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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: Aiming - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Weight Workout Warmup - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Walter Jones Quote - 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: Aiming 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! Aiming is a part of the game that is really hyped up for putting, but I feel not mentioned enough as the swing gets longer. Today I wanted to bring some awareness to getting yourself and your club aimed correctly on different types of shots, and I also wanted to include a few things you can do during practice to check your starting ball flight to see if everything is copasetic. Aiming Putts After you have determined your aimline by adjusting for break and speed, step into the ball and set up with precision as follows:
Here are a couple of drills for visual practice for squaring up the clubface. You can practice setting up with a square clubface by aligning a 2"x4" with your aimline (on the flat side), with the rear end of the 2"x4" placed where the back of your ball would be. Then practice setting your putter face flush to the back end of the 2x4 to make sure it's square to your aimline. If you are practicing in a place where you can make a mark on the floor, draw a straight aimline, put an "X" where the ball would be placed, and draw a line right behind and square to the "X", perpendicular to the aimline, where the putter face would be. Then simply practice setting up with a putter face square to the perpendicular line behind the "X". Most of my students initially set up with either an open or closed clubface to their aimline when they set up for a putt, and these simple drills done once or twice a week for 10 or 20 reps can correct that fault and help you make more putts. Aiming Chips, Pitches, and Full Swing Shots The first step in aiming your chips, pitches, and full swing shots is simply remembering to do so, and to do it with precision. "Remembering to aim" might sound like strange advice, but if you play a lot at the same course, I can guarantee that there are several times during your round that you take your aimline for granted. This is manifested by making a good swing that ends up wide to either side because you were not precise enough (too casual) with your aimpoint.
Outdoors, you can stick a couple of 48" fiberglas driveway marker rods in the ground about 6 feet in front of your swing arc and about 2 feet apart for starters, and observe that the ball is starting out between the rods. You can move them closer together for more of a challenge as you gain more control of your ball flight. You should have noticed that the repeating aiming themes for all swings are
If you are not really sure if you own your swing or not, take action to make it happen. Either do research and get some good DVD's, or take lessons from an instructor of your choice. The game becomes much more enjoyable and progress is made possible when you have a concept of exactly how you want to swing the club. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Health, Wellness, Fitness: Weight Workout Warmup Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. I've always been obsessed with getting "bang for my buck", whether that means getting the best deal on a set of clubs, or gauging my energy expenditure during warming up for a workout so that I have an adequate warmup, but still can devote maximum energy to my strength sets. Here's what has worked very well for me over the years.
Try it, you'll like it. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Nutrition: 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 personally use daily. If you haven't tried them yet, why the heck not? Note that they are called Daily Essentials - not Daily Optionals - for a reason! Simply said - if our body doesn't make it, we need to take it. These all-natural supplements 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 and take none of those medications anymore. 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 them, it was a side benefit. I started taking it to increase my energy, and it did that too! 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 Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Walter Jones Quote 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! My son Tom, who lives in Florida, and I were corresponding via email and he included a great quote at the end of his email. The quote is attributed to Walter Jones, a 2014 Hall of Fame left tackle for the Seattle Seahawks, and I think it applies to our quest to get better at the game of golf. In fact, it has a broader reach than golf, but for now let's consider it in a golf context. "If better is possible, then good is not enough." To me this means recognizing our limitations, then figuring out what needs to be done to actualize our maximum potential within those limitations. How much realistic improvement is possible for you? Figure out where you can really get "better than good", then plan the work and work the plan. If your plan includes improving your game over the winter, contact me to schedule indoor lessons and I'll be more than happy to help you plan and accomplish your goals for improvement. Tom Tucker (716) 474 3005 Email ttucker@rochester.rr.com 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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