Playing golf with your Sunday group is a completely different animal then playing and preparing for golf tournaments.

Are you a spastic with your golf swing? Do you tomahawk from the top of your backswing? I don’t mean to get right at it, but what i am talking about is tempo of your golf swing? Tempo is a topic that is not talked about enough when it comes to a consistent golf swing.

When you think of tempo, don’t you picture Fred Couples, Retief Goosen or even Ernie Els? Do you site a “hit motion” in their golf swing? You don’t! They take it back smoothly and bring it down in the same fashion. No jerk, ballistic movement or hit in those golf swings.

Tips For Tempo

There are dozens of tips in regards to improving your tempo. One good one is counting. Get into a rythmn with your swing by counting one on the way back, two at the top (give it a little pause) and three on the way down. Be consistent with this and you will see your tempo improve.

Another tip is “think smooth”. If I ever get to where I am trying to kill the ball…the very next swing I think smooth all the way. No aggressive or jerky motion for the entire swing. This usually gets my swing back in the groover right away, instead of the dreaded snow ball effect with your game, getting worse and worse.

The last simple tip is the big pause at the top before you come down. I mean pause! When you’re hitting balls at the range, make 10 swings with a 2 second pause at the top, before you make your move down. The first couple of swings will be hard. Your contact with the ball will be terrible…but after a while you’ll get to where you can make good contact almost everytime.

Golf Swing Trainers Can Help

The use of golf swing trainers to improve tempo can be very effective. In fact, I strongly recommend you do. One training aid I really like is the Medicus Golf Club. This club is one of the most effective training aids for not only tempo, but swing plane and path.

For the sake of this article, we are talking about tempo. When you take the Medicus back with a jerk it breaks. When you come down too quickly it breaks again! When you first use this…you’ll get very frustrated…but it will open you eyes to how slow (and smooth) you really need to swing to not break the hinge.

Your golf swing tempo can make or break your performance. Work on it and your scores will show it. Don’t…and let your playing partners blow the doors off you every time you play them.

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In this article I’ll discuss some miss-understandings of how the putter face moves on an Inclined Plane.

There are a couple of training aids on the market that advocate using an arc when putting and while the putter does indeed work on an arc the player needs to understand WHICH arc this is.

There are two ways to view this arc,

(1) On a horizontal plane or
(2) On a vertical plane.

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If you cannot get decent golf lessons for beginners locally, then save up for a golf vacation package. Get a package which has intense lessons – lessons in the morning, then a few rounds of real golf in the afternoon. Most beginners find that they learn best with a live instructor. It is easier for you to get feedback on any obvious and serious mistakes. In the more exclusive golf vacation packages, there may only be a few students, so you will get nearly personalized instruction. Do not underestimate the value of this near one-on-one learning experience. Of course, if you only want to brush up your game, a budget golf vacation package taken off peak periods might also do the trick.

Remember to invest in properly fitted golf clubs. These will repay your investment many times over. A set of clubs which are wrong for you – wrong flex, too long or too short, wrong-sized grips, etc. – can cause you to stumble along with slices and hooks sending your score into the 100s. If you cannot afford the full set, then make do with fewer clubs, as long as those clubs are properly fitted. Get training grips for your golf clubs as well – these will help you learn how to grip the golf club correctly. It is better to start your training with some old style blade irons. They have small sweet spots and give you quick and immediate feedback when you execute your golf swing techniques incorrectly. They are fairly cheap to get second-hand, too. Once you achieve some basic competence in your golf swing mechanics, you may like to invest in Medicus training clubs. If you follow the instructions properly, they will further help you to perfect your golf swing.

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Are you still having difficulties improving your swing? What you need is some good golf training tools to lower your scores and perfect your swing. Golf training tools can help improve every aspect of your game—from your swing, to your grip, and how you make contact with the ball. Golf training tools will also teach you how to have the proper stance.

There are basically three main issues to address when developing your golf swing. Those issues are:
1. Inconsistent Swing Pattern
2. Slicing
3. Distance (or lack of)

Before going into how to develop your golf swing, you need to first identify which type of swing you are using in your golf game. Are you using a one plane swing or a two plane swing? They both make a difference and if you are using a golf swing trainer you also need to consider which type of swing the golf swing trainer is designed for. You can find out by contacting the manufacturer and asking them.

Many golfers use the golf swing trainers that are made by Medicus and Momentus. These trainers help by “breaking apart” when you swing incorrectly. The only real drawback to these golf training aids is that they tend to be expensive which makes them just out of reach for the average golfer.

For the average golfer there are mainly three options that are cost effective and can help dramatically improve your golf swing.

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