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Old 06-18-2007, 07:32 PM
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Pro driver swing speeds?
Surfed for a while and found these numbers from different sources:
  • Michelle Wie and Annika Sörenstam were both on 103 a few years ago.
  • In 2006 Wie had upped to 108 and Annika to 105.
  • In 2003 one of the slowest on the PGA tour was Rocco Mediate at 106.
  • Ernie Els has or had 115.
  • The majority of the professionals are over 115.
  • Tiger and Daly can go 130 and maybe past that.
Anyone else with an idea about pro numbers? They have obviously gone up a fraction over the last few years. I'd like to see the complete table of swing speeds measured on stock drives + maxed out drives.

Why? Well I need a carrot for gym training and I'd like to set a number to reach myself - for regular day-in-day-out stock drives, and I feel it'd be nice to pick a target number that is more or less what 90% of the pros would beat.

Would 110 be a good number?
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