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Orange Whip vs SuperSpeed: I Tested Both, $119-199
Two boxes showed up at my house eight months apart, both promising the same basic thing: swing better, hit it farther. One cost $129. The other cost $199. I have swung each of them more than a thousand times since. They are not actually competing products, no matter what the marketing on either box implies.
The Orange Whip teaches tempo. SuperSpeed builds raw clubhead speed through overspeed training. That’s the entire comparison, and it’s why treating this search like a “which one is better” question misses the point. Comparing them like rivals is like comparing a metronome to a barbell. Both live in your garage. Both make you better. They do it in completely different ways, and most buyers pick based on brand recognition rather than what their swing is actually missing.
The Contenders
- Orange Whip Trainer (Full Size) ($119-$129): flexible shaft, weighted orange ball, no clubhead, tempo and balance focused
- Orange Whip Golden ($149-$169): heavier version with more resistance, built for stronger players
- SuperSpeed Golf 3-Stick System ($199): three color-coded weighted sticks with a protocol-based overspeed training app
What Each One Actually Trains
The Orange Whip is a 47.5-inch flexible shaft with a weighted ball on the end and no clubhead at all. That is deliberate. Without a clubface to worry about, you stop thinking about ball contact and start feeling your swing sequence. Rush the transition from backswing to downswing and the ball wobbles sideways. Swing in the correct order, hips before shoulders before arms, and it traces a smooth arc with a natural pause at the top. I had an instructor tell me for two years to “feel the pause.” The Orange Whip taught me that feeling in about a week.
SuperSpeed works on a completely different principle: overspeed training. You swing a stick lighter than your driver, then one close to driver weight, then one heavier, following a fixed protocol three days a week for about 12 minutes a session. Your nervous system adapts to the faster swing speeds the light stick allows, and that speed gradually transfers to your actual driver. This is the same training principle sprinters use with resisted and assisted sprints. It has been on the market since 2014, and Padraig Harrington is among the tour pros who have used it.
Tempo trainers teach you to swing in the right order. Overspeed trainers teach your body to swing faster than it currently thinks it can. Neither one touches the other’s job.
Price and What You Actually Get
The standard Orange Whip runs $119 to $129, the cheapest entry point in this comparison. The Golden version, heavier and built for more resistance work, is $149 to $169. SuperSpeed is a flat $199 for all three sticks and free access to the training app, with a $399 bundle if you add the PRGR launch monitor to track your gains.
There is no ongoing cost with either system. No subscription, no locked features. What you pay once is what you own. The real cost difference is what you are buying: the Orange Whip is one tool with one job, sold at three price points based on weight. SuperSpeed is a full protocol with three tools built around one goal, measurable swing speed gain.
Who Should Buy the Orange Whip
If you are a 15 to 25 handicap who lunges from the top, has zero feel for tempo, and slices the ball into the next fairway, the Orange Whip fixes the more urgent problem first. My own slice went from a 25-yard banana to an 8-yard fade in about three weeks of swinging it for ten minutes every morning. It is also the better warm-up tool. I use mine before every range session because it gets my body sequenced before I put a real club in my hands.
It is also the right pick if you have no interest in an app, a protocol, or tracking numbers. You just swing it and feel the difference. There is nothing to measure and nothing to fail at.
Who Should Buy SuperSpeed
If your tempo is already fine and your problem is straightforward: not enough clubhead speed to compete for distance, SuperSpeed is the more direct fix. The protocol format works because you are not guessing at improvement, the app tracks your max swing speed every session and shows you the trend line. Golfers who gain 5 to 8 mph over 8 to 12 weeks are common, and that number matters more to your scorecard than most equipment upgrades costing three times as much.
SuperSpeed is also the better choice if you have already worked on tempo, through lessons or an Orange Whip, and speed is the remaining variable. It is a decade-proven system with over a thousand tour pros having used it, which is a track record the Orange Whip’s tempo-only category does not carry in the same way.
They Are Not Actually Redundant
Owning both is not overkill if your budget allows it. A golfer who lacks both tempo and speed, which describes a lot of mid-to-high handicappers, gets more from doing four weeks of Orange Whip work first, then layering in SuperSpeed once the sequencing problem is fixed. Adding speed to a broken sequence just means you slice it farther, faster.
The Verdict
Buy the Orange Whip first if your handicap is above 15 and you have never felt what a smooth transition feels like. At $119, it is the cheaper entry point and the lower-friction habit, since it takes zero setup and no protocol to follow.
Buy SuperSpeed if your tempo is already solid and you specifically want more clubhead speed with data to prove it. At $199, you are paying for a proven protocol and a decade of tour validation, not just a training stick.
If I had to pick one for a golfer I did not know, I would ask a single question: do you know what a good transition feels like? If the answer is no, buy the Orange Whip. If the answer is yes and you just want to swing faster, buy SuperSpeed. Most golfers guessing between these two have never actually asked themselves that question, they just bought whichever one their favorite YouTuber was sponsored by that month.
Where to Buy
- Orange Whip Trainer $119-$129 at Amazon
- Orange Whip Golden $149-$169 at Amazon
- SuperSpeed Golf 3-Stick System $199 at Amazon
Prices verified July 2026. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.