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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: Skipping The Stone - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Tom's Bonus Tip: Monitoring Clubface Contact - 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: Skipping The Stone For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Before I get to this week's main tip, I have a couple of quick comments on last week's US Open. First of all, I really like Jordan Speith as the champion, but it really was heartbreaking to see Dustin Johnson miss that 4 footer to tie and send it to a playoff. It looked to me like he pulled the putt, but that brings me to my second comment. No one can say that the greens were unfair, because they were the same for everyone. Having said that, why the USGA decided to play greens that looked - and apparently felt - like compressed granola is beyond me. Hey USGA - this is the US Open, not the British Open, play the type of layout and greens that are representative of what our pro's and our amateurs play week to week! Now on to this week's featured tip - Skipping The Stone I was recently working with one of my better players who takes weekly lessons. His game is good, but his recurring problem is not hitting a consistent running draw with his driver, which is what he desires to do, and what I am in agreement with. His problem was twofold - striking the clubface towards the heel of his driver, and a semi-flying elbow. This featured tip will deal with correct right elbow position on the downswing, the bonus tip will tell you how to monitor your ball - clubface contact with your driver. On the downswing, his right elbow was out of position at transition. This caused a loss of swing speed and a down the line attack path into the ball instead of an inside attack path. It also contributed to poor clubface contact. We practiced some very slow motion drills where he practiced dropping his right elbow lower and more forward simultaneously with the bump that starts his downswing transition. After he understood that move, we added a commitment to a right arm extension through impact, as if he was throwing something outward (towards right field to use a baseball analogy). When he did those two moves combined with correct rotation, his swing was producing beautiful draws one out of three swings with one other being fairly well struck and one not too great. That's a decent percentage for when you are integrating a new thought and movement into your swing, but then we hit on words and a thought that produced four perfect swings, and that's excellent. As this student was practicing the move with his right hand only, no club, I asked him if he ever skipped flat stones or rocks off a pond when he was a kid. He said yes, and I asked him to show me his arm movement when he did that. He showed me, and "voila" it was exactly what I wanted him to do in his downswing. He then hit four perfect draws as he thought about "skipping the stone" in his downswing. Try the thought of "skipping the stone" with your right arm if you are swinging over the top or down the line on your downswing and I'm positive you'll show improvement. 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: Monitoring Clubface Contact For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. If your drives are sailing right with your driver, first of all you should understand that the face is probably open at impact. But with the driver there could be another contributing factor. If you hit the driver towards the heel of the club, it may send the ball to the right, so you need to monitor clubface contact at impact. You may also need to groove a better swingpath, but that topic is for another newsletter. Here are three ways to monitor ball to clubface contact with your driver.
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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