You hear lots of talk about the tempo of your golf swing–its overall speed. What is that speed?
It is, according to Percy Boomer in his masterwork, On Learning Golf, the speed that gives you “a sense of unhurried calm, a feeling that there is lots of time to feel each movement blending into the others.”
Swing at that speed with every club. If you swing faster than that, perhaps in the effort to hit the ball farther, you outswing your technique.
Often what seems to be a swing problem can be solved merely by slowing down a bit.
With your definition of Tempo I belief your describing Rhythm !
Rhythm and tempo are often confused, even by well-known golf instructors. The two words are borrowed from the word of music. Tempo is the overall speed of a piece of music. Rhythm is the relation between its component parts. You can play a particular piece fast or slow (tempo), but the different note values stay the same (rhythm). A golf swing can be fast or slow, but the temporal relation between the backswing and the forward swing stays the same. The overall speed of your swing is what this post is about, and that’s tempo.