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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: Chipping and Pitching Technique Variations - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Five Minute Posture Builder - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Build Self Confidence - Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say - Sponsors: Plum Creek Driving Range Batavia Country Club Genesee Community College Golf Management Program Chestnut Hill Country Club 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: Chipping and Pitching Technique Variations For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Most golf instructors, myself included, teach a basic method for chip and pitch shots. Not too many instructors - especially newer ones - are willing to vary their instruction from what they've been taught at their instructor certification schools from their professional organization, such as the PGA or USGTF. More experienced instructors, like myself, have learned variations from the norm that we use in our instruction based on what we see when we initially teach the basic methods. Here's what I mean. Most of my "new player" students have a built in "flipping" impulse because they all think that they need to flip the clubhead to get the ball airborne, and most of the time that's going to produce a sub standard strike (flippers). That student needs to be taught how to position their weight forward, then how to present the shaft of the club to the ball in a "forward shaft leaning position" to make solid contact with their chipping stroke. I call this type of stroke a "full compression" chipping stroke. If this student is strictly a casual player, he or she should probably use this method exclusively in order to always make good contact. It's a stroke that doesn't utilize any wrist motion or any lag, it's dead armed and dead handed - but it still produces feel, and one can get quite good at it with practice. Some students prefer and can be taught a "partial compression" chipping stroke, where they produce a more lofted chip by allowing the shaft to get a little more vertical at impact (sliders). This motion resembles a pitch shot in that there's some wrist motion involved and you slide the club under the ball a bit vs. a more purely compressed strike that is obtained with more forward shaft lean. Variations for chipping and pitching methods comes into play for these different students, because flippers have a hard time sliding the club under the ball without flipping, and sliders have a hard time getting maximum compression in a chip because they struggle with forward shaft lean. Basic chipping involves very little motion with the hands, and basic pitch shots normally involve some lag, as well as some wrist setting and releasing. Here are the valid variations that can be practiced to produce a high degree of proficiency. Chip shots can be executed with wrist action if a player has deft touch and doesn't overuse the hands. The resulting chip will check a little more and roll less than a "full compression" chip. Sliders should practice and probably use this chip shot method. Pitch shots can be executed with dead hands and wrists, long arms, and no wrist set - as long as the player realizes that he or she needs enough clubhead speed, which they can obtain with a good pivot. They also will discover that they will probably only get about half the distance from the swing and the club that they would get if they hit the pitch shot with a more traditional method. Flippers should practice and probably use this pitch shot method. Either method is valid if it allows you to accomplish the goal for the shot. Know your tendencies and develop a short game around them, don't use methods that conflict with your natural skills. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Tour Greens: Tour Quality Synthetic Greens For Superb Short Game Practice Would you like your short game to progress from bad to good? How about from good to great! Would you like to get the ball up & down with more frequency? Would you like to have a short game practice area in the privacy of your yard for practice and for friendly competition with your kids, your wife, and your friends? Perhaps even a friendly contest at home parties? Click here TourGreensWNY.com for photo galleries and more information. If the thought of having a beautiful tour quality practice green in your yard appeals to you, you're in luck. In addition to my golf instruction business, I am also the exclusive Western New York sales associate for Tour Greens Western New York. With Tour Greens you can experience the ultimate home short game practice solution. Click here to read what Tour Pro's Fred Couples, Rich Beem, Boo Weekly, Blake Adams, and Chris DiMarco have to say about their Tour Greens. You all know me well enough to know that I don't affiliate with any product that I don't have a passionate belief in. These greens are the real deal. They are extremely durable - they can even withstand our challenging WNY winters. For more information please click here: TourGreensWNY.com, or feel free to call, text, or email me to discuss your needs. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Health, Wellness, Fitness: Five Minute Posture Builder Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. I saw this routine in one of the fitness threads that I follow, and thought that it looked like an excellent early morning routine. Not just for golfers, but also for anyone to start their day if you aren't already doing any other exercise right after you wake up. As soon as you wake up in the morning, do this simple FIVE MINUTE circuit to ensure that your core and postural muscles are activated to support you all day. You'll be amazed at the surge of extra energy you get and the added bonus of burning calories as your body recovers, all before breakfast. Exercise #1: Side-Step Squat
Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials 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? Buy Now 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? Buy Now How to take your Isotonix Daily Essentials For more information or to buy your Isotonix Daily Essentials Kit, click here. Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Tom's Bonus Tip: Build Self Confidence For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. On those occasions when things go as planned with a golf shot, don't be afraid to compliment yourself. Watch and appreciate the shot as it flies to your target and ends up where it was planned to end up. The successful result will imprint positive mental imagery in your mind and build your self confidence. After your round, spend less time chastising yourself for bad shots, and more time appreciating your successes. 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, Golf Digest Four Star rating for public courses to play in New York State. Make tee times online in season www.bataviacc.com (585) 343-7600 Genesee Community College Golf Management Program Click on link for more information if you or anyone you know is interested in a dynamic career in the golf industry, or in teaching golf. 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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