Tim Tebow is ripped. He looks almost cartoonishly ripped. His look, while impressive, reminds me of how Stewie looked on Family Guy in the episode he took ‘roids so he wouldn’t get beat up by his fellow babies. It’s like Tebow has tacked on 30 pounds of muscle so he can tell John Fox, “I’m the starting quarterback!” in Denver. I digress, though.
Tebow played in the FedEx St. Jude Classic pro-am on Wednesday and looked to be killing the ball again, as he did with Jack Nicklaus earlier in the year. That led USA Today to report a claim that Tebow’s swing speed was 141 mph. (At least initially it did, that line has since been removed from the post.)
That got Golf Digest’s Mike Stachura wondering if Tebow actually could swing that fast. He interviewed a number of club fitters around the country who had experience with launch monitors and their readings for the average amateur. To put a 141 mph swing into perspective:
A swing speed of 141 mph would be more than 28 miles per hour faster than the current PGA Tour swing speed average (112.64), as measured by the TrackMan launch monitor at PGA Tour events. It would be 16 mph faster than the leader in swing speed average, J.B. Holmes (125.12). It would be 14 mph faster than the fastest speed recorded by Bubba Watsonthis year (127.02). It also would be the equivalent of the average swing speed recorded by the eight finalists in the 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships (141), but two miles per hour slower than the speed of the finalists recorded at the 2010 RE/MAX WLDC (143).
So, at least statistically, Tebow’s reported speed would be in a territory reserved for the sorts of swings that drive the ball 400 yards.
Nike later told the magazine that Tebow swings around 120 mph. It’s still impressive, but Tebow should stick with quarterbacking – or converting to linebacker.
Tebow played in the FedEx St. Jude Classic pro-am on Wednesday and looked to be killing the ball again, as he did with Jack Nicklaus earlier in the year. That led USA Today to report a claim that Tebow’s swing speed was 141 mph. (At least initially it did, that line has since been removed from the post.)
That got Golf Digest’s Mike Stachura wondering if Tebow actually could swing that fast. He interviewed a number of club fitters around the country who had experience with launch monitors and their readings for the average amateur. To put a 141 mph swing into perspective:
So, at least statistically, Tebow’s reported speed would be in a territory reserved for the sorts of swings that drive the ball 400 yards.
Nike later told the magazine that Tebow swings around 120 mph. It’s still impressive, but Tebow should stick with quarterbacking – or converting to linebacker.
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