Pre-Owned Tour Tempo 2: The Short Game & Beyond

John Novosel's Tour Tempo, published by Doubleday in 2004, was an instant classic. Its central argument that tempo, the most important fundamental of the golf swing, can be learned quickly and easily without expensive lessons or exhaustive practice is now accepted by swing coaches at every level of the game. But Tour Tempo, now in its 11th printing, covered only the full-swing shots. Now Team Novosel is back with a sequel devoted to the short game the putts, chips and greenside pitches that make up the majority of strokes played in a round of golf. Tour Tempo 2: The Short Game & Beyond employs color photography, video tutorials, and the now-famous Tour Tempo Training Tones, but its core is a lively and lucid 55,000-word text by Novosel and Sports Illustrated's John Garrity. In Tour Tempo 2, Novosel offers scientific proof that tour players putt, chip and blast from bunkers with a consistent 2-to-1 elapsed-time ratio of backswing to forward swing. Amateurs, however, display no such consistency; they jab at the ball with arrhythmic strokes that produce skulls, shanks and "fat" shots. But now, simply by practicing to Novosel's short-game tones, the weekend golfer can master the correct rhythm in minutes. Got the dreaded "yips" with your putter or chipping club? TT2 has the cure. Can't hit those little knockdown shots from 40 to 60 yards? TT2 gives you the feel for the tournament player's favorite stroke saver. Terrified of greenside bunker shots? TT2 reveals the tempo secret that makes sand play so easy for tour pros. Tour Tempo 2 is more than a short-game tutorial. The full swing is explored in several chapters that pick up where the first book left off, providing deeper understanding of the underlying principles and the changing paradigms of golf instruction. Then the Novosels dish about Tiger, Phil, Yani, et.al. in a section called "The Pro-Spective on Tempo." Each section includes a sampling of reader FAQs, and there are two chapters of "Little Red Book," in which the inventor and his oldest son bolster their data with anecdotes culled from six years as tempo consultants to golfers of all abilities.