You step up to a wide-open par 5, tee it high, swing as hard as you can and what happens? The ball spins off to the right and flies 30 yards shorter than normal. That’s because when many of us try to increase distance, we don’t understand the moves necessary to crank up clubhead speed.

A similar misunderstanding occurs on the greens, when we hit a 5-footer off the toe or the heel and miss the putt. We might obsess over fixing our stroke path and finding the center of the face, but science says another thing is causing our misses.

That’s why we’re excited about our next Golf Digest Happy Hour on Thursday, September 12 at 8 p.m. ET: The science behind swinging faster and holing more putts, according to Dr. Sasho MacKenzie.

The live webinar is offered exclusively for Golf Digest+ members, who will be able to join the call by following the Zoom link that will be posted on this page. Not a member yet? Sign up here to receive access to this Happy Hour and recordings of all previous webinars with golf experts.

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MacKenzie has a Ph.D in sport biomechanics and has long studied the disparity in movement patterns between the best golfers and the rest of us. He is the co-founder of The Stack, a popular speed training product and system that is especially popular on tour, including with 2022 U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick.

In recent years, with the development of advanced statistics, golfers are learning of the importance that driving distance has on scoring. In fact, according to Arccos’ data, every 10 yards you gain roughly correlates to about a stroke improvement in your scoring average. MacKenzie’s research explores what are the most important movements to creating speed, and what are the speed-killing traps that lots of us fall into.

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MacKenzie is a professor of sports biomechanics at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and also an engineering consultant for Ping. Outside of golf, MacKenzie has worked with MLB teams, including the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, as a biomechanics and bat-fitting consultant.

More recently, MacKenzie has researched putter fitting kinetics and the movement patterns of the best putters. His findings shed new light on the relative importance of face angle, stroke path and impact location and provide a blueprint for what we should be focusing on.

We will dive into both topics—how to increase swing speed and hole more putts—during this hour live webinar on September 12. As always, members are encouraged to ask questions throughout the call. Have a topic you’d like us to cover with MacKenzie? Send us an email, and we look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com