Hey RhodyGolfers, there is a real treat for us.We have Ben Jackson for you from The Golf Pavilion located in Hopkinton, Rhode Island.

Ben is one of the few instructors fluent in how tempo or timing can help improve your golf game. I am a believer, as I have worked with Ben a few times in the past, and I now work tempo practice into all of my sessions.

Read below how Ben has helped many students with their timing.

If you want to learn more about Ben, or schedule an appointment with him check out his website at http://www.benjacksongolf.com/.

Three little words are key to golf improvement.

Well, it's not exactly the words, but the timing of them that will make you a better player. Timing may not be everything, but it is the most important fundamental not only in golf, but in sport.

What good are good skills without efficient timing? Timing has always been something talked about, but never quantified. How was someone supposed to learn efficient timing when timing was misunderstood?

That's no longer the case. Our study leading up to the benchmark book, TOUR TEMPO, Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed, written by my friend John Novosel, proved that timing is not only measurable, but also learnable.

We have shown timing to be the master fundamental because it bonds the other fundamentals together into an effective whole motion. Timing has two aspects, tempo and rhythm.

Tempo is elapsed time from startup to impact. Tour players are faster than others and always have been.

Rhythm is the ratio between backswing and forward swing within that elapsed time.

Tour players swing at a 3 to 1 ratio. Ernie Els isn't slow. No one flies a golf ball 300 yards by swinging slowly. He appears slow because of his fine rhythm his backswing takes three times longer than his forward swing to impact.

"Through" is impact. We react to Swing and Set, and match up with Through.

Typically, the player is faster, but because of the newly learned rhythm, the motion feels smoother, not faster.

We verify results using SSR / TT (Swing Speed Radar with Tempo Timing).

Ball response shows immediate improvement, longer, and straighter with better trajectory. Improvement is all at once, too, rather than piecemeal. Consistency is nothing more than repeating the same effective time frame.

Worthwhile instruction must be presented in ways that promote efficient timing, not destroy existing timing. Your best shots have always been those resulting from your best timed swings, even if performed at random, by pure chance.

The agonizing thing to me about traditional golf instruction is that the way it's presented jeopardizes the timing of a player whose timing is already slow, out of rhythm, or both, thus inconsistent. Any instruction that doesn't enhance timing is probably detrimental.