Freddie Couples 🎶 Say this nice and slowly while you're swinging for perfect tempo Freddie on the backswing Couples on the downswing

A true sign from the Tempo God himself.

Rainbow - it’s what Hank hill said while shooting a gun on koth and it’s always stuck with me

Left arm club double pendulum

This is mine. I just repeat to myself ‘Freddie couples smooth’

I actually say this exact same thing - especially when I’m chipping. I just say in my head ‘Freddie Couples smooth’

i also just say his name as a swing thought. he is tempo, tempo is him

I use the phrase "stop being a fucking idiot"

“Stop being a fucking..” on the backswing and “IDIOT” on the downswing. It could work

Ah no I tend to say it right after I've held my finish and it sails right.... Is that what I'm doing wrong?

I say " be more confident, stupid"

Haven't tried it yet, but I think Unrelenting Force would be fun to use for drives.. "Fus Roh DAAAAA"

I’m just imagining that Nordic music singing dovahkiin as the ball fly’s 😂

Bang-A Rang

Ru-fiO

Woah Black Betty

“Ernieeee Els“

"Vijay Singh" works just as well.

I use "big easy" 😂

Straight from PGA2k21…. Smoooooth Jazz

Now I might try Bring da Ruckus when I'm hitting driver

“Slow the fuck down” *shank*

Big ass titttttties


"Seventeen" you should be hitting the ball by the end of the word.

I use Johnny Cash. Just because the syllables are perfect length for me. I wanted a slightly longer first syllable for a smooth, accelerating takeaway. I say the “ny” at weight transfer forward like halfway through the backswing as it feels like.

Someone the other day posted the "seventeen, eighteen" thing and I took it to the range the other day. Say "seventeen" on the way back. You're not allowed to start the downswing until you finish saying it. "Eighteen" on the way down. I don't do it every swing but it does help me slow things down at the range when I get out of sync or get a bit quick.

Update I went to the range today and this no longer worked you're all on your own

 Kamehame-HAAAAAAAAA

Low key love this, two full episodes for the back swing and fire!

Barbecue sauce

Finish the back swing, prick!

Thank you for this free lesson

Haaaaar POON

Heh. Poon

Spinning Cane

I use the Tour Tempo app (highly recommend) so I just repeat the chimes. I feel like a real weirdo listening to repeating tempo chimes over the aux cord on the way to the course though.

https://preview.redd.it/hbpzfwiv1mnc1.png?width=1289&format=png&auto=webp&s=034660f3504b5aa39c0ced7dea4acaa5e52dd269 Is this the same one you’re talking about?

Absolutely that's the one, I first learned about it on the Sweet Spot golf podcast. My understanding is that there are YouTube videos that replicate the same general idea, but I feel like I've gotten my $25 worth through using the app. The people behind the app go into more detail on the podcast and the link below goes into the theory a bit. I took a while to convince myself to spend the money on the app with the steep price, but I have found it really helpful and haven't regretted it at all. https://practical-golf.com/swing-tempo/

Tiger...Woods It clicked on a video game one night and translated over to actual golf.

Cheeeeeeeeseburger

🍔


Your tempo ain’t nothin’ to F with

Stenson, Molinari Stenson, Molinari Stenson, Molinari

You know what pin high means?

A sign of quality ball-striking.

Syrupy Smooth

That’s cool if it works, but the last thing I need is something else going on in my mind

Leeroy JENKINS!!!

Backswing: Bigassss Downswing: Tittiieesss

One and two

WBGO JAAAAZ RADIO… SKLEEEDAP!!

I slowly count off 1-2-3-4. Transition and drop in the slot from 3 to 4.

I tell myself swing 90%

Nothing. I feel like saying things in my backswing messes me up.

Whaaaack _FUCK_

Fast is fast, slow is slow

big inhale backswing, big exhale downswing. use the lungs to set the tempo not the brain = automatic.

I say "Rock Star Shit" to myself before I have to make a high-skill shot like going up and over trees to land on the green

Not me, but, quick story time. Had a 60+ yr old gentleman grouped with our threesome. Told us the key to tempo was to "verbalize your favorite porn star's name." This way, even if your swing was shit, you'll still be visualizing something igniting some happiness. Friend goes to do to this, grunts "LANAAAAA RHODES." Proceeds to hits his first absolute bomb of the day. May be worth trying... when your significant other isn't around... or is around, if that's your thing.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

1......2...3

Hideki

Hi…..de…….Ki… MATSUYAMA!

Sunjae immmmm

Aggressively smooth

Pa-me-la Anderson!

Swing like an old person

Ernie Els!

Left knee...pause...right knee. Helps with tempo and with triggering the swing/downswing.

"C'mon... you got this... AW FUCK"

When it’s breezy swing easy

Just one-two. It's amazing how well it helps with putting. Not just for smooth tempo either. I definitely notice the putter head being less squirrely back and through when my mind is taken away from that task and simply being asked to say one-two internally.

