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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: Q&A: Releasing The Putterhead - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Tom's Bonus Tip: Before You Buy That New Putter - 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: Q&A: Releasing The Putterhead For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Q: Hi Tom, In your last newsletter you said that after Brandon Grace missed a putt left, an announcer said that Grace had the blade closed at impact, and that Grace needed more acceleration. How do you get the blade to square up if you want to use a stroke that releases the putterhead? Thanks, William H. A: That's a good question William. I think there is a lot of confusion on the concept of "releasing the putterhead". First of all, most of the players that putt with what they consider to be a release of the putterhead, aren't really releasing it at all. Most or all of those players use an arcing stroke, which comes inside on the backswing, rather than down the line, then just after the strike the putter comes inside on the follow through. If you observe closely, you will notice that the putterhead is staying square to the inside to inside arcing swingpath, not actually opening or closing. The putterhead does appear to be opening on the backswing and closing on the follow because that's how it looks in relation to the aimline. You could be a great putter with this stroke but it requires a lot of practice. I still like a more vertical stroke path which travels more down the line - straight back and straight through - because the margin for error favors a square face at impact. There's also not as not as much perfect timing involved. I will pretty much guarantee poor results if you consciously try to close the face at impact with hand manipulation. Too much timing and hand eye coordination is involved for that stroke to ever to be as repeatable and accurate as an arcing stroke with no manipulation of the hands, or a straight back - straight through stroke, which I personally favor. Before you switch to a new stroke that insludes a lot of hand movement, do your research and make sure that you were doing your old stroke perfectly before you abandon it. 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: Before You Buy That New Putter For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I get this question all the time " what's the most important thing to consider when buying a new putter?" The answer is simple - own your putting stroke first, then buy a putter that fits it. Of course there are other considerations like length, loft, lie, head style, head weight, etc., but owning your stroke absolutely must come first. That affects every other aspect of putter fitting. So learn a stroke that suits your eye and body by either doing research or taking a lesson, than get a putter with a putterhead style that that suits your stroke. Blade style head with a little toe hang for an arcing stroke, mallet head for more of a straight back - straight through method. 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. 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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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