You will see from my blogs that I am a huge fan of the underrated subject of golf swing speed, as well as golf swing tempo.

Here’s an application for those of you out there who are lucky enough to have an iPhone. It is without a doubt, the cheapest (Not including iPhone purchase of course) Golf Swing Aid that you will see on our blog.

At an amazing $1.99 at time of writing, this looks like the golf swing aid bargain of the year!

It would appear to follow the exact same principle as underlined in Golf Tour Tempo. Why wouldn’t it….after all, it’s proven.

Set your ideal golf swing tempo on your iPhone. Then practice your swing as you swing in sync to the tempo. Use MyGolfSwing anywhere – in your office, in your home or anywhere you can swing your arms to its tempo, even without a club. Use MyGolfSwing on the driving range, practice green or even while you are playing golf. You can even set it up to repeat, for the same number of balls that you just ordered on the range……Insane!

What I love as well, is that you can actually select the PGA pro of your choice, from the library, so that you can swing to the exact tempo as, Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, etc.

You can see a demo of this app in action, as well as purchase the download at www.mygolfswing.biz

I’m counting on some of you lucky iPhone owners to filed test this app on my behalf.

Please let me know how you get on with it.

Steve Snead

Technorati Tags: Golf Swing Aid, Golf Swing Speed, Golf Swing Tempo

Without a doubt, golf swing tempo IS a fundamental of the golf swing. However, it would appear to be the most overlooked and underwritten about. What doesn’t help, is that half of what I read on the subject is just nonsense anyway. If I were a high handicapper, some of these articles would leave me more mystified about Swing Tempo than when I started them. Here is an excerpt from such an article….”Get into a rhythm 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.” Now I ask you, do you understand this. I know I don’t. If you and I both counted to three, and it were timed, there’s a good chance that we would not both do it, in the same time frame. Our nature would affect the count. Would your little pause be longer or shorter than my little pause? It will be our brains that are doing the counting, and it’s our brains that get us into so much trouble, out on the course, in the first place. Will we count to three in the same calm way, when we are facing a 150 yard carry over a lake to a bunker guarded green?…….I think not! I don’t know that I ever saw Tiger, Phil or VJ taking this little pause. The article goes on further to suggest that, when practicing at the range, this pause should be for TWO SECONDS! Now I ask you, does this sound like Golf Swing Tempo training? If you are going to hold at the top of the back swing for 2 seconds, then why not just cut out the middleman. Yes, that’s right, forget the whole address the ball, waggle, smooth take away and the rest. Just start your swing at the top. Like facing a pitcher with a baseball bat in your hands. Trust me though, you can kiss swing speed Goodbye! If you are a golfer, then I’m sure that it’s safe to say, that if I were to ask you to write a list of the fundamentals of golf, you would probably hand me a list that included: * Grip * Posture * Ball Position * Alignment * Pre-swing Routine …and you wouldn’t be wrong. I’d be mightily impressed. I could take those fundamentals to the range with a bunch of books and magazines and work on them. But sooner or later I’m going to ask you, (Because I’m an inquisitive kind of guy), “This is all great stuff, but how fast should I swing?” Because after all, we are always hearing about club head speed, and how it affects distance. So let us add Swing Tempo to our list of golf fundamentals. In fact, lets put it in 3rd Place, right behind grip and alignment. The reason being is that, if you have a basic understanding of swing technique, then Swing Tempo is the glue that holds it all together. Pausing at the top of your back swing, for anywhere between a pause and 2 seconds is the stuff that will bring it crashing down. In fact this will more than likely cause you to ‘Cast,’ or come over the top in the swing. With good tempo, the left knee should be starting it’s Downswing move to the left, just as the hands and club are reaching the top of the back swing. I don’t disagree totally with the counting system. What you need though is a device to dictate the count, a device that is external. A device that is not your brain. Be it one of the many golf swing tempo devices, a simple and inexpensive metronome, or a piece of music with a beat that you can swing to. If you are an Iphone user, there is even an application that you can download exactly for the purpose. Now it is often said that most high handicappers swing too fast. This is not, in fact, the case. Most swing too slow, but their swings look fast because they lack a decent tempo. Either a really quick take away that then slows on the way to impact, or the reverse. Ernie Els’ ‘Big Easy’ swing, is in fact, exactly the same tempo as Phil Mickelson’s and VJ Singh’s. Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player’s were slightly faster. Where the tour pros do not vary, is in the ratio of their swings. THIS IS KEY! It was only first truly written about in John Novosel’s excellent, 2004 book, Tour Tempo – Golf’s Last Secret Finally Revealed. The tour pros ALL swing at a 3 To 1 Ratio. However long they take getting to the top of their back swing is 3 Times that of getting the club head back to impact! So there you go. Probably the simplest fundamental you ever read. Get to the range with some type of timing device, and swing to a 3 TO 1 Ratio. The magic thing about it is, that you will find yourself so engrossed with listening to the Beats, that all other swing thoughts (particularly negative ones), will leave your head. Try different tempos (NOT RATIOS) and find the one that suits your personality. When you have, you can take your new tempo onto the course, where my guess is, you’ll swing with a new found confidence.

Technorati Tags: Golf Swing Aid, Golf Swing Speed, Golf Swing Tempo

If you really want to improve your Golf short game, which is anything within 100 yards of the flag, then first you need the right equipment in the bag to do so. As well as the best book on the short game ever written, Dave Pelz’s Short Game Bible.

Gary player once said that, “70% of shots are played within 70 Yards of the green”. This was later, scientifically proven by David Pelz in his fantastic book, The Short Game Bible. Mr Pelz set out to find out “Why the top earners on the PGA tour, were the top earners”. What he found out was that it was their ability, to get it closest to the hole, from 100 yards and in. This even outweighed their ability to putt! The top putters on the PGA tour, were not the top earners.

