and faster because swing speed is going to give you distance the very formula that these swing speed guys try to point out to me as evidence to prove that I’m wrong actually proves them wrong there’s no two ways around that
Force equals mass times acceleration and you cannot argue that swing speed is the same as acceleration I just explained to you the definitions of speed and the definition of acceleration there are two very different animals you can have all kinds of swing speed but if you’re not
Putting your mass into it properly if you’re not accelerating into the ball you’re not going to get any distance not near the distance that somebody who is using their bodies properly is going to generate now I understand there’s still going to be a lot of you out there that
Are just going to be like no no it’s swing speed it it’s got to be swing speed and then and you’re going to jump into my comment section and call me an idiot again that’s fine you know uh but you just got to understand understand
That your name is going to be tied to your comment and other people are going to see other people that are going to be able to look at the logic of the formula that everyone’s saying we have to use and they’re going to understand wait a second this guy leaving this comment
He’s a little nuts it’s force that causes it they argue of that themselves force causes distance Force creates a bomb down the Fairway okay and how do we generate Force mass times acceleration the fact of the matter is if if you’re hitting the ball with a swing speed of only 90 M
Hour but you’re accelerating at the right point at your swing and accelerating through that ball you’re going to hit that ball a lot further than somebody who’s swinging it at 110 mil an hour but there’s no acceleration you understand that you do you understand the the speed is not
Acceleration because if you are swinging a constant speed there is no acceleration do do you understand that does that sink in acceleration is the change in velocity over the change in time speed is a constant there is no change and again what causes distance as the swing speed guys go to
Their websites and look they all say this is the formula Force equals mass times acceleration but we’re going to sell you on swing speed not on force not on mass they never even address Mass none of these guys will address Mass I had one guy try to address mass
In his comment and it was pretty funny he said okay so Mass that’s represented by your arms your hands and the club and then the acceleration is how fast you can swing them well one of the things wrong with that is he’s saying how fast you can swing your arms hands and Club
Well that’s not acceleration that’s speed but the second thing I want to point out is his mass is his arms his hands and his Club okay so he swings the golf club like this no body movement at all just swings his arms hands and Club it’s all the
Mass he wants to use more power to him think about that for a second if it’s all about swing speed you would you would be able to swing just like that guy says just using your arms and your hands and learn how to swing those as fast as you possibly can and you’re
Going to hit long drives that way I don’t think so I don’t think it’s going to happen if swing speed theory is true then you wouldn’t need to use your body just use your arms your hands and the club swing it learn how to swing
That as fast as you can and you’ll get all kinds of distance you all know that’s ridiculous so don’t buy into it well I hope that clears things up for some of you out there and I hope some of you guys that have really bought into swing speed Theory will just take a
Critical look at the whole thing again think about the things I pointed out here just the very fact that two people with the same swing speed the larger person with more mass is going to be able to launch it further that alone should tell you that swing speed is not
What creates distance it’s force that alone should be all the evidence that you need I hope you like the video I hope you found it at least a little bit entertaining have a great day please if you would hit the like button it’ll help send my video out to more people I want
To get rid of this disinformation that’s out there and help golfer understand have a deeper understanding of what actually creates distance have a good day
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My 2 cents, you are not wrong, but the speed guys are not wrong either. There has to be engough acceleration of the clubhead to overcome the force that the ball has on the club during impact. If there's more acceleration than that then more force is transfered to the ball. The 3 main factors are speed, mass of the moving structure, and acceleration. If the acceleration number is the same for 2 swings but the speed is different then the higher speed will yeild more distance, common sence. But if the swing speeds are the same and the acceleration is higher in one then the one with the higher acceleration will yeild more distance and in his example a lot more distance. Google the term impulse as related to impact physics to learn more.
Great content Matt.. Totally agree. I have quite a short back swing but good timing and accélération and hit it far enough. PS 47 years expertise in chemisty/physics..
Makes perfect sense, all the best 👍🏌
Makes total sense. That’s why the big hitters move down and into the ball. To create force. To get their body weight into the ball. To create power.
Great video
Question, please. If you have two golfers of equal mass with the same club that has a measured club head speed of 100mph, 6 inches past the ball, but one golfers backswing is all the way to parallel, golfer 2 is only shoulder height, then golfer 2 will hit the ball further because it had faster acceleration, due the fact it reached the same speed, on a short travel distance? Aka John Rahm who has a half swing. ,
I don´t think that the body mass is connected to flying clubhead at impact. The impulse m*a in the system fast moving heavy clubhead and not moving light ball remaines after impact when the ball is moving fast and the clubhead a bit slower than before impact.
