Focus for Golf-How and Why

May 3, 2011

Focus…..what does it mean for golf?

Have you heard someone say, “I had a great round today, I was really focused.”  Or maybe you have had that round yourself where you felt like you couldn’t do anything wrong.  You had confidence standing over every shot.  When you looked at the hole while you were putting it looked like a garbage can.  You felt like you couldn’t miss a putt.  Ever wonder why this happens only occasionally?

The textbook definition of focus is “a point at which rays of light appear to diverge, or the clarity of an image rendered by an optical system.”  What this means is that focus is associated mostly with sight or the eyes.  Your ability to focus will come down to the ability of your eyes to zoom in on an object, or in the case of golf, the target.  The key to this is the more you see with your eyes, the less you think with your brain. 

The highest level athletes have very little chatter in their brain, and their focus is very high.  What happens to the common athlete is when they start becoming nervous or struggling with their swing on the golf course they increase the self talk and thinking while their energy available to focus decreases.

Focus comes easy for LPGA's Michelle Redman

Learn to play golf with your eyes.  Your pre-shot routine is the key to getting your focus visually.  I teach my students to stand behind their ball and pick out the target.  I want them to pick out a very specific target high and in the distance. Two key ways that I have them working on increasing their focus:

  1. If the target is the flag I have them focus more intently by staring at the metal rod that secures the flag (very specific). 

2.  I have them repeat to themselves “target”, “target”, “target” until they hit the ball.  When you get absorbed into your target, you connect with the target and you provide a clear image for your body to swing.

Remember focus is all about vision and little to do with thinking.  When you want to perform at the highest level, crank up the intensity of your eyes and start seeing your scores lower.

Lynn Anderson,

Totally Driven

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My AimPoint Green-Reading Experience

April 26, 2011
 

AimPoint Green Reading Technology is the one and only true green reading system.  How do you read greens?  Have you ever taken a lesson on green reading?   AimPoint will transform your game by teaching you the one aspect of putting that is not taught.    You are not guessing or looking at a general spot, you will learn exactly where to aim.  You will learn that every putt is predictable and it’s all based on gravity. 

Another great aspect of AimPoint Green Reading is that you will speed up your time on the greens.  Once you learn the very predictable gravity based system you will not have to walk to the other side of the hole from your ball and then bend over from behind your ball and then try to make up your mind what direction, how much break and speed you are going to hit your putt.  Two thirds of the read is done while you are walking up to the green and then you are quickly fine tuning your read when you are marking your ball.

 

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After I went through the AimPoint Green Reading Clinic I went out and putted like I have never putted before.  I shot a course record with 11 birdies and 3 bogeys with a score of 65.  After learning the system the one thing that I noticed the most was the confidence I gained with my stroke.  I made the read, made my putting stroke on the line I knew was right and bingo it went in.  One other thing that I noticed was that when I did miss I had an easy putt coming back.  No three putts all day long.  I know that I would have never shot my career round without AimPoint.  Thank you, Mark Sweeney for developing such a great system!

Lynn Anderson,

Totally Driven

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Club Gapping- Why and How

March 31, 2011

Determining the distance you hit each club in your bag should not be a guess or done by comparing to your buddy.   Every month I look at the What’s in the Bag article in Golf Digest and see a PGA Tour Pro featured.   They always list carry distance for each club in the bag.   I can guarantee they can relay these carry distances off the tip of their tongues.

Why is then that the average golfer struggles to know how far they hit each club in their bag?  

1. The assumption that there is 10 yards of distance between each iron in their set.   This is rarely exactly the case.  

2. Very few players have actually measured the distances they hit their clubs.   Why it’s so important to use a GPS or range finder to determine the exact distance to the pin or front of the green, but not know exactly how far you hit your clubs is really a head scratcher. 

3. Until recently there has not been an easy accurate way to measure this accurately. 

4.  Most players go by their best ever shot to determine what iron to use, grossly over-estimating how far they hit the ball.   That is why so many PGA pros say they would recommend the average player use more club into the green.  

