I have to say that you should have a solid swing before you use the Tour Tempo. But if you have fairly good mechanics the tour tempo can help you focus on your Tempo, rather then the 20 Point check list a proper swing should have.

The first time I used it during an entire round I shot my personal best. I was very surprised how much it helped with every club, especially my drives and putts.

Hopefully after a half dozen rounds using this tool I will have the Tempos of each swing embedded in my brain. But if not, I have no problem wearing the Tour Tempo indefinetly.

Hope my opinion helps!

Thanks for dropping by and for the positive comments on the review.

Great news on the new product! Drop me an email at sean at deeprough.com and I’ll send you the mailing address.

Thanks,
-Sean

Just wanted to say thanks for the review, I think you made a very fair and accurate description of the Player. Well done.

Hey, I also wanted to give you a heads up about our new product coming out this summer. We are really excited.

Please give me your mailing address and I will send you one as soon as we release it.

Thanks,

Scott, the younger brother of Jr. I am gonna try and outdrive him this summer in the remax!

Thanks for the feedback. The SSRTT certainly would be a tough thing to use by itself in terms of perfecting your swing tempo. Swinging..then looking down at the number…that process is far too slow to use to improve your tempo alone. Listening to the tempo tones is a lot more intuitive, for me at least.

As for times. I listen to the 24/7 times on the tour tempo player/cd. That equates to something around 1.15-1.2 on the SSRTT. When I stuck in that range, my swing speeds were in the 110-115 range. When I’d ‘swing hard’…and throw my tempo off, it would be around 0.85-0.9. Quick backswing, violent move back to the ball, no smooth acceleration…which all adds up to a slow swing that doesn’t come square to the ball either. That’s my ‘bad swing’. Unfortunately, those numbers (0.9…1.2) do not tell the entire story. You could be very slow in the back swing, and very quick to the ball…or ver quick in the back swing and very slow to the ball, and come up with very similar numbers. If you watch those tour tempo videos, their ‘test subjects’ all seemed to suffer from being ‘too slow’. I think the SSRTT (assuming you do not set it off with your waggle) could be a good way of confirming that your swing time is consistent, if you use it in tandem with the Tour Tempo system or SwingTempo.

Thanks again for the comment Jay, good luck, and let me know how you make out with the book, I think you’ll enjoy it!

-Sean

It would be interesting for myself and the other readers to know what tempo time numbers values were you getting on the SSRTT when you were swinging 95 mph and trying to kill the ball versus 110 – 115 and swinging smoothly.

Nice to hear your wife is enjoying the Tour Tempo Player as well. I can definitely see how it could help just about any golfer.

-Sean

My wife lives and breaths with the Tour Tempo. Needless to say it has improved her distance and control of the ball since she started getting the rhythm of the swing.

A PGA Caddy told me about the device and I told her about it and she has had it now for about six months…has two, one in each bag…Guess I can say the thing works.