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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: Little Things Can Make A Big Difference (I) Tour Greens: Tour Quality Synthetic Greens Tom's Bonus Tip: Little Things Can Make A Big Difference (II) 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: Little Things Can Make A Big Difference (I) For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Before I tell this story, I need to mention that I never gratuitously offer advice to anyone that I play with. If asked, I'll sometimes offer a snippet of advice, but that's about it. I say never - but actually I have given advice to my good friends that were struggling so much that I couldn't stand it any more, and it's always been well received. Last weekend I went on annual golf trip to the Conley Resort in Butler, Pa. It was a lot of fun and the weather couldn't have been better. Thursday was an informal round, Friday and Saturday we played a four team stroke play round with Callaway scoring for the morning round, and we played a scramble each afternoon. Sunday morning we played an optional informal round of golf, then we headed home. The size of the group varies from year to year and one of the things I like about it is that you get to play with different players for each game. This year in the first stroke play round on Friday I had the pleasure of playing with a 30 year old player, who was a great guy but was hitting a 40 yard slice with every tee shot. He doesn't play much golf, but he had a great attitude. One of the guys in the group mentioned to him that I was a golf instructor, and the kid asked me if I could offer any advice to help him straighten out his drives. I had noticed right away that his swing plane was tool vertical and he was coming through the ball with an open clubface and a very upright follow through. So I told him that his swing plane was too vertical, and that it needed to be flatter. Those words generated a puzzled look on his face, so I said try to make your swing less like a ferris wheel and more like a merry go round, and his face lit up with acknowledgement. It was a Eureka moment. He took a couple practice swings and remarked that he even felt his hands come through the ball into his follow through like he had never felt before. The very next drive he hit was a pull, but it had a very straight, hard flight and he was smiling even though he had hit it left. It felt solid. The next drive he hit, however, was a perfectly straight monster right down the middle of the fairway, the best drive (he said) that he had ever hit. Over the course of the weekend he expressed so much gratitude to me for the advice that it was almost embarrassing. What he didn't realize is that a teacher is just as gratified, if not more so, than the student when the student executes the teacher's advice with success. The lesson here is that if you are hitting big pushes, fades, or slices, try a little more merry go round and a little less ferris wheel in your swing. It may work wonders. 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: Little Things Can Make A Big Difference (II) For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. About a week and a half ago, I ordered a new driver through Chris Pompa, owner of the Batavia Country Club. My new Ping G30 driver, 9 degree stiff shaft, arrived the day before my golf trip last weekend. I had no chance to try it out, but I decided to leave my old driver home and play the new driver for the whole golf trip anyway. Normally I would have found some way to get at least fifty swings in before I put it in my bag, but at the present time I'm having some issues with my back - so I decided to save my swings for my trip and accept the results. During my Thursday and Friday morning stroke play rounds, the ball was jumping off the face of the driver very well, but the ball trajectory was a bit low. So I adjusted the loft to 10 degrees, and the results were amazing. It gave me the medium trajectory flight that I desire to get the YAC (Yards After Carry) that I want out of my drives. The distance was as good as, if not better, than my old driver, and my shot dispersion and curvature was overall pretty consistent (except for a couple of massive overswings in the scramble - yes I'm guilty of that once in awhile during a scramble just like you are :-) ). I really feel like I know where the ball is headed with this driver, and that's just about the best feeling you can have in golf. The lesson here is that if you have an adjustable driver, tweak the adjustments a little and see what difference it makes. Take it to the range and get 40 or 50 swings in with the adjustment. If you liked your range results, play two meaningful rounds with the tweak before you pass final judgement. Swings that mean something when you play a round are usually a little different that the swings you make at the range, because there are consequences when you play. Don't be afraid to experiment a little, with the goal of making some aspect of your game better. 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. Six week Fall League starting September 14th. Call Pro Shop for details. 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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