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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: Target Hyperfocus - Tom's Bonus Tip: Putting - Belief - 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: Target Hyperfocus 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 love it when my outdoor lessons are in full swing, because I get great ideas for this newsletter based on what my students are doing - or more correctly stated, what they are not doing. Last week I conducted quite a few lessons, but I wanted to discuss an interesting thing that happened at three chipping lessons. One lesson was with a male who has played golf all his life, two were with females, one of which was a raw beginner, one was very experienced. None of them ever had a chipping lesson before, which is a shame. I say that it's a shame, because I believe that becoming an excellent chipper isn't given it's due in this game we love. Just think about it. Isn't it obvious that if you learn to chip well that your putting percentage has to improve? I explain to all of my students that they will be better at putting and chipping immediately after those lessons, and that has held true. Here's a very recent example of immediate improvement: testimonial. If you learn the correct mechanics of how to execute a putting stroke and a chipping stroke, and then if you practice some feel drills, you will get better. Period. Here's the important thing I noticed with these students - hyperfocusing on the target produced great results. For each of these students, we were just about at the end of the lesson and I had the students practicing chips to different distances to prepare for a little challenge that have at the end of the lesson. They were all chipping pretty well, but each of them improved dramatically when I told then to really stare the target down during their pre stroke routine. I really emphasized burning a hole in their target before they glanced at the ball for the final time before they struck their chip. The results were amazing. Each of them started chipping like they had been doing it correctly all their life. Quite a few chips actually were holed out. Here's what I said to each of them as they stood poised next to the ball in their pre stroke routine:
Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Putting - Belief 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! Excellence at the short game - greenside chipping and putting in particular - starts between the ears. I mandate that all my students refer to themselves as "excellent putters" because if you don't think it, it won't happen. Starting today, consider yourself to be an excellent putter, then start working to make that description become a reality. 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 Great Rates & The Best Greens in WNY- bar none! Summer rates now in effect, but discounts always available at our website. Taking tee times for Father's Day now, book soon it will sell out fast. 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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