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TOUR TEMPO® RAVE REVIEWS
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| Golf Digest: "The Unified Theory of Tempo" in its 'Swing Secrets' issue." (read more...) |
Golf for Women: "The Best Swing Secret no one has ever told you." (read more...) |
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| Travel & Leisure Golf: "No one has ever come up with a way to teach Tempo, until now." (read more...) |
Cigar Aficionado: "TOUR TEMPO® works!" |
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YALE UNIVERSITY STUDY VERIFIES TOUR TEMPO®
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"Towards a Biomechanical Understanding of Tempo in the Golf Swing" Robert D. Grober Tempo refers to the pace of the golf swing. It is can be characterized by measuring the duration of the backswing, Tb , and the duration of the downswing, Td. While qualitative discussions of tempo are as old as the game itself, quantitative measurement of tempo has existed only for a couple of decades. Recently, a study of the tempo of professional golfers was published in the book Tour Tempo [2] in which it was pointed out that the ratio of backswing to downswing time of professional golfers is of order three, Tb/Td = 3. These measurements were made using the frame rate of standard video (i.e. 30 Hz frame rate) as the clock. The tempo of the majority of tour professionals studied in Tour Tempo is characterized by Tb = 24 frames and frames. The ratio Td = 8 for all players reported in the study covered the range from 21/7 to 30/10. Also pointed out in Tour Tempo is that the overall tempo of professional golfers is significantly faster than that of the average golfer and that the tempo does not change significantly with the length of the shot or the type of club. (read more...) |
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George Peper - The SECRET of GOLF
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George Peper - The SECRET of GOLF : A Century of Groundbreaking, Innovative, and Occasionally Outlandish Ways to Master the World's Most Vexing Game.
In his new book, The SECRET of GOLF, George Peper - former editor-in-chief of GOLF Magazine for 25 years, singled out Tour Tempo out as one of the 47 breakthroughs in golf instruction. From the introduction to his book: I definitely recommend the book as it pretty much covers the full spectrum of the history of instruction. I found it entertaining and a joy to read. I particularly liked a sentence on the dustjacket of the book: “The bad news about golf will come as no surprise to anyone who plays it: It is a game that is impossible to perfect. But the good news is that on any given day, there’s a secret that will bump you to the next level.” |
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| Mats Only - Sports Illustrated's John Garrity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A lesson in tempo SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- I played Pinehurst No. 2 Monday morning with the course superintendent, two golf architects ... and better tempo. In fact, any objective observer would have told you that my swing reminded them of Mr. 59, Al Geiberger -- a player whose pass at the ball was regarded as so smooth by his PGA Tour peers that he wound up on the SyberVision golf tapes. (read more...) |
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Tempo produces techinique TULSA, Okla. -- Before I so rudely interrupted myself, I was relating how I got my swing smoothed out by John Novosel, the tempo titan of Leawood, Kan. We were in his kitchen, remember? Sun streaming in the garden window ... "I really like your swing," Novosel told me, looking at the video of my swing that he had downloaded to his laptop. "I think the only thing you need is the tempo. You aren't getting everything out of your swing that you could." (read more...) |
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New king of swing KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- I didn't have to go out for fireworks. I just opened the Mats Only mailbag. "Garrity, you bastard!" begins an e-mail from a reader who identifies himself only as August O'Meara of Minneapolis . "Thanks so very much for leaving us hanging. I have to WASTE another week hacking it around, while you know the secret to making a perfect tempo swing." (O'Meara is referring, of course, to two recent Mats Only columns which feature "before and after" videos -- one of my best driving range swing followed by the same swing under the influence of tempo coach John Novosel .) (read more...) |
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Go stretch KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- My recent columns about flexibility have generated a lot of mail, most of it seeking practical information on how to restore suppleness to the weekend golfer. "I saw Roger Fredericks on the Golf Channel," writes John Suess of Milwaukee. "What specific thigh exercises does he advocate to help the turn and save the hip?" Answer: I don't know. Roger told me that the hips are very important in golf, but he didn't tell me how the hips relate to the thighs. (I'm sure there are some tendons or ligaments that connect them, but my knowledge of anatomy is shaky. See my unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, "Stretchy Things in the Leg.") (read more...) |
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Setting the Tempo KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- I don't read message boards too often because they're pretty rough places. Most everybody has a handle like "KillBill666," and the postings fairly reek of testosterone and belligerence. I'm referring to golf message boards, of course. Sites dedicated to politics or religion are probably different. My misgivings notwithstanding, I have been checking out golf message boards lately because the hot topic is Tour Tempo, the just-published book I co-authored with tempo pioneer John Novosel. Apparently thousands of recreational golfers, many of whom first read about Novosel in this column, bought copies the instant they hit the store shelves (or the mailbox) and went out within hours to hit balls to the tempo tracks on the accompanying CD. (read more...) |
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Big promotion in the Big Apple NEW YORK CITY -- The last time I arrived at a driving range in a taxi I was in Tokyo, where unfamiliar traffic patterns and the menace of Godzilla discouraged the use of a rental car. Manhattan is equally awkward to navigate with a golf bag, so I hailed a cab yesterday evening and tossed the clubs in the trunk. "Chelsea Piers Driving Range," I told the driver. Fifteen minutes later, when I rolled my travel bag into the ground-floor reception area of the Chelsea Piers Golf Club, I was met by a five-foot-high blowup of a book cover. Then I was met by the somewhat taller left-handed golfer whose elegant swing was pictured on the cover -- John Novosel Jr. -- and by his father, whose name escapes me. The elder Novosel, of course, is co-author of Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed. (read more...) |
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