I played Monday with a guy who just took up the game a year ago. I have been playing for 3 years. I admit that I was a bit jealous because he is hitting long irons with a nice easy swing as far as I used to hit my Driver when I was at his stage. He is not swinging hard and the ball is flying because his has a nice easy swing with great technique. I am a big guy and weight about 290 right now, and the ball doesn't go farther when I swing hard. It goes farther when I hit it with a nice swing (with speed) but not trying to kill it. I tried to kill one on Monday and shanked it. Wanna talk about swallowing your pride. My longest drive of the day was about 260 and it didn't take anything out of me. Tiger says, that speed will come with accuracy! Makes sense to me for beginners. I went to the range today and thought about his easy swing and to my surprise I was hitting them as far as if I swing harder. My thought is that as I swing easier, their is less movement of other body parts and this is actually giving me more solid contact at impact. Does this make sense? Tiger Swings Faster but not necessarily Harder! Harder equates to muscle in my mind. Speed equates to flexibility and technique.