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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: Slow Motion Practice - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Tom's Bonus Tip: The Buffalo Pro Net Golf Tour - Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say - Sponsors: Plum Creek Driving Range Batavia Country Club 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: Slow Motion Practice For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. If anyone were to ask me what was the best thing they could do for their swing in a short period of time, my answer would be slow motion movement pattern practice. I read a book a few years ago entitled: "Slow Practice Will Get You There Faster: Link between Ben Hogans' mirror practice and his slow motion drill" by Ernest Dras, and I believe the concept has a ton of merit. If you added 15 minutes to your practice regimen and used all of that time for concentrated slow motion movement pattern practice - no ball, just you and your club - you'd get better at that motion. The caveat is that the motion needs to be done perfectly. If you have the knowledge and the patience, you will build skill for that motion. First acquire the knowledge - take a lesson, read a book, watch a good DVD - then schedule the practice time. After you have a concept of how you want to swing the club, break the full swing pattern down into small chunks, then practice each chunk separately. After you've nailed down one chunk, move on to the next, then eventually piece them all together. To get the absolute most out of this type of practice, use a mirror or video yourself to make sure that you are doing each move 100% correctly. I like the mirror because it gives me immediate feedback while I'm doing the motion. Here's what your chunks might look like:
This doesn't replace full speed practice, but it adds to it's quality when you do slow movement practice before your full speed practice. It will be challenging to not speed things up, but stay the course, keep it slow, and watch your skill grow. 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 Tom's Bonus Tip: The Buffalo Pro Net Golf Tour For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Chris Carroll, one of my students who is playing in as many mini tour events (and cashing) as he can manage in his quest to make it to the tour, mentioned something of interest to me. He has a friend - Sean Michalski - who has started a mini tour locally called The Buffalo Pro Net Golf Tour. Details are here: buffalogolftour.net It's interesting because it has a scratch division and a handicap division. If you are interested in competing against your peers or in the scratch division, it offers that choice. The really nice thing is that they are being held at local courses that you will recognize. I wish Sean well, but I'm stopping short of an endorsement because my experience is that tours like this are challenging to sustain. I know firsthand, because about 18 years ago I was playing in these types of tours for awhile and they came and went. Having said that, there's not much risk for participants, so check it out to see if you might want to give it a shot. 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 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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