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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: Weight Shift - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Burpee Workout - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Chip With a Flat Club - 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: Weight Shift 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! Last week I was viewing a segment of instruction on the Golf Channel as I usually do to generate ideas for this newsletter. I usually pick one that I disagree with and make an article out of it. I saw something from a famous instructor that really floored me in a good way, so I wanted to cover it in this issue. First of all, I am in my senior years, but I am always studying our game. If I find a better way to do some technique I have no problem working it in to my instruction. Being a good instructor always involves researching new ideas and then feathering aspects of technique to a students strengths.. This particular instructor, who had been a staunch advocate of loading the right side until you reach the top of your backswing, then shifting the weight forward and rotating to transition to the downswing, actually said that he had learned something new recently that contradicted that technique. He said that current research showed that the lateral weight shift actually starts before the end of the backswing is completed. He said that it starts around where the club reaches parallel to the ground on the takeaway, so that at the top of the backswing, you have a majority of the weight shift already completed, and then all you need is a lateral "bump" of weight to initiate the downswing sequence. He justified this by explaining that your arms and club have weight which would perhaps go too far away from the target onto the rear leg during the backswing, and that shifting some weight to the target side early has a desirable counterbalancing effect. Now I like this guy personally, but that research has been around for awhile. All he had to do was recognize it and have an open mind. I've essentially been teaching that all of my teaching career. Look at photos of the top players of the past and present and you'll see a back leg that's straightening at the top of their backswing, an indication that weight has already been shifted forward prior to the downswing transition. Google "Ben Hogan swing images" to see what I mean. I do give this instructor kudos for coming around publicly, I just wonder what took him so long. Here's a brief synopsis of full swing weight shift in the golf swing (understand that weight shift and weight placement will vary for specialty shots).
Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Health, Wellness, Fitness: Burpee Workout Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. The "Burpee" is a great exercise that I learned to hate early in life. The older version used to be called the "squat thrust" and it was used as conditioning drill as well as punishment for shall we say "overzealous" recruits at boot camp for the US Navy at Great Lakes, Ill. when I attended in 1964 (wow, I can't believe how long ago that was). Being on the overzealous side, I did those things until I was blue in the face, but I actually learned to like them (after boot camp) when I saw the results. For an interesting article on the history of the Burpee, click here. Fast forward to the present, and the venerable burpee is a staple in most fitness and conditioning programs, although the modern version has a couple more components to it than a simple squat thrust. Here's my favorite variation from the basic squat thrust. I do them with rubber coated dumbbells in hand, with a weight that I can handle easily. You can do them without dumbbells too, but I like the extra weight because it adds intensity PLUS my wrists are not as flexible as they used to be.
Use it as a stand alone workout, or just do ten reps as a warmup for a weight workout. You'll learn to love to hate burpees too! 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: Chip With a Flat Club 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 watched the Hero Golf Challenge last weekend, mainly to see how my man Tiger would fare. His full swing looked good, his chipping and short pitching looked abysmal. He scuffed seven short chips.pitches, most of which were into brutal grain. . John Cook sat in for Tiger during what would have been Tiger's interview in the booth (Tiger was running a temperature of over 100 degrees). Cook, who is a member at Isleworth Golf & CC where the event was played, was asked how he would have played the chips that Tiger duffed with his wedge. Without hesitation, Cook said he would have putted or used a hybrid with those lies in tough grass into the grain. If that's good enough for a seasoned pro golfer, it should be good enough for you and me. It's not as sexy of a shot as a chip with a wedge, but if it can produce equal or better results swallow your pride and give it a shot. 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! Christmas Specials! BCC Pro Shop will be open from 10am to 4pm Monday thru Friday. Gift certificates, merchandise sale, and big savings on all membership packages purchased before 12/31/14. 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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