70-80-90 Tempo

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This drill is 70/80/90 tempo. So many golfers change their tempo when they

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get on the course. So it's important to train your playing tempo. And what you

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'll

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notice is under pressure, you'll either really speed things up, you'll really

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shorten things, you'll lengthen things, you'll slow them down. Everybody's got

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different tendencies. But having a tempo to fall back on helps. And what most

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golfers

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will find is that when they're swinging at about 80/85% of their maximum tempo,

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they hit the ball better and further than when they swing at 100%. So finding

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kind of your playing tempo, and it can change slightly day-to-day, but finding

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your playing tempo is a good skill to practice on a periodic basis. You know,

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at least once a month or once every other week depending on how much you're

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training. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna hit some shots and we're going

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to

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kind of identify how solid we hit it, whether we swing at what feels like nice

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and easy. So you can even go down as low as 50% or if you're swinging really

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full

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out hard, whatever you would call 100%. If you're still keeping balance, it's

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probably not truly 100%. That's one of my kind of go-to telltales as to how

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hard

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you're swinging. But experimenting with, "Okay, do I play better when I hit it

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at 70%

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or 80% or 90%?" And one of the goals is to have both of your backswing, your

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transition, and your release all matching that same tempo feeling. So I don't

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want

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you to have a backswing that feels like it's 20% and then a transition that

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feels

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like it's 80. At least, not unless you have a specific issue where you need to

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mess around with the timing or the sequencing in a certain part of your

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swing. So for the general practice, we're just gonna hit a few shots with a

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variety

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of different tempos. So first one I'm gonna do is we'll go 70% and that's

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pretty

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comfortable, pretty close to my playing tempo. Now we're gonna step it up a

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little

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bit. We're gonna try to go to 80%.

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And 80% is still fairly comfortable for me. I hit that pretty solidly. That's

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getting close to my playing field. Now I'm gonna push it a little bit and I'm

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gonna go to 90%. 90% is usually where I start to have some contact issues. And

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I

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hit that a little thin and a little on the toe. Doesn't mean that my swing

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broke down. Doesn't mean that I had a technical flaw in my swing. It just means

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that my sequencing got disrupted because of my tempo or my intensity and how

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hard

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I was swinging. So now when you're doing like little 10% changes, it's

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often easier to kind of have those little steps. I'm gonna take a bigger

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jump and I'm gonna go down to 50%. So 50% will challenge my sequencing and my

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release even greater.

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So I hit that pretty solid. Really controlled the flight. Obviously didn't go

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quite as far, but that's a very playable tempo for me even when I'm

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hitting into in the greens where I want to control the spin or if I'm trying to

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keep it down. Now I'm gonna try and jump to 85, which for most of the time was

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my

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playing tempo. So I've got this feel of 85%. Try to keep it all the way through

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the swing. And because I had gone from the 50%, I felt that I got a little slow

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in transition and then quick during the release, but it didn't have that same

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85% throughout feel. Again, doesn't necessarily mean that I had a mechanical

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issue even though I had a mechanical flaw. It was more of a tempo flaw or a

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thought process flaw. So now I'm gonna try to do that 85% again. Actually I'm

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gonna, today it feels like 85 is a little fast. So I'm gonna throttle it back

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to

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even 80.

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Hit that just a touch then. We'll do one more 80%. Oftentimes when I do full

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swings, my left arm actually hits this microphone and it can disrupt my

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timing. So I'm gonna try to anticipate hitting the microphone and I'm gonna try

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to keep my 80%. So that was pretty good. That's pretty close to where I'd want

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my

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playing tempo. Now what I can do is I can hit a variety of different clubs

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trying

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to recreate the same tempo throughout the bag and I may find that for certain

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shots like around the green or maybe my distance wedges, I do better with a

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lower tempo. When I get to my driver in three wood, I maybe do better with a

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little longer. But tempo is one of those great playing fields that helps

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unify a lot of mechanics into something that ties everything together into one

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hole which is great for performing under pressure.