5.  Carry distance and total distance are not determined.   Carry distance is more important, but most players rely on total distance, because that’s what they see when they get to the green. 

6.  It takes too long to do this outside with a range finder or by walking it off.

We are starting a Club-Gapping program at Totally Driven.   This is how we are going to do it:

1.  Use an accurate Launch Monitor.  In this case we chose the Foresight Golf GC2, because many industry experts have told us this is the most accurate indoor launch monitor, and it has club gapping software built into it.

GC2 Software

2.  Do the Club-Gapping in a controlled environment.   Outdoors is not controlled, as elevation and wind come into play.   Setting up the Launch Monitor for no wind and a level shot allows for accurate numbers.

3.  Use the golf ball you use on the course to measure.   Using range balls at a driving range is not going to give you accurate numbers.   These balls spin and launch differently than the balls you play and many of them are in poor condition.

4.  Measure carry distance.   This is difficult to do outside.   Many years ago the PGA Pro would have their caddy out in a field so they could measure where the ball landed.

5.  Take a good statistical representation of each club.   We do ours in an hour and ask that the player hit at least 5 and preferably 10 shots with each club.   NOTE:  It’s best to measure every club, as it’s quite common to have loft variances between clubs.

What to do with the results?

1. Know and use the carry distance for each club.   How far the ball rolls out is important, but that is more variable and is effected by tilt of the green, wind direction, hardness of the green and elevation changes.   Carry distance is effected by elevation and wind direction, but not tilt of the green or hardness of the green.   Knowing what club you need to carry a trap or hit to land in the middle of the green is much more reliable and should be more pertinent to your golf game.

2.  If your gaps are too close together or too far apart, consult your local Professional Club-fitter for a loft/lie assessment and/or to look at your set make-up.

3.  Determine how wind effects your shots when outside.   Rule of thumb has been for every 10 MPH of wind (when into the wind) you need one more club.   Is that accurate for you?   How about downwind and sidewind?

4.  Are you playing the right golf ball?   Again, consult your PGA Professional or Club-fitter if you are unsure if the ball you are playing is best for you.

5.  Use the information, don’t rely on what your playing partner is hitting.   Check your ego at the door.   It’s more important to hit the right club, not to hit a seven iron because everyone else is.   The bottom line is shooting the lowest score possible and if you’re not hitting the correct club for the distance, you are only hurting yourself.

Andy Thompson,

Totally Driven

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R11 Driver Fitting

March 5, 2011

The TaylorMade R11 Driver is out in force on the PGA Tour as you can tell on TV.   We have been fitting the R11 Driver at Totally Driven for the last month and it has been a hit with customers and is really a club-fitter’s dream.   Beyond the white club-head (great marketing move by TaylorMade), the technology of this driver is second to none.  

TaylorMade has a number of acronyms to describe the adjustments that can be made to this driver:

FCT = Flight Control Technology- This allows the driver to be set to fly higher or lower along with lie angle settings.  In reality the club-face also opens or closes with this setting.

ASP = Adjustable Sole Plate- This allows independent face angle adjustment of the driver while having minimal impact to the shot.   Where this comes into play is fine tuning to the player’s preferred look at address (open, closed or neutral).   When partnered with FCT setting, now allows for a closed face setting to address ball flight needs countered by and open face setting (for example) if the player doesn’t want to look at a closed face angle at address.

MWT = Moveable Weight Technology- This has been part of TaylorMade drivers for a number of years and allows for weighting towards the toe to promote a fade or the heel to promote a draw.

R11 Adjustments

R11 Adjustments

TaylorMade claims 100 yard side to side adjustment with this driver and 1000 RPM backspin adjustment.   I don’t know about 100 yards of  side to side adjustability (you can definitely create a considerable change), but the backspin can definitely be changed if you know how to adjust the driver.

