Table 2.

Typical values for clubhead speed at impact.

		Recreational Golfers	Highly Skilled Amateurs	Professional Golfers
Men	Iron	33.8 ± 2.5 m/s [43]	37.65 ± 1.04 m/s [44] a
	Driver	[33 *–53 *] m/s [42]	[55 *–57 *] m/s [42] 45.4 ± 3.6 m/s [45]	50.1 ± 2.1 m/s [46]
Women	Iron
	Driver	37.7 ± 3.8 [47] b		32 ± 1 [48]

^a The group of this study is composed of golfers either professional or recreational with an handicap inferior to 1. ^b The group of this study has an handicap of 6.1 ± 3.4. * means that the value was extracted from a plot or a chart. The value source is given in brackets.