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Sural is 78-90 tempo. So many golfers change their tempo when they get on the course.

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So it's important to train your playing tempo and what you'll notice is under pressure,

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you'll either really speed things up, you'll really shorten things, you'll lengthen

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things, you'll slow them down, everybody's got different tendencies. But having a tempo to fall

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back on helps and what most golfers will find is that when they're swinging at about 80-85%

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of their maximum tempo, they hit the ball better and further than when they swing at 100%.

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So finding kind of your playing tempo and it can change slightly day to day, but finding your

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playing tempo is a good skill to practice on a periodic basis, you know, at least once a month or

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once every other week depending on how much you're training. So what we're going to do is we're

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going to hit some shots and we're going to kind of identify how solid we hit it, whether we swing at

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what feels like nice and easy. So you can even go down as low as 50% or if you're swinging

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really full out hard, whatever you would call 100%. If you're still keeping balance, it's probably

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not really 100%. That's one of my kind of go-to tell tales as to how hard you're swinging.

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But experimenting with, okay, do I play better when I hit it at 70% or 80% or 90%. And

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one of the goals is to have both of your backswing, your transition, and your release, all matching

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that same tempo feeling. So I don't want you to have a backswing that feels like it's 20%

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and then a transition that feels like it's 80. At least not unless you have a specific issue where

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you need to mess around with the timing or the sequencing in a certain part of your swing.

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So for the general practice, we're just going to hit a few shots with a variety of different

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tempos. So first one I'm going to do is we'll go 70%. And that's pretty comfortable, pretty close to my

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playing tempo. Now we're going to step it up a little bit. We're going to try to go to 80%.

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And 80% is still fairly comfortable with for me. I hit that pretty solidly that's getting close

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to my playing feel. Now I'm going to push it a little bit and I'm going to go to 90%.

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90% is usually where I start to have some contact issues.

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And I hit that a little thin and a little on the toe. Doesn't mean that my swing broke down.

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Doesn't mean that I had a technical flaw in my swing. It just means that my sequencing got disrupted

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because of my tempo or my intensity and how hard I was swinging. So now, when you're doing

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little 10% changes, it's often easier to kind of have those little steps.

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I'm going to take a bigger jump and I'm going to go down to 50%. So 50% will challenge my sequencing

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and my release even greater. So I hit that pretty solid, really controlled the flight.

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Obviously, didn't go quite as far but that's a very playable tempo for me even when I'm hitting

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into the greens where I want to control the spin or if I'm trying to keep it down.

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Now I'm going to try and jump to 85, which for most of the time was my playing tempo.

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So I've got this feel of 85%. Try to keep it all the way through the swing.

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And because I had gone from the 50%, I felt that I got a little slow in transition and then

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quick during the release but it didn't have that same 85% throughout feel. Again, doesn't necessarily

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mean that I had a mechanical issue even though I had a mechanical flaw. There's more of a tempo

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flaw where I thought process for flaw. So now I'm going to try to do that 85% again.

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Actually, I'm going to today it feels like 85 is a little fast so I'm going to throw it back to

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even 80.

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Hit that just the touch thing. We'll do one more 80% oftentimes when I do full swings, my left arm

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actually hits this microphone and it can disrupt my timing. So I'm going to try to anticipate hitting

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the microphone and I'm going to try to keep my 80%. So that was pretty good. That's pretty close to

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where I'd want my playing tempo. Now what I can do is I can hit a variety of different clubs trying

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to recreate the same tempo throughout the bag. And I may find that for certain shots like go around

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the green or maybe my distance wedges I do better with a lower tempo. When I get to my driver

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in three wood I may be do better with a little longer but tempo is one of those great playing

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feels that helps unify a lot of mechanics into something that ties everything together into one

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hole which is great for performing under pressure.