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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: Putting - "Touch" Drill - Tom's Bonus Tip: Channeling Your Putts - 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 I'm now booking INDOOR GOLF LESSONS Click here for details: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/indoor.html 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. 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: Putting "Touch" Drill 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! For some players, touch on the green comes harder than it does for others. I've had several (young and old) students that seem to be able to bang their drives prodigious distances, but then on the green they bang their putts prodigious distances also. Not a good combination. This is a simple two part drill to help develop a feel for "touch" on the green. You'll need ten balls and a coin for the drill, aimsticks are optional. NOTE: make sure to stay "down and through" on each putt. This will give you consistent rollout for whatever length stroke you execute. Part One - Medium Length Lag Putt Control Drill
Part Two - Long Length Lag Putt Control Drill
Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Channeling Your Putts 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! Each of us should have a high opinion of our putting, even if it's not merited yet. I sincerely believe that being a good putter starts between the ears. Here's a quick tip that starts with your eyes and ends up with aimline visualization. I'm sure that we've all seen the aimline superimposed on greens for putts on televised PGA Tournaments. Have you noticed that it's not a skinny line? It's not, it's actually about the width of the hole, all the way to the hole. Take that visual clue and use it yourself when you are imagining your aimlime. Visualize it more as a 4 inch wide channel than a narrow aimline and it will be much easier to see in your mind. See your aimline as a wide - but precise channel - and you'll be much more relaxed over your putt. I personally have been doing this for some time now and it's paid pretty good dividends. One more tip, visualize it in color - I use bright yellow. It will really help your putts get started in the right direction. One more quick tip on this subject - when you practice, try stroking putts through a 4" wide path made up of two aimsticks ( 48" fiberglas driveway marker rods) for short to medium length putts to get the visual image of putting through a "channel". It will help your confidence enormously. 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. Fall Rates begin September 23rd - 18 Holes with cart, $15 Weekdays, $20 Weekends . Annual memberships - pay for 2014 now and get the rest of 2013 for free. Details 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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