Albo
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Has anyone done any training/research/lessons or whatnot on Swing Tempo?
My golf watch has a swing tempo feature, which I decided to try out at the range the other night, from watching YT videos, the premise is your tempo should be 3.0 which is the relationship between back swing speed and downswing speed. The advice on YT is to start at the slowest setting and swing normally and work upwards in speed until you’re close to your usual speed then work from there to prefect.
I’ve always been told my swing was fast, whatever that means, it certainly doesn’t translate to ball speed that much I do know, so was interested in seeing how that looked in the Swing Tempo training on my watch, the tempo settings range from amateur slow, med and high, to pro slow, med and high. You basically wear the watch on your lead wrist and swing, it measure the time it takes for both the back and down swings and rates that against whatever speed settings you have chosen (from amateur and pro slow, med, fast).
I set the watch on amateur slow and was consistently too quick on both back and down swing, so went to the medium, same result, and eventually fast, same result, so switched to the pro setting, too fast again for pro slow, so went to pro fast, backswing was around the correct speed for this but down swing too slow all the time, lastly went to pro medium, back swing too fast, down swing usually about right.
Switched between the 2 settings and eventually felt more comfortable trying to be a little slower back than a little faster down.
So a lot of balls later, I’m still not great, but hitting the correct speed relation probably 60-65% of the time.
What I noticed from this is how much more time I felt I had in transition, but that still feels alien and sometimes like I’m hanging around at the top of the swing too long, but when I sync it up it feels really nice, ball striking not notably better as a result, but certainly a lot less poor shots, the good shots were not noticeably better, nor were the average shots, but there were far fewer really bad strikes.
I took that swing and the watch out to the par 3 course the next day, results weren’t outstanding and I found I was too quick on the backswing way more often on course than I was on the range.
I’m planning on sticking to this and seeing where it leads as I feel it may help with consistency, rather than making everything better.
Just wondering if anyone else has any experience, advice, thoughts?
My golf watch has a swing tempo feature, which I decided to try out at the range the other night, from watching YT videos, the premise is your tempo should be 3.0 which is the relationship between back swing speed and downswing speed. The advice on YT is to start at the slowest setting and swing normally and work upwards in speed until you’re close to your usual speed then work from there to prefect.
I’ve always been told my swing was fast, whatever that means, it certainly doesn’t translate to ball speed that much I do know, so was interested in seeing how that looked in the Swing Tempo training on my watch, the tempo settings range from amateur slow, med and high, to pro slow, med and high. You basically wear the watch on your lead wrist and swing, it measure the time it takes for both the back and down swings and rates that against whatever speed settings you have chosen (from amateur and pro slow, med, fast).
I set the watch on amateur slow and was consistently too quick on both back and down swing, so went to the medium, same result, and eventually fast, same result, so switched to the pro setting, too fast again for pro slow, so went to pro fast, backswing was around the correct speed for this but down swing too slow all the time, lastly went to pro medium, back swing too fast, down swing usually about right.
Switched between the 2 settings and eventually felt more comfortable trying to be a little slower back than a little faster down.
So a lot of balls later, I’m still not great, but hitting the correct speed relation probably 60-65% of the time.
What I noticed from this is how much more time I felt I had in transition, but that still feels alien and sometimes like I’m hanging around at the top of the swing too long, but when I sync it up it feels really nice, ball striking not notably better as a result, but certainly a lot less poor shots, the good shots were not noticeably better, nor were the average shots, but there were far fewer really bad strikes.
I took that swing and the watch out to the par 3 course the next day, results weren’t outstanding and I found I was too quick on the backswing way more often on course than I was on the range.
I’m planning on sticking to this and seeing where it leads as I feel it may help with consistency, rather than making everything better.
Just wondering if anyone else has any experience, advice, thoughts?
