Drills To Improve Tempo In Golf

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

Transcript

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

00:12club to get the most out of my swing and this is a really difficult question to answer because

00:17unfortunately not everyone swings at the same speed so it's very important that I just say

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

00:27fastest because that would be wrong because not everyone plays their best golf at five so what I

00:33like to try and do is I've got a three ball set up is this is just a nice little drill to try and find

00:38your own tempo so the idea with is I want you to think of the first ball as we're going to swing

00:44this as slow as we can this is what we call awareness speed swing so kind of as slow as I can

00:50the whole way back and through just to give myself a guide of what slow is so if I just hit one and

00:56I'm thinking this is only going to go kind of 20 yards just really slow back and through and I

01:05just about carry the water just to give myself a gauge now I want the second ball to be as fast as

01:11I can so this is 10 on the scale so literally like blink and you miss it type swings but I really want

01:15you to hit one and I need you to feel what the fastest one feels like so if I was to set up and

01:22let's try and crack one down there that was far too fast for me but now all of a sudden I can

01:30actually I felt what slow is and I felt what fast is now I want to try and find something that I can

01:37settle with that feels natural right so I'm going to try I actually quite like to have a fastest sort

01:43of swing so I'm aiming for the sort of six and seven mark and let's see if I can just find one

01:49with a nice kind of tempo back and through and that surprisingly was quite a nice shot but the

01:57way I've did that was I experienced both ends of the spectrum really slow really fast and I settled

02:03for something that I can do on time and time again on the golf course take that to the driving range

02:08really experience both ends and trap the middle and enjoy some good shots

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