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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 Grip - Tom's Bonus Tip: Slide, Turn, or Both? - 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 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 singlemost common "death move" I see in most of my beginner students in their stock chipping technique is flipping their hands through impact. Beginners - as well as some grizzled veteran golfers - often want to try to help the ball in the air by flipping the club at impact to add loft to the shot. Most of the time, this produces either a shot that flies too high and comes up short, or a fat hit because the club got too long, too soon in the downswing, causing a ground first - ball second strike. When I say that the club got "too long, too soon" in the downswing, I mean that all forward shaft lean was lost at impact because the flipping motion causes the shaft to lose that angle and get vertical prior to impact. "Serial flippers" really have a hard time with chipping, but there are a few things that can be done to minimize this swing flaw.
I never encourage compensation in lieu of good technique, but for those of you that just can not execute a good chipping stroke because your brain wants you to try to hit the ball upward (flippers), try one of these options and it will get better. Love your practice, enjoy your golf, own your swing, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Slide, Turn, or Both? 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 read a lot about golf, I watch a lot of instructional videos, and I watch the golf channel. I like and respect Michael Breed (maybe because we both speak at a fast clip) and Martin Hall, but I reserve the right to disagree with them on occasion. One of the areas that I disagree with Michael Breed on is in the initiation of the downswing. He says to turn the hips, not to slide them, to start the downswing. Here's the perplexing thing: I heard him say this, then watched him demonstrate a swing. In the demonstration, he started his downswing sequence with a lateral weight shift (slide), followed by rotation of the hips. He slid, then rotated his hips. This I agree with - not with rotation to start the downswing. So - slide (or bump if that word fits your brain better) the hips (but not the upper torso) laterally forward to initiate your downswing, then rotate naturally, and you will enjoy a smooth, powerful swing. 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. 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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