In this most advanced golf swing science circles, a new debate is now underway. Is there a benefit to a lower rate of club face closure through the impact zone? It is becoming clear that closure rates on the PGA Tour vary, but don’t seem to have a high correlation to success. You would think…
We all know that hitting longer drives does virtually no good unless we are also putting the ball in play as well. Even if we are a few steps off the fairway, as long as we can make a normal swing at the ball without fear of trees or other obstacles, added distance will lower…
On his 1960 KHJ TV Channel 9 television show, Mike Austin urged us to ‘step and throw.’ He claimed that he had embarrassed an entire auditorium full of PGA members once, schooling them on when the release actually started – much earlier than was commonly taught. He said that he had electromyograph data showing he…
Kyle Berkshire smoked the competition in 2019 with unprecedented club and ball speeds. But at the heart of it all is a good solid golf swing that has some people talking about his pro career after long drive. This wouldn’t be the first time a long driver has tried to convert his power onto the…
By 1939 or early 1940, Mike Austin had left Atlanta in his rear view mirror and headed cross country towards L.A. in hopes of fame and fortune. On the way he stopped in Chicago, where he first encountered Hilary Frankenburg, aka Count Yogi – who would become a notable trick shot artist and apparently a…
There’s no better shot for gripping a tight fairway than the high power fade. It’s great under pressure too. Actually the title is a bit of a misnomer, as I’d like to teach you how to hit a better power fade than even Brooks Koepka. Cocky? Maybe a little. You see, Koepka hits downward on…
So many golfers either pull with their arms in absence of full body movement, or pull the handle of the golf club like they are harpooning a whale. This will lead to many serious issues with the flight of your drives. Pulling the club down from the top typically causes slicing and a tendency to…
A good golf swing keeps everything moving around a fairly parallel arc, from the hips and center of mass, to the handle and the clubhead. This means that a perfect swing will approach the golf ball from the inside, hit it squarely, and then return back around to the inside again after impact. But this…
There are a myriad of ways and approaches to hit longer drives in golf. In the video below, I have brought my latest eBook, ‘4 Pillars for Hitting Long Drives’ into video form. In it, I explain the 4 Pillars and how you can use them to formulate a plan to increase your clubhead speed…
The graph below demonstrates how the golf swing is very much like a bullwhip action. As the segment (in this case the part of your body) gets smaller in mass, it slows its acceleration, allowing the energy to continue traveling out more distally. The blue line represents the clubhead. You can see clearly how much…
