Padraig Harrington's SECRETS To Hitting Longer Drives

[Tengu]

Thought this is quite insightful:

 

Edited June 6, 2023 by Tengu

[Zitlow]

The right side following the club into the ball > the right side leading the club into the ball. 

[phizzy30]

Paddy's always been long off the tee even when he was younger.  What's impressive is that he still regularly hits 175 ball speed at his age. 

[Rdailey9108]

10 hours ago, phizzy30 said:

Paddy's always been long off the tee even when he was younger.  What's impressive is that he still regularly hits 175 ball speed at his age. 

It's insane that he can still blast it in the 180s on the course. Honestly it's cool that he has his own youtube channel where he posts tips. I kind of want to try some of his tips tomorrow. 

[MonteScheinblum]

He learned a lot from Michael Jacobs.  Unlike most tour players, he has tried to learn what’s efficient biomechaniclally versus ideas and feels that worked for him.  A lot of people are going to be irritated with where he says most speed comes from.  

[CSagan]

It’s in the hands lad. 
 

 

[MattyO1984]

The double overlapping grip is interesting. Having chopped and changed my grip quite a lot over the years (thank a lot crummy tendons), I gave it a go last night and it is definitely the weirdest feeling ever. I am sure with some persistence it would become better but man, I thought that the club was going to fly out of my hands. 

[Z1ggy16]

8 hours ago, Rdailey9108 said:

It's insane that he can still blast it in the 180s on the course. Honestly it's cool that he has his own youtube channel where he posts tips. I kind of want to try some of his tips tomorrow. 

Saw a video of him messing around on the range and he hit 190 (this year). 

[RoyalTroon]

Paddy is one of the best well grounded teachers and a shining testament to good golf being from the ground up.  Good video, a little all over the map but good nonetheless. 

[wagolfer7]

14 hours ago, MonteScheinblum said:

A lot of people are going to be irritated with where he says most speed comes from.  

I thought in one of his videos I heard him mention the wrists as the largest speed source?  

[naj959]

Great video! I found the squeezing the plumbs segment conflicting. I want more speed but I'm not sure I want it that bad 😅

[chigolfer1]

6 hours ago, BALLYBUNION said:

Paddy is one of the best well grounded teachers and a shining testament to good golf being from the ground up.  Good video, a little all over the map but good nonetheless. 

 

agreed that video was a bit more scattered than I expected but also that how cool does PH seem and the fact he shares all this stuff? 

[Sean124]

2 hours ago, chigolfer1 said:

 

agreed that video was a bit more scattered than I expected but also that how cool does PH seem and the fact he shares all this stuff? 

I think “scattered” is just how Paddy operates, but he has some great stuff to share once you get past that. 

[RoyalTroon]

Bob Torrance taught Padraig well.  I think it was Bob who said if someone ever says golf is not a game from the ground up ask them when was the last time they golfed all day long and complained afterward their arms and hands were tired...😉  Smart man.

[xkilgorextroutx]

Saw that video come up on my recommended feed the other day, I honestly skipped around a bit due to the length and how he was jumping around but overall a very solid video with great info. His "Paddy's Tips" series is great as well.

[SollyinGA]

It would be easy for some to be satisfied after his career, but Paddy seems to be a true student of the game.

[Chunkitgood]

I posted this a while ago.

 

 

Linear momentum of rib cage exceeds that of arms early in swing.

 

Now I know momentum is mass times velocity, and don’t know the mass of either as defined here, but just think how fast his arms used to move when their momentum exceeded that of the rib cage, and it seems logical he got more speed by slowing his arms relative to his rib cage.

[Brian Manzella]

Paddy was lost in a sea of supposed "biomechanics" and new age handle dragging mixed with some crazy sit and spin.

 

MICHAEL JACOBS gets NOWHERE NEAR the credit he deserves for what did for this man.

 

Paddy is what golf is all about. A GREAT guy, who is just just as golf crazy as you can be. Thankfully he found the best possible teacher alive to fix his particular issues and to continue to refine his golf swing.

 

(PICTURE: Paddy, Jacobs, Dr. Nesbit)

[MPStrat]

The trail hip squeezing underneath and lowering move Paddy talks about in this video is among the most helpful handful of concepts I’ve learned about the golf swing over the years. This is how to prevent the trail hip from coming out high in transition. 
 

I have heard it described that the trail hip stays high in transition and the lead hip stays low, or that the trail hip should hold its position while the lead hip clears. Both of those are terrible IMO. What Paddy talks about here is the very best way to do it IMO. 

