Its All About Tempo With Golf Fairway Woods (Video) - by Pete Styles
Its All About Tempo With Golf Fairway Woods (Video) - by Pete Styles

Whenever you watch a good player one of the distinguishing features of a good player’s swing is often the quality of their timing and their tempo. You'll see golfers looking down the driving range or on the golf course and you’ll be able to spot your better players, generally because their tempo is good and smooth. And there's no club where tempo is more important than with a fairway wood, particularly a fairway wood off the deck. Now the concern here for a golfer is that they try and bash the ball as hard as they possibly can, it sometimes quite a difficult lie and they get a bit snatchy.

Now these long clubs they don't want to be hit quickly, they don't want to be snatched, they want to swing a nice big wide arc in the same fashion as how we would swing our driver. Our driver the biggest club in the bag has a big long wide arc a nice smooth tempo. We want to feel like we're doing the same sort of thing with a three wood or the fairway wood. Now the feeling to create good tempo is to use your big muscles more particularly using your shoulders in the backswing and avoid using the quicker tempo hands and arms. So if I'm all hands and arms I'm setting up to the ball and I kind of give bit of a snatch and it won't really work to get the ball flying in the best possible way with the three wood. If I can use my tempo a little bit better here I'm going to take my set up, I'm going to focus on using my shoulders a little bit more in my swing. So turn my left shoulder into my chin, make sure I've completed my backswing and then give it a nice rip and I’ve hit that one nicely again. So because I’m using my shoulders really well and my backswing, big old turn back, big turn through, hold my balance through the ball. So because we’re talking about tempo, it doesn’t mean we can't hit the ball hard, clearly you saw with that I did hit that ball hard but I hit it with good tempo nice and smooth making sure I complete my swing, making sure I hold my balance. So use good tempo with your fairway woods, your three wood, your five wood, your seven wood to make sure you get the best contact, make sure you get the best out of these fairway woods. 2016-08-24

Whenever you watch a good player one of the distinguishing features of a good player’s swing is often the quality of their timing and their tempo. You'll see golfers looking down the driving range or on the golf course and you’ll be able to spot your better players, generally because their tempo is good and smooth. And there's no club where tempo is more important than with a fairway wood, particularly a fairway wood off the deck. Now the concern here for a golfer is that they try and bash the ball as hard as they possibly can, it sometimes quite a difficult lie and they get a bit snatchy.

Now these long clubs they don't want to be hit quickly, they don't want to be snatched, they want to swing a nice big wide arc in the same fashion as how we would swing our driver. Our driver the biggest club in the bag has a big long wide arc a nice smooth tempo. We want to feel like we're doing the same sort of thing with a three wood or the fairway wood. Now the feeling to create good tempo is to use your big muscles more particularly using your shoulders in the backswing and avoid using the quicker tempo hands and arms. So if I'm all hands and arms I'm setting up to the ball and I kind of give bit of a snatch and it won't really work to get the ball flying in the best possible way with the three wood.

If I can use my tempo a little bit better here I'm going to take my set up, I'm going to focus on using my shoulders a little bit more in my swing. So turn my left shoulder into my chin, make sure I've completed my backswing and then give it a nice rip and I’ve hit that one nicely again. So because I’m using my shoulders really well and my backswing, big old turn back, big turn through, hold my balance through the ball. So because we’re talking about tempo, it doesn’t mean we can't hit the ball hard, clearly you saw with that I did hit that ball hard but I hit it with good tempo nice and smooth making sure I complete my swing, making sure I hold my balance. So use good tempo with your fairway woods, your three wood, your five wood, your seven wood to make sure you get the best contact, make sure you get the best out of these fairway woods.