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Golf Tips Newsletter - Issue 242 - April 24th, 2013
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Prepare to play your best golf by doing something now! To comment or respond to this newsletter, please click here ttucker@rochester.rr.com In This Issue - Tom's Featured Tip: Clubhead Speed - Tom's Bonus Tip: Trust Your Putting Routine - Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say - Sponsors: Batavia Country Club Chestnut Hill Country Club Plum Creek Driving Range and PGA AboutGolf.com Golf Simulator GCC Golf Management Program Provoto Putting Systems PLUM CREEK DRIVING RANGE IN BATAVIA, NY, IS OPEN ALL YEAR Outdoors in season; Indoors - simulator available for play or practice. Call 585-993-0930 or email Mark at plumcreek4@rochester.rr.com to reserve your simulator time! Great money saving monthly specials, check them out here: http://www.plumcreekdrivingrange.com Buy Gift Certificates for Lessons Sample Gift Certificate Golf lessons - Outdoor and Indoor - are available at Plum Creek, please call me at 716 474 3005, email me at ttucker@rochester.rr.com, or visit my website at http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/lessonrates.html for details. Indoor or Outdoor Driver Fitting Get the most bang for your buck when you buy a new driver by getting professionally fitted first. Click for details: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/indoor.html Subscribe - http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/signup.html If you like this newsletter, please do me a favor and forward it to your friends so that they may subscribe, thanks! The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. Tom's Featured Tip: Clubhead Speed 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! A concept of the golf swing that we all need to understand when it comes to clubhead speed, is that it needs to happen at impact. Most of my new students typically try produce speed early in the swing, at the top of the backswing as they transition into their downswing. This is completely wasted effort, and an inefficient movement. Don't try for speed too early in the downswing, rather let the swing unfold sequentially in order to gather speed for impact. A good drill to feel this is to take one handed swings with an inverted driver, right hand only. Let your hip slide start the downswing, and keep your right wrist hinged for as long as possible as you rotate through the swing. Let your right hand release through impact, producing a loud swooshing sound right at impact. Not before, not after. Right at impact. Maintain your lag by holding your wrist in position longer than normal, then let it snap at impact. Don't flip the club, maintain your flying wedge (cupped position) in your right wrist and let it cover an imaginary ball through impact. Practice this regularly and enjoy the results. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Trust Your Putting Routine 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! To putt better, have faith and trust in your putting routine. (You do have one don't you?) First, free your mind of extraneous thought. Then focus on starting your putt directly on your intended aimline; this gives you a much better chance of putting a good roll on the ball than when you are thinking about making the putt. If you become a little more process oriented and less results oriented while putting, you'll free yourself from worrying about whether or not the putt will go in, and you'll find that you hole more putts. Try it, you'll like it. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, Tom Golf Lessons I conduct lessons at The Plum Creek Driving Range & Practice Facility there's a link for Plum Creek 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 email me at ttucker@rochester.rr.com for more information. Outdoor Lessons Details and Rates: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/lessonrates.html Indoor Lessons Details and Rates: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/indoor.html Driver Fitting Rates: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/indoor.html Testimonials: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/testimonials.html Sponsors Plum Creek Driving Range and Simulator Outdoor range and play indoor golf on any of our 40 Simulator Courses. Call 585-993-0930 or email Mark at plumcreek4@rochester.rr.com to reserve time for simulator play or practice! Provoto Putting Systems readers get a 30% discount on putting greens. Click on their catalog link, and select the green you want to purchase. After you decide on features, add it to your cart. You'll find the field for "Discount Coupon" near the bottom of the page. Enter PGApro in that field and your product cost will be discounted 30%. GCC Golf Management Program click for information on GCC's degree program for anyone interested in a career in the golf industry or teaching golf. Batavia Country Club Best greens in WNY, great rates. Chestnut Hill CC Great rates, 20 minutes East of Buffalo, NY . 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 "There are no substitutes in the quest for perfection!" ~ Ben Hogan |