You Need a CONSISTENT RHYTHM to be a GREAT Golfer

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In this lesson, the Legend Tom Watson gives you the secret that seperates good golfers from great golfers. Having a consistent rhythm is the key to take your golf game to the next level.

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Thomas Sturges Watson (born September 4, 1949) is an American retired professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions, formerly on the PGA Tour.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading golf players in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the number one player in the world according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings from 1978 until 1982; in both 1983 and 1984, he was ranked second behind Seve Ballesteros. He also spent 32 weeks in the top 10 of the successor Sony Rankings in their debut in 1986.[2]

Watson is also notable for his longevity: at nearly sixty years of age, and 26 years after his last major championship victory, he led after the second and third rounds of The Open Championship in 2009, but lost in a four-hole playoff. With a chance to win the tournament with par on the 72nd hole, he missed an 8-foot (2.4 m) putt, then lost to Stewart Cink in the playoff.

Several of Watson's major victories came at the expense of Jack Nicklaus, the man he replaced as number one, most notably the 1977 Masters, 1977 Open Championship, and the 1982 U.S. Open. Though his rivalry with Nicklaus was intense, their friendly competitiveness served to increase golf's popularity at the time.

In Watson's illustrious career, his eight major championships include five Open Championships,[3] two Masters titles, and one U.S. Open title. The only major that has eluded him is the PGA Championship; if he had won it would have put him in an elite group of golfing "career grand slam" winners that includes Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods. In all, Watson's eight majors ranks sixth on the list of total major championship victories, behind only Nicklaus, Woods, Walter Hagen, Hogan, and Player.

Watson is also regarded as one of the greatest links players of all time, a claim backed up by his five Open Championship victories, his runner-up finishes at the 1984 Open Championship and 2009 Open Championship, and his three Senior British Open Championship titles in his mid-50s (2003, 2005, and 2007).

Watson played on four Ryder Cup teams and captained the American side to victory in 1993 at The Belfry in England. More than twenty years later, Watson again captained the U.S. Team in 2014 in Scotland, this time in a loss.[4]


You have to have a consistent Rhythm to be a great golfer. You look at different golfers and they have different rhythms. You look at myself, I have a fast rhythm like Nick Price, and Pádraig Harrington. Then you look at Ernie Ells and Fred Couples. They have very slow rhythms. The best rhythm Tom Watson has ever seen is Sam Snead. Sam Snead he had a rhythm that he called oily, he wanted his swing nice and oily. Remember light grip pressure, light grip pressure is the key. Sam, he took that long waggle like that and turned his head nice smooth rhythm, usually with very good success. I have another idea and I've learned this from a friend who sent me by letter a long time ago. He said Rhythm can be defined as thinking of the word EDELWEISS in your golf swing. Now it sounds kind of goofy, but really if you think about it, everybody has a certain Rhythm to their golf swing. Now if I take a cut at the golf ball and I swing “EDELWEISS” like that, that's my rhythm. now some peoples “EDELWEISS” may be faster or slower than my “EDELWEISS” but I like to the term “EDELWEISS” because it gives you a rhythm with which you can swing the golf club consistently. now sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes you have to go to Extreme Measures those measures have to do with the feel the golf club. sometimes we just simply lose the feel of the golf club. a lot of that has to do with grip pressure, were gripping on too tight or walking too fast. one of the great stories that I share with about Byron Nelson. Do Two things walk a little slower and breath a little deeper. Another thing you can do when the heat's on and it doesn't feel like anything in your hand is to do this: take the club and instead of taking the club and Swinging it with that end of it, turn it over and swing the club with just the Grip end. now if you're really in bad shape you're going to go like that because it's so light that you can't control impact, remember coming back to impact. Just swing in nice and slow like this three or four times then turn it over now the club head feels like it weighs a ton. Now light grip pressure. The last thing I want to share is how hard you should swing the golf club. the key here is how hard it's including the golf club and keep it in rhythm