Tour Tempo

I had some range time today.  I'm working on the usual things, with an emphasis on getting the lower body to move first and keep the upper body relaxed until the end of the swing.

This was suggested in a comment in a YouTube video, that when you activate the arms/hands, then that will cause the trunk and lower body to slow or stop to provide the resistance required to move the upper body.

Ok, I say to myself, I can do that.  The guy also had some numbers that the use of the hands should only be done in the last 40 milliseconds of the swing. Ok, but that's 4/10ths of a second and I would suggest that the swing ain't that long and 4/10ths might be earlier than the common golfer would think.

Now I see a video today about "Tour Tempo."  The guy measured all the tour pros and found that there is a 3 to 1 tempo in the swing of elite golfers.  Back swing takes 3 times longer than the downswing.  Want to swing faster?  Then speed up the tempo!

There's an app for that!

There is the official app, Tour Tempo golf for $24.99, and we have various metronome apps starting at free - with ads, at least one of them is golf oriented.

I also ran across Tony Luczak's video about speeding up the swing.  This is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dxjv3ygwO0

He has three parts to his plan and swinging faster is one of them.  That led me to a comment on the video that led to tour tempo.  There are YT videos from them too.

I tried some of this at the range today.  I don't remember how I remembered to try this.  I saw the above videos after the range session.

So tomorrow, while Barb goes off and sews I'll try to swing faster with tempo! 

Results will be reported later.  I hope I remember to take my club head speedometer!