How to increase golf swing speed and hit longer drives Download

"Jaacob’s work is great. It’s pretty straight forward. There are no magical tricks and it doesn’t mess with your golf swing. If you follow his advices, you will drive it further."

— Pablo Martin, 3-Time European Tour Winner, Increased Max Swing Speed from 119 mph to 128 mph


"I am hitting the golf ball to areas of the range I never even knew were there. This is just after one week!"

"I am still a little in shock at the quick results but here goes, (These swing speeds are average swing speed that I made solid contact, not top speed)

Not only that, but Jaacob, when I let go of the tension, the golf ball flight was dead straight. I am hitting the ball to areas of the range I never even knew were there. This after just one week!"

"On hole 11 which is uphill (probably 10-20 feet) 290 yards, everyone complemented me on my golf drive that it was straight and long, we spent about 15 minutes looking for my ball, once everyone hit their second (some third) shots we got on the green and noticed there was an extra ball. It was my golf drive, I had driven from the tee to the middle of the green on a 290 yard uphill shot! So I was pretty stoked about what I learned!"

"Jaacob Bowden has put together programs that don’t exist anywhere else. He understands the relationship between strength and swing speed better than any other instructor I’ve encountered. After less than a month of doing the workouts on his site, I was hitting the ball to places I had never been before on my local golf course. My driving distance improved from 250 yards to 290 yards-and I had several drives over 300 yards. At my age, I never expected to get longer. The workouts were easy to do and took less than 15 minutes."

"Jaacob’s not a typical teaching golf pro and this website is not your typical golf website. He’s not looking to make a few bucks promoting gimmicks or unrealistic results with little substance. Nor is he spouting off conventional teaching cliché´s or useless information. He genuinely cares about his students, goes far deeper than other teachers and websites, and he makes sure members of the Swingman site receive maximum value and improvement for their time and money.

"Working with Jaacob’s swing speed training programs I increased my speed by 12 miles per hour in one month. The game is a lot more fun with the driving distances I’m hitting them. Now I’m reaching greens in two more often. Swing speed training really works."

"When I first started the swing speed training I was very skeptical it would do anything for me because I was already swinging at speeds close to 130 mph. But I wanted to get to the next level and be able to compete in Long Drive Events. So I gave it a try. I gained 13 mph in just one month of the basic swing speed training.

When it comes to hitting the ball farther, a lot of golfers realize that technique is important. In recent years, people are also beginning to recognize the importance of getting custom fit for your ball and driver in order to maximize driving distance.

However, there’s another way to get more distance that most people don’t even know about (and how easy it is to do) or realize is possible… swing speed training.

Sports Sensors makes a nice little general graphic that illustrates the strong correlation between club head speed and distance. Simply put, the more swing speed you have, the farther you’ll hit the ball.

Regarding amateurs, I don’t have any large data samples, but from what we’ve seen and read, the average male golfer’s club head speed is mostly around 85 mph to 90 mph… and hits about 220-225 yard drives. Average amateur women run in the region of 65 mph.

However, I do have some more specific data sample to show you from the Pro levels. Since 2007, the PGA Tour has been tracking swing speeds of all of it’s players using Trackman. Here are some of the numbers from players whom you may be curious about. The Tour average runs about 112-113mph (Pro Women are about 95 mph).

At the moment, the European Tour doesn’t post average club head speeds for the season. However, I did come across a document from a single event in 2008 containing the swing speeds of each player in the field. I’m not sure which hole or event these were measured with using Flightscope, but the numbers were interesting. Here are several notable players. The event average was 111 mph.

At the Pro Long Driver level, Trackman shows us the following peak club head speed numbers from the 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships:

Note: Throughout the Military competition, 20-23 mile per hour winds steadily blew into the competitors’ faces and pushed balls right to left on the grid, where the wind-chill factor hovered around 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Aside from improving your technique and getting fit for your equipment, despite what many golfers (even Pros like Tiger) believe, yes, you can actually train to increase your swing speed…at any age! Just take a look at Bobby Wilson. He is over the age of 53 and yet he swings over 12 mph faster than the PGA Tour’s "long hitting" Bubba Watson.

Also note that just because you are fit does not mean you are fast. Camilo Villegas is arguably more "fit" than John Daly, but John swings about 4 mph faster. Granted, some of this could be due to John’s technique, equipment, etc…but the point is that although fitness certainly has its place in golf and life, for distance it’s more about being fast than fit.

We’ve got junior members from 12 years old to men on up in to their 80s with handicaps ranging…

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How to increase golf swing speed and hit longer drives