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Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed (精装)
by John Novosel with John Garrity
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The discovery of Tour Tempo theory proved what Golf for Women Magazine calls the "Swing Secret no one has ever told you." |
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Lynn Ketchum (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I have been playing golf for 50 years and during that span of time I have had over 200 private lessons and attended four national golf schools, but I have not found anything that gets results like the Tour Tempo system. I had a 20-year problem of "coming over the top" and pulling my shots. With John Novosel’s system, I cured that 20-year problem and am finally hitting the ball consistently straight! |
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Shawna Bajich (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
After working with John Novosel for only one hour, my swing speed went from 84 mph to 104 mph. My drives on the course started going 40 yards farther; my dad couldn’t believe it, I was out-driving him by 20 yards!” |
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Rob Jonas (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Before I met John Novosel, everything I did just added more thoughts to my swing - and the more thoughts I added, the worse the results I got. What I like about his program is that it reduces the swing thoughts while increasing the results. Within one week after starting with John, I increased my clubhead speed by 20 mph and started hitting the best shots of my life. It’s just made a monstrous difference in my game! |
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Tom Yazzie (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I am 48 years old and have been playing golf since I was 40 years old. I have taken lessons from 2 different golf pro's. I have many books on golf, The 7 Laws of the Golf Swing, How I play golf, Perfect Impact books and videos, Gravity Golf book and videos, Swing like a Pro, The Nine Bad Shots of Golf and What to Do about Them, Little Red Book, Power Golf and so on. I love playing golf and I am not a bad player. I play the ball where it lies, I never ever massage my ball around and say "Winter Rules". I've played golf in Hawaii, Minnesota, Florida, California, New Mexico, Mazatlan. I score in the mid 80's. Shot 76 once, I drive the ball about 205 to 215 yards. I know that a lot of people say it that all? But most people don't drive the ball very far. If you ever get the chance to see a PGA golf tournament in person, you will see just how far 300 yard drives are. Well now let me get to the Tour Tempo book... I read the whole book, then went to the driving range with my portable CD player with the Tempo CD. I listened to the beeps and worked on my swing just like the book says to do. The results are simply amazing. I usually hit my pitching wedge 100 yards to a mound that is 100 yards away. I warmed up with my old tempo and was landing my ball right on the mound, no problem. Then I plugged in the CD and started my new tempo. I was flying the ball straight over the mound, it was so easy to do. I was now hitting my pitching wedge 125 yards. I own a Sky Caddie which uses a GPS signal to measure your exact yardage. Well remember I said I use to drive my ball 205-215 yards? And yes I used the Sky Caddie to record that... Well not anymore!! I went out last weekend and was driving the ball 265-275 yards. And those measurements were on flat fairways no wind. My golf buddies are saying WOW you are killing it. They looked at my clubs, they looked at the ball, they couldn't figure it out. This is by far the best book on golf that I've ever come across. If you want to smoke it past your playing partners, reach par 5's in two. This book is the ticket. I am not going to tell my golf buddies about this book because I my kicking their tails and winning is GOOD! |
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Bobby Miller (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
When I worked as the golf professional on Holland America's ms Westerdam, I told our guests that I saw the game of golf as four- dimensional: attitude, set-up, swing and course management. And I don't care if you are a tour player or a beginner, the very first thing that you take out of your bag had better be a good attitude, or you lose.
Interested in longer, straighter drives? That's not a silly question. At least from my vantage point it's not. If there's two clubs in your bag that require "tempo", it's the driver and putter. "Tempo is the speed of your swing-timing is the sequence of motion." Al Geiberger
I'm not sure what purpose it would serve for me to pick through this book for those things I believe would help you since every sentence after the introduction is a building block to better power and distance. But since we're both here, I will share with you a true story about a guy named Terry - he's a nineteen handicap, well he was a nineteen. No one I've ever met had worked harder to develop a golf swing than Terry. But nineteen he was and nineteen he most likely would have stayed if this book hadn't came along. I had given up on being able to help Terry. Somehow the information in this book and this guy's psyche clicked. I don't know if he's swinging slower, faster or at the same speed he had always swung. What I do know is that he's now a solid nine and beating the pants off the guys who used to give him strokes.
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Jared Willerson (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I, having played golf for 3 1/2 years and working diligently on my game had gotten my handicap into single digits. I was always inconsistent, never really being able to piece together a string of good rounds. I would hit balls at the driving range, my backyard, and work on my swing any spare second that I had.
