Tempo, tempo, and more tempo
This morning, on a cool, blustery day, I went to hit some balls at the Hank Haney Golf Ranch in Lewisville. I spent most of the morning working on tempo with Tour Tempo on my iPod, and it is helping a lot to overcome the problems I’ve had lately with my swing.
I warmed up with one of the test 6-irons I built a while back, the Toski Target T56 iron head with the UST PRoforce Rv2 75 graphite shaft. I first hit about 20 balls using the Tour Tempo “Y” drill and then followed that up hitting 20 balls with the “L” drill. Mostly, I hit pulls during both drills, so once I started hitting full shots, I concentrated on getting the clubhead path correct. The other change I made was to run the spoken version of the 27/9 pre-shot instead of the one that beeps. That seems to reduce the tension I feel when I use the beeps (I think that’s the primary reason that Tour Tempo didn’t really work well for me in the past).
After about 20 full shots with the 6-iron, I got out the wedges and hit a few full shots with each. Next up, I finished out the practice session by hitting a few balls with nearly every club, doing pretty well with all clubs except the Big Bertha 3-iron and the driver. The rest of the clubs I hit pretty respectively today, and I can see definite progress over the last three practice sessions, reversing the slide my performance had taken earlier last week.