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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: What Resonated While Watching The Pro's At The API - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Progressive Overload - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Astounding Results - 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: What Resonated While Watching The Pro's At The API For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Last Sunday I attended the Arnold Palmer Invitational with my son and my grandsons at Bay Hill in Florida. We had great seats in a corporate box overlooking the 18th green, and had a great view of the approach shots into the green as well as the putts. I really wanted to holler out to Stenson to cut the break in half on his putt, because virtually every player that putted from the vicinity where he putted from missed on the high side. Sure enough, he missed on the high side and lost the tournament. It was great so see Matt Every repeat as winner this year, and he made an outstanding birdie on 18 to do so. While watching intently as these players struck their approach shots into the green, I couldn't help but notice how they all maintained their upper body angle to the ground perfectly during their entire swing. I'm talking about the tilt (angle of inclination) of their upper torso towards the ground at setup, in the backswing, and in the follow through. The more perfectly they maintained their tilt, the better the result. Don't confuse tilt with spine angle, because your spine angle changes as you strive to maintain tilt throughout your swing as follows:
After you've done enough reps to integrate the proper tilt into your actual swing, you'll see more consistent ball flight. Try it. you'll like it! 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: Progressive Overload Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. You've seen me mention progressive resistance training many times in this newsletter. I subscribe to Bill Hinburns' strength training newsletter, and he explained the principle so simply that I wanted to share it with you. Enjoy Progressive Overload The human body is a marvelous machine. It makes every attempt to adapt to different surroundings and different situations. However, given a choice, it would rather remain at around the same body weight, percentage of body fat, and same strength. It does not like change. It seems to want to keep just enough strength to get by, nothing more. So, if you desire a change in your body weight, percentage of body fat, or physical strength, you must initiate change. The best way to do this is by using the principle of "progressive overload" in your training. Using the same weight, or the same number of repetitions, with poor form, or a haphazard training schedule will not produce an increase in strength. Period. To INCREASE in strength, you must INCREASE the amount of resistance, the number of repetitions, and maintain excellent exercise form. In other words, as previously stated, above, you must force your body to change and give it a reason to become stronger to contend with an ever increasing amount of resistance. If you are working out, pay attention to this principle to get the most return from your sweat equity. 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: Astounding Results For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. About a week ago I had a player that took lessons from me come in for a driver fitting. I had him loosen up for a few minutes then take six swings with his current driver. We made a couple of technique corrections, then I had him take six more swings to get a baseline for some of his readings on the simulator. He was playing a Callaway RAZR Fit driver head, 11.5 degrees, with a stock Callaway stiff shaft. His swing speed average was around 100, and he was carrying the ball about 230 to 235 yards on his best swings. His ball flight was a slight push fade to a straight fade, and it was costing him a lot of distance. This student's swing speed alone would not justify an extra stiff shaft, but I observed that he had a "heavy hit". This means that he was getting a little extra push with his right arm right at the moment of impact. Boxing's version of "heavy hit" was "Smokin" Joe Frazier, who threw most of his punches in a straight line right from the shoulder, versus Muhammad Ali, who would sometimes wind up a little more for some of his haymakers. In golf terms, Muhammad Ali would have registered more swing speed than "Smokin" Joe, but they each generated crushing impact. I thought that an extra stiff shaft would probably be the ticket for this student, so I had him take some swings with his driver head and my stock extra stiff replacement shaft, as well as with my 10.5 driver head with the extra stiff shaft. The results were astounding. On the very first swing, he made his best swing of the day, and hit a perfectly straight ball that carried 266 yards. That was an improvement of over 30 yards of carry due to a stiffer shaft flex (and the tighter torque that goes along with a change to a stiffer shaft). I sent him a follow up email with shaft recommendations, but I'll bet he had one ordered before he even got my email, he was very happy. And the heck of it is that he actually can gain a few more yards of carry in that swing if he can manage to swing up just a little more at impact, so that he's hitting the ball on an ascending arc rather than at the bottom of his swing arc. If he drops his right shoulder just a little at setup, it should help him swing up at the ball. The moral of the story for maximum results from your driver swing is: first of all, have good technique, and second have the right shaft and driver head combination for your swing. Don't be afraid to experiment. Driver Fitting information is here: Driver Fitting Details 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. Easter Brunch at the Batavia Country Club - please call for reservations, I made mine last Monday! More info and prices at 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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