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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: Uneven Lies - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Tom's Bonus Tip: Shaft Flex - 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: Q&A: Uneven Lies For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Q: Hi Tom, I like this topic (ball going right). I'm experiencing a similar situation of the "righties" but it's more often due to the lie of the ball: above or below my feet or stance position is either uphill/downhill. In my case, ball above my feet or uphill stance is most difficult. Suggestions/thoughts? Peace, Warren S. Steve T. A: Thanks for the question Warren. I'll give you a list of rules to follow for uneven lie situations, but the first thing to remember as far as starting direction of a shot goes is that it starts out (90% of the time) in the direction that the clubface is pointing. So for uneven lies, just figure that the ball will start out where the clubface is pointing at impact. I pretty much know your swing, so I'm surprised that uphill or side hill with the ball above your feet is the most difficult. In your case, I'm pretty much positive that it's a ball position problem. You need to play it a shade more forward in your stance, and don't quit at the hit, stay down and through. You'll probably need to keep tweaking the ball position until you nail it, but you'll get it eventually. Make sure to get good target orientation in your brain during your pre-shot routine, and to allow for curvature as described below. Also, don't get confused between an uphill lie, and when the ball is simply above your feet. These are two different lies, and should be addressed separately. Likewise, don't get confused with the downhill lie, and the ball being below your feet. Again, these are two different lies. Let's start with the easiest uneven lie shot in golf, the up-hill lie. Most players that struggle with this shot usually swing the golf club to steeply into the ground and hit a fat shot. Before you prepare for an uphill lie, you need to think of a few important items first.
All the best, Tom 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: Shaft Flex For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I believe that a lot of self taught players are playing with the wrong flex shaft for one reason or another. Many players think that because they have a swing speed over 100 mph that they should be swinging a stiff or an extra stiff flex shaft. But, as the saying among clubfitters goes "It's not how fast you swing it, it's how you swing it fast". Players with a very fast but smooth swing may be better off with a softer flex shaft. Players with a heavy lag but not exceptionally fast swing speed may still be better off with a more stiff shaft flex. The way to find out for sure is to try different shafts and compare carry distance and spin rate. If you don't have access to a simulator, you should still be able to determine the best flex by trying different flexes on the range and paying close attention to the results. Here's what getting the right flex can do for your game. Jeff M. recently came in and got fitted for his driver, and we determined that he needed a stiffer flex shaft. He's a strong individual and loads the shaft heavy during transition. He has fast but not exceptionally fast swing speed. He had been playing a stiff shaft in his driver, and had been shooting in the eighties and nineties prior to the fitting. I supplied him with specs, and he ended up getting a driver with an x stiff shaft. Here's a copy of what he said in an email to me last week: Tom, Very pleased, Wednesday and Thursday played Twin Hills shot 78/77. The 77 was with, I hate to say a 4 putt and an OB. So thanks again. (Editors note - of course I replied and busted his chops about the four putt) Jeff So if you are fitting yourself solely on the basis of swing speed, swing some clubs with different shaft flexes and see if they make a difference in your ball flight. 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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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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