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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: Q&A: Shank - Tom's Bonus Tip: Putting 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: Q&A: Shank 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! Q: "Hi Tom, I read all your newsletters, thanks for the good information. I need some help because I'm hitting the ball sideways, what do you recommend?" Bill W. A: Thanks for the kind words Bill. Here are a few thoughts on getting back to hitting it straight again. I've addressed this in a past newletter when I had a similar question, and I related it to my own experience as follows: In my case I finally figured out that I was using my hands too much in my takeaway and downswing, and when it wasn't timed correctly, I was presenting the club at address with an open clubface; coupled with an inside attack angle, it was easy to keep smashing hosel rockets all over the place. My cure involved developing a swing pattern for myself that utlizied less hand manipulation of the club, and more body rotation. I changed from a traditional swing to a rotary swing pattern. Since then I've changed to a stack and tilt swing because it takes advantage of rotation - but has some built in technique safeguards against over rotation in the downswing. I recently had a student with good potential tell me he shanked a few balls at the dome. Keep in mind that when we started working together, he started his downswing purely with hip rotation, which can cause your hands to be too active in your downswing. Here's what I told him to practice: Keep you're arms moving on an angled circle on the backswing and the down and through swing. If you abbreviate the downswing circle follow through, you will end up attacking the ball too much from the inside. Your arms and hands should feel like they attack from the inside, then move down the line, then go to your left. This is facilitated by a couple of swing components:
A good drill is to address a ball with a very narrow stance, ball positioned off your rear toe. Then hit gentle pitching wedge shots, keeping your left arm perfectly straight and taking care to not fan the clubface open on your takeaway. Keep the clubface square to your swingpath for these gentle pitch shots and your sideways shot will disappear. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: 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! A great way to practice putting is to putt balls from four positions different around the hole, as if the hole were in the middle of a square outlined by the balls. Start off with 2 foot putts, then move back to 4 foot, then to 6 foot putts, then to 10 foot putts. Concentrate on each putt as if you were in competition, and track your make pecentage. Keep records, and strive to get better each time you do the drill. 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 Best greens in WNY, great rates. Room for two more teams in both the early and late divisions for Tuesday Leagues beginning May 6th. Call (716) 343-7600 for more information. 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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