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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: Too Much of a Good Thing - Tom's Bonus Tip: Chipping Tips - 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: Too Much of a Good Thing 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 devote a lot of time to advice on diagnosing a very common swing flaw - "flipping" - and making corrections. I would conservatively say that 85% of my students have this swing flaw to one degree or another when they start their lessons, and that a very large percentage make the necessary corrections to enable themselves to become better ball strikers. A small percentage of my better players have the opposite problem, arriving at impact with too much forward shaft lean (too much palmar flexion with their forward wrist) at impact. This problem is manifested by a ball flight that is too low for the particular club being used, and a ball path that usually starts too far right of the target line. The problem is caused by several different movements, or a combination of them such as:
To correct the problem, the player needs to practice feeling the left wrist start to dorsiflex - bend towards the target - at impact, but not to the degree that it becomes cupped at impact. At Impact, it still needs to be flat or slightly bowed (palmar flexed). The thought process often needs to be adjusted from a "pull through" to a "swing through" mentality. A great practice drill to correct this problem is to do very slow motion 3/4 length swings in front of a full length mirror (or on video) and observing the amount of forward shaft lean at impact. It should decrease as you keep practicing feeling your left wrist release towards a flat wrist at impact as opposed to being too bowed (do not consciously straighten your right wrist). Wrist Flexion Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Chipping Tips 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! Here are a few random chipping tips based on the most recurring mistakes I see from my students:
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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