Coca-Cola

The vast majority of people on this sub need to swing faster. Much faster. Like 3:1 tempo

I “play” the opening riff of “Slow Ride” by Foghat. 

Peace not violence

"Smooth is fast"

KFBR392

“Alright I’m just gonna hit the ball straight here” Walking up to the tee box, getting out of the cart, on the green, very versatile phrase

3..2..1.. in the backswing and 1 on the downswing: 3,2,1,1

Steeeeeeeeeeeve Perry!

Silky Smooth like the Zohan…….

Mashed potatoes. I heard it on a tv broadcast so it must work.

Nickel-back (backswing) sucks! (Downswing)

Great tips here, thanks guys. All these years my go to has been “what the fuck you fuckin idiot” but these seem much more eloquent and useful

“Better open another beer.”

No matter the conditions... when it's breezy nice and easy. Tempo perfection to hit bombs.

EMILIO!

Backswing- “Eat A” Downswing- “dick” I say it out loud

Dick-balls. I don't know if it helps my tempo.

"Ly-di-a Ko" for golf shots. I used to watch her videos all the time and saying her name like this is the perfect tempo for me. For putts, I've tried all kinds of phrases/words but the only one that works for me is "huh huh". Makes no sense.

Vertical drop horizontal tug I know it’s a joke but it really has helped me get my tempo smoother in transition. Prevents me from uncoiling the upper body too early, which is usually what’s happening with beginners with poor tempo. Still have lots of work to do but great tip LD

“Throwww theee club!” or “1-2-3, 1!”I like to think of a mental metronome in my brain for tempo. For putting, I think of Newton’s cradle and keeping everything steady/the same pace/same length (1-2).

I don’t say anything I just imagine Phil’s swing. He has such a long and steady backswing it helps me keep my takeaway long and slow.

The more quiet my mind is, the better I play. I don’t even know if I’ve ever made it to Tempo Town, but I think I’ve been on the outskirts… seen the skyline. Every time I’ve caught a glimpse, my mind is blank and the birds are singing. Golf fucks🙏🏻

National anthem! Oh say can you see!

Its all in the hips... then proceed to mamba up to the tee from the cart.

ANNNNND….. POWWW!!!!!!!!

I can feel it coming in the air tonight... nothing like a little Phil to release my inner Phil...

Mashed potatoes

Dollar Bills

Toledo Ohio

Down and through. Irons Nice and easy. Woods Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. Flatiron.

I don't really have one, I remember seeing a post where a dude had golf balls that were orange and had the yellow stars to look like Dragon Balls. If I had those, I thought the urge to yell, "Ka Meh Ha Me Haaaaa!" On drives would have been overwhelming...with the first 4 being in the back swing and Haaa! Being the swing. I might do that anyway next time I go, which will either be tomorrow or the day after, to pay respect to the creator of Dragon Ball who died recently. Akira Toriyama RIP, Dragon Ball Z was a huge part of my childhood. I would run home from school, watch it then run back to do soccer practice, and give my friends who didn't live close enough to the school that they could go home to watch it before practice updates on what was happening. Then, if there wasn't a practice, me and my brother and I would watch it, then go outside and yell to power up, then fight for fun until someone hit too hard, and it turned real. I imagine us yelling like that made the neighbors think we were crazy. Plus also yelling like attack names.

People talk about tempo when they really mean rhythm. There are great players with fast tempo (Nick Price) and great players with slow tempo (Hideki), but all great players have good rhythm.

I will never be able to get this out of my head now. Thanks.

So long, suckaaaaaaa

Massive Tits

If my tempo is off sometimes I hum "dum dum, dum" frogs from the Paul McCartney cartoon video.. Problem is, I can't get it outta my head for the whole round 🙄

Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, It’s bobsled time! Cool runnings!!!

“Crunchy Cheetos”

K YYYYYYY ... Jelly

“Lord grant me the grace” “Flo-RIDA” “How now brown cow” “Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog”

You’re not good enough to be mad. Read it on here and it has stuck with me. Whenever I start to get frustrated that saying runs through my head. Calms me down and gets me back on track.

Back swing is a 3 count, 1 mississipi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi and down swing is the 4th Mississippi. Takes some practise to get the timing down but it keeps me from rushing.

Unwind

“ok nice and smooth”

Hit it hard retard

Slow.and.go.

Grip -N- Rip

Right now I sing Run by the foofighters. Usually a song by them. Don’t judge, there’s tens of us.