Matt, here is something which will explain it to all those who don't see it.
Take your putter. Make your backswing a foot in distance and then strike the ball. Keep the putter head at the same speed all the way through impact and keep it going for a foot after the ball.
Now do the same again at the same speed but this time, at impact (not before), accelerate a little and once again keep the putter going for a foot after the ball. Now see which ball has gone the furthest. Using a putter over a short distance it was easy for me to replicate this time after time, and each time I did it the second ball went way further than the first. I was hitting the ball at the same speed each time but with the acceleration right on, or marginally after, the point of impact, it sent the ball much further.
I'm someone who has struggled with distance but, funnily enough, I've been working on it this week before I watched your video and I came to the same conclusion that acceleration, rather than a constant speed through impact, is key. I've been working on clearing the hips while holding the hands back generating lag. I was swinging at the same speed, if not a little slower but, because of the lag, my hands had to catch up with my body as it turned through the ball so they had to accelerate at the last second. The difference in distance was astounding. I was adding 30-50 yards on my drive which, at 64 years of age, I'm quite happy about.
I totally get what you're saying. Let's say you swing the club at a consistent 100mph through the ball and hit it 250 yards. Then you swing again but a foot before impact your clubhead is doing 90mph, at impact it's doing 100mph and a foot after impact it's doing 110 mph, you will hit your ball way past your first attempt. I don't understand those who don't get it.
Great discussion, but maybe a bit off target? Tutelman has an in-depth writeup on acceleration (search Tutelman Accelerating Through Impact; I'd post the link, but my comment just got deleted). Bottom line: The effects are negligible. However, his discussion of right-hand power in the swing might be more useful and I believe helps explain why Austin's throwing action works — a shorter lever arm gives more force to the hands, which translates to more speed/distance.
I get where you're coming from. Unfortunately, until launch monitors show acceleration through the hitting area, you'll be upsetting a lot of people's current understanding of "swing speed".
Matt – this is a super interesting video, and highlights what I think is an interesting discussion about how to hit the golf ball – create whip or not create whip. I've also long thought about this point, because I'm 6'2” and over 200 myself and I've always wondered if that meant I could hit the golf ball further than a lighter person. PS – I’m not a “speed only” believer. I believe clean contact matters more to distance than clubhead speed for most golfers with real life assumptions.
I do think acceleration of the clubhead, and the mass of the player does matter – for a different set of reasons. I don’t think it matters in the way you are describing here.
Examining acceleration, rather than mass I think makes it obvious. If you examine a case where the clubhead is exactly not accelerating at impact for example.
If (a) = 0, then with your line of thinking, there would be no force applied, as no matter what the mass was, if (a) = 0 then (f) = 0. Worse yet if you decelerated the clubhead through impact, then force would be negative under this line of thinking.
I think the (a) that matters is the (a_ball) as it goes from zero to something greater than zero (over d/t^2). We are expressly looking at the force required to act on an object at rest to put it in motion. The force being delivered is the force transferred from the clubhead impacting the ball BECAUSE it is moving at a speed and the mass can’t occupy the same space.
If you hit a ball with a club traveling at 100 mph (assuming 100% energy transfer) the ball goes from 0 to 100 mph during impact, which is where the (a) in the equation would come from.
The force required to do that is:
the mass (m) of the ball
x
the acceleration (a) of going from zero to the club head speed over the period of impact.
So you can back into the (f_ball) required to make it move to that speed with the (m_ball)*(a_ball), or calculate the (a_ball) that you will get if you transfer energy from the moving clubhead into the (m_ball).
The (m_clubhead)*(a_clubhead) is the (f_clubhead) required of the player to get it to the speed that impacts the (a_ball) at that speed. The speed of the clubhead at impact was determined by the rotational force applied by the player, which requires torque analysis and what not.
If the ball is hit with a 100MPH clubhead speed, the ball will go from zero to 100MPH (again assuming 100% energy transference for simplicity – which is not a real life assumption of course, but I think makes sense for this analysis – although OWW, it would hurt as the club would stop…). The (a_ball) of the (m_ball) is a function of the speed that it gets up to because it was hit.
If the ball is then hit with a 100MPH clubhead speed that is accelerating at impact, the ball will still go from zero to 100MPH. Well – maybe ever so slightly faster as we need to borrow some calculus now – because during the impact time, measured in milliseconds, the clubhead will be going a tiny bit faster on average because it is accelerating – but that’s going to be negligible. The (a_ball) of the (m_ball) will essentially be the same.
