Get Maximum Efficiency Out of Your Swing | Achieving a Single Figure Handicap | Padraig Harrington

[@thevoiceofcod643]

Congratulations on the win in Arkansas Champ!

[@gavinwong2182]

Paddy, you're the most sensible bloke on KZbin. Keep this series going, it's excellent! Thank you!

[@artsontop]

Congratulations on your win this weekend Paddy! Thanks for all your efforts here trying to help us duffers make fewer duffs!

[@jeremiahmclane2374]

Great win last week, and the best teacher around! Thanks Paddy!

[@OwenDavies-h8g]

Amazing. Tried this today in comp. Needed to lay up short of the creek on 17. Normally hit 6-iron; took an 8 just in case ... and hit it straight into the creek. Cost me a penalty but I was rapt!!! Thanks Paddy from an old bloke already hitting it further.

[@robertgepson5254]

Congratulations on the recent win

[@dmpt39]

As a super senior and a former athlete your advice on slow swings is a godsend.

[@danielowen5889]

I have my girlfriend watching your channel, she just started playing and has had big improvements.. thank you so much.

[@Nick-senese1977]

Excellent stuff and looking forward to trying this and practicing more. Thank you sir and congratulations on your latest win

[@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy]

I'm a real life instructor and do some youtube content. I will give a suggestion. If anyone is going to pick one person's content on youtube... pick Paddy. He is seriously the best I've seen. There's so much misinformation out there... even from some pretty well known coaches. The information Paddy shares is on target always. Thanks you Paddy.

[@H2ogolf]

Could listen to paddy all day 😻

[@gerrykelly2440]

I went that way with my golf and developed a snap hook, it was like a disease, i couldn't get out of it but after time I realised i was just learning how to feel what I was doing and went back to a fade, I'm straighter now than I've ever been. Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards.

[@jamescasteel8990]

Golf is therapy lol

[@bvokey8842]

Especially if you release the club too much with too strong a grip, it’s going to be difficult not to snap hook it.

[@decentblue1]

Thank you and congratulations !

[@tjvbham5831]

God Bless you Padraig. Love your videos.

[@charlesimasiku1896]

Great lessons paddy. Congratulations on your win.

[@RBZ3]

Thanks Paddy!

[@TeddySkokos]

Loved following you around and watching you win at my home course Pleasant Valley CC last weekend!

[@mikemccarthy1398]

Thanks Paddy

[@housepandacrew581]

Paddy: "If you down at 90 clubhead speed" Me at 80: ... f***

[@danielowen5889]

80 is just fine

[@kmrk4055]

Ha ha I had a bit of one of those too, "if you're way down at 90 and only carrying it 200 to 220"... I'm thinking I'm up at 100 and only carrying it that far!

[@aikeber1984]

Thank you!

[@TeddyCavachon]

Efficiency is more work with less effort and in a golf swing it comes from understanding how and when to accelerate the club head mass in the takeaway and backswing so it’s mass + momentum do all the ‘work’ of stretching the muscle in the body which power the downswing, and then in the downswing using those backswing stretched muscles to accelerate the masses of body and hands first then accelerate the mass of the club head around the hands into the ball. I started playing golf in 1983 at age 31 with an understanding of physics and the mechanical advantage leverage creates but reallly didn’t focus on improving until 2008 after I had retired and gone to work at a course as a part-time starter where as a perk I was able to hit unlimited range balls and play every day, weather permitting, like the pros do 😊 Something I paid particular attention to wasn’t human golfers but rather how the ‘Iron Byron’ robot the USGA used to test clubs and balls utilized leverage and the laws of physics then applied that understand to videos I watched of tour pros hitting shots frame by frame to see what body parts moved and how fast they moved relative to the blur seen in the club head and shaft. As a beginner I had modeled my swing on Nicklaus using his amazing book “Golf My Way” but struggled because I don’t have nearly the athleticism and hand-eye coordination he was blessed at birth with. So when attempting to reboot my swing I turned to one of the most robotic golfers of all time Ben Hogan and his Five Lessons book using a set of 1979 Wilson Reflex irons I found at a thrift and regripped which had tiny unforgiving heads, but could be accelerated like cracking a whip with the same effect on ball striking, which I realized from actually following everything Mr. Hogan suggested occurred just before impact in his swing with his famous ‘waggle’ action in the pre-shot routine with is a rehearsal for freely releasing the club around the hands through impact. Midway through Hogan’s book there is a two page spread showing an illustration of his swing from takeaway extension to finish extension and in that section his suggests doing a drill like that, just 1/4 swings to the point in the backswing the kinetic energy created in the wide ‘one piece’ takeaway pulls lead arm and club out straight back and it can’t move back any more so the club head mass reacts by whipping up and ACCELERATING then starting the downswing from the point the club head cocks the wrists in to radial deviation; a 1/4 length swing, then from there try to accelerate the club head as much as possible before impact to hit a straight shot using a 7 iron to start - and not do anything else until figuring out how to do that! It took me a couple of weeks and about a thousand range balls to figure it out but when I did I realized how brilliant that drill is and have used it ever since as my warm-up routine. Once you are able to accelerate a 7i around the hands with the timing to hit straight shots you’ll find they actually go about 80% the distance of full swing shots! You learn that by slowing increasing the backswing from 1/4, to 1/2, to 3/4 to full with the same mechanics and timing of releasing the club around the hands and releasing the back foot to keep the hand moving, which prevents the club from flipping past them. The distances increases you get from increasing the length of the backswing are far less than you’d think before doing that drill. 😊

[@Thrandweel]

You mention the gap between wrists a lot in the release. Is that a reliable way to shot shape? Thinking about and maintaining the same wrist setup in the release?

