| I only need to look up and down the range to see | | | | my thoughts change from making a perfect |
| that there is a huge range in different swing tempos | | | | backswing to starting a good downswing. |
| and golf style. Walking to an empty bay, I usually try | | | | It is a micro pause. Next to nothing. Just long enough |
| to avoid positioning myself next to those thrashing | | | | to once I touch the backswing position to say to |
| the ball most of the way down the range. Seeing | | | | myself 'hips'. |
| their huge swings and the result of the ball flying high | | | | And that is when they shift left, which initiates the |
| and long isn't what I want, with my much slower | | | | entire downswing routine. As my hips go left, I drop |
| swing. It is too daunting and makes me feel very | | | | my right elbow down to my waist, with the power in |
| inferior! | | | | the arms starting and building on the way down. But |
| But, with a recent correction to my swing tempo, | | | | not the full power of the swing just yet. It is only |
| although I do not seem to hit the ball as hard, by | | | | when my hands get to between the 8 o'clock and |
| using the correct tempo I am getting just as good a | | | | the 7 o'clock positions do I let the full power of the |
| carry as the big hitters, but because the trajectory is | | | | swing develop, the club accelerate fully and the |
| flatter, the roll afterwards is much longer. | | | | power to be unleashed. It is not a huge power |
| So, what is the secret of the swing tempo? Well, | | | | difference, but enough to feel it. Just enough to give |
| start it at the address position. Make sure that when | | | | you full control of the club at the start of the |
| you set up to the ball you are comfortable and | | | | downswing, before the power is applied. |
| steady and easily and rhythmically move the club to | | | | That is my golf swing temp fix and it has increased |
| the top of the backswing. If you find the club too | | | | my driver carry by about 30%. Wait until your hands |
| heavy at the top of the backswing, stop just short. | | | | are between 8 and 7 o'clock before you really apply |
| Better to not make a full swing than to start off the | | | | the power. It might not look as dramatic, but it hits |
| downswing unsteady. | | | | the ball just as far and probably a great deal |
| Once I get to the top of the backswing I put in a | | | | straighter, as you are eliminating the wobble and lack |
| very slight pause. Long enough for it to be noticed | | | | of control at the start of the backswing. Any errors |
| by those watching, but not much. All that I am doing | | | | brought into the swing there will be magnified by the |
| is making sure that once I have got to this position | | | | time you hit the ball. |