Tempo – Golf’s Most Important Teacher
I’ve been trying to publish an article about Tiger, but I keep getting derailed. However, this article in Golf.com was so interesting, and about Tiger as well, I feel compelled to post this first.
John Novosel, a guy who has been working on swing tempo for almost a decade claims to have clear insight into Tiger’s problems and I think he just may be right. In fact, what he has discovered may be the most important component of all our games.
John’s theory, based on timing Tiger’s and other pro golfers’ swings over many years is that you can see their performance rise and fall with how closely their tempo is 3/1. This translates to it takes 3 times as long to get to the top of the backswing as it does to reach impact. A golfer’s relative speed doesn’t make a difference, you can swing fast like Nick Price or slow like Ernie Ells but the tempo has to be 3/1.
I won’t spoil the article for you, you can read the whole thing here. It’s not long, but very provocative. I’d even go so far as to speculate that tempo may be the most important component of your swing. How many instructors are missing the mark trying to fix flaws in individual elements in the swing when they should be teaching tempo. Maybe most swing flaws are symptoms of bad tempo – the primary fault?
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I have a different view on TEMPO…In my book available on Amazon.com, titled “TEMPO…Heartbeat of the Golf Swing, The Little Blue Book I” I offer a formula for TEMPO based on TARGETING and 4/4 time as in music.
By associating 4 points,a TARGET,BALL,BACK SWING,TARGET to a 1,2,3,4 count, (4/4 time) and initially verbalizing that count in ones normal speaking tone of voice while swing the club,you become a human metronome that will make one aware when in TEMPO and alert one when out of TEMPO just by the tones one speaks. This formula creates a self teaching method and a method for consistently applying TEMPO to ones swing with no external intervention. Feel free to contact me for more information, or clarification…believe me it works…have a 9 year old shot par based on this formula…TEMPO is the heartbeat of the golf swing…contact me.