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

00:11golf club to get the most out of my swing. And this is a really difficult question to

00:17answer because unfortunately not everyone swings at the same speed. So it's very important

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

00:26to 10, 10 being the fastest because that would be wrong because not everyone plays

00:30their best golf at five. So what I like to try and do is I've got three balls set up

00:35is this is just a nice little drill to try and find your own tempo. So the idea with

00:40is I want you to think of the first ball as we're going to swing this as slow as we can.

00:46This is what we call awareness speed swing. So kind of as slow as I can the whole way

00:50back 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.

01:05And I just about carry the water just to give myself a gauge. Now I want the second ball

01:10to be as fast as I can. So this is 10 on the scale. So literally like blink and you miss

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

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

01:28far too fast for me, but now all of a sudden I can actually, I've felt what slow is and

01:33I felt what fast is. Now I want to try and find something that I can settle with that

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

01:44So 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.

01:56But the way I've did that was I experienced both ends of the spectrum really slow, really

02:01fast and I settled for something that I can do on time and time again on the golf course.

02:07Take that to the driving range, really experienced both ends and trap the middle and enjoy some

02:12good shots.