 Right, welcome back to another episode of Testin' the Tips and trust me, this is a real good one that we've got coming up very shortly, a little nugget of information that quite honestly, I rab it on about quite a lot in my own videos but this week I am again gonna look at a tip from Alex Elliott-Golf where he looks at how we're gonna improve our driver. Never look back once you've got this little bit of information logged in your brain is how he describes the glue that holds it all together. So as the title suggests, we're gonna go from amateur to pro ball striking in just five minutes and how are we gonna do that and what are we gonna concentrate? Well, probably all the things that you would not perhaps expect because let's be honest, we concentrate on our grip, we talk about rotation, our hands at the top of the backswing, how we drive through on the inside, what happens through impact, all those different things but how often do we actually concentrate on the tempo of our golf swing? But the question is tempo is one thing, really what does it mean? And perhaps more importantly, how the heck do we practice tempo? What kind of drill can we bring into the game to our practice routine that helps out with tempo and ultimately what does that do and how is it gonna make us a better player? Well, the key elements and the most interesting bit for me is it will probably help you find the center of that club face just a little bit often and it means we perhaps have to slow down a little bit and here is how Alex explains we should consider doing that. So there are in fact three different methods we're gonna use to improve our tempo but just to note on why tempo is good. Well, we've all done the kind of erratic swinging and quite often the worse we start to play the game, the wilder we get in terms of our swing and how often does your game actually get better or get a little bit more wild and ultimately, like I said, controlling that club face is key and becoming a more efficient ball striker. Now, interestingly enough, this first tip from Alex comes from Nick Faldo, so it's gone from Nick Faldo to Alex Elliott to the average golfer. All the way down the food chain and he basically talks about splitting the swing rather up into three parts. The first one being to hip height, waist height if you like, in your backswing. That is one. Two is then where we go into the top of our backswing and then three is that follow through and down and it's a real counting exercise if you like in tempo and it becomes one, two, three. So, what we're looking to do is one to the top, so okay, one, two, three and hopefully what you'll see is a nice smooth rhythm in terms of my swing, one, two, three. Now, as we all know, the likelihood is what we do on a golf is one, two, three, and we're gone and we're chasing after the ball. The ball's gone nowhere and we've lost complete control. So let's see if we can adopt that first idea and concept counter three and see if we can get that ball down the middle of the fairway. Oh, a little bit out to the right in terms of the shot itself. I don't know that's down to alignment again. Oh, we've actually come out all right with a nice bounce while I was playing the med, a lot of the bounce into the bunker. The interesting thing is for me as well, I'm also adopting another tip that we took from Alex's videos and make sure you check out that one about where I position the driver in my stand to the driver head that is. I've got to say something about this one. This kind of counting one, two, three slightly throws me out. So I have to do very much silence in my head. You want to start to do that in the middle of the golf course anyway. But there's kind of a little bit, yeah, complicated in many ways. And I think there's other tips within these three. They're a little bit more successful for me on a personal level because hitting a golf ball and counting my head at the same time was proven to be a little bit too difficult. So that one leaked out a little bit to the right, but more than happy with, I think we found the club face in terms of the center of that club face. And it went down there, but the second one, and perhaps my favorite really, it's another tip from Nick Faldo. And I like this because what we're essentially looking to do is we're changing our mindset. If you were asked to try and hit your drive at just 150 yards down the middle of the fairway, what would happen? Well, the first thing you would do is you would literally take, I don't know, maybe 60% out of your swing in terms of speed. Now if I told you to do that and try and hit the ball down the middle, which is what I'm going to do now, I'm going to attempt to hit this almost as short as I possibly can. So just 150 yards is all I'm trying to do in my head. Today's video is brought to you in association with channel Travel Partner Glencore Golf. And this week, they've sent me out onto the Algarve in Portugal, where I will be playing three different golf courses, Quinta da Val, Quinta da Ria, and Quinta da Sima. And I will be staying in nearby Tvera at the Apeca Banas Resort. The hotel is a modern design with stunning rooms and balcony views to match. And this resort has an all-inclusive option. Pour yourself a beer, a glass of wine, and take the hassle out of golf trip planning. The nearby town of Tvera is just minutes away. Today's video is shot at Quinta da Val, which is quite simply a beautiful golf course in superb condition. And a clubhouse perfect for post-round drinks with a view. So if you want more information about this golf trip itself or any other that you might be considering planning right now, then please head over to GlencoreGolf.com for some more booking information. Then the first thing it does is it slows my tempo way down. So I'm thinking, that's all I need, and if I do that, I'm going 150. Now what happens when I do it? Do I go 150? No, I don't. You go more like, I don't know what that's, well, it's still carrying in the air. It's probably finished very similar to other balls. Again, leaked out a little bit to the right-hand side and whether that's my alignment or not, I don't know. But what you can see is the quality of strike is really there. It's dead easy. I'd like to watch that back myself and just see how slow that swing is. But it's literally, I'm trying to hit it 150. I could've hit it 150 if I tried. And all I'm doing is letting the club head do the work and letting the swing gather momentum through the pace. And almost naturally and subconsciously, you will swing a little bit quicker than you expect to because you know you've got a long lever in terms of the length of shafts. So naturally it will start to gather in terms of natural club head speed. But what we're gaining is ball speed because hopefully we're finding the middle of the club base. Right, that's two down. We've got one to go. And this one is very, very simple but possibly also very, very effective. Right, third ball on the tee. By the way, I'm at Quinta de Val on the Algarve in Portugal. I'm here with Glencore Golf. What a stunning location. This is a 10th tee and I've got plenty of videos I've recorded from here and this place has been absolutely stunning. Right, I'm gonna try and set up a little bit more towards the bridge on this one because I'm definitely set up a little bit down the rise. What is it though, and well, dead easy. What you've got to do is swing that club as hard as you can in your first practice swing. Okay, so you walk to the ball, you literally give it all you can. So in a one to 10, that's a 10 out of 10. That's as fast as I'm gonna do without pulling a back muscle. The second swing I'm gonna do before I hit the ball is the slowest I can do in terms of one out of 10. Okay, so I've gone from the fastest I can do and then I go all the way back down and I go to the slowest. And then somewhere in between all of that, my driver's swing does this. Oh my word, what a way to finish, and what a way to finish. I said I like, I said I like number two, but I think I like number three because that just worked for me so, so good. Really smooth, really balanced in the swing. No kind of over movement, no jerky movements. That was so, so good. And I've got to thank Alex Elliott right now for coming up with some real nuggets as I keep calling them with information that have helped me out massively, particularly with Driver, but he says this will work throughout the whole bag. And I'll be interested to see how that goes. So if you want to improve your driver play in this case, then improve your tempo, swing it as just improve your ball striking massively. It's such a good thing to find the middle of the club face, and we all know how sweet that feels. Right, as ever, thank you for watching. I'm so pleased with all them three strikes. We're going to carry on recording lots of videos here at Kinserval, like I said. Make sure you tune in and watch me. Subscribe if you want to see more of these. There'll be at least one tip video coming to you every week on a Friday from now on moving forward. Thanks for watching. Give me a feedback. Let me know if you've tried it and I'll see you all tomorrow night.