I have read 2 golf books in my life, Manuel de la Torre's Understanding the Golf Swing, which brought about marked improvement in my game and now John Novosel's Tour Tempo. This was the missing ingredient that tied everything else together. I was shocked and amazed, I could not believe I was hitting the ball that crisply. I got this book in Mid-January, and since I am a basketball coach, I had not played golf since Christmas break, after working with Tour Tempo for about 5 weeks, I played a round of golf in February and shot 79. This was amazing to me, because normally to get to that level, I would have had to play and practice everyday and "peak out" at that level in the summer.
Needless to say, Tour Tempo helped me tie all of the other swing mechanics together. I believe this book will help everyone who struggles with consistency, because using the Tour Tempo tracks makes you practice consistently. |
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Jeffrey Peshut (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Kudos to John Novosel and John Garrity for providing golfers with empirical proof of the ideas first expressed by Ernest Jones in Swinging into Golf (Robert M. Mc Bride & Company, 1946) and later refined by C. A. Macey in Golf through Rhythm (C.A. Macey, Crowborough Golf Club, 1957), Robert Winthrop Adams in Timing Your Golf Swing (The Citadel Press, 1957) and me in Golf's Timeless Fundamental (ICS Books, 1997). In Tour Tempo, Novosel and Garrity have confirmed my proposition that there is but one Golf Swing Rhythm for every club and every swing. Their research also confirms that unlike the Golf Swing Rhythm, which is universal, "Golf Swing Tempo" varies from person to person based upon size and build.
Unfortunately, like many without a musical background, Novosel and Garrity confuse the terms "tempo" and "rhythm", using them interchangeably when in fact they have two very separate and distinct meanings. Tempo refers to the overall speed of the swing or how long it takes to go from the swing's start to finish. Rhythm, on the other hand, refers to how the total time of the swing is apportioned among the various parts of the swing. Thus, Novosel and Garrity would have been more accurate if they had titled their book Tour Rhythm or Tour Tempos instead of Tour Tempo. After all, as their book suggests, there is only one rhythm whereas there are many tempos.
I would have also liked them to explain the concepts of tempo and rhythm in the context of the full swing and not just the backswing and downswing through impact. Again, this would make their work more complete, accurate and easier to understand.
That said, I highly recommend Tour Tempo and commend Novosel and Garrity for making a significant contribution to the body of work in this area of golf.
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John Newport (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
If you've ever wandered out to the range at a PGA Tour event to watch the pros practice, you were probably less impressed by how far they hit the ball (you already knew they were long) than by the smooth, leisurely tempos on display up and down the line. Compared with the quick-jerk artists at your neighborhood range, the best players in the world seem to swing in slow motion. But the truth is that they are completing their swings much faster than it seems. If you were to start your take-away at the same instant that a languid-swinging pro like David Toms started his, in all likelihood you'd still be lost somewhere in your backswing by the time Toms made contact. Moreover, your swing almost certainly would look rushed while Toms's swing would look like it always does, smooth and easy.
What the top pros have that you, I and the quick-jerk range rats don't is perfect tempo. And now, thanks to the work of John Novosel, a businessman, inventor and golf enthusiast from Leawood, Kansas, we know a lot more about what constitutes perfect tempo than we used to. Novosel closely analyzed video of most of the world's greatest golfers, both past and present, and discovered that virtually all of them executed their swings, from take-away to impact, within a very small window of time, from .93 seconds to 1.2 seconds. He also discovered that nearly all accomplished golfers have a precise, identical rhythm: three beats back, one beat down. Novosel then devised a way for average golfers to approximate the tempo of a pro swing by hitting balls while listening to tones through a headset and watched in amazement as their shots improved instantly and dramatically-without any attention whatsoever to wrist cock, hip turn, swing path or the countless other mechanical issues that are the bane and substance of traditional instruction. This improvement happened essentially, Novosel came to realize, because once the tempo is right, there isn't any time left over for the club to do all the crazy, inefficient things it usually does during bad swings, like pause, hitch, wander around in loops and come over the top.
Novosel has compiled the results of his research and offers an instructional program (see below) based on his findings in a compelling new book, Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed, cowritten with John Garrity, due out this spring. In Novosel's view, good tempo ought to be viewed as a bedrock fundamental of the golf swing that helps produce good mechanics, rather than something tacked on as a kind of extra once a player has supposedly mastered the mechanics. "The old paradigm of teaching club, hand and body positions at every conceivable point in the swing doesn't work very well," Novosel said. "There's really no good way for a player to incorporate all that information during a swing that lasts just a second and while the player is moving the club at a hundred miles an hour." He doesn't contend that mechanics are irrelevant, only that beyond a certain point, teaching them in the traditional manner is unnecessary and even counterproductive. People learn faster and better, he argues, by focusing on tempo to get the feel of an effective, powerful swing and letting the body figure out the rest by itself.
