Golf speed training systems are plentiful these days. It wasn’t that long ago that SuperSpeed Golf debuted their 3-stick system to much skepticism. Now, training platforms like The Stack System, Rypstick, and the new HiiTS Speed Training Driver are increasingly common tools for professional and amateur golfers. If you’re not using one of these tools, it’s time.
If your goal in golf is to improve your game and lower your scores, you’re leaving plenty of gains on the table if you’re not golf speed training. Fortunately, it’s not too late. Here are the three biggest reasons why 2026 needs to be the year you start.
Distance Matters
If you subscribe to “drive for show, putt for dough,” it’s time to upgrade your thinking. Maybe pick up a copy of Mark Broadie’s Every Shot Counts if you really need to be convinced of a truth many have come to embrace: the ability to hit the ball far is hugely impactful on your ability to score. The obvious benefit is that you’ll be closer to the hole for your approach shots, putting more lofted and therefore easier to hit clubs in your hand. Less obvious to some: you’ll hit those scoring clubs farther, too. That means a gain of a few miles per hour in your gamer swing speed can yield compounding gains in scoring potential on the course. Grind away with your putter all you want, but there’s a whole lotta dough to be made from speed training.
Fighting Father Time
Those of us with full-time jobs and other adulting responsibilities often lament that we’re not able to get more rounds in during the years we’re at or near our physical prime. Sure, golf’s a game you can play your whole life, but wouldn’t it be nice to tee it up in your retired years with the physical ability to still play the game like you want to? Think about your home course. How many forced carries do you have over water hazards, or to clear a penalizing bunker? Is there a sharp dogleg you have to take on if you want to get home in two? Now ask yourself: how’s it going to feel to step on the tee box one year and realize you just can’t do it anymore?
Sure, Father Time is undefeated. Know something else about Father Time? He comes after your speed and power first. Unfortunately, we often do too little to fight it. Sure, maybe you’re in the weight room, but are you training for speed? Think about it: when’s the last time you sprinted? Years, maybe even decades, right? You have to fight to keep the ability to be explosive, and it’s hard to do. Golf Speed training systems offer you the tools and the programs to do just that.
Improve Your Swing with Speed Training
If there’s a common knock on speed training in golf, it’s that you risk wrecking your swing. Many amateur golfers place an inordinate emphasis on an excessively slow and deliberate motion in the mistaken belief that speeding up their motion will equate to a loss of control. Some may even try speed training but quit after a few sessions if their immediate on-course experience is even the slightest bit wilder off the tee than normal.
The old saying “You can’t fire a cannon from a canoe” applies here. Bad swings are slow swings, plain and simple. One of the many unappreciated benefits of speed training is the immense potential to improve your swing, not degrade it. In your efforts to swing faster, you’ll create countless learning opportunities to improve and self-organize into a better and more efficient golf swing. While concerns of becoming wild and inaccurate with speed training are understandable, they are incorrect. What’s actually far more common is for speed training golfers to report improved accuracy as a result of the training. In short, do not let fears of wrecking your swing stop you from speed training. Those fears are unfounded. You are far more likely to develop a more efficient and better swing.
Golf speed training is all the rage in golf right now, and with good reason. It’s the primary means available to golfers to hit the ball farther, and to maintain that speed and power over the long haul, and you’ll likely improve your golf swing in the process. If you’ve never pursued speed, now’s the time.