TaylorMade has one shaft option for the base R11 which is the Fujikura Blur 60 in M/R/S/X flexes.   While this shaft will work for some players it obviously won’t be the correct shaft for most players.   There are also mulitiple shaft options in their TP versions which allow better fitting choices.   Totally Driven also offers various aftermarket shafts from Accra, Oban and Miyazaki that we can fit for, that really explodes the amount of options for the R11.   We have had great success fitting players for these aftermarket shafts to really dial in launch/spin and direction.  We also are able to use more than the factory supplied weights in order to control side spin/launch and spin as well as swing-weight.

R11 Oban Kiyoshi

R11 with Oban Kiyoshi

There is a bit of an art to understanding how to use the mulitple settings to best benefit the player.   While we don’t say we have all the answers we are getting pretty proficient at setting up the club to help the player hit it longer and straighter.  

Many players will buy this driver off the rack with a stock shaft (that may or may not fit them properly), unfortunately the technology will not help most of these players.   First of all they will not likely get the correct shaft, shaft flex, length, swing-weight or grip size needed.   Most players never use the adjustments that come on these clubs either from laziness or not understanding the capabilities at their disposal.   We see this everyday where a player comes in hitting a big slice and yet has never adjusted the driver to reduce this.

Really the best option is to get fit by a true professional club-fitter who understands the technology, has multiple shaft options available as well as the ability to adjust weighting, length and grip to get a really remarkable fitting.

Andy Thompson

Totally Driven

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Golf Distance Improvement

January 7, 2011

Most players would love to hit the ball further.   It’s ego driven, fun and helps you score better on the golf course.  Unfortunately, many golfers have no idea (or sometimes uninformed ideas) on how to hit the ball further.  At Totally Driven we work with players striving to hit the ball further on a daily basis and here is what we have found to be the key elements.

1.  Increasing  ball speed off the club-face.  Yes, we measure ball speed, not club-head speed.  Ball speed also incorporates how solidly the ball was hit.   High club-head speed will transfer to high ball speed if you hit the ball solidly.  While increasing ball speed seems obvious, it’s important to have an accurate way of measuring this so that progress can be determined. 

Launch Monitor

 

2.  With the driver, hitting the ball with an upward angle of attack.   Hitting the ball this way (off a tee) produces a higher launch angle and lower backspin rate which will improve distance compared to a downward attack angle which produces a lower launch angle and higher backspin rate.   Example:  A player with ball speed of 135 mph and a downward attack angle producing 11 degrees of launch angle and 3500 rpm of backspin results in 215 yards of carry and 237 yards of total with roll.   A player with the same ballspeed of 135 mph with an upward attack angle producing 15 degrees of launch angle and 2300 rpm of backspin would produce 223 yards of carry and 255 total yards of distance.   In this instance the difference is 18 yards .

3.  Hitting a draw -vs-  a fade will also produce more distance.  A ball that is fading typically produces more backspin and rolls less when it hits the ground.   A draw typically will spin lower and roll further.

4.  Timing/Tempo

When it comes down to it, we determine where the greatest opportunity for distance improvement lies with our players.   When we do an assessment it is very detailed.  We determine current ballspeed, launch/spin rates, angle of attack as well as taking a look at the golf swing with video and 3d, a full physical screening via Titleist Performance as well as power source testing.   When we find the greatest area of opportunity we go after that first.  

In order to improve ball-speed we may need to work on some things physically with the player first.   Sequencing and speed results from our K-Vest 3d testing will show if a player has an efficient swing and the power testing will indicate if the player has sufficient power in the lower body, core and upper body.   Helping improve attack angle or moving from a fade to a draw may also be related to physical issues.  If not, we immediately work on improving these areas with the player.

We have found the key to improving power is determining where the problem lies first.  Fortunately, we have the equipment and expertise that are needed to diagnose each player.   We also have some pretty exotic  methods of improving hip speed, hand speed, core speed, sequencing, (Speed Chain, Tour Tempo, Somax)etc., but we need to first understand the player’s needs.   We have found that each player is unique physically as well as having their own swing.  

