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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: Compensations - Tom's Bonus Tip: Simple Putting Stroke Drill - 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 Check out the Equipment & Apparel and 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: Compensations 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 am currently working with a student that presented an interesting situation from a teaching perspective. He has a severe "flipping" habit - the most common swing flaw I see - which causes major problems for good compression. We worked on the problem during his ball striking lesson, and he now knows correct positioning for his weight, wrists, and hands at impact. I'm confident that he'll work the drills I showed him to build a correct impact position. We then discussed his upcoming chipping lesson, he mentioned that he's a good chipper because he places the ball way back in his stance. He also mentioned that his ball flight miss for his full swings are low fades or low blocks. This tells me that he's probably using a ball position that's too far back in his stance for his full swings. When the ball is placed too far back in the stance,
I want my students to develop an efficient and simple swing, free of compensations. When that happens, if there is a ball flight problem it's easier to diagnose and correct. Swing compensations are a common occurrence, although they usually take the form of aligning way too far to the left for slicers, or way too far to the right for hookers. To play great golf and have fun while you're at it, educate yourself on the swing you want to own, then own it through correct practice and correct repetitions. "Practice Makes Perfect" only holds true when the practice is done correctly. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Simple Putting 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! I'm going to stay on the "flipping" theme for one more tip today, because "flipping" at impact during your putting stroke can add strokes to your score in a heartbeat. The simplest and most efficient drill that I know of to build a good putting "STROKE" is to practice a continuous back and forth "STROKING" motion with a putter in your hands, no ball, maintaining a firm wrists into your follow through. Maintain a very still body throughout the motion, all that you should be moving should be your shoulders. Note - If you took a lesson from me, that advice would be changed a little - to maintaining a flat left wrist and cupped right wrist into your follow through. If you do this simple drill - which takes less than two minutes - for 100 reps per day, Monday through Friday until the outdoor season starts, you'll own a magnificent putting stroke. 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 Rome CC added to reciprocal courses list; New men's locker room - twenty lockers available, $75 for the season, first come first served, available to members or league players. April 12th is target date to open if weather permits. 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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