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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 - What's Important - Tom's Bonus Tip: Food Stuff - 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 Click here: INDOOR GOLF LESSONS for details on how to improve your game over the winter. PLUM CREEK DRIVING RANGE IN BATAVIA, NY, IS OPEN ALL YEAR NEW Equipment & Apparel Sale, Simulator Course Play Specials: http://www.plumcreekdrivingrange.com Call 585-993-0930 or email Mark at plumcreek4@rochester.rr.com to reserve your simulator time! 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 - What's Important 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! In the course of my studying the golf swing and different techniques, I laugh inwardly at some of the advice that gets classified as "absolute" as it relates to any aspect of the swing. The exception to "absolute" advice would be the impact position for the full swing as well as for putting. These are "absolute" fundamentals that must be mastered, as opposed to "variable" fundamentals. Now, understand that I do teach a student to get into certain positions and to execute a certain type of stroke when I conduct a putting lesson. However, I also tell the student that putting is personal, and that they should take what they learn from me that works well and add it to what they currently do well, then own it. Some of my students putt exactly as I teach them to, and they become excellent putters. Some blend what they like from their own style with my instruction, and they also become great putters. Practice is a key component. Putting is a skill that can be developed by anyone. Not everyone will ever be able to hit the ball anywhere near as well as a pro, but I truly believe that you can be just as good of a putter if you put your mind to it. One thing needs to be recognized before we look at what matters and what doesn't matter, and it's that putting is the most individualized of strokes. I allow a lot of lattitude on what some instructors consider to be "absolute positions", as long as the student is able to roll the ball down their intended aimline. In my opinion, here are some things that matter and don't matter in putting:
Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Food Stuff 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! People who know me well know that I do deep research into whatever interests I decide to pursue. I've studied the golf swing and different teaching methods for at least two hours per day, at least five days per week, for the last ten years. I also dedicate two hours per day five days per week to another business that I started last year. Some aspects of each business are compatable enough to have mutually beneficial information, which allows me to get double bang for my study time. Currently my research involves two areas of my life that I'm passionate about:
Another part of my research is reactive. I am signed up to a multitide of email newsletters on topics that include golf, fitness, diet, nutrition, and exercise. I read them and filter the results. I often get newsletter ideas when I see something that's downright incorrect or controversial. Once in awhile I get something that's so profoundly interesting or correct that I share it verbatim. This tip is about a profoundly interesting article entitled The Top 20 Food RULES (to get lean, fix metabolism, prevent disease) It relates directly to health and physical efficiency, so I consider it to be very relevant to golf performance. Enjoy the article, and while you're at it I would like some feedback regarding if you like this type of information from time to time. Send me an email to ttucker@rochester.rr.com to let me know, thanks! 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! Batavia Country Club Pro Shop at Batavia CC open 9am - 4pm daily for memberships, gift certificates, merchandise, apparel, and equipment. Phone orders accepted as well. www.bataviacc.com 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 |
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