Mike Bender on How To Create Maximum Clubhead Speed | Golf Lessons

Golf instructor Mike Bender shows Golf Digest how to create maximum clubhead speed.

Transcript
You know when it comes to creating speed,
most people have the concept
that from the top of the backswing,
you really have to use, rotate your hips,
or rotate your shoulders very fast and very hard
to create the club head speed,
but in reality you have to accelerate and brake.
Just like this example here with the ball.
If I take this ball and I move it,
the ball has no energy of its own, just like the club head.
So a ball has no energy of its own,
but if I move it across here,
and then I brake it, in other words I stop,
that stopping motion transfers the energy
from my hand to the ball.
That’s the same concept that we need
to have in the club head when
we’re trying to create maximum speed.
I’ll give you an example.
If we take an alignment rod and I take it back,
and here’s what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna rotate hard,
I’m putting a lot of effort into this.
Okay, and you can hear the sound.
Now watch what happens if I take it back and I brake.
Okay, and you can see there,
I accelerated it as hard as I could.
My shoulder stopped, that transferred energy
to my hand and my arm, my arm stopped.
That transferred energy into the tip.
That’s what you need to do
if you want to create maximum club head speed.