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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: Chip Shot Substitute - Tom's Bonus Tip: Strong Grip, Weak Grip - 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: Chip Shot Substitute 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've labeled this tip "chip shot substitute", but if you are a player that never practices your chipping, it should probably be your "go-to" chip shot. In fact, even though I get in plenty of chipping practice, I'm going to try to remember to use this technique more often just to see what the results show. With this method, you should be able to score better - even if your golf swing doesn't improve. We see this shot almost every week on the Tour - a player uses their fairway wood or lofted hybrid to chip with around the green. I guess if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for the common golfer. A reason that top level players use this method is that it is easier than chipping off of poor lies. Most of the time, the outcome of these bad shots is better than the outcome of bad shots when chipping. And this holds even more true for non tour players that are not putting the time in on their chipping game. The way I teach this shot is to use a hybrid or fairway wood with 17 - 25 degrees of loft, then:
I'd rather see all of my students and readers practice their chipping enough to become great chippers, but if that's just not in the cards for you - try this, you'll like it. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Strong Grip, Weak Grip 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! The words strong grip or weak grip are often misunderstood by novice golfers. When these words are used by golf instructors, it refers to the position of your hands, not the grip pressure that is applied. If you don't understand that, advice like "strengthening the grip on your lead hand will help correct a slice" could make the problem worse. The reader must understand that it's grip position advice, not grip pressure advice.
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 Planning on open golf this Saturday - April 12th - with carts. A reminder for members that haven't paid their annual membership fee yet and non members that use the handicap service - payment is required by April 15th or your handicap records will be deleted. Service is free for members and $30 for non members. No handicap service will be offered this year for non-members that are not currently in the system. 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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