Like many discoveries, Novosel's insights into tempo occurred serendipitously. While editing video of LPGA star Jan Stephenson's swing for an infomercial, he happened to pay attention to the frame counter on his editing program. Broadcast video is shot at a rate of thirty frames per second (or roughly thirty-three thousandths of a second per frame), and Novosel noticed that Stephenson's tempo was exactly the same from swing to swing, no matter what club she was using: twenty-seven frames from take-away to the top, nine frames from the top back down to impact, for a total of thirty-six frames, or 1.2 seconds. Curious, he started examining the videotaped swings of other top pros. The fastest swingers, like Nick Price, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus, took twenty-one frames to reach the top of their backswings and seven frames back to impact, for twenty-eight frames total and .93 seconds total swing time. Another group, including Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Sam Snead, took twenty-four frames back and eight frames down, for 1.02 seconds total swing time. And a third group, including Bobby Jones, David Toms and Jim Furyk, swung consistently at a 27:9 tempo. Of the more than one hundred pros whose swings Novosel studied, only one-Ed Furgol, the 1954 U.S. Open champion-swung faster than 21:7 (he swung at 18:6), and only a handful swung slower, including Nancy Lopez in her prime (30:10). But always, the three-to-one time ratio of backswing to downswing was identical.
The only time the swings of the best players in the world diverged from this ratio was when they hit bad shots. For example, Novosel's analysis of a badly pulled drive by Phil Mickelson revealed a tempo of 3.5 to one. Amateurs, on the other hand, were consistent only in being all over the lot. Some swings that Novosel recorded took as long as three full seconds to complete. Ratios ranged from solid, quick three-to-ones for certain low handicappers to good rhythms but slow and weak three-to-ones for others (33:11) to highly erratic for most (26:11, 44:11, 66:11).
The audio files that Novosel created for players to listen to while swinging (through MP3 player or CD Walkman-type devices) come with his book in the three main, pro-quality tempos: 21:7, 24:8 and 27:9. The three-tone sequences can be played in endless loops, allowing golfers to initiate the swing whenever they are ready. Novosel directs his students to initiate the take-away in reaction to the first tone, initiate the transition between backswing and downswing in reaction to the second, and synchronize the moment of impact to the final tone. "Almost always the first reaction I get is, 'Whoa! That's impossibly fast. I could never swing that quickly,'" he said. But usually it takes only ten minutes for novices to get into the groove. Most start out with the slower, 27:9 sequence and then experiment with the 24:8 and 21:7 versions to see which they feel most comfortable with.
The results are often dramatic. A video CD accompanying Novosel's book shows the before-and-after experiences of a half-dozen players. Typical is Bruce Provo, a nine-handicapper. His form improved, his backswing significantly shortened and his five-iron clubhead speed shot from 79 m.p.h. to 99 m.p.h. after just twenty minutes of work. Our experiences hitting balls with the Tour Tempo tones, although not so transformative, were highly satisfying. When our timing was in sync with the tones, our shots were invariably straight and long; when our timing was off, so were our shots. After just a few minutes on the range with the tones, our focus over the ball shifted almost completely from mechanical considerations (taking the clubhead back on line, stopping the backswing before parallel, etcetera) to getting the timing right. Novosel said this is typical and transfers easily to the golf course.
"The purpose of the Tour Tempo audio tracks is to internalize the intrinsic tempo of the golf swing in your subconscious mind," he said. "If you are a low to mid handicapper with reasonably sound swing fundamentals, you can basically forget about mechanics once that happens. Out on the course, you won't have to worry about what starts your backswing, where you are at the top or what triggers your forward swing. Those things will happen reflexively, as they do in the swings of the pros." Novosel recommends practicing frequently with the tones to reinforce the rhythm, but never for longer than you can pay full attention to them. Five-minute sessions in the backyard or during warm-ups at the range are often all it takes to stay in tune, he says.
For experienced players without sound mechanics, Novosel teaches two simple mechanical drills designed to get your swing off to the right start. He believes that in most cases these drills, combined with practicing to the tones, will eventually get most golfers to the point where good tempo and instincts can profitably take over. For those who want more-personalized tempo training, Novosel is schooling instructors around the country to use the Tour Tempo system, and he himself is available for lessons in Kansas City, Kansas.
