Tour Tempo Level 1 Course

Tour Tempo Europe® keen to educated PGA Professionals in Great Britain on the secret of tempo, writes Jeroen Meijerink.  

Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Ben Hogan...What secret do they all share? Well, they all have the same swing tempo or, as it can be referred, Tour Tempo. 

A golf swing has its optimal tempo. The best ratio between elapsed time for the backswing versus the downswing. A discovery made by golf-inventor John Novosel Sr. after analysing numerous swing videos of all golfers from champions to amateurs. He found that champions/winners continually turned out to have this constant swing tempo. 

Validation 

Two prominent physicists, Professor Robert Grober and Jacek Cholewicki of the Department of Physics and Biomechanics at Yale University, validated the Tour Tempo Data and results in 2006 (and again in 2009). 

They tested various golfers from amateurs to tour professionals in cooperation with David Leadbetter under lab-conditions. The results showed that correct imitation of Tour Tempo made golfers of all abilities improve through making better contact and improving swing consistency, a ready measurement for lower scores and more pleasure on the course. 

How you ask? You will learn this on the 1-day seminar but to summarise, you will learn to measure tempo, analyse tempo, and correct tempo utilising the “learning by audio” principle. 

This course is delivered by Jeroen Meijerink and Jean Maurice van Ham. To learn more about and to register your interest, click here.   

• Jimmy van Heuven van Staereling – Director of Training, PGA Holland:
  • “Over the years, many PGA Holland Golf Professionals have followed our continued educational ‘Tour Tempo’. The result is that many use it as one of their teaching tools to teach their students in an implicit way, the latter being one of the ways to make them a more competent PGA professional. Further, the course provides a good basis to generate more income by teaching it to the right people and groups.” 
    
    
• Martine Martens – PGA Head Professional, Golf Academy Anderstein:
  • “The golfswing has a couple of important features to it. Because the order of the movements is critical in delivering the power, we as pro’s are constantly on the outlook for finding ways to improve. Tour Tempo is a fantastic way to incorporate in training. Without too much thinking in the process, my pupils get their rhythm in order. The Tour Tempo Tones get people to focus correctly and free-up their swings. It makes my pupils unconsciously skilled on the course rather than only on the driving range. Result; more fun playing the game!”