If you are looking to improve your power on the golf course, we can help you! 

Andy Thompson

Totally Driven

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2010 in review

January 5, 2011

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 22 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 33 posts. There were 27 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 25mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was October 21st with 63 views. The most popular post that day was Golf Improvement in One Hour.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were totallydriven.com, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, mail.live.com, and rpc.blogrolling.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for jamie sadlowski, counterfeit golf clubs, miura cb-501, miura 501 irons, and miura cb 501.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Golf Improvement in One Hour October 2010

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Counterfeit Golf Clubs March 2010
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New Miura Irons/Wedges December 2009

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Jamie Sadlowski, the Distance King February 2010

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The Secret is in the Dirt December 2009

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Two Different Kinds of Balance for Golf

December 20, 2010

As a golf instructor I am quite familiar with looking for balance in the golf swing.   Good balance in the golf swing is easy to see and poor balance is just as readily visible.   There is another type of balance that is very important to playing good golf.   That is the balance created between performance, enjoyment and learning.  

Totally Driven Indoor Facility

Many of us put way to much emphasis on performance and very little on enjoyment and/or learning while playing golf.   When this happens, even though the emphasis is on performance, that is the very thing that suffers.  The reason for this is that high level improvement of performance requires continuous learning and is sustained by enjoyment.   If you are constantly teetering between being estatatic and depressed because of your results, it’s going to be nearly impossible to improve.

Chasing performance causes a continuous desire to find a fix to your swing.   This can be a viscious cycle and is often detrimental to improvement.   Constantly working on positions of your swing often lead to tightness and a lack of fluidity.  

At Totally Driven, we have all the gadgets (SAM PUTT, K-Vest, JC Video, Pure Balance, etc.) to get very technical with the golf swing.   The trick is to use these tools when appropriate and to move players off of technical learning when needed.   We are continually striving to understand who needs what and when.   Ultimately the golf swing is an athletic movement that needs to be done naturally in order to have the greatest chance at success.

Many of our students are very analytical and work very hard to improve their swing.   In trying hard and looking purely at results it is fairly common that the results aren’t there as quickly as expected for these players.   As coaches we need to recognize this and move the player out of technical details and into more of a fun/creative environment where learning can place in a less structured way.

The same thing happens on the course.   Focus entirely on performance will almost always lead to less than satisfactory results.   Creating balance between performance, learning and enjoyment will create a much faster and more sustained environment for improvement.

Lynn Anderson,

Totally Driven

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Golf Injury Prevention

December 1, 2010

Most golf injuries occur from 3 things:

  1. Inefficient use of power
  2. Altered Pattern of mobility and stability
  3. Too much of a good thing (overuse)

 

There are many different ways to inefficiently use your power, but one of the most common is caused by a lack of core stability.  When we lack core stability we overuse our lower back which causes low back pain.  Most of us can relate to this low back soreness or pain after our round of golf.  This pain often stops us from going out for a consecutive round.  If you are experiencing low back pain you would be a candidate to go through the TPI evaluation so the problem can get identified, a prescription drawn up and let the work begin. 

Altered patterns of mobility and stability are a second way injuries may occur.  The body has an altering pattern from the feet up.  The foot is stable, ankle is mobile, and knee is stable and so fourth.  The problem is when this pattern is off.  Let’s use the low back as the example.  Another reason for low back pain is if our hips lack mobility.  The hips should be a mobile joint and the low back (lumbar spine) a stable one.  Well, if the hip don’t move like they should, the low back takes a beating and sooner or later breaks down and shows up as pain. 

Low Back Pain in golfers - multiple causes

Too much of a good thing or overuse is the third area where we can injure ourselves.  Golf is done only on one side of our body, so when a repetitive move is used we are in danger of an injury.  What I suggest here is during warm up, swing from the opposite side to try and balance the pattern out.  If you swing 20 times for a warm up, swing 20 from the opposite side. 

