Generating Power

Power is a function of the energy transferred from the clubhead to the ball. Force is mass times acceleration, not force times speed. A clubhead which strikes the ball moving at 80 mph was moving at a different speed a foot before impact. That speed was either faster or slower than 80 mph. If it was slower, the clubhead is accelerating as impact begins, and will transfer more energy to the ball than if it was moving faster before impact and was actually slowing down.

The easiest, surest way to make your clubhead accelerate into the ball is to shorten your backswing and lengthen your follow-through.

You must understand that the faster the clubhead is moving, the harder it is to control its location. If you practice just making good contact with a compact backswing and a long follow-through, you will develop power without trying to do so. What feels like a compact backswing will, over time, lengthen itself out, and produce more powerful shots, without your doing anything but trying to make good contact with the ball.

Just don't try to do anything but make good contact. As you learn to do this, you will become more confident, and what feels easy and compact will become easy and less compact, i.e. extended. And your shots will fly longer.

End of the season

And not one club in my bag from the beginning. Now playing with Ping Rapture driver, Adams a3 hybrid 3 & 5FW, 3-5 a3 hybrids, 6-9 a3 irons, 50º [bent from 52º] and 58º Mizuno wedges and a 64º Cleveland. Old Ping Anser putter.