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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: Performance and Practice - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Supine Bridge Posture Builder - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Does It Make Sense? - 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: Performance and Practice For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Most players have a bit of a disconnect between their performance and their practice frame of mind. There are a couple of reasons for this, not the least of which are awareness and consequence. When any part of your golf psyche - physical, technical, mental, or emotional - is off, your game will suffer because your personal optimal swing technique will be off. Before you even pick up a club to have meaningful practice or to compete, you have to take stock of your golf psyche and see if there are any leaks. If something is off, you need to repair the problem before you can proceed in order to practice and play your best. In my heart, I feel that Tiger's issues probably still lie in the mental and emotional areas. I mean, how do you go from being toppled off the throne of golf due to a self inflicted series of embarrassing actions and revelations without being scarred mentally and emotionally? If, however, your golf psyche is up to snuff but you still have a problem walking it across the road (taking good swings from the range to the course), you are probably practicing inconsequentially. To correct that, practice with consequences for bad shots. In other words, when you hit an awful drive at the range, attach some sort of uncomfortable consequence to it and you'll start bearing down on subsequent swings. Maybe you put a dollar into your right pocket every time you hit two bad shots at the range, then go drop the money into the poor box at church after your range session. Maybe you deprive yourself of desert or a favorite snack for the day every time your total of bad shots at the range equals thirty percent of your total swings. Maybe you make yourself walk for two minutes of exercise after your range work for every bad shot, maybe you do five or ten pushups for every bad shot. Even though these consequences are sort of "win - win", they are still consequences, and as such they will make you practice with more resolve. Just going through the motions at the range carries over into just going through the motions when you play. Make every swing and stroke in practice consequential, not brainless, and your game will jump up a notch or two. 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 to be able to practice with purpose in your own back yard? Would you like your short game to progress from bad to good, or 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? 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: Supine Bridge Posture Builder Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. Here's another posture building exercise I saw at FitGolf.com, the Supine Bridge. I do this exercise about 5 times per week during my post workout stretching routine. How to perform the supine bridge:
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: Does It Make Sense? For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Here's exactly why you should read or view golf tips with a discerning mind. I recently read a tip from a very famous instructor who quoted a famous player (I'm not naming names) on advice the player gave him for setting up for a long bunker shot: "he told me to bump my hips forward a couple of inches at address. Your weight should still be 50/50, but this move puts your lower body into an impact position to help you control where the club enters the sand." That made no sense to me. It sounded interesting - except for the fact that when you bump your hips forward it also shifts your weight onto the forward foot, which is the proper place for it to be at impact. It should not be 50/50 at that point. The point here is to use your brain when you read or see a tip, regardless of who is dishing it out. First, decide if it makes sense, then second - decide if it makes sense for your own swing. 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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