Drills To Improve Tempo In Golf

Ben Emerson talks about drills to help with your swing to achieve maximum results.

Transcript

00:00One of the questions that I get asked quite a lot is how fast or slow should I swing a

00:11golf club to get the most out of my swing? This is a really difficult question to answer

00:17because unfortunately, not everyone swings at the same speed. It's very important that

00:22I don't just say, you need to swing it at five if we had a scale of one to 10, 10 being

00:27the fastest because that would be wrong because not everyone plays their best golf at five.

00:33What I like to try and do is I've got three balls set up. This is just a nice little drill

00:37to try and find your own tempo. The idea with is I want you to think of the first ball as

00:43we're going to swing this as slow as we can. This is what we call awareness speed swing.

00:49As slow as I can the whole way back and through just to give myself a guide of what slow is.

00:55If I just hit one and I'm thinking this is only going to go 20 yards, just really slow

01:03back and through and I just about carry the water just to give myself a gauge. Now I want

01:09the second ball to be as fast as I can. This is 10 on the scale. Literally like blink and

01:14you miss it type swings, but I really want you to hit one. I need you to feel what the

01:18fastest one feels like. If I was to set up and let's try and crack one down there. That

01:25was far too fast for me, but now all of a sudden I can actually, I've felt what slow

01:32is and I felt what fast is. Now I want to try and find something that I can settle with

01:38that feels natural. I'm going to try, I actually quite like to have a fastest swing. I'm aiming

01:45for the sort of six and seven mark and let's see if I can just find one with a nice kind

01:49of tempo back and through. That surprisingly was quite a nice shot, but the way I've did

01:57that was I experienced both ends of the spectrum really slow, really fast and I settled for

02:03something that I can do on time and time again on the golf course. Take that to the driving

02:08range, really experienced both ends and trapped the middle and enjoy some good shots.