Pga tour, pga tour champions, and the swinging golfer design are registered trademarks. Cameron champ currently leads the clubhead speed charts this season with a 129. Low sample size and unrepresentative sample are obvious culprits, but its very possible your measuring technology was. The swing speed is the main consideration in selecting a driver shaft. As you can see, last seasons average clubhead speed of 114. As you can see, 45% have a club speed between 91 and 100 mph. An average driver loft if you are unsure would typically be a 10. I think it really matters which group of senior golfers you are talking about. The senior tour numbers were calculated by taking the 2012 mean driving distance of 273. According to trackman the average male golfer has 93. The leading lpga players have been measured between 90 and 100 mph. These figures are a couple of years old, but another recent study shows that they really havent changed that much. Looking at the average swing speeds of male golfers with drivers youll see much more reasonable numbers.
Did you know that an increase in club head speed of just 5 mph can result in 15 additional. I find this article very interesting, but your numbers are inflated and misleading. This is how far pga and lpga tour players hit it with. Golf club head speed is the biggest determinant of how far a golf ball will travel.
The following graph shows the distribution of ama driver club speeds. The best way to get the optimum fit for your game is to schedule a driver fitting at your nearest dick s sporting goods store. Stronger players with faster swings typically elect to use stiffer shafts, for example. My average driver club head speed is 8990 mph and can get up to 9394 on a really really good day. Performance of the average male amateur golfer trackman golf. In the next year the typical driver will start to vary greatly, but for now lets say the average driver length is 45 long and equipped with a 65g shaft and 50g grip. This article notes the usga speed limits for golf balls although a speed limit on golf clubs is a recent action see december 1999, limits on golfball.
Golf driver distance and swing speed relationship adam. I was hitting some balls on a gc2 and my driver swing. The best golf clubs for 80 mph swing speed sportsrec. While your swing speed is very critical golf ball speed is a better measurement of how efficiently you transferred the energy of your swing to the ball. If i had gone for total distance instead of carry distance, the slope would still be 3. While some drivers will work for most people, variables such as. Former lpga tour pro loreno ochoa is 5 foot, 5 inches and weighs 120 pounds, yet she averages 271 yards on her drives. Weve broken down our driver test results into three different swing. Contrast that to the average amateur male golfer with swing speeds closer to 80 and 90 mph. On average a pga tour professional will have a club head speed for their golf driver of around 115 mph. An increase of 1 in the length of a club will typically only increase the clubhead speed by 1. As weve done in the past, for 2018, were again segmenting our data to provide more meaningful information to the individual golfer. A 50yearold male golfer is likely to have a much faster swing speed than an. She does this by perfecting her technique and creating club head speed.
There is very little difference between a 45 inch long driver standard and a 47 inch driver in terms of club head speed. Moreover, leading independent testing lab in golf confirms that the speed system driver alone helps golfers drive the ball an average of 16. Clubhead speed is how fast you are moving the head of the golf club just before. Want to gain yardage with your driver but unsure how.
The korn ferry trademark is also a registered trademark, and is. The average driver carry distance from the pga tour is 269 yards. The clubhead of each speed system driver utilizes speed ti, an exclusive design that combines a thin face with reinforced edges to create extra strength that translates into faster speed. Though a swing speed of 80 mph is on the low end, you can still.
Hey, new to the forum and tried to search for this but didnt come up with much info so forgive me if this has been discussed before. Sixteen years ago, golf digest presented compelling evidence that average golfers needed to use drivers with more loft to maximize distancesometimes as much as 12, 14 or 16 degrees. What is the average swing speed of a senior golfer. Average driving distance by age and handicap golfmagic. Many golf professionals are able to generate high club speeds through their form and method of striking the ball. So if youre up there on the tee swinging out of your shoes chances are your wasting more energy than you think. In fact for every extra 1mph faster you swing the club, you can increase you driver distance by three yards. Still, there is only about a 10 mph club head speed difference between the guys in the 60to69 age category and the main tour average of about 1 mph. Launching the ball higher the average golfer launches the ball at 8 degrees, whereas optimal for most golfers is closer to 16 degrees. Good players have a wider range for each club and hit fewer poor shots. Subtract a roll factor from the drive average to determine the distance of.
The average pga tour professional swings over 110 miles per hour and carries a driver at least 275 yards, according to golf spyder. Below we compare the average swing speed for men, women, by age and with different clubs. Shop the latest 2020 arrivals at dick s sporting goods. The average male golfer swings the club between 80 and 90 mph. The speed of the clubhead determines how far you are able to hit the golf ball. Head weights, shaft weights and balance points hireko golf. Understanding golf club loft can improve performance on the course. This chart lists the expected average golf club distances for each club based on varying swing speeds for men and women. With the driver, for every 1 mph you add to your swing speed you stand to gain around 2.
The average female golfer swings between 60 and 70 mph. The clubhead of each speed system driver utilizes speed ti, an exclusive design which combines a thin face with reinforced edges to create extra strength that translates into. Lowering spin loft difference between angle of attack. However, among the highest and lowest averages, there has been an. At the professional long driver level, trackman shows us the following average club head speed numbers for the field at the world long drive. As you can see, the club speed for the average pga tour pro is 1 mph with driver. Our mission has been to collect information and data on all of these average golfers to better understand how to help the 99 percent of us that.