Thread: golf balls

yeah i have been noticeing that over the last few weeks and getting more swings with my new driver (nike sumo sq 5000) that i'm starting to swing harder, not kill the ball, as i'm getting better with my swing. i've been getting more and more consistent with distence and more importently my slice is getting smaller and smaller thankfully now its more of a hard push.

Quote: Originally Posted by metnorm guys or gals or both hehe. Shade

norm; you might be surprised to find that a more relaxed, easy swing can be in fact FASTER than a hard, kill the ball swing. Don't assume your first two hard swings were in fact faster than the last two relaxed swings. Get on a launch monitor some time and try it again, and find out for a FACT which swing is faster.

I do a lot of my practice (especially this time of year, so pretty much every week day) at an indoor facility that gives me a video of every shot I hit, as well as relavent data like club head speed, ball speed and etc. on every shot, so I should know, and way more often than not a more "relaxed" swing will yield higher club head speed through impact. This happens because when you try to swing hard you lose a lot of your...

Most likely the two that "felt" slower were actually better timed and as a result had a higher club head speed though you weren't trying as hard...golf is a funny game...

I've always been told, let the club do the work. With my old Hogan Radials, I found that only went so far - sometimes I had to swing hard to get the desired result. With my recently obtained Big Bertha '06's, however, it seems to be just the opposite. Controlled swings go further than muscling up, at least so far. I suspect that's a function of a game improvement iron's design. One thing, though, regardless of the...

Every single time I've tried to swing harder and/or "kill it", I've come up short. When I relax and just concentrate on making solid contact then the ball goes a LOT farther and straighter. Let the club do the work is how I look at it.