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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 Natural Release - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Tom's Bonus Tip: Risk - Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say - Sponsors: Plum Creek Driving Range Batavia Country Club Tour Greens Western New York 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: The Natural Release For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. A lesson I gave recently motivated me to write about this topic. The student was in his fifties, very fit, and loves the game of golf. He has shot a low round of 70 in his life, but over the past several years his game has deteriorated to shooting in the eighties. I know many of you reading this would like to have the "problem" of shooting in the eighties, but his problem is real. Here's some of what I told him "I give lessons to many students that were once low single digit handicap players but have seen their handicap rise to double digits. Almost to a man (or woman), this rise in handicap is accompanied by - or perhaps even caused by - overactive hands. It seems as a persons game starts to deteriorate, they try to make up for it by opening the face on the backswing, then forcing too much rotation to close the clubface at the point of impact. What actually should happen is the opposite. Let the clubface open and release naturally as you hold the face square to your swing circle. Resist forcing any rotation at all. The Natural Release As you turn into your takeaway and backswing, you should concentrate on keeping your clubhead square to your swing circle, not fanning the clubface open. When your right elbow starts to bend as a natural progression of the backswing, the clubface will look and feel like it's opening. Then initiate your downswing sequence correctly with a lateral weight bump/shift and simultaneously point your right elbow towards the ground and move it towards your right side. This puts the club on plane, and it should look like the face is still open. As you approach impact with your downswing and extend your right arm, it will look like the clubface is closing because it is getting back to square to your swing circle. This is your natural release. No rolling of the hands or forearms, just trying to keep things squared up to your swing circle. Into your follow through the clubface should remain square to your swing circle until your left elbow bends, at which time it will look like the clubface is rotating closed. This happens from the momentum of the elbow action just like it does in the backswing, not from consciously rolling hands or forearms to close the face. It can produce draws or fades depending on ball position and body alignment. It's fairly simple to execute after you've practiced it. Why complicate a simple action with overactive hands? Here's a drill you can do to build this skill. Do it with or without a club, no ball. in very slow motion:
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 - and they LOVE Western New York weather! 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: Risk For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I saw this quote from author and publisher Bob Kennedy and had to pass it along: "Without risks, there are no rewards. Without passion, there are no results" I think this could be applied judiciously to golf, with emphasis on the word judiciously. 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 Tour Greens Western New York Practice with purpose in your own back yard on your own synthetic practice green. Our greens LOVE Western New York weather! 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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