============================================================== [ TomTuckerGolf.com Tips ] Issue 18 - Date 06/20/12 ============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: - Tom's Featured Tip: The Secret To Golf - Tom's Bonus Tip: Interesting Quotes - Lesson Comments: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/testimonials.html - Sponsors: The Batavia Country Club, Chestnut Hill CC If you like this newsletter, please do me a favor and forward it to your friends so that they may subscribe: Subscribe - http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/signup.html The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. My bio is here: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/ If you wish to comment, respond, or ask a golf related question, please email me directly at ttucker@rochester.rr.com Plum Creek Driving Range and Practice Facility, simulator rates can be found through a link on my home page here: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/ WE TAKE CLUBS ON CONSIGNMENT Plum Creek is now accepting clubs, bags, etc on consignment. If you have something golf related in good shape - clubs, bags, balls, etc. - that you want to sell, please contact me directly for details at ttucker@rochester.rr.com. For the sake of simplicity, all advice on swings and drills is provided from a right handed perspective; lefties .... well, you know what to do :-) ============================================================== Tom's Featured Tip - The Secret To Golf ============================================================== The secret to golf is that there is no secret, hard work makes good play. However, if there was one, it would be learning how to sustain an angle through the golf ball. This pertains to a slightly bent or bowed left wrist, and a cupped right wrist, at and through impact. These wrist angles are the mainstays of ball striking. If you can't do that, you can't compress the golf ball, and that means that you will play sub standard golf. The Inverted Praying Hands Drill I use this inverted praying hands drill with all my students to ingrain the correct feel for the wrists, it's quick and easy to do. Get yourself into good golf posture without a club, point your hands and fingers downwards like you have inverted praying hands, then point your wrists and fingers to the rear (away from the target) so that your left wrist is bent and your right wrist is cupped. Then just make short chipping length swings with a short follow through, maintaining the bent left wrist and cupped right wrist all the way into an abbreviated follow through. When you are able to do that, you can make the drill even more effective by bowing your left wrist out further as your hands pass through the impact area, as if you are trying to hit something in your follow through with your bowed wrist. This will give you the feeling that you are actually increasing the wrist angles through impact, a true "flip" inhibiting move. When I do this with students, I hold an impact bag and have them deliver strikes with an inside to outside path, that way the drill works on two issues at once - wrist positions and swing path - double bang for your practice time buck. Do 100 repetitions of this daily and watch your ball striking improve like magic. There are also a few good DVD's out there on ball striking, as well as a few good books, and of course there are always lessons. Whatever it takes, practice and learn the principles of ball striking if you want your game to improve. Enjoy, Tom ============================================================== Tom's Bonus Tip - Interesting Golf Quotes ============================================================== "I didn't miss the putt, I made the putt - the ball missed the hole" - Peter Jacobsen "My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered." - Lord Roberston "If profanity had any influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is." - Horace Hutchinson "The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course." - Billy Graham "There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is created by hitting millions of golf balls." - Lee Trevino "Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character." -Arnold Palmer Enjoy, Tom ============================================================= Golf Lessons ============================================================= I conduct lessons at The Plum Creek Driving Range & Practice Facility there's a link with info here: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/ Lessons are available for all ages and skill levels, please contact me - Tom Tucker - at (716) 474 3005 or at ttucker@rochester.rr.com for more information. Rates: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/lessonrates.html Testimonials: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/testimonials.html ============================================================== Sponsors ============================================================== Batavia Country Club - http://www.bataviacc.com Need a new pair of golf shoes or a new Callaway Wedge? Great Pricing ! Puma /Callaway /BCC Logo Shirts/Wind/Caps. Chestnut Hill CC - http://www.chestnuthillcc.com Low greens fees, great course! ============================================================== All the best, Tom Tucker Teaching Pro, Plum Creek Driving Range & Practice Facility WGTF "Top 100 Golf Teacher" USGTF Class "A" Teaching Professional Cell: (716) 474-3005 Email: ttucker@rochester.rr.com http://www.TomTuckerGolf.com http://www.usgtf.com/top_100_wgtf.html Success Loves Preparation ~ Anonymous