If we took a case where the clubhead was travelling 5mph at impact, but accelerating at 5 mph/s^2, the ball speed would not be able to exceed the speed of a ball that was hit with a clubhead traveling at 100mph with zero acceleration, which I think is another way to look at the scenario.
Yet another way to think about it is one of those toys with the line of steel balls suspended by strings, where you swing the end one, and the other end one jumps off the end at impact. The number of balls you swing (making the clubhead heavier) matters, but the mass of the frame holding the strings would not matter. The (f) required to lift 2 vs one of the swinging balls matters – (hence heavier vs lighter clubs are harder to swing at speed, in general) however, no matter how much mass you add to the frame of the toy (the m_player), it wouldn’t change how far the other ball would go.
I think the m_player would matter in the rotational torque calculations to get the clubhead up to speed – as the m_player would be related to how much force the player can deliver from the ground to the shaft to get the clubhead to go as fast as possible at impact, but I don’t think it works the way you are thinking here.
In another way of thinking – I don’t think the same player, with a weight vest on would hit the ball further by virtue of the weight vest (assuming it didn’t impact the swing mechanics). I do wish it worked that way – as then I’d have a reason to put on a bunch of weight to hit the ball further.
I think there’s much to be said about transference – and if we take off the 100% transference assumption, the idea of swinging with an accelerating swing might be interesting. That swing might deliver a more centered contact allowing a higher transference of energy from the clubhead to the ball. A lighter player than me, with a better swing, can still transfer more energy to the ball by hitting it with cleaner contact. That allows the club to do what it is designed to do, and their centered hit will go further than my non-center hit because the club is more efficient in the center at delivering its energy to the ball.
If the accelerating swing is easier for the player to manage, which sorta rings true – if you watch any of the channels that show Gears data for example, you’ll find that pros hit the ball with more clubhead speed, generated closer to impact, than amateurs in general.
I do think there’s a lot of stuff to think about in this, but I don’t think the f=ma is the (m_player+m_clubhead) * (a_clubhead).
To your point about the janky swing of someone not using their body – certainly you are right – there’s no way they could get the clubhead up to the same speed with a janky, arms only swing. Yet, let’s assume someone was able to windmill a club with just their one arm and make perfect contact at 100mph. As long as that clubhead was traveling 100 mph – then that’s the potential speed of the ball.
I can be wrong of course and I'm sure I've over simplified some things, but your analysis made me think more deeply about something I’ve thought lightly about before. I think what’s happened here is the conflating of the rotational force that the player generates on the clubhead (which might be impacted by mass and the timing of the forces applied to accelerate the club) and the force transferred to the ball which will determine the acceleration of the ball. I think that the efficiency of transferring that potential force is what makes the difference. Not the acceleration of the clubhead at impact, nor the mass of the player.
F = m * a,
F = force applied to ball,
m = mass of ball,
a = acceleration of ball.
Mass and acceleration of golfer and golf club do not enter this equation.
An elephant would not hit it any farther than a man with same swing speed.
Thanks Matt it makes sense to me great video
You are correct. If the clubhead is moving at its fastest two feet past the ball, it has to be accelerating throughout the swing.
Interesting and you are absolutely correct. My personal interpretation on the intent and goal of many of the "swing speed" training out there was to try and learn how to improve acceleration through the ball. As for mass I'm not adding any more mass onto this already "over-massed" body! 🙂
Jose Altuve? 5'6" 165 lbs routinely hits a baseball 430" That fact makes it difficult to understand how the mass of the player enters into it. Mass of the bat/clubhead for sure, but I'm not so sure they know who's doing the swinging.
The swing speed guy are not nuts. They're just giving only part of the story. The speed of the clubhead imparts momentum to the ball after the collision. The resultant ball speed is bigger with a bigger clubhead speed. Momentum is conserved. Assuming an inelastic collision we can calculate exactly how the ball speed depends on the clubhead speed. But this is not the whole story!
Accelerating through the ball means we impose an additional force on the clubhead and ball. This force is additional to that imparted solely from the collision and the momentum change of the clubbhead. The more you accelerate through the ball, the stronger this force will be. It contributes to ballspeed, and therefore, distance.
Iron Byron can easily be programmed to demonstrate the relative contributions of these forces. Constant speed vs increasing speed; maintaining the same speed at impact.
