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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: The Long Pole Turning Drill - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Non-Exhaustive Activity For Fat Loss - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Head Movement - 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: The Long Pole Turning Drill For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. In the last issue I spoke about keeping your side tilted towards the ground in your backswing and through swing, and I received quite a few emails asking for a more detailed drill on maintaining tilt. Lessons are gearing up now, and I'm noticing this "side tilt" deficiency more and more in my students. Most of them turn back with a fair amount of side tilt, but then lose the tilt in the forward swing due to a flat shoulder turn. Necessity being the mother of invention, I developed this simple drill to build the feeling of maintaining side tilt in your swing. It's an original as far as my thinking is concerned, but I'm sure variations exist. What I like about the drill is that it gives multiple bang for the buck so to speak. It helps develop an on plane swing (maintaining your side tilt), it helps you feel the correct elbow position in your trail arm, and it also helps you feel the correct sequence in your downswing transition. The Long Pole Turning Drill For this drill you will need a long pole or dowel, one that measures about six feet long minimum. At home I use a six foot piece of aluminum pipe. Outdoors I use an extension pole that was designed to fit on a paint roller to extend your reach. Indoors you may be restricted by ceiling height, so use the shorter pole. Outdoors use a longer pole. I extend it to a length that almost touches the ground when I turn. That way I can really see the angle of the plane in my turn. If you have access to a full length mirror, use it the first few times to check your angles at the top of your swing and at the finish of your swing.
If you have access to a full length mirror, use it the first few times to check your angles at the top of your swing and at the finish of your swing as follows:
Try gently for a tiny bit of additional turn every time you do this drill and you will build up more length in your backswing, which translates to a faster swing speed and more distance. You can gauge the amount of turn you are getting by putting the full length mirror in a face on view to observe how far your shoulders are turning. I really encourage everyone to make this drill a habit, it's quick and easy and pays tremendous dividends. 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? 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Comments: ttucker@rochester.rr.com Love your practice, own your swing, own your health, Tom Health, Wellness, Fitness: Non-Exhaustive Activity For Fat Loss Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. It Doesn't Have to be an Exhaustive Workout - Increasing Physical Activity Just as Effective as Strength, Endurance or Combined Exercise to Lose Fat and Build Muscle Why do exercise efforts fail? They are too ambitious. The all-or-nothing approach combined with the expectation that the belly they've build over decades will fade away in weeks is a combination that programs obese people to fail. In a recent study from the Technical University of Madrid, scientists were able to show that a mere increase in daily physical activity is as effective in boosting obese subjects weight loss efforts as "serious" exercise. To read more about the study, click here: Physical Activity and Fat Loss 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: Head Movement For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Lateral head movement should be non-existent in putting, and extremely minimal or non-existent in the full swing. I'm referring to lateral head movement, not rotation, which is permitted in the full swing but not for putting. I usually find myself teaching more of a centered or forward sided pivot to most of my students, but once in awhile I find a student that fits more comfortably into a more traditional rear sided pivot type of swing. For a centered pivot or front sided pivot swing method, we strive for no lateral head movement at all. For a traditional rear sided pivot swing style, there may be some lateral movement of the head during the weight shift to the right side in the backswing. Many of the great older players had this type of movement in their swing. Greg Norman comes to mind here, and he was no slouch! But here's the one thing that is in common for all swing types - after the head has returned laterally to the position it held at setup, there is no more lateral head movement prior to impact. It stops there for all good players. This is pretty much an absolute in golf, so practice swings in front of a full length mirror, face on view, and make sure that your head doesn't move laterally forward of your setup position at the bottom of your 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. 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