Swing Speed Distance Chart

This chart lists the expected average golf club distances for each club based on varying swing speeds for men and women.

Swing speed distance chart. I would think more like 145 or something like that. The average shot is not perfect. A player who is able to swing a driver at an even 100 miles per hour can expect a distance of around 258 yards. This can be done by strengthening your grip increasing the length of your back swing improve your weight distribution through your swing and creating a whip like action on the ball.

Not all advice is good and often is bad. Not only does more swing speed help you hit the ball farther research shows there is a direct correlation between your driving distance and club head speed and handicap and thus scoring. The first number is for lower speed swingers less than 85 mph with the driver followed by medium 86 104 mph and high speed 105 mph swingers. In fact even good players rarely hit perfect shots.

They may not hit all that many more good shots. Good players have a wider range for each club and hit fewer poor shots. To hit a 7 iron close to 170 your swing speed should be at least in mid 80s with that iron. On the comment above from guy at golftec a swing speed of 75 78 with a 7 iron hit properly should not correlate with a distance of 173.

To increase the distance of your driver you ll need to increase your swing speed ball speed launch angle while reducing the amount of backspin or side spin you place on the ball. Club head speed by age group. Looking at a couple individual clubs and the different results seen on the swing speed chart it is interesting to see how a change in swing speed can make a dramatic difference to the clubs you use to get around the course. This simple chart above shows the relationship between how fast you swing the club club speed and how far you can potentially hit the ball with your golf driver.

Several things to note about the data in the chart below are. The greatest distance factors are mechanics and club head speed. Wed feb 27 2019 by chris finn over the past four years at par4success we have been working with and testing juniors amateurs professionals and senior golfers in the state of north carolina and throughout the country. Chart showing golf club distances.

You can see this in 2017 2019 arccos data published by mygolfspy in 2020 that shows the difference in driving distance by handicap group. Who cares where the ball goes i just swung my driver at 110mph which becomes 115 when chatting to my buddies and a comfortable 120 when i share it online. Per a suggestion in the comment section of my last article called how far should you hit your golf clubs the purpose of this post is to summarize all of the carry distance versus swing speed data that was being discussed in to a summarized reference chart. As soon as we have the opportunity to hit with trackman or similar which measures swing speed we all seem to want to swing out of our socks.

What percentile are you in.