 

[RoyalTroon]

8 hours ago, Brian Manzella said:

MICHAEL JACOBS gets NOWHERE NEAR the credit he deserves for what did for this man.

 

Maybe he has, or maybe he hasn't.   Any links to video or articles with Padraig giving credit to Jacobs for supervising the swing change(s) Padraig was pursuing?

 

8 hours ago, Brian Manzella said:

Thankfully he found the best possible teacher alive to fix his particular issues and to continue to refine his golf swing.

 

I had to look up hyperbole...

[Zitlow]

The right side has to come under the left side so the right side has room to swing between the left side and the ball. 

 

[Zitlow]

3 hours ago, BALLYBUNION said:

 

Maybe he has, or maybe he hasn't.   Any links to video or articles with Padraig giving credit to Jacobs for supervising the swing change(s) Padraig was pursuing?

 

 

I had to look up hyperbole...

Padraig is so talented he could swing a golf club standing on his head and still be competitive. 

[green5]

More stuff to try out at a driving range. On a related note one Harrington video actually helped my distance. I sometimes try his Happy Gilmore swing and I can truly drive the ball much further with that swing compared to my normal drive, and it goes much straighter too. But obviously I cannot make consistent enough contact to use it out on the course.

 

When I saw the Dr. Kwon thread I tried the step drills but could never take that feeling onto a real swing. Then realized doing that Happy Gilmore swing is really the only time I feel all the lower-upper body sequencing firing properly without even thinking about it. I still don't know how I can replicate it but hitting it on the sweet spot with that swing is such a satisfying feeling because my swing speed is so much higher with it.

[Chunkitgood]

Harrington has always been an excellent golfer, but he still left speed on the table until he slowed his early arm linear velocity relative to his rib cage, not that speed is all that matters.

 

Had certain people put him on GEARS before the change, they would have proclaimed more early linear velocity relative to rib cage linear velocity was the way the pros do it, and after the contrary.

 

This has all been understood for a long time, the laws of physics being what they are.  Jacobs in fact tends to obscure it when talking about it in his book.

 

People who try to go against the early modeling of Cochran and his colleagues had best proceed cautiously.

[nvr3putt]

Wish I had the physical ability and time to learn all those concepts.  

[MonteScheinblum]

7 minutes ago, nvr3putt said:

Wish I had the physical ability and time to learn all those concepts.  

Here’s the issue.  Swinging better actually takes less physical ability than your current swing.

 

Here’s a very basic analogy.

 

Let’s say you learned how to drive a car with the right hand at 10 and left hand at 2.  After driving for 30 years, you’d have made do.

 

Then you see a professional race driver say it’s the opposite. 
 

It would take you time to adjust, but left at 10 and right at 2 is infinitely easier but will seem ridiculous and hard at first.

 

Anomalies are hard to reproduce.  

 

Do a google search for the guy who built the bike where the handle bars moved the wheel the opposite way.  It proves this very point.

[Curmudg3on]

 

[MonteScheinblum]

Amusing story.  I had two guys come out from Alabama for a 3 day lesson years ago.  They built race cars at one of the levels below NASCAR.  They had the same reaction.  This is hard, this is weird, I don’t have a pros time or ability to work on this etc.  I’m telling the story about the guy with the bike and they are smiling the whole time.  
 

“We built that bike for him.”

[AdamMH]

56 minutes ago, MonteScheinblum said:

Here’s the issue.  Swinging better actually takes less physical ability than your current swing.

 

Here’s a very basic analogy.

 

Let’s say you learned how to drive a car with the right hand at 10 and left hand at 2.  After driving for 30 years, you’d have made do.

 

Then you see a professional race driver say it’s the opposite. 
 

It would take you time to adjust, but left at 10 and right at 2 is infinitely easier but will seem ridiculous and hard at first.

 

Anomalies are hard to reproduce.  

 

Do a google search for the guy who built the bike where the handle bars moved the wheel the opposite way.  It proves this very point.

If you went and saw a professional race driver, they'd probably recommend a grip change to 9 & 3 😉

[iacas]

Amateur golfers are often trying to do MORE than a PGA Tour player.

 

For example, AMG gets credit for this one specifically, but the average pro moves his left arm across his chest from 80° to 60° and back to 80° again. The average amateur goes from 80° to 40° and then, in the same amount of time (about 0.25s), they are asking themselves to do twice the work of the PGA Tour player.