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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: Q & A: Lie Angle - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Resistance Band Squat & Press - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Trust Your Feet - 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: Q&A: Lie Angle For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Q: Hi Tom, last year, towards the end of the season, a friend of mine told me that he thought I needed to have the lie angle of my clubs checked because I was hooking the ball a lot. Exactly what does lie angle have to do with that? Thanks, Bill R., Buffalo, NY. A: Thanks for the question Bill. Hooking is caused by a clubface that is closed to the swing path direction at the point of impact, and a directional miss is often caused by an incorrect lie angle. Here's the scoop on lie angle. Let me start out with a couple of definitions.
If a player is playing with irons that have a lie angle that is too upright, that players common directional miss will be to the left, and may or may not be coupled with hooking curvature. If a player is playing with irons that have a lie angle that is too flat, that players common directional miss will be to the right, and may or may not be coupled with slicing curvature. Getting fitted for clubs nips the problem in the bud if it's a thorough fitting. How to test your irons for correct lie angle. The best way would be to test yourself with every iron in your bag, but a quick test can be done with an iron with a "neutral" lie angle, such as a six or seven iron. The way it's been done for ages is with a lie angle strike board, but I've got an easier way for you. The lie angle strike board method involves hitting balls off a lie angle strike board, which is essentially a black strip of hard plastic. The black plastic leaves a mark on the sole of the club, which will indicate a correct lie angle - mark in the center of the sole, too flat - mark near the toe of the club, or too upright - mark near the heel of the club. This is a time proven method and is great - if you have a lie angle strike board and can hit at a downward enough angle to produce a mark on the sole of the club. Not everyone can do that naturally, and as soon as you ask yourself to make an unnatural swing, you've defeated the purpose of the test. Here's the dry erase marker method, which is easier and more practical in my book. Don't do this indoors when you are hitting into a simulator screen because it may leave a mark. You could do it at a dome type indoor range, or outdoors.
If the line angles towards the toe of your club, your lie angle is too upright and it may need to be bent flatter a degree or two. If the line angles towards the heel of your club, your lie angle is too flat and it may need to be bent more upright a degree or two. Here'a one more personal experience tip on lie angle: when you set up with your irons, the toe of the club should sit up very slightly, because the centrifugal force of your swing will actually cause the shaft to flex and the clubhead to flatten out a little. If you do need a lie angle adjustment to your irons, it will make a world of difference when you get it done. Test yourself and see what you come up with, it may surprise you. 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: Resistance Band Squat & Press Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. Whenever I go on vacation or on a trip, I usually bring several resistance bands along to maintain the continuity of my workout schedule. Most hotel "fitness centers" don't have an adequate strength training equipment, and bands can fill the void. I prefer the flat ones vs. the round ones, but any good quality bands will do. One very simple and excellent full body exercise that pays exceptional benefits is the squat and press. To perform it, simply step on the band with both feet and hold the top end across the front of your shoulders. Then perform a full squat that progresses to a full military overhead press. That's one rep. If you don't lift now, try this exercise three times per week and you'll reap strength and range of motion benefits. Here is the sets and reps scheme I would recommend:
Enjoy! 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 Isotonix Daily Essentials Kit Customer Reviews 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 Isotonix Daily Essentials Kit Customer Reviews 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: Trust Your Feet For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. When you are trying to determine the break for a putt, "stalk the hole" and you'll feel the break in your feet. "Stalk the hole" means start at your ball, then walk up to and around the hole and back to your ball, taking care to not step in anyone else's line. You'll get a great feel for the break and slope of the green between your ball and the hole. Since I started doing this several years ago, I've gotten used to trusting my feet more than my eyes for reading putts and it's paid benefits. Try it, you'll like it, especially if you wear glasses! 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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