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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: Swing Evaluation Session - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Winter and Vitamin D - Tom's Bonus Tip: Simulator Readings Reliability - 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: Swing Evaluation Session 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! This is something you should seriously consider if you plan on working on your swing over the winter! I am now offering Individual Swing Evaluations indoors at the Plum Creek Range where I conduct my lessons. The session includes four graded swings with short irons, middle irons, hybrid, wood, and driver. Each swing is graded, and notes and recommendations are entered on a hard copy form during the lesson. The form is then scanned into a .pdf document and emailed to the student as an attachment after the lesson for future reference. After the swing evaluation form is completed, the student and I review the data and discuss corrective action for any flaws identified during the evaluation. We use the indoor simulator during the session, which defines and illustrates the parameters of the swing result. Most importantly, it shows the starting direction for the shot and curvature, which are the primary considerations for most students. For some advanced students that have consistent direction and curvature to begin with, we pay closer attention to their smash factor. Smash factor is the ratio of ball speed to clubhead speed, expressed as a number calculated by the simulator. Smash factor is generally considered to be a measure of the quality of ball striking. However, it can be just a little deceptive when you consider that it's affected by loft, which presents the clubface with a degree of obliqueness to the ball at the strike, even if the swingpath and sweet spot contact are perfect. I am booking indoor Swing Evaluation sessions now, the cost is $50, and they are by appointment only. My availability for all indoor instruction is as follows:
Cell: (716) 474-3005 Email: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Health, Wellness, Fitness: Winter and Vitamin D Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. Vitamin D - Winter Supplementation I was reminded of Vitamin D supplementation during a recent physical. I was reviewing a graph of my history of my vitamin D levels, and it showed that it was time to start my winter supplementation again. My blood work showed that I get enough during the summer months, when I'm outdoors every day giving lessons, but that it drops off pretty dramatically in the winter. As a result, I'll start adding this supplement (actually I started last weekend) Isotonix Vitamin D with K2 like I do every year from November through the end of May. If you suffer from low Vitamin D during the winter, give this a try. It's extremely high quality, and the delivery method Isotonic - Delivery is absolutely superior to the more common delivery methods of pills or capsules. When you order, make sure to enter 10OFFMA in the discount code box when you check out in order to get the 10% discount that I offer to family, friends, and newsletter subscribers. Do you lack energy, sleep poorly, or feel generally lousy a lot of the time? If that describes you, maybe it's time to try the Isotonix Daily Essentials Kit supplements that I use daily. If you haven't tried them yet, why not? Note that they are called Daily Essentials,not Daily Optionals! Simply said - if our body doesn't make it, we need to take it. They have made a profound difference in my health. I used to take high blood pressure and cholesterol medication, and I now have normal blood pressure and normal cholesterol levels. In fact, all of my blood work is perfect. The only change I made to get off these medications was taking my Daily Essentials, and that's not even why I started taking it, it was a side benefit. I started taking it to increase my energy, and it did. Why the heck not give it a try? How to take your Isotonix Daily Essentials For more information or to buy your Isotonix Daily Essentials Kit, click here. And when you check out, make sure to enter 10OFFMA in the discount code box to get the 10% discount that I offer to family, friends, and newsletter subscribers. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Simulator Readings Reliability 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! Every experienced instructor, clubfitter, and golf researcher knows that launch monitors give bad readings from time to time (probably in the vicinity of 5-10% of the time), and you have to recognize and discard those readings. I don't care if it's a Trackman, Flightscope, or the one I use at Plum Creek - an AboutGolf PGA Tour Indoor Simulator like the one they use on the Golf Channel. I recall hitting seven irons shots into the simulator between lessons, and one read out at 183 yards. My normal range for a seven iron is between 148 and 155 yards. It actually happened twice as I hit a bunch of balls, so I absolutely buy into the 5-10% margin of error theory. Simulators are great practice, instructional, and clubfitting tools, but just be aware that every now and then you can expect a strange reading. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, 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! Purchase next year's membership now and get a discounted rate for your membership PLUS golf and riding cart for the rest of 2014 for free. Fall rates in effect. 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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