2014 PGA Show TPI Seminar. Great seminar at the PGA Show with Dave Phillips and Greg Rose of TPI or Titleist Performance Institute. The focus was on power and how to get more club head speed.
Rose’s top three exercises were:
1. Train both sides of body for power. Be explosive in the opposite direction.
2. Overload vs Over speed. Make it harder, make it easier. Run uphill and then run downhill. Live in over speed swinging a bat, throwing a baseball, swinging a club. Swing a heavier club first, then swing your driver, then swing the lightest club. 6 balls each.
3. Sprinting.
Power technique.
1. Load the back leg. Let lower body and head move in the back swing. Lift left heel off the ground for right handed golfer.
2. Get your hands high at the top of your back swing with a bent lead arm. 100% width with the lead arm at the top doesn’t mean anything. Want to go from narrow at the top to wide going through the impact area.
3. Squat down in downswing and jump through impact. Power is coming through the traction in the ground. After the lower body shifts, the trail foot, leg, and knee fire first and then the forward leg pushes up from the ground rotating the lead hip as the club head goes flying through impact.