What is the average swing speed for a driver

We are using flightscope so no concern if technology we are using is flawed, great question though. Average clubspeed for all men is not a very helpful number as it combines men in their 70s to 20 year olds, hence the start of building this database. Sorry to hear about your injuries, that is what the other parts of our database actually look at is how much speed can your body handle.

It sounds like the s were above what your body was able do handle. Happy to chat offline with you about all this if your interested in more detail. My contact is on our website or my tpi profile. Thanks again for taking the time to read what we are doing! Getting to conclusions on potential club head speed levels utilizing your measures this early in the process seems to biased, premature and not valid.

Thanks so much for the insight Jim! We need people like you in the industry to help educate people who read this that it is not finite and that there are outliers. This was just the start and the goal was not to suggest this is finite for the exact reasons you suggested.

There is no resource like this out there, hence it has to be built. Since this was published he database is close to golfers now. It is a work in progress as stated in the article and we need people like yourself to continue to push our field forward and demand more and better data. The selection of year olds obviously varies based on where they are biologically, but with a large enough sample size we should see a wash out of all outliers talking hundreds of datapoints needed here per group.

Thanks for not accepting this as final and pushing us to keep making it better. Agreed, these samples are way too low! Also, yes - the average 16 year old can probably outdrive a 10 year old by 50 or more yards.

What's also missing is genetics. I hate to even bring this up because it's controversial, but I think certain people who have more type 2b fast twitch muscles are naturally faster swingers. When I was 14 years old, I hit my first drive over yards. That same year, I was outsprinting seniors on the track team. You'd think I was some kind of athlete but I fatigued very easily and couldn't even do 10 pushups until I turned Agreed Jason we since have been able to shrink it to and and our goal is to get it to 2 year gaps all the way up to Similar to the above comment, outliers with more fibers or experience will be accounted for when the sample size becomes large enough.

Thanks for the insight! Great info here, Chris. By hitting the ball more solidly, or what's known as upping your "smash factor.

Generally, 1. If an average golfer could achieve a smash factor of 1. Add a higher launch angle at least 2 degrees by making contact on the upswing , and TrackMan says the average golfer could add 41 yards to his or her drive. Because PGA Tour players typically hit the center of the face, they average 2. Everyday golfers average only 2. If they improved to just 2. That's more than 30 yards longer than everyday male golfers. You can swing slightly slower—but much more efficiently—and you'll be in a new distance zip code.

Data gathered by Foresight Sports simulation software found that swinging 2-mph slower can still lead to 20 more yards, provided that you reduce ball spin, increase your launch angle and hit the ball more squarely in the center of the face.

But it was down nine yards from Anne Van Dam is as fast as some male professional golfers. However, her scoring average of She has the distance…she just has other gaps in her game.

Maria Fassi also falls under the same category of being fast enough but not good enough all around. Her LPGA scoring average is It would have been interesting to know how well she would have done had she been 10 mph faster…which is certainly doable.

He also added more fat and muscle weight and worked far harder than necessary to increase his swing speed. Realistically, to win the World Long Drive Championships, you need to be swinging in the mids. The average champion is mph based on 7 champions from However, this seems to be trending upwards.

A champion long driver would easily drive it 50 yards past a guy like Bubba Watson. Completely rebuilding the driver from the ground up to give you both forgiveness and distance. Go ahead, the tee box is yours. Swing away. A swing speed in the 90s puts you right around average. Latest In Instruction 17 mins ago.