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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: Quick Shank Fix - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Health, Wellness, Fitness: Weight Training Inter-Set Recovery Period - Nutrition: Get Your Daily Essentials - Tom's Bonus Tip: Lag Putts - Go For Close Not Make - Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say - Sponsors: Plum Creek Driving Range Batavia Country Club OPEN FOR THE SEASON Thursday April 9, 2015 Genesee Community College Golf Management Program 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: Quick Shank Fix For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Shanks are one of the more disturbing problems that a golfer can face. I remember a time several years ago when I was shanking the ball so often that I was just about ready to quit the game. If you have a tendency to shank the ball once in awhile, here's a quick fix that you should try before you try anything else. Very often a shank is caused by incorrect toe to heel weight distribution at impact. This is fairly common in good players who have grooved an inside attack angle on their downswing. When you attack the ball from an inside angle with a wedge, everything has to be perfect to pull it off. More so than if your wedge swing is a little more vertical, because the momentum from a vertical swing plane does not have as much of an outward pull as the momentum from a flatter swing plane. I prefer the inside attack angle, but what often happens is that the player starts to lean away - towards the ball - from the body position they established at address as the club approaches the bottom of their swing . This outward body and arms motion causes the clubface to strike the ball too much towards the heel of the club, and in extreme cases it causes a shank, a pure hosel rocket. The cause is that the momentum of the swing puts too much weight in the toes and causes too much outward movement of the clubhead. The fix is to keep your feet flatter, or to feel more weight in your heels at impact. The drill is to take practice - or actual - swings with your toes propped up on something, a 2" x 4" will do, in order to feel your weight positioned more in your heels. This will stop the outward slide of your clubhead. You can usually sense when your strikes are getting close to shanks, because you're striking the ball too close to the hosel. As soon as that happens, try getting more weight in your heels through the strike and I'm 100% confident it will nip potential shanks in the bud. Keep practicing. 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: Weight Training Inter-Set Recovery Period Disclaimer: DO NOT PERFORM ANY STRENUOUS PHYSICAL EXERCISE LIKE THE ONE LISTED BELOW, WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. As a result of scientific studies, two to three minutes appears to be the optimal inter-set recovery period if maximal strength gains are your goal. To read more about the study, click here: What's the Effect of Different Rest Intervals on Maximal Power & Muscle Endurance? 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: Lag Putts - Go For Close Not Make For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I've read this advice recently as well as on several other occasions in the past: "To three putt less, try to make every putt." I've always had a problem with that mentality. With an aggressive player, especially a good aggressive player, I think the possibility exists for more three putts, not less, with that mindset. My mantra to my players when I coached college golf was "hate bogeys more than you love birdies", which means don't get so aggressive on birdie putts that you turn them into bogeys. Phil Mickelson validated my way of thinking in a recent tip in Golf Digest when he said "This is where you save shots, lag putting or chipping a foot or two closer to the hole, not by making more long putts." If you don't want to take it from me, take it from him - concentrate on getting your lag putts to tap in range. Some will actually drop, and you'll also have fewer three putts. All the best, Tom 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. Tee times online or by phone in season. www.bataviacc.com (585) 343-7600 OPEN FOR THE SEASON Thursday April 9, 2015 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. 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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