Another important factor is sweet spot contact. For the same swing speed, you get more distance with better contact.
This is long, but I hope it helps. By the way, the best use of the body mass is for collisions in Sumo wrestling.☺ However, you're on point with the use of the whole torso in accelerating the clubhead and getting more distance. Thanks for the video!
Must say i find this analogy a bit depressing from a golf perpective. I am a small guy so no matter what i do i have no hope of matching a guy with significantly more mass than myself. I do however see small guys drive really long in comps. Something does not stack up here. I think i try photograghy instead as my size does not matter there.
You are not accelerating a person swinging the golf club!!!!!!!!!!!! You swinging the CLUB with given mass against a golf ball with given mass!!!!!!!You are a dork!!!!The club after hittin the ball is DECLERATING because the change of MOMENTUM!!!!You are DORK!!!!Go back to school.
How is it then that xander shauffelle vs john rahm driving distance average is roughly the same, i.e 305 vs 314 respectively. ?
To those that don't think Mass has an effect. Let the club spin in your hands at impact. See how far the ball goes. Mass has an effect on total force, as Matt says. If you don't have mass, or you decouple your mass ( allowing the club to spin in your hands, or letting the club go at impact ) you're not going to be able to create nearly as much force.
Excellent point. Thanks for it.
Great video! It did sink in 🙂
While you are correct in your physics, there are other factors that create distance. The launch conditions and spin rate of the ball play a major role. That same swing that produced 360+ carry wouldn't come close given different launch conditions. Acceleration is only useful given the proper launch if distance is the goal.
Great video by the way. I had never thought of the actual physics behind it. Thanks for pointing that out.
Also, speed training is useful because while you are academically correct, learning to swing faster in a given amount of time and space leads to greater acceleration of the club. Show me someone that gains acceleration without gains to clubhead speed. I understand that they aren't necessarily tied together.
interesting content- we have been too focused on centrifugal force to create speed, one half of the equation, acceleration is an attribute of centripetal force the other half of the equation that seems to be misunderstood.
How does one add either mass or acceleration to increase force?
Ive understood this in my own golf research. That by holding the club a bit more robustly you get a greater force into the ball. At impact. Same with a punch. The club would otherwise slow down at inpact but you need the weight to carry it through
This may be an explanation of why 2 fellas considered to be the best ball-strikers ever (Ben Hogan and Moe Norman) were known to play with much heavier clubs than their contemporaries on tour.
Interesting topic. Being an average but avid golfer, I’ve discovered that swing speed, and the effort of trying to increase it, is meaningless if it throws off your timing, rhythm, mechanics, balance, and ability to hit the ball in the center of the club face. It took me 20 years to understand that swinging “within”yourself producers longer, more consistent shots simply because you are less likely to compromise the other critical aspects of the golf swing. Unless you’re an elite golfer, you’d probably be better off focusing on the fundamentals of the golf swing. Speed and acceleration through the ball will occur naturally when the other fundamentals are executed.
The distance the golf ball travels = rate x time. Rate is the ball speed.
Brilliant
I'm 61 years old and carry my 7i about 129y. I desperately want more distance on all my carry yardages and I'm so confused about what is true…I thought about spending $340 for the RypStick with the radar to do swing speed training. I've also begun a strength training program to build some muscle (which is more about me feeling better about myself in terms of physique and energy than gaining on the golf course). Tom Saguto released a recent video saying to swing with your arms and shoulders for increased swing speed/distance and not to fire the hips, and you're saying to swing with the legs and hips and not arms and shoulders…I just don't know what to do or believe that will constructively see me gain yards on every club.
Wow Matt! This is really some interesting stuff. Finally got an "ohhhh ok" moment with "speed" and "acceleration"… and how "mass" fits into the equation. I heard Mike Austin, in one of his videos, explain to Mike Dunaway, that his golf swing is not an explosion of speed, but a "fission." As a rocket taking off accelerating faster and faster from the ground, not an explosion of instant speed. Also, Mike used heavy club heads, I guess to add to the "mass," would that be a good analysis??
How do U explain the transfer of power from the body to the arms and hands and clubhead ? – I would think that correct sequence is important – but I think it is not the full explanation for how to accellerate the club head – something to do with releasing the arms i would think . Mybe an expert in BOXING could give a good answer. The heavy weight boxers realy uses their weight to there adventages. I am to ofen swinging the club more or less with the same speed as the body and conseqenlty need some god advice how to hit it longer.
Do you provide in person lessons?