You find it has a swingweight of say, D3. Let’s say you find a driver that really feels good to your natural sense of swing tempo. Unfortunately swingweight doesn’t work quite that way. The importance of swingweight is that golfers need to have a point of reference for how head heavy or how head light our golf clubs feel when we swing them – so when we find the right club weight balance that feels the best to our natural swing tempo and timing, we then can know how to duplicate that same weight feel in other golf clubs we may buy. If a strong golfer with a fast, forceful tempo uses golf clubs with a low swingweight, the golfer will struggle with maintaining a comfortable, repeating swing tempo, will continually fight the tendency to swing too fast, and will suffer from a higher percentage of off center hits.Ĭonversely if a weaker golfer with a smooth, more passive swing tempo and rhythm uses clubs with too high of a swingweight, they will struggle with the club(s) feeling too heavy and require too much effort to swing. There is no question we golfers need to have our golf clubs built so that the amount of weight we feel in the clubhead is matched properly to our individual strength and our natural sense of swing tempo, timing and rhythm. Some golfers like to think of swingweight as an indication of how much they can feel the presence of the weight in the clubhead when they swing the club. It is not a standardized accepted weight/mass parameter like “grams”, “ounces”, or “pounds.” It is an expression that attempts to describe the ratio of the amount of weight in the bottom 2/3’s to the weight in the upper 1/3 of a golf club.
That’s all well and good but just what is swingweight?įirst of all, it really is not an actual weight or an actual measurement of a weight or mass. C8, D1, D4 are examples of the letter/number designation which have been used to label the swingweight of golf clubs. One of the very first technical points a golfer learns about his equipment is the letter + number designation which describes the SWINGWEIGHT of the clubs.
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