Jaacob Bowden

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Jaacob Bowden is a professional golfer, swing speed trainer, and president of Swing Man Golf.

Formerly an average-length hitting 14-handicap computer engineer, Jaacob quit his job, took his savings and moved from Kansas to California to pursue a golf career at age 27.

He has since won the Pinnacle Distance Challenge with a televised 381-yard drive, won multiple qualifiers for the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships including a 421-yard grid record drive, made cuts in numerous tournaments around the world with rounds in the 60s and 70s, and finished fifth at the Speed Golf World Championships at Bandon Dunes.

His Swing Man Golf website has more than 5,000 members and focuses primarily on swing speed training. Typically, Jaacob’s website members and clients will pick up 12-16 mph of driver swing speed in the first 30 days of basic speed training.

You can learn more about Jaacob and Swing Man Golf here:

Websites – JaacobBowden.com & SwingManGolf.com
Twitter - @JaacobBowden & @SwingManGolf.
Facebook – Facebook.com/JaacobBowden & Facebook.com/SwingManGolf
YouTube – YouTube.com/SwingManGolf – More than 2 million video views

 




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Recent Posts

  • Jaacob Bowden runs on to the 7th green at Bandon Dunes during the 2012 Speed Golf World Championships

    Bowden: Speed golf can help your game

    Mark your calendars. Coming up on April 13 at 1:30 p.m. EST (Masters Saturday), CBS will be airing the Speed Golf World Championships from Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, where yours truly notched up a fifth-place finish. For...

    • Posted 72 days ago
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  • Jaacob Bowden

    3 keys that took me from a 14-handicap to a pro

    Back in January 2003, I was a 27-year old 14-handicapper who had only broken 80 once on a normal length golf course, a 78 at the Walker Course at Clemson University. At the time, breaking 90 was...

    • Posted 86 days ago
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  • Wrist Actions

    The 6 Actions of the Wrists and Forearms

    Before I became a professional golfer, I was a computer engineer and before that I went to college to be a pharmacist. Little did I know at the time that the pharmaceutical courses I took covering physics,...

    • Posted 106 days ago
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  • Long-Drive-Golfers

    Carry Distance vs. Swing Speed Chart

    Per a suggestion in the comment section of my last article called “How Far Should You Hit Your Golf Clubs?“, the purpose of this post is to summarize all of the carry distance versus swing speed data...

    • Posted 123 days ago
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  • How Far Should You Hit Your Golf Clubs

    How Far Should You Hit Your Golf Clubs?

    One of the nice things about having all this new fancy technological equipment like Trackman, Flightscope, ShotLink, etc., at various PGA Tour events is that distance data can be gathered for each of the players. In case...

    • Posted 127 days ago
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    Understanding distance variance

    Sometimes it can be a blow to the ego to go to a new course where the ball seems to go nowhere and you just can’t bring yourself to hit 5-iron, for example, when you could normally...

    • Posted 152 days ago
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