[@MusikPromo4U]

00:37 Nice!

[@neiltwizell508]

What loft on a driver if you swing slow?

[@GHOSTOFEIGHT]

Golf Sidekick is going to be upset with you Paddy. 1:40

[@timmc2742]

Golf sidekicks just another youtuber

[@GHOSTOFEIGHT]

@@timmc2742 How dare you speak ill on his name. He's a confidential gang banger.

[@GaryCahuenga]

Well he's right. The shorter you hit it, the less your left/right dispersion will be. That's why Matty constantly preaches to stop hitting driver off the tee if you suck with it, cause a shorter club will have less left/right dispersion.

[@PhilbyFavourites]

@@timmc2742And you are sir?

[@PhilbyFavourites]

@@GaryCahuengaI’ve been sh1t with a driver for 52 years…..

[@Golf_Quest]

Paddy, I assure you that you can be a 90mph swinger and have big dispersion problems. I'm trying for a 5R path and a 3R face to get a baby draw as my stock shot, but my club face is hard for me to accurately control and my contact dispersion on the driver club face is about a US 25 cent piece for the center of the ball. I am working on rotating my lead forearm more and holding trail wrist extension a little longer, which causes it to be more of an obliques swing than an arm swing. My check point is that the club face points vertically (toe up) when the club is pointed parallel to the target line. With a modern driver I frequently get a 1.5 smash factor despite my poor contact dispersion, so efficiency is less of an issue than club face control, and lateral dispersion is very much more of a problem than distance.

[@coachcary1]

How can an avg Joe measure his club speed?

[@miles4463]

@Padraig Harrington, might be an idea to setup a Playlist specifically for this series, I think people will find that useful in the future. Cheers!

[@viewsfromthepit]

should us higher speed players (I'm at 110 driver speed) be hitting cuts? because I do find on the course that my irons can hook if I go at the ball hard

[@BigDawgCAM]

As some with 120 mph driver speed, I would HIGHLY recommend learning how to work the ball right vs left and high vs low I always thought it was just for the highly-skilled positive handicappers, but it has made the game so much easier. Because if I’m ever slicing or hooking the ball, I now know the mechanics for how to work myself out of it. Obviously I still find it easier to cut it a bit personally, but learning how to draw the ball has conversely made my cut/fade way more reliable and vice versa

[@PhilbyFavourites]

As a seasoned KZbin viewer and a 52 year below average golfer the one thing I can say is in the edit you need to show the ball flight in red, much like many other channels show. It’s no good saying “that went straight” when none of us can actually see the flight on the screen. Great spiel, your producer and editor need to work harder…

[@billcancel47]

Accuracy is still a thing. I have some slow swingers in my group that can hit it 3 fairways over 😂

[@k.kitter8284]

Exactly - pure BS statement

[@Bob-nu3xe]

maybe they are facing the wrong way?

[@johnclancy7465]

Padraig, thank you for all the invaluable golf knowledge you've shared so willingly and without looking for anything in return. I have an idea. You could you set up a KZbin donation button for a Charity of your choosing. I'm sure the rest of your subscribers would love to pay something in return for all your help. 🙂 If everyone gave €10/$10 that would over a million.

[@vicpnut1]

Have no idea my swing speed 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️✌️

[@viewsfromthepit]

go to a range/sim with a trackman

[@vicpnut1]

@ ranges around me have top tracer which gIves you ball speed …if i want track man its a whole deal( lots of money like $100 an hr ,and specific appointments in which the first hr half the time is spent explaining how to operate the system ….but yeah hopefully one day 🤞🏻👍🏼✌️

[@georgeakins3681]

I’m 58 and with a slow swing speed. When swinging that way with my driver, I’m constantly fighting a duck hook.

[@tiaanloubser2799]

You are not clearing your hips you are all arms that is why..

[@BigDawgCAM]

Learn how to hit a cut. I’m telling you, figuring how the mechanics of working the ball right vs left and high vs low has made the game so much easier. I always just thought it was for the positive handicappers

[@paulturner4419]

“If your swing speed is less than 100mph don’t worry about accuracy”. That’s just nonsense Paddy. Amateurs can easily hit a ball off the course at 95mph. Believe me, I’m your age and have much more experience of hitting drives in the 95-100 mph range than you do.

[@k.kitter8284]

Couldn't agree more - that statement is pure BS!!

[@CanadianBiPolarBear]

Your guys minds are closed. If your less then 100mph swing speed , your not going to hit the ball far enough to go out of bounds. The more speed you have the further off line a mis hit goes , the less speed the less off line a ball will go. And thats why he says it

[@paulturner4419]

but it’s not true, I swing 100mph play off 8 and get into a load of trouble including lost balls and OB if I’m driving poorly. These data guys take a bunch of cross sectional data, average that data and draw conclusions that have almost no relevance to an individual.

[@CanadianBiPolarBear]

@@paulturner4419 you would be in more trouble and more balls out of bounds if you swung 120. The balls you find in the 2nd cut of rough would be gone if you swung even 110

[@jasonicnyc]

Yea you guys know more than him about golf.