Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with golfers and robots. Sometimes definitive, other times less ...

Want more swing speed heading into 2026? Try making this one tweak to your practice regimen, courtesy of GOLF Top 100 Teacher Bernie Najar.

Boosting your clubhead speed can be achieved with a faster backswing. John Novosel Jr. and Jon Tattersall show us how. The post A step-by-step guide for hitting longer drives with a faster backswing ...

You're the manager perched on the top step of the dugout. Two outs in the ninth inning, score tied, your runner at third base. Next up is your hitter whose swing generates the fastest bat speed in all ...

Reading the recent MythBusters story on whether you’ll hit it farther by swinging faster or by swinging more efficiently reminded me of a saying my old boss and mentor, Hank Johnson, had: “The ...

Since the advent of Baseball Savant and the Statcast metrics provided by that site, baseball fans have been granted an ever expanding view into what was previously the exclusive purview of scouts and ...

CAMARILLO, Calif., April 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN -- NEWTON GOLF Company (NWTG) (“NEWTON GOLF” or the “Company”), a technology-forward golf company with a growing portfolio of golf ...

As I’m sure you’ve heard/seen if you spend any time on Fantasy Baseball Twitter, there are new leaderboards on Baseball Savant that provide daily bat-tracking metrics. In data going back to April 3, ...

There’s long been a debate in baseball circles about the respective benefits and drawbacks of using wood bats versus metal bats. However, there are relatively few scientific studies on the topic that ...

Research proves that a smaller ratio between the time it takes you to complete your backswing and your downswing is what creates extra speed and power. But you can’t simply make a faster swing. The ...