Timing a Golf Shot

Video Transcript

"Okay, now there's a thing about rhythm and tempo in your pre-shot routine which are all interconnected. So when I was working with this one coach, he showed me something that was really important and it was that your shot should always take you about the same amount of time. So you're almost like a machine at that point, or if you've ever seen a metronome on a piano. So it's always the same amount of time. So for me it was about thirteen seconds that I would get behind the ball, I'd walk around it a little bit, I'd throw the grass, I then take the target line with my club, line it up properly, then I'd step up in, then I would waggle, I might look at the target one more time, and then I swing. So every time I did that, he would time me, and as I got better and better, the time would virtually be identical every time. So when you watch pros on, on t.v., they do all this pre-shot routine. They step in. You can stop watch it. It's always the same, it's always the same. Because once you get really good, you're going to have to have the same time. You can't take thirty seconds one time and twenty seconds another. You'll be so out of rhythm that your shots will be terrible. So as you get better and better, try working on it and timing yourself and then you'll see that as you get better, the times get the same, and the same, and the same, and the same until virtually one swing is identical to the other."