There is something
destroying your golf swing, and I wager you haven't
even considered it. You've been chasing all the technical
solutions for your golf swing, getting frustrated. But if
you overlook this one thing, you are gonna stay frustrated
and stay inconsistent. I am talking about tempo, but don't think it's boring
because if your tempo is quick or if it is snatching, your shots are gonna be so much worse.
The reason I know that you are
overlooking tempo is because of the thousands of golfers I've
helped across the world really ever pay attention to tempo. And it
doesn't mean to swing slow, it doesn't mean to swing soft, but that is the starting point. Find your tempo and I
promise you your game will skyrocket. Who do we admire?
Ernie Els, Fred Couples, people like this. VJ Singh, smooth swings that look
like you can just do them for days without worry, but they still deliver power. Why? Because they're hitting the center
of the club face more often. You do that, not only you
gonna be more consistent, you actually have better
distances on average because your strike quality is better because a
well struck shot at the center of the face is going to go further than
even as faster swing that comes out of the toe, the top of the
club, the bottom of the club, whatever it might be.
Efficiency is
what is gonna work for you. Well, a little bit later I'm gonna show you a
really simple task that you're gonna do on the range, but I'm also gonna give you something
that one of the best golfers of all time did and what you can do.
When I picked up the game, there was a couple of players
that really stood out to me, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo when
he won the Masters in 96, and that's one of the reasons
why I wanted to play the game. Faldo has a saying that he used
in a couple of major championships and he sort of makes fun of himself
because before he even played the tournament, he was practicing
a lot, hitting shots, feeding with this word
in his head. Power puff. What does that mean? He was basically trying to make
a full swing and make the right sort of contact and the right sequence. But power puff, I don't really
know exactly what he means by that, but he was practicing hitting
shots literally as soft as he could because if you can't
consistently hit the ball well, when you are just going smooth and slow, it's much harder to try and
hit it consistent.
Well, when you're swinging hard
like this, all right, it doesn't mean that
there's no room for that, but I want you to try this
because we are working on tempo. One thing Faldo did that I
want you to try as well is to take your driver and try and hit it 130 yards, 140 yards. I don't really care why? Because
it's about gaining some control. It doesn't mean that we
are trying to, you know, fixate on certain positions. We're not trying to make
a perfect goal swing. We are just swinging within ourselves
to prove to yourself that the goal swing can feel effortless. And when you try and hit a
driver such a short distance with you know, a relatively full swing, you might be astonished at how
hard it is perhaps to begin with, but how enjoyable it is to feel a nice strike.
And if you have difficulty doing this, you need to practice it even more. Now notice I'm not sort of swinging
shorter. I'm not doing a big chip shot, I'm still trying to get
to a nice balanced finish. I'm swinging within myself.
It is a complete goal swing, but smooth both of those shots right out
the middle, dead straight. And from there I've got a foundation. Here's another thing you can do when
you go and practice to find your ideal tempo, grab maybe 10 balls, okay? And think of a scale from
zero or the way to 10, 10 being maximum effort. So
if I was to hit a shot at 10, it would look something like this, Okay? I mean my foot slipped a bit, but
that was like a lot of effort. One or two would look something like this, okay, but I'm still doing a full
swing, but my effort nothing. But here's what I want you to do.
You're gonna start at one or two effort, try that swing, just really
sort of smooth, okay? Just nice and smooth, getting the
body through, staying connected, still balance, obviously
a bit of a weak shot, but now we're gonna ramp it just a ahead.
So we're gonna go up
to four or five effort. So it's gonna be something
like this, four or five at, okay, little bit further,
little bit of a better strike. Now we are going to go
to, let's say seventh. Not my best strike, but I'm gonna try seven
again and bear with me. I'm gonna explain what
we're doing here in a second better first few swings
of the day, but better.
Now that's seven felt pretty
smooth. That was more like a six. But if I go up to like an eight, That's about my sort of normal thing. But the strike starts getting a
little bit inconsistent and your task is to find your sweet spot number. I don't care what it is, it
might be relative to you four, it might be nine. But how do you tell whether it's the
right sort of tempo or swing is what effort you are putting into it. If you start getting wayward
and noticeably inconsistent with that number of
effort, you need to rewind, come down one, maybe even two because that is going
to be your sweet spot, alright? That is gonna be your sweet
spot when you can find consistency, all it's kinda
hard wing and talking, but that was a nice shot.
But that's how
you're going to find your consistency. That's how you're gonna find your tempo. Doesn't mean you have to be Fred Couples, doesn't mean you have to be Nick Price. You'll get away from thinking about
all the minutia of swing positions, technical things, thinks, focus on tempo, focus on smooth and get confident. Get good at it cuz it was good enough
for Nick Faldo.
It's good enough for you..