Why You Need This: In today's video,"How to Measure Golf Swing Speed at Home | Road to 125 MPH (Day 12)", you'll find out about a device to help you track your progress.

Your club head speed is the number one determinant of potential distance off the tee.

As a serious golf instructor, I only want to use the highest quality tools...

But not everyone is going to have the $12,000 to buy their own FlightScope.

I'll show you in this video how a much cheaper swing speed radar stacks up.

This is a great tool to increase your speed!

Watch this video today to learn the options you have to get yourself an at-home swing speed analysis tool...

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:29

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to the Road to 125 series, where I’m on my journey to swing 125 miles an hour.

A couple of the comments and questions I’ve been getting lately is, I know you have a FlightScope, or I have a FlightScope, it’s an X-2 Elite, very accurate piece of equipment. But how can the average guy measure their swing speed and know how fast you’re swinging?

I’ve got a really cool, simple device that’s going to help you to do just this. I don’t think it’s quite as accurate as my FlightScope, as far as measuring the exact club head speed, and I’ll get to that later in the video. But I wanted to put this to the test and see if this will really work.

This device is called the Swing Speed Radar, made by Sports Sensors. All you do, is you throw some batteries in it, push this blue button here below the screen, and you set it up beside your golf ball, and it’s going to be about 10 inches to the right of your ball, and about angled back at about 45°.

It’s in line with my ball, angled back at about 45°, and that’s going to measure my incoming club head speed into this golf ball. Now also what I’ve done, is I’ve set up my FlightScope X2 Elite here, and it measures the ball very, very accurately.

It actually sends out 10,500,000,000 electromagnetic waves per second, which bounce off the club head and measures the exact speed of the club head down to a tenth of a mile and hour.

I’m going to go ahead and make three swings here. Actually, I haven’t really got that warmed up yet today, so my swing speed may not be that high, but let’s see what this Swing Speed Radar says, let’s put it to the test with the FlightScope, and see how accurate this is, and whether or not this might be a god way for you to practice in your own living room.

Now I’ve had one of these for years, and I’ve used it in practicing before, and I found it to be fairly accurate, although not all the time. Let’s see just how much it really is. I’m going to go ahead and hit a few, and we’ll see what it does.

There we go. This is saying 112, you know first swing of the day, it could be around there. My FlightScope is saying 117.5, so that’s actually pretty interesting for me to know. I’ve felt like this before when I was using my Swing Speed Radar, that it’s not always exactly right when I’m using this one.

Seems sometimes it goes a little high, sometimes I feel like I’m swinging in the 120s and it’s telling me 128, sometimes it’s a little low like this. Let’s go ahead and try a few more swings, and see what it says.

There we go, that one was hit really solid. 116 on the radar, and 120.4 on this one. So the first one’s about 5 miles an hour slower on this radar, the second one was about 4 miles an hour slower on this radar.

Let’s go ahead and do one more just to see what it does on the third swing. Not quite as good a swing on that one, pulled that one a little, didn’t feel like the best. I got 116 on the small Swing Speed Radar, and the FlightScope is telling me 119.9, almost about 4 miles an hour off there again.

That’s kind of what I found in my previous experience with this device, is it’s not always exactly right, or my feeling was it probably wasn’t always exactly right, but it’s pretty consistent.

I do like this device for testing your own swing speed. Not to say I swing right at 116 miles an hour, right at 120 miles an hour, but to be able to say I’m getting faster or I’m getting slower. I have found this to be pretty accurate in testing that.

For example, if I’m swinging 116 on this, and I do a few drills and all of a sudden it’s saying 120, I’m usually doing a lot better, it improved my club head speed. I don’t find it just to jump around all over the place and throw out 130 and then 110 when I think I’ve swung the same speed.

It is pretty accurate as far as its consistency, it’s just not very accurate on telling you the exact miles an hour that you’re swinging. It’s a pretty good device, I would recommend this. Obviously if you have the money for a FlightScope, I would recommend that more.

The FlightScope X2 Elite, I’m going to tell you a little bit about how that works. It sends out electromagnetic waves that bounce off of everything. It actually locks onto your club head as its about halfway in the downswing, all the way through contact and then slightly past contact.

Then it locks onto the ball and reads the ball throughout the flight, so it actually reads the entire flight of the ball. It tells you the launch angle, the spin rate, it tells you your club face angle, it tells you all kinds of information.

Those run about $12,000 for one of them. This is about $100, roughly, I don’t know the exact price on this. I think it’s a good version, a good cheaper version if you’re wanting to work on your club head speed for the average person.

Now if you have the dough to spend, FlightScope is the way to go. It’s really good, very accurate, I’ve tested it with a lot of different models before, I've used different radars before, and I really like that one.

As far as bang or the buck, I think it’s the best way to go. I’d recommend getting one of these, nice cheap way to figure out about what your club head speed is, to see if it’s getting more or less, and it’s going to help you overall to improve your game.

Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.