Golf Swing Tempo Training Aids

Have you ever been told you swing to fast...or too slow?
The chances are that one of your golfing buddies has commented. My guess is that it was probably too fast?
The truth is thought that most high handicap golfers swing, not just too slow, but WAY too slow. However, a disjointed or jerky swing can often be misconstrued as a fast swing.
It may have a very slow deliberate take away, followed by a sudden rush on the downswing to make up for the slow start, or conversely, as fast back swng, followed by a deceleration to impact. A certain killer of any chance of making a consistently good, and more importantly REPEATABLE, swing and impact.
What you need to strive for is a repeatable swing that will hold together on the course, when the pressure is on.
Where most articles seem to cause the most confusion for golfers trying to understand Swing Tempo, is that they use the word SPEED when they really mean TEMPO.

So let's clarify this point before we go any further, by using a metronome!
As you know a metronome swings back and forth, side to side, like the pendulums on a grandfather clock. It does so at a consistent beat.....YES? THIS IS TEMPO! If you swing your club back and forth in time with the metronome, you will have Swing Tempo. Simple?
Well not quite because you would have the WRONG Swing Tempo, (We will come to this honestly, just be patient and ALL will be revealed).
Now the metronome is swinging at so many beats per minute. This is SPEED. We can increase the speed by moving that little weight further down the shaft of the Pendulum rod, or move it upwards to decrease the speed. NOTE thought that it changes the speed (Or Beats Per Minute), not the Tempo.

So you can swing fast or slow (But not TOO SLOW!), but you need to do so with a Tempo.

How do we achieve this? We use one of the many Golf Swing Tempo Training Aids!