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How to Increase Golf Swing Speed Easily

Cameron Champ's 5 easy ways to add serious speed to your swing

The numbers don't lie. At just 25 years sometime, Cameron Gnaw has rapidly morphed into the well-nigh dominant driver of the brawl on the PGA Tour. In 2019, Champ averaged 317.9 yards off the tee, ranking No. 1 in driving distance. At a slender 6 feet alpine and 180 pounds, and with a waist his instructor Sean Foley says is probably on the curt side of 29 inches, Champ generates that altitude with ridiculous swing speed: 128.01 miles per hour (also No. 1 on Tour) on trusted Trackman reports. That velocity produces an boilerplate in-tournament brawl speed of 190.vii mph off the tee — seven miles per 60 minutes faster than any 1 of his peers on the pro circuit. So how does he practice it? In his ain words, Cameron shares his five keys to send it deep.

ane. Know your shot shape and visualize information technology

When it comes to hitting it long off the tee, I ever become with my normal shot shape. When I'm driving the brawl well, I play a slight describe, so no matter what the weather I'll always stick with that natural shape. When I veer off from that mindset, I starting time missing it both ways and we know how the ii-manner miss can cripple even the best drivers in the world. I'll pick a small target where I'd like my brawl to finish up and try to visualize my shot shape — seeing a slight draw — and go with it.

I think getting off the tee is the hardest part of the game for recreational golfers. I've seen many weekenders fight their natural shot shape. I have a friend whose ball flight is a big cutting. He aims downward the middle of the fairway every time and he'll drive the brawl into the correct crude or woods. I finally said to him, "Why don't yous only play the cutting? Aim up the left side of the fairway and striking your normal shot." He started doing that and immediately was hitting more fairways.

Know your shape. Then visualize information technology and own it. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

2. Tee the ball at the correct height

We've all heard the saying "Tee it loftier and let it fly," only for me teeing my brawl lower is a key to finding more fairways. Ninety percent of the fourth dimension I peg it nigh an inch and a half above the ground. The low ball flying is much more consistent for me and because the brawl isn't in the air as long, it has less fourth dimension to motility.

Certain, the ball would fly farther if I teed it upwardly higher, but I've constitute that my total altitude is the aforementioned because I get so much coil-out. I'll tee it one-half a brawl higher if I have a drivable par-4 and I want to deport information technology farther and land it with less scroll, but most of the time I tee it low and see it curl. Recreational golfers looking to find more fairways should try teeing it lower. I bet they'll actually gain more than distance off the tee.

"Cameron could easily fly the ball 340 yards, merely he'd lose accuracy," says his teacher, Sean Foley. "Instead, he carries the ball 310 yards and and then gets 40 yards of rollout because his landing bending is xx degrees."

three. Get wide early for speed where it counts

Speed starts at the offset of your swing. Whether you can whip it 80 miles per hour or 120-plus like me, the primal to generating ball speed is creating width in your takeaway. I see a ton of recreational golfers who struggle to create a full turn or rotation. That problem starts during the takeaway. Many golfers just pick upwardly their commuter and turn their shoulders. To create maximum speed, you have to create maximum width. This is something I work on a lot.

Endeavour taking the club back about as far out as you can, creating that width. Naturally, your body will desire to plow with yous. This will create more speed when you come downward from the top.

4. Rotate everything at the summit

I've played in dozens of pro-ams over my career and one mutual mistake I come across amateurs brand is that they forget about their lower body. They'll make a big plow with their upper body but keep their lower body still. I like to make a complete body turn. I know all golfers may not exist equally flexible as I am, only fifty-fifty the almost inflexible player can make a plow to some extent. Use your hips, legs and shoulders. Make a total plow, or as total every bit you can, before starting your downswing.

v. Go your hips out of the way

Equally as of import as the rotation to the tiptop is a full rotation from the top on down. This is done with our hips. Well-nigh all long hitters fully "clear" their hips on the downswing, and do it so aggressively that the order ends up "lagging" behind their body. Sergio García has been the poster boy for this move for years. Other examples: Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka … their hips are rotating super-fast and the club is behind them.

Tip: Once you become to the top of your swing and you're ready to start dorsum down, feel like you're rotating your hips as difficult as you tin. That volition create the lag. Lag creates speed, and speed creates power.

"Cameron uses the principle of elastic free energy to create his speed," Foley says. "He basically turns into a slingshot by rotating his lower trunk. The elastic recoil is where his true ability comes from."

How to Increase Golf Swing Speed Easily

How to Increase Golf Swing Speed Easily

Cameron Champ's 5 easy ways to add serious speed to your swing