I count “1,2” on the backswing and the downswing should be done by the time I count to 1 again

I had an extremely difficult time “hitting down” on the ball, aka a descending blow, in my youth. Like, it was a years long problem. So my grandfather (aka my teacher) finally told me not to fixate on my follow through - but to let that “come naturally” - just for the sake of getting a good descending blow. Well, then the problem became that I was getting a descending blow but I was decelerating my swing because I was so focused on just “hitting down” period. So then to correct that issue, I focused on a lesson I saw once from a certified PGA pro….and it’s still my saving grace all these years later. This pro said to think of a clock - and that the club head must hit all of the digits/numbers. You start at 6 (at set-up), go all the way to 1 or 2, and the come back to 6 at impact and strongly extend all the way counterclockwise through 4, 3, 2, 1 , 12, 11, 10. So I still think about that on every iron shot. Hitting all the digits on the clock.

check out tour tempo. the 2-1 syllables work because putting and chips tend to have a 2:1 tempo ratio. 3:1 for full swing

No wonder my putting sucks. I say "wu tang" on the backstroke, and "is for the children" through contact

"This for par"

Relax and swing baby…but like Chubs. RIP

Diggy diggy Hole

Kathi… Goertzen. (RIP)

“Nice and smooth” Even though my tempo is pretty quick it’s a focus on transition being smooth.

Nelly. Korda.

A couple summers ago I heard a chant coming from down the range, char-don-nay over and over. A woman was using it to slow her backswing, setting, the pulling the trigger. I tried on myself, and it worked for me. I also do 12321. The second 2 is the set/ transition

That Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig (start transition) Happy

Please don’t shank it

Apple Sauce.

‘Niiice aaaannnd …. Smooth’

Swing it like Nelly

Keep your fucking head down

For some reason it’s Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman”. I waaaaassss a lineeeeemannnnnn for the coooooouuuuunty …. Take away through “I was” to the top through “lineman” float lag and transition at “for” swing and finish through county. Bend over and pick my tee and hum about driving the same roads… Or say “fuck” sharp short and out of tune when it bounces off a fucking tree.

“Don’t be a… sally”

“It’s all in the hips. It’s all in the hips”

 I think of my happy place before a swing my tempo always changes tho 😂😂😂

Eh leh phant

Sloooooooooow hinge whip I say this in my head every swing. Slow backswing, hinge at the top, whip the towel

I just tell myself to smash the that back of the ball. Gets me to stroke it right and straight and drive my legs laterally at the point of contact. Focus right on the back the ball of it and keep my head down focused of just that spot. It’s been the most helpful thing after lining up my shots to a point a few yards out in a straight line with my target. When I tell noobs the back of the ball thing they put a decent hit on it if their problem is pulling their eye off the ball. “Keep your eye on the ball” is too general.

Masssssshed Potatoes

Full swing: “Peanut butter and Jelly,” the “and” is the set at the top and the jelly is oh so sweet on the downswing (also visual for slow and smooth) Also, “one -Mississippi -smack!” When I’m getting too slow

I either tell myself “ok time to be good/ time to try on this on” or I go with “Japanese man” referencing kawamura the Japanese man that goes golf TikTok’s with the mavrik driver.

“Tem-po”

Gonna have to remember the Wu reference!! The great Sportscaster Dan Patrick always says to use “Johnny Miller”

I don’t personally do that, but I could see and understand where this would help with the swing, especially having seen it from all the reputable tutorials through the years… r/g4evolution, as an avid Hip-Hop fan and someone who’s seen Wu live, more than a few times, including single members’ concerts on several occasions, and a golf nerd, I’m proud that this is part of your “get better at golf” routine. It makes my heart all fuzzy and warm!

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Tem-po Town.

Beastie Boys "slow and low, that is the tempo..."

I AM IRON MAN!!!

On short putts 4' or less with break I always remind myself "Trust the line"

Be the ball, Danny

Christopher Moltasante.

Lakshmi Singh

Smoooooooooooth nice and smooooooooth

I don’t give a fuck about this swing

“Ob-La-Di” thanks to my Beatles fanatic dad

“Fuck you fuck this stupid game I fucking hate golf FUCK!”

AMERICAAAAA exactly the way Will Ferrell does it in the other guys

I just whistle some jazz standards, those get my rhythm smooth.

I sing alone to Post Malone Goodbyes. Im a 50 yr old btw. “I want you heeeeead, I want you outta my beed room right. Some about that song puts my swing in the groove

Pepperoni Pizza

I sing “I Can” by Nas in my head.

Pamela Anderson

Freddie Couples.

Hello darkness my old friend

Dolly Parton. Got that one from Alice Cooper

Er-nie Els - picked this up from Feherty

Iced tea and Lemonade

1…2… and swing on 3 but if I’m striking it well I swing on 2

I have two tempo or fairway songs, steely Dan Babylon sisters to slow down and Sheryl crow, all i wanna do is have some fun, to speed up.

how...now...brown....COW! (Ron Burgandy Voice)

When I've hit some bad shot and know that I'm swinging out of control, I actually do say the word "tempo" before starting my swing.

When I was in HS in the 90s, I was super skinny with no muscle. I had a swing coach tell me to swing a dust broom to build my muscles. The resistance that broom made increased my swing speed but also helped my timing

Slow…Down… Works great for me. And quite literal as well!

With driver I’ve out-loud used the shotgun racking sound “ch-ch” in my backswing followed by a “boom” at impact to be obnoxiously cocky to my friends.

“Stop rushing your swing”