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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: Most Common Error - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Do's and Don'ts For Rotational Power - Tom's Bonus Tip: Quick Chip Tip - 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: Most Common Mistake 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 most common mistake I have been seeing at my indoor lessons is the mistake I see most often regardless of the season. It's an incorrect sequence of the lateral weight shift and rotation during the downswing. Here's the exact advice I gave a student that was making two mistakes.
I also instructed him to do the drill three times per week (it takes about five minutes) either in front of a mirror to monitor his head position, or with something (piece of rope, cloth, or ribbon) hanging next to the left side of his head for lateral movement awareness of his head. Here's how to break the drill down into components, then to piece them together for a dynamic downswing:
After it's well practiced, it will look seamless to the eye, but in the mind they should remain separate movements. Work this drill into your winter practice, and everything about your downswing will improve. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Health, Wellness, Fitness: Do's and Don'ts For Rotational Power Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. This is going to surprise a lot of you out there I suppose you think I'm going to recommend some sore of medicine ball rotational exercise like the Russian Twist for maximizing your rotational power. Well, I'm not. I did that exercise for years and I don't think it helped my power at all, and it also runs a high risk of injury. The absolute best two things to do are to commit to a full body weight listing routine for strength, and to do planks on your off days. That's the secret to developing a strong body that will be able to support a dynamic turn for your swing. Don't waste your time with other exotic sounding workout routines, just get strong with some additional attention to your abdominal muscles girdle. If anyone missed it, here's last week's issue which included a plank routine I recommend be done twice weekly: Issue324 with Plank Routine 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. They have changed my health so much on the positive side that I recommend them to all of my friends and relatives with total condfidence that they will be helpful to them too! 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: Quick Chip Tip 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! One of the best things you can do over the winter, and also one of the simplest, is to set up a chipping practice station in your basement. Hang a blanket, tarp, or net, from the ceiling, get twenty AlmostGolf Balls, get a hitting mat or a carpet remnant, then practice short chipping strokes - 3 sessions per week, 60 swings per session. and here's the Quick Chip Tip - when you practice, plant 95% of your weight on your forward foot and keep it there during the backswing and the follow through. Do this and you'll have a perfect chipping stroke by the start of our next outdoor golf season. If your chipping stroke technique needs work, book an indoor chipping lesson with me so that you can practice effectively on your own. 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 2015 membership 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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