These are three ways we can injure ourselves but there are several other ways.  The body is your engine and dictates how you swing.  If you want to stay healthy, if you want to make any swing changes you must get a physical assessment to identify your weakness and pattern breakdowns so you can work on them.  Please take the time to do this, because if you don’t it will cause problems at some point.  Take charge now!

Lynn Anderson,

Totally Driven

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Coaching-vs-Instruction

October 28, 2010

At a recent AMF seminar that included many of the top golf instructors in the world, I listened to Rick Jensen speak about the way golf is taught compared to other sports.  It was very eye-opening as well as was his book, “Easier Said Than Done” which goes into great detail about the subject.

Golf has typically been taught in one hour increments on a driving range with an instructor sometimes using video equipment that allows the student to see their swing on screen.  Most often positions in the golf swing are explained and worked on with the player expected to work on some prescribed drills before coming back for another lesson.

Expectations from students are usually to have the instructor give them a tip or two to get rid of their slice or to help them hit the ball more consistently.  If not from an instructor, players will seek advice from tips in golf magazines, books or other players.  The emphasis is usually on fixing the problem quickly and easily.

Now, think of any other sport.  Football, baseball, tennis, hockey, basketball or track.  None of these sports are taught in a similar manner.  Nor are the players looking for a quick tip that will make them immediately better.   It is understood that it takes time to develop skills and it is often not easy.   The focus in these other sports is developing skills and working on taking these skills to the playing field eventually.  I don’t remember anyone teaching me positions of  a throwing motion or a tennis backhand.  Other sports are not taught with every position of the motion scrutinized such as golf.

So, why does golf need to be different?   Jim Furyk, Lee Trevino, Moe Norman, Arnold Palmer and others have shown that there are many effective ways to swing a golf club.   Obviously these players didn’t have an instructor that was hung up on creating a good looking swing.  These players didn’t care what their swing looked like either.   They just wanted results.   In other sports we look at results more than technique.  Think of Rod Carew, Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer.   Each has their own stance and way of swinging at a baseball.  Each is (or was) effective.   Some football running backs run standing fairly erect and others are bent over more. 

This isn’t to say that golf instruction is not needed.   To the contrary, golf is not an easy sport to learn.  Skills need to be developed, just like any other sport.   The main problem is that for some reason golfers think they can get better quick if they find one good tip, work on it for an hour or two and then take it to the course.   Can you imagine a baseball player expecting a quick tip and then expecting to walk into the batters box and be able to hit Cliff Lee within a week?  It’s not going to happen.   It’s not going to happen in golf either.

That’s why golf needs more coaches and less instructors.   The key to golf is getting the ball into the hole as quickly as possible.   It’s about results, not style.  It’s recognizing short-comings and working hard (it’s almost never easy) to correct them.   It’s putting in hard work ingraining skills, practicing in ways that will transfer to the course and finally taking it to the golf course.   If you think that hitting balls a half hour before teeing off is practice, think again.   You will never be able to make a change that quickly.  

Sean Foley/Tiger Woods-Coach and Student

While the best players in the world have a golf coach (0r coaches), the rest of us has an instructor.  Ever thought about that?   The average golf handicap has not changed in over 50 years.  Isn’t it time to try something new??

Lynn Anderson

Totally Driven

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Golf Improvement in One Hour

October 20, 2010

At Totally Driven we are not big proponents of quick fixes or golf swing tips that will instantly dramatically improve someone’s game.   While it would be great if this were possible, it rarely works that way.  Skills need to be ingrained over time and need to be transferred from practice to the course.  Invariably, this is more difficult to do than what players are looking for.  If golf swing tips worked, the average handicap would be falling like a rock with the plethora of tips available in golf magazines.

We have recently had some great success after working with a player for one hour (or less).  It actually has happened twice with the same player.   Here’s the story:

Jeremy, an 11 handicap comes in January of 2010 for an iron fitting.  During the fitting it was obvious to me that he was over-swinging and his tempo was way off.   Dynamic testing was showing very erratic impact for an 11 handicap. 