So do you have the clubs in your bag to cover 70% of your shots? My guess is….Probably Not!

Most beginners and high handicappers only carry one wedge. Consequently, they try to hit anywhere between 10 and 100 Yards with the same club. This makes accurate distance control, on every short shot, virtually impossible. If you’re such a golfer, then it really is time to consider adding one, or two more wedges to your bag. If this means the sacrifice of one of your long irons, in order to confirm to the 14 club rule, then so be it. After all, how often or how well do you use that 3 iron anyway?

With various wedge lofts available, (anywhere from 52 to 64 degrees), from all of the major manufacturers. Consider three wedges with a four degree separation, i.e. 52, 56 and 60 degrees of loft.

Now… Armed with your 3 wedges. You’ll need to get down to your local park and practice. How much should you practice? Well, doesn’t it make sense that if 70% of your shots are going to be golf short game shots, then 70% of the amount of time that you spend practicing, should be specifically on this type of shot? Yet I find that very few golfers do. Instead they’d rather beat balls at the driving range, often with no specific target, or goal in mind.

So trust me on this. Get to the park this weekend. Take a 100 Yard tape measure, and spend some time getting comfortable with your new wedges. Hit nice easy (80%) swings with all three of your wedges. Hit 20 Balls with each wedge. Discount the furthest and shortest five balls. The center measurement of your cluster of ten balls is your average for that wedge. Write it down and put it in your bag.

Try and do this once a week and you’ll soon find that your grouping will get tighter, and more consistent. Not only that, but on the course, your golf short game will soon be the envy of your golf buddies.

See Dave Pelz’s Short Game Bible

Technorati Tags: Golf Short Game, Golf Swing Aid, Golf Swing Speed, Golf Swing Tempo

Do you know what swing tempo Tiger Woods Uses? Or Ernie Els?

More importantly, do you know what Swing Tempo you use. If you have one, is it consistent?

In my humble opinion, Golf Swing Tempo is the MOST underrated and underwritten about subject, in all of Golfdom! Largely, because for many years it was seen as somewhat of a natural ability. One that not many golf instructors, (including the top ones), touched upon in their teachings. Even David Leadbetter, in his book ‘Faults and Fixes’, only gives it a passing mention….”Tempo is basically the overall speed of your swing”. Jim Flick in ‘How To Become A Complete Golfer’…..”The speed with which you take the club back, does not necessarily relate to the speed with which you bring it forward”. We can only assume that the PGA Tour pro’s developed their tempo as a natural progression, of learning golf, because they certainly weren’t learning it from these guys.

I have literally hundreds of books on the subject of golf. You may have a few of your own. If you were looking for instruction on the grip, I could easily find you over 30 books, each with excellent descriptions and pictures to help you find the correct grip. Likewise, if you wanted to know the correct set up, or the correct position at the top of the backswing, I could probably find you over 50. Yet, if you were to ask me what speed you should swing at, or what swing tempo you should use. Then I could only find you one! Tour Tempo: Golf’s Last Secret Finally Revealed, written byJohn Novosel and John Garrity in 2004. If I were to be totally honest with you, this one book transformed my golf game instantly. I had spent so much time working on all the individual parts of the golf swing and yet, it was this book, which became the glue that held my swing together. My drives got longer, my irons got more accurate, my handicap dropped, week after week. The ‘Golf Gods’ truly blessed us when they gave John Novosel his ‘Eureka’ moment.

Mr Novosel, studied hours and hours of footage, of ALL of the PGA touring pro’s, including some of the greats of yesteryear. He discovered the secret quite by accident. ALL of these great players had one thing that was consistent….Yes even Jim Furyk! They all swing to a consistent 3 to 1 ratio. 3 to the top of the backswing and 1 to impact. This book will have you swinging to the exact same speed and ratio as Tiger Woods…..In FIFTEEN MINUTES! It comes complete with a CD Rom, that has examples of students achieving upwards of 20mph swing speed increase, within minutes.

If you only buy one golf swing aid book this year, to help get your game on track. Then make it this one! I guarantee, you won’t be disappointed.

Buy Tour Tempo at the best price though!……Get Your Copy Here.

Steve Snead

Here is just one sample customer review from Amazon……

The subtitle of this book is “Golf’s Last Secret Finally Revealed”. There couldn’t be a better description of this book. I have for many years carried a 20 handicap. During the summer of ’03, I made a major commitment to rebuilding my golf swing. This consisted of twelve lessons and loads of practice. I learned how to grip the club properly, how to set-up, how to take the club back, and how to swing through the ball. Like many players rebuilding their swing, my scores got worse initially before getting better. However, even after the changes settled in there was no net gain in my index. I could now hit my best shots really, really well, but I still hit enough bad shots in a round to cancel the really good ones. What was happening was that while I was better mechanically, I was playing with way too many swing thoughts. I was not enjoying playing because I was playing in fear of making a mistake, of not remembering something in a long list of swing thoughts. A playing partner recommended Tour Tempo to me a couple of months ago. After adopting the lessons of Tour Tempo, results were almost immediate. Lower scores (index down to 16.8), and more fun from playing golf. Now the only thing in my mind when I step up to the ball is the target and a cadence. In fact, I believe my improvement has resulted from both my work on mechanics and tempo. I was unable to benefit from the mechanics alone, however, because the successful golf swing , it seems, is more than just the sum of the parts; it is how everything works together in time. Buy this book. Frank Hulton : Philadelphia

Buy Tour Tempo at Best Price

Technorati Tags: Golf Swing Aid, Golf Swing Speed, Golf Swing Tempo