PRO TEMPO
With uncanny consistency, the best golfers in the world hit the ball using a 3:1 time ratio of backswing to downswing. In the videos John Novosel studied, a large group of pros, including Tiger Woods, took twenty-four frames to reach the top of their swings and another eight to make impact. Most other pros swung at ratios of 21:7 or 27:9.
THE "Y" DRILL
Even the best tempo will not produce great shots if your mechanics are dreadful. But Novosel believes that tempo training combined with two fundamental drills (developed with the help of teaching pro John Rhodes of Fort Worth, Texas) can bring almost any golfer up to speed. In the "Y" drill, establish the shape of that letter with your arms and the club at address and try to maintain it (though it will collapse a bit) as you take the club back to waist high and then through to a short finish. The key is monitoring the club's position. At the end of the short backswing, the shaft should be parallel both to the line of flight and to the ground, and the clubface should be perpendicular to the ground. Start out slowly, without a ball, then hit balls, and finally synchronize with the Tour Tempo tones.
THE "L" DRILL
Work on the same club positions in this drill as in the "Y" drill, but add ninety degrees to the angle of the club, forming the letter "L" with your arms and club at the top, and make a longer finish. At the top of the backswing the shaft should be pointing straight down. Again, start slowly without a ball to master the correct positions, then progress to hitting balls and finally to synchronizing with the Tour Tempo tones.
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Alan Stewart (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I go to the Target World Challenge each December and would always play much better for a few days or weeks after the event, knowing that what I picked up from watching the big guys up close was a sense of their swing tempo. But that image would fade away over time and I would lose a clear picture of what the tempo was. I recently dropped my index from 10.5 to 6.4, doing so primarily through improving my swing rhythm or tempo. When my tempo was good I hit better shots and the resulting confidence spilled over into every aspect of my game, but I was unable to quantify what the good tempo was. So when I lost it, I had a hard time recapturing it.
This book and CD was exactly what I needed to bring more consistent performance to my game. Thanks to John Novosel and his Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed, we can know what defines a great swing tempo and have a means of setting it in place during our warm-up.
I play 9 holes at sunrise a couple of days a week before work and normally shoot +3 or +4. Usually a few early bogeys mar my round because it takes me a few holes to get my swing tempo right. This may sound hard to believe, but I got Tour Tempo a week ago and have shot even-par twice. Using the Tour Tempo audio files I set the right swing tempo in my head. This tempo applies to every club in my bag and every shot... including the putter. I have played 18 holes with four birdies and four bogeys and ten pars. With this book you can shave strokes off your score immediately for half the cost of a dozen quality golf balls.
Of course Tour Tempo will help you more if you have the fundamentals of a good swing in place to begin with. I already have a solid set-up and swing plane, so I could see the benefits of the Tour Tempo immediately. I suspect some of the people who do not find this material useful have other serious flaws in their swing that must be dealt with before the correct tempo yields a substantial improvement in their game.
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G. Jackson (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I found that the Tour Tempo book and CD really do work! Following the instructions in this book really has helped me strike the golf ball much more consistently, straighter, and definitely longer. I've been working on my golf swing with this technique for about 4 weeks now. It is not a magic cure-all, but it definitely does help - more than any book or swing aid I have tried in the 25 years I've been playing golf. For the first time in my life I now understand and "feel" what is really supposed to happen in the golf swing. I find that I do not have to think about positions and mechanics anymore. My biggest problem now is that I am going to have to buy a new driver with a stiff shaft. My old driver with a regular shaft is just too whippy and I spray my drives around too much. I went to a golf pro and had my "new swing" analyzed and I had increased my swing speed from 89 miles per hour to 102 miles per hour! Not bad for a 50 year old - hitting the ball farther and straighter than I ever have in my life! My scores have not improved much yet because I am having to adjust to my new yardages. I keep "air mailing" my approach shots over the greens!!! I've gained about 15 yards on each iron and am now reaching the par 5's in two. Most telling is that my old "over the top," pull-hook has disappeared! I had tried to eliminate that for years and couldn't until now. My only criticism of the product (the reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5) is that the wording of the book seemed a little confusing and not as clear as it should have been. But the secret is not the book--it is listening to the CD, finding your best swing speed and rhythm, and practicing it. The improvement is almost immediate. I recorded the CD on to my MP3 player and I listen to it on the driving range and on the course. My advice? Buy this product, give it an honest try, and then get ready to be amazed at how well you hit the ball. And one more thing: this just might give you that excuse you were needing to buy a new set of clubs. You'll need stiffer shafts! |
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