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Does anyone have any good drills for tempo. I have a bad habit of taking a nice slow backswing and rushing my downswing. When I make my practice swings its nice and smooth but for some reason when im over the ball I do this and I have a tendency to hit a pull or I fight a hook. Any help would be great Thanks

Swing to a cadence:
One potato, two (downswing) : Putting zone
Swing (initiate back swing), set (position at top)/ through (down swing): Tour tempo
Heeeeeere's (backswing).....Johnny (downswing): my prior golf instructor

Soften up that grip and let gravity dictate the tempo...It's a little more complicated than that, but proper tempo means listening to yourself, "feeling" the weight of the clubhead and swinging that weight as smooothly as possible...responding to the weight at the head of the club rather than trying to force clubhead down through the hitting zone...





Grip Pressure
Mr 3856a
*I love this post and refer to it often...*


Back on track w/ an awesome drill

Well, after having 2 really good sessions with the new teach and one where I just struggled completely, I took 5 days off without swinging a club and went back to see him today.

The good thing about this guy is that he can explain things in many different ways and has a lot of different ways to make you feel what he's trying to get across, so if one thing doesn't work, he keeps trying different things until he gets through. Well, today he got through.

This is a great drill. He started off by telling me that he would bet me that if I would do this drill for 10-15 minutes a day for 2 weeks, I'd be hitting the ball the best I ever have or he'd give me a dozen balls. Said he'd never paid out on this bet, and he won't be this time, either. Here's the drill:

Take your address position without a ball, and take your normal grip pressure. Now, assign this pressure a number from 1-10. It doesn't matter what the number is, just give it one. Now, starting from your address position take your normal backswing and stop at the top. The goal is to have that same grip pressure at the top as you had at address. If it was a 3, you want it to still be 3 at the top. If it was 6, you want it to be 6, etc.

Do that 5 times, just swinging to the top and maintaining that grip pressure.

Now do full swings, one at a time, say 10 of them. Again, you want the same grip pressure at the top and after your complete follow-through as you did at address. Focus on keeping your grip pressure at that same number, whatever it is.

Now here's the kicker: now do 10 full swings in a row, without stopping, with the same focus on maintaining that same grip pressure. From address to the top, down and through, straight through again to the top, down and through, over and over without stopping, 10 swings.

He said where people usually change their grip pressure is when they change directions. When you're doing the 10 straight swings without stopping, you're changing directions 20 times. See if you can get all the way through that just focusing on keeping that same number.

Now step up to a ball, and with that same feeling, swing, again, focusing on keeping that same number. What this does is relieve all the tension in your forarms, which was just absolutely killing me. I was trying to choke the daylights out of the club. Once I stopped doing that, it freed up my entire swing, and I went from hitting some nice, high fades to some absolute dead straight rockets in like 10 minutes.

He said if I keep working on that drill alone, in 2 weeks I'll have a nice tight draw. The results were immediate. Give it a try!

This isn't exactly a drill, but if you watch this over and over, some of it may rub off on you:

YouTube - Jack Nicklaus golf swing