
You can swing faster or slower, but with the same rhythm. The tempo (swing speed) of your golf swing is its overall pace. Then let that natural acceleration, accompanied by an unforced body turn, get the club moving at the requisite speed. Let the first movement down with your hands be gravity-fed. You might actually have to slow down your swing to get your rhythm right. To the contrary, most recreational golfers get back to the ball before that fifth beat. It might seem that you have to rush to get the club down to the ball in such a short time. I completed the phrase to let it sound right. The next three ascending notes comprise the backswing (B). The waltz, in a simplified version, begins with a pick-up note, which is the takeaway (T) in the golf swing. It is the Blue Danube waltz, suggested for this purpose by Percy Boomer in his essential book, On Learning Golf.
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The musical example below shows you how to achieve it. Rhythm is the expression of clubhead acceleration from takeaway to impact. Nothing else makes sense until you get them right. Rhythm and tempo is the glue that holds your swing together. Swing slowly enough so none of it “disappears” I am convinced, though, that if you master these six fundamentals, many of the swing problems you now have will be eliminated, and better golf will be yours. There are more things to pay attention to than I present here. Any blank spots that remain for you may be considered as the starting point of your own exploration. What I have done is give you enough of a start so that if you have an adaptive imagination and sufficient body awareness, you can interpret the text in the way it was intended. I felt the more words I used, the more different directions readers might take a simple idea. I made the descriptions of each fundamental brief. The purpose of this guide is to take the swing you have and modify it in a positive way.

This is not a guide to building a swing from the ground up. Secondly, I assume you’ve had a few swing lessons and have a basic idea of what it is you’re doing, or at least trying to do. My earlier book, Better Recreational Golf, covers these matters in easy-to-understand detail. If that’s not the case, please fix them, because you won’t get very far until you do. First, that your pre-swing fundamentals (grip, stance, posture, aim, ball position) are sound - especially your grip. I make two assumptions about you, the reader of this guide. My contribution is to identify key swing principles that have a long history of success, and organize them into a coordinated, interactive set. You can read about all of them in many other places. They are easy to learn and perform, and can be put into any recreational golfer’s swing. I believe these fundamentals will be as beneficial to you as they are to me. I organized these changes into six fundamentals: two that govern the entire swing, and four that govern the swing at certain critical points. I found that even if I took a week off from swinging a golf club, I had only to review a few basic principles and my swing would be right back where it was. I began to hit the ball straighter than I ever had, and more often, and shoot lower scores. Where in 2013 I could barely play nine holes, I could now play eighteen and feel no ill effects. In spring of 2014, everything I was working on fell into place.


Starting in late 2012, and all through 2013, I experimented to find a swing that was efficient, and easy on my back. I could no longer swing the club in a way that put excessive strain on my back.

Among other changes in my life, I had to change the way I played golf or else give up the game. In early 2012, I had two back surgeries to correct severe nerve compression. Six Fundamentals of the Recreational Golf Swing
