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Golf Tips Newsletter - Issue 251 - June 26th, 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: Swing The Putter - Tom's Bonus Tip: Tighten Up - Equipment Review: The JXS-3 Putterwood 3 Wood - 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: Swing The Putter 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 students run the gamut from a young professional player that is playing mini tours, to raw beginners, and everything in between. One current student is a very good player that needed some fine tuning on his ball striking, and needed a major re-do on his putting method. I tell this story because his issues commonly apply to intermediate and good players that are doing research and trying to improve aspects of their game. The problem areas were a lack of confidence, lack of structure in his approach to putting, grip and posture issues, and a very mechanical stroke. We addressed each issue as follows:
The moral of the story is to "think swing" when you stroke a putt - with this caveat: keep your hands and arms firmly set in good impact positions and move the swing with your shoulders. Here's a good drill to practice to feel a swinging putting motion- line up about ten balls and then stroke each putt rhythmically with your right hand only (rear hand), maintaining some dorsiflexion in your right wrist (don't let it break down) to guard against a flip at impact. The professional player that I mentioned that's playing mini tours is Chris Carroll, a Buffalo area native that currently teaches golf in the NYC area. He comes back to Buffalo a couple times a month and we get together for lessons. He just got a major break from a company that sponsors promising players. They took him into the fold and are sponsoring him on a mini tour circuit, and if he does well thay said they'd sponsor him for "Q" School. Kind of neat to have a local guy with an opportunity like this, I'll keep all of you posted on his progress - and good luck Chris. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Tighten Up 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! I recently gave a driver swing lesson to a good young golfer. His swing pattern looked pretty good, but the ball just didn't seem to be flighting as well as it should for the swing he was putting on the ball, and it didn't sound quite right at impact. After observing about ten swings, I checked the face for center contact, and all the swings were on the sweet spot. I then asked him if he had tightened up his adjustable driver lately, and he . said that he hadn't tightened it up since he set it up - way back when. We broke out the wrench and sure enough, the loft adjustment screw needed to be tightened, and the rest of the screws also needed to be torqued. After we tightened everything up, the strike sounded right and the ball reacted like it should for the good swings that were being executed. If you swing an adjustable driver, tighten it up every time before you use it. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, Tom Product Review: The JXS-3 Putterwood 3 Wood In Issue 247 I reviewed the JXS-HB Putterwood Hybrid-Blade from Sorenson Golf Subsequent to that review, they supplied me with another model for review, the The JXS-3 Putterwood 3 Wood Here are my impressions of this putter, which - like it's hybrid brother - looks a little different, but feels great. Mine was the model with the black matte finish, and like the hybrid provided superb contrast with the single line sweet spot marking on the top of the club. The clean, uncluttered look of the single white line makes it very easy to aim the face. I preferred the look of this mallet type head to that of the hybrid. It just relaxes me when I look down at a larger putter head vs. a smaller putter head. This putter really shined when used for puttable options from off the green. The head just glides through the grass like it's not even there, which is a huge confidence builder. I liked the hybrid for this feature, but I loved the 3 Wood putter for it even more. I recommend this putter for players that want to try a mallet putter with toe hang weighting, which is an unusual combination. From a teaching perspective, you should get comfortable with a mallet type putter, they are the most forgiving. If you've never tried one give this a try. I give this putter two thumbs up, and once again I want to state that these people are really great to deal with. Normal retail on this putter is $149, and Sorenson golf sent me this email regarding a discount: "Your readers may receive a 20% discount if they order through our website at Sorenson Golf and enter Tucker20 in the coupon box on the check-out page. The coupon code will be valid from June 26th, 2013 through October 1st, 2013. Or if your readers prefer to call, they can call us at 319-385-2233 or 800-524-6068." For the record, I do not make any sort of commission on sales of this putter. Here are the manufacturer specs for the The JXS-3 Putterwood 3 wood :
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%. Batavia Country Club Best greens in WNY, great rates. Back by popular demand: Friday Night Golf and Dinner at BCC 18 holes of golf, cart, dinner, tax and gratuity - $35. 9 hole package - $27. Choose from 4 entrees' with side and salad bar. Dinner served from 4:30 pm - 9:15 pm. Dinner available for non-golfers also. Menu and band schedule posted at www.bataviacc.com Huge PUMA Apparel Sale at the BCC Pro Shop. Mens, womens, kids clothing, mostly smaller sizes. Stop by our Pro Shop and take advantage of some great deals! Chestnut Hill CC Great rates, 20 minutes East of Buffalo, NY . 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. 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 |
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