Hello I am Arthur DeBolt. We are going to talk a little bit now about balance, timing and tempo. To me, the most important part of golf is balance. If you have a good sense of balance, you should be able to play well. If you have a poor sense of balance, you cannot expect too much from yourself. So I am going to explain to you why balance is so important. For example, when I address the ball, and I am standing and leaning forward, I would like to have my balance against my toes at this point. My arm against my chest, marking the distance from the ball, I think perfect, with a little bit of weight on my toes. So when I shift, I want to shift and control my balance, as keeping my knees bent and my hip over my heel, so that my balance is a kind of feeling, a feeling that I have that says…it’s personally a rhythm of timing in me that says balance is an important part. I turn on to my right heel even more, and bringing it back, causing me to be in perfect balance to this point. If I am off balance at this point, I will be off balance when I approach the ball. Shifting to my left heel, I want to be sure that I keep my balance perfectly. So that when I attack the ball at this moment, I am going to attack the ball, and I am going to cause the club to come to the ball with perfect balance; because I must get myself on to my left heel, and turn around my left heel as if I were throwing a tether ball around this post. So I am going to give you the demonstration of balance. Perfect balance is the most important part everything that you do in the swing. You must have your body and your club at a certain place at a certain time. Each place has its timing set, so that if you are off in where your placement of your club is at any one time, you will lose the tempo that you have setup. Now tempo means how you fast you move through the ball. For example if I go… I am moving extremely fast. But if I move very slow, and make sure everything is in the proper place at the proper time, I can feel comfortable with myself; but you see it is up to you.
