Phil Mickelson's Incredible Swing Speed Gain

The five-time Major winner has picked up 5-6mph swing speed this season

Phil Mickelson's Incredible Swing Speed Gain
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The five-time Major winner has picked up 5-6mph swing speed this season

Phil Mickelson's Incredible Swing Speed Gain

Phil Mickelson is back playing his best golf and some of that may be down to a huge increase in his swing speed.

Lefty has been driving it a long way in 2019, with an average of more than 304 yards on Tour this season...at the age of 48!

Mickelson says that he has increased his swing speed by around 5-6mph.

“I had a 5-6-mile an hour jump in [swing speed] last year, in really the last three or four months,” he revealed.

“It's not really a secret,” the five-time Major winner said.

“It was nine months of hard work, and then overnight I was swinging 6 miles an hour faster.

"It was biometric swing studies of my swing, taking weaknesses, making them strengths. It was time in the gym. It was a whole workout process.

"It’s been a lot of work, but days like this make it worthwhile.”

Mickelson also led the field in driving distance at the recent Desert Classic where he was hitting it noticeably further than his playing partners Adam Long and Adam Hadwin in the final round.

As well as distance, he also appears to have increased his accuracy this season.

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In the opening round of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, he hit every single fairway for the first time on the PGA Tour in over 20 years.

“History was made today,” Mickelson said after round one.

“To the best of my knowledge, it’s taken me 27 years and a few months to hit all fairways in a single round in competition. I may have done it before, but I don’t ever recall doing it.”

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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV