This week’s Impact Show will give you ways to help improve your club head speed in the golf swing, helping you to hit your drives longer.
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Instruction
Clement: Why your practice swing never sucks
You hear that one all the time; I wish I could put my practice swing on the ball! We explain the huge importance of what to focus on to allow the ball to be perfectly in the way of your practice swing. Enjoy!
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Equipment
Mitsubishi Diamana WB: Club Junkie takes a technology deep dive
Earlier this week, Mitsubishi announced the return of its iconic Whiteboard profile with the new Diamana WB shaft.
In our launch story, we offered a rundown of the key technology in the new WB — 80-ton Dialead pitch fiber, Aerospace-grade MR70 carbon fiber, Consistent Feel Design, and the Xlink Tech Resin System. To go deeper, however, we enlisted our Resident Club Junkie and bona fide shaft nut, Brian Knudson, to track down someone from Mitsubishi at the PGA Show. Fortunately, Mitsubishi’s Director of Global Aftermarket Sales, Jonathan Alongi, was on hand to answer all of BK’s questions.
Check out their discussion about the new WB, as well as the 20th anniversary of the original design, in the video above — time stamps of key points below, including a definitive answer as to how the surfboard graphic ended up on the original Whiteboard in 2004!
- :40 – Mitsubishi Japan expands to the U.S. in 2004
- :50 – “The shaft that set the standard”
- 1:12 – “The ‘board is back”
- 1:45 – WB or Whiteboard? Or both?
- 1:55 – The first iteration of the sixth generation of Diamana
- 2:10 – Incorporating key technology from a 20-year journey
- 3:10 – Modifying the tip section for more ball speed
- 3:50 – Delivering ball speed in a low-launch, low-spin shaft
- 4:20 – Drilling down on the shaft profile compared to the original Whiteboard
- 5:00 – The most impressive element of the new WB
- 5:30 – Butt, mid, tip specifications
- 6:00 – WB’s iconic graphics and the Diamana legacy — flowers, surfboard, numbering system
- 8:15 – An abundance of available weights and flexes
- 8:55 – More players going lightweight
Check out more photos and see what GolfWRXers are saying about Mitsubishi WB in the forums.
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Equipment
2024 Vokey SM10 wedges: Club Junkie’s full fitting video
Our Resident Club Junkie, Brian Knudson, goes through a wedge fitting with Chris Baingo, Titleist’s Club Fitting Analyst.
Get the full story on new SM10 wedges in our launch piece.
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Dirk Digger
Nov 27, 2017 at 7:46 pm
Regurgitating all that knowledge, I bet your driver clubhead speed is 73 MPH!
rga
Nov 27, 2017 at 10:24 pm
That’s not nice to say that about the boys in the video.
SK
Nov 27, 2017 at 5:37 pm
To increase your clubhead speed by ~10%, going from say 90 mph to 99 mph, you must increase the kinetic energy or energy of motion of the clubhead.
Now we know that KE = 1/2 Mass x Velocity squared, so KE is directly proportional to the square of the velocity.
So how much extra KE would you need to generate for a 10% velocity increase?
Simply take the ratio of 99^squared to 90^squared and that’s the percentage KE increase needed to get the higher speed.
Thus 99 x 99 divided by 90 x 90 equals 9801/8100 or 1.21. So you would need to increase the KE of your body and club by 21% to achieve a 10% increase in clubhead speed…. and that’s why golf teachers and pros are impressed with getting even a 5% increase in clubhead speed, or finding an extra ~10% KE.
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I very much doubt you can translate higher gadget speed to a permanent golf club speed because most of the KE is generated from the ground up to the shoulders and then the arms and club are whipped around the core… and if you don’t have the core strength you will not be able to transmit the KE from your hips and legs to your shoulders via your core… not from your gadget or club… plain and simple.
Dirk Digger
Nov 27, 2017 at 7:47 pm
Regurgitating all that knowledge, I bet your driver clubhead speed is 73 MPH!
ken
Nov 27, 2017 at 10:22 pm
… and I bet your IQ is 73 ….
brucee
Nov 28, 2017 at 11:13 pm
Don’t give me all that science stuff and just tell me what to do to speed up my swing. Which driver is the best for power? That’s all I want.