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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: YAC - Get Some - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Tom's Bonus Tip: Don't Believe Everything You Hear on TV - 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: YAC - Get Some! For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. If you carry the ball 260 yards, you don't necessarily need YAC, but it could be beneficial under some course conditions. If you have a more normal swing speed range, or if you are a senior player or a female player, you could probably use some YAC. So what the heck is YAC? It came to me because in football YAC acronym means Yards After the Catch. My golf YAC acronym means Yards After Carry with your drive. Especially in the dry conditions we play in late summer, YAC can get you much closer to the hole off the tee. Much closer to the hole should mean more pars or birdies. In order to get YAC you need a medium trajectory launch with your driver that produces a draw, which is a shot that curves gently from right to left. There is more than one way to produce a draw, but for most of my students I prefer a technique that does not employ excessive hand movement. The caveat is that you own your swing circle. That means that you swing along your body lines the same way for each club in your bag. The angle of your circle will change with each club, because each club has a different lie angle. Your wedge swings will be more vertical than your driver swing. The swing circle, however, remains consistent as far as your swing fundamentals and swinging along your body lines. Here's a simple way to hit a gentle draw.
If you normally hit fades or slices, this will be a game changer. Try it, you'll love the YAC. 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: Don't Believe Everything You Hear on TV For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I was coin flipping over calling this short comment "Don't believe everything you hear" or "What the heck did that mean?". While watching the totally captivating PGA Tournament last Sunday, I saw Brandon Grace make a stroke at a straight 15 foot or so putt that missed pretty badly to the left, but rolled about 10 inches past the hole. That's perfect speed to me.. Then one of the regular commentators, who makes so many mistakes in his opinions on technique that I lose count, said " He had the blade closed at impact, he needs a little better acceleration." Whaaat? A little better acceleration would simply mean that he would have missed that straight putt left, but that it would have rolled further away from the hole. The slow motion replay looked like a square strike, which means to me that it was simply a bad read or bad alignment. I cringe when I think about those fans watching TV that have a consistent left miss with their putts that now think more acceleration will solve the problem. If you are missing straight putts to the left consistently, it's not because of poor acceleration. Either the face is closed to your swingpath, or it's square to an outside to inside swingpath, or you could be moving your head. Most of it is pure physics, don't overthink it. Most of the time when you watch TV and listen to the commentary, it's more reliable to believe what you see, not necessarily what you hear. 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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