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Golf Tips Newsletter - Issue 243 - May 1st, 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: Walking It Across The Road - Tom's Bonus Tip: Lofted Chips - 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: Walking It Across The Road 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! "Walking it across the road" is a phrase used to denote taking your range practice success to the course when you play. For example, in professional circles it's said that David Duval has a tough time walking it across the road. King of the range, but not so during actual play. This story is about a student that I've been working with for a couple of years, and it's told with his permission. This student is a very good player, he's shown steady improvement in the time we've worked together. However, he can't walk his driver swing across the road, and we're trying to figure out why. I want to mention that this guy is very close to "owning" his swing, if he's not actually there already, which makes the problem more perplexing to me. We had a lesson a few weeks back, his first outdoor lesson of the year, and he was crushing the ball with his driver. He mentioned that he was going to get out and play, and - as I usually do - I asked him to text me and let me know how he played. Got the text, and I was astounded by his message that he couldn't get any distance with his driver. We talked on the phone, and we both acknowledged that he was murdering the ball at the range - on a cool day with range balls no less. When I asked him why he thought he wasn't repeating on the course, he gave me an answer that is a first for me as a teacher. He said that he thinks that when we are working at the range, he relaxes and swings freely under my watchful eye, because he knows that if he makes a mistake we'll spot it and make corrections. When he's on the course, he feels like he might be aiming his shots instead of swinging freely. Now this was new to me, because 99.99% of my students tell me that they are initially nervous while I'm observing their swing, then they eventually loosen up and swing relatively naturally. This student wants to do a playing lesson with me to see what we can come up with, and that will get done. In the meantime, if anyone else has a tough time walking it across the road, here are a few thoughts that might help you get 'er done:
Love your practice, enjoy your golf, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Lofted Chips 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! My teaching preference for chipping is to use a "compression" chip as your "go to" chipping technique. Ocassionally a lofted chip may be called for, here's how to do it. To execute a lofted chip, simply set up with the ball a little more forward in your stance, set up with less forward shaft lean, and when you execute the chip allow the clubhead to feel like it's passing your hands at impact. Your ball flight should be high and soft landing, so note that you'll also need to pick a landing spot vs. the lag mentality for a compression chip. 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 |