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Golf Tips Newsletter - Issue 259 - August 21st, 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: Synching Your Swing Q&A - Tom's Bonus Tip: Putting - Squaring The Face at Impact - 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: Synching Your Swing Q&A 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 had an interesting question from a player that I work with regularly who is playing very good golf lately: Q: Tom I feel like I am swinging with my arms only, not my body - what drills can I do to correct this? A: First of all, I'm happy that this player recognizes his problem, that's actually huge. This is a pretty common problem for most golfers, their swing gets out of synch and it turns into an all arms swing - which produces weak results. It can feel very strong to swing your arms hard, but you actually produce less swing speed with an "arms only" swing than with a swing that takes advantage of body turn and arm power combined. Here are my two favorite drills to get your swing synchronized:
Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Putting - Squaring The Face at Impact 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 lessons are a fruitful resource for these newsletter articles because I experience real problems from golfers just like you, and we resolve them as best we can. Sometimes drills get invented at lessons which solve common problems, and that happened today (Monday). I was giving a putting lesson to a student who was working very hard at what I was asking him to do. During an aimline exercise with a Putting Fork training aid, I had the student tro to stroke putts through a couple of tees placed just a bit wider apart than a golf ball. This particular student kept nicking the right tee with the ball, and we figured out that for him it meant that his face was opening at impact. I have learned that some students address a ball with an open face but can't see it as such due to some perception issue. Other students address a ball with the face square, then open it up during the forward stroke. We discussed his problem and here's how we resolved it. I use a couple of thirty inch long 2"x4"s as guiding channels for a straight back and straight through stroke during the short putts portion of my lesson. I have some lines marked on the boards for reference, which came in handy for this particular problem. First thing we did was to lay the two boards flat, side by side, to form a channel for the player to place his putter between the boards and execute a short stroke. When he set up behind a ball, we were able to use the lines on the boards and the boards themselves to indicate if his face was aligned square to his path. He was surprised to see that he had been aligning slightly open. Then I had him stroke a few putts, and I noticed that the face was opening a bit more through impact causing the ball to start right of his intended aimline. Then the Eureka moment. I was trying to figure out how to have him feel a flat, square strike at impact when it dawned on me to have him set up square to the END of the flat 2"x4" and execute light strokes into the end of the board. So, he set up with his putter face flat against the end of the 2"x4" which allowed him to visualize and feel a square face at setup, then he stroked lightly into the board until he was hitting it with a perfectly flat face. It worked wonders, if you have this problem try this drill - you'll love it! Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, 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 entree's 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 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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