I decided to get Jeremy on video to show him what I was seeing.  I wasn’t looking for positions or anything like that, I just wanted him to see how out of sync his swing was.   After playing back the video in regular speed, he kind of got it.  The next step was to have him use the Tour Tempo Micro Player.  http://www.tourtempo.com/ As he had a pretty fast tempo I started him right at 21/7 for tempo and showed him how to use the device.  It took us twenty minutes or so before he got the hang of it.   After I videoed his swing while using Tour Tempo, I showed him the comparison.  Now he really got it.  The results were dramatic.  His swing was in sequence better and looked like more of a single digit player.  We were also able to finish the club-fitting without a hitch as he was making much better contact.   Jeremy bought a Tour Tempo Micro player and book and we ended out tweaking his current iron set to suit his needs.

In April Jeremy set up an hour lesson just to make sure he was still on track.   This lesson involved ingraining the Tour Tempo drills and making sure the 21/7 was the correct tempo (it was).   Jeremy was using the device and working hard, the only issue was hitting the Tour Tempo beats properly.  We never talked about grip, set-up or positions at all.  He was very pleased and ready to start the season.

In July Jeremy signed up for one of our Power Clinics.   This was a group clinic which Lynn Anderson conducted.   The clinic is designed to show people where power is generated in the swing and teach them how to tap into it.  We’ve had great success in these clinics with people gaining 10-20 yards of distance by the end of the 90 minute class.  We utilize Tour Tempo as part of the Power Clinic also.

We didn’t hear from Jeremy again until October 14th when he came in for a driver fitting.  He said that he had a fantastic year, that his handicap had dropped to 5.4, he had been driving the ball long and straight and that it was all due to Tour Tempo.  He said he had been struggling with his driver recently and wanted to get fit for a new one.  I did as before and started doing the driver fitting until I saw he was getting poor results with any combination I put together.  He was hitting a big slice and getting no distance.  While his swing looked better than last January it still looked like he was over-swinging and his tempo was off.   Jeremy stated that he had the Tour Tempo tones “in his head” and swore that he had that down.

I asked Jeremy if he would be willing to spend a half hour with Lynn Anderson to look at his swing.  He agreed and Lynn video-taped his current driver swing and also a swing with an iron.   Lynn immediately hooked up the Tour Tempo player on speaker so she could hear the tones and she set it for 21/7 and had Jeremy swing to the tones.   He wasn’t coming close to hitting the second beat and was rushing down to try to hit the third beat.   After working with him for about 2o minutes he was able to get the tempo down correctly.   Lynn showed us both his video at the start to the video after using Tour Tempo and it was mind boggling how improved it was.   Not only was his tempo better, his positions were much improved.  He went from an open club-face at the top to square, and from a flipping position at impact to a near perfect position.  We all knew the driver itself wasn’t the issue so we sent him on his way.  Here is the email response I received four days later:

“Andy, Thanks for the lesson the other day I worked on tempo for three range sessions and went out and shot 74 yesterday! I haven’t broke 80 in two months so it felt great! I hit 1 bad iron shot the whole round. That is called getting results from a golf lesson. I wont be going anywhere else. Driver power starting to come back too. Thanks again, Jeremy”

Now, we know this isn’t going to happen all the time.  Jeremy is a hard worker and worked for three practice sessions to get the tempo ingrained, plus this was something he had been successful with during the summer so he was in reality re-learning the skill.

It’s been our experience that the only quick fix lessons we have had success with are:  Tour Tempo for full swing (and even then some refreshers are sometimes in order) and putting and chipping lessons (which often deal with tempo issues).   It’s amazing that tempo is rarely taught, even though you can walk down any driving range in the world and pick out good players from poor players by just watching their tempo.   Try it some time.  I’ll bet you can guess someone’s handicap within 5 strokes just by watching their tempo.

We’re planning on showing the before and after swings from this last Tour Tempo lesson on YouTube in the next week or so.   I’ll add the link to this blog later.

Andy Thompson

Totally, Driven

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