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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: Goals Tour Greens: Tour Quality Synthetic Greens Tom's Bonus Tip: Little Things Can Make A Big Difference - Wrists 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: Goals For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Goal setting is perhaps one of the most least considered aspects of golf for the average player. When I say goals, I mean the written down kind, not the "in your mind kind". If it's not written down it's a desire or a dream, which I consider to be much different than a goal. I was travelling for the last few days when I received a call from Chris Carroll, the pro at Rothland who I coach. He called me for two reasons - one to ask me if I had received my email newsletter from the U.S.G.T.F., the professional organization we both belong to. I hadn't read it yet, but it mentioned him because he won the Northeast Regional Tournament - so congrats are in order for that. But the main reason he called me was that he read where Dicky Pride predicted his Web.com Tour win with a motivational message he kept in his wallet. It was written by hand on a piece of paper and it said: "I will win on the web.com tour in 2015, and be exempt for the PGA Tour in 2016". He also posted this after the tournament win: "This has been in my wallet for 6 months I look at it every day. Dream it Believe it write it down and watch it happen". The reason Chris called me about this is that at the beginning of 2015, I had him write down his goal of playing on tour in his pocket - I'm not mentioning the exact words here, that's personal. I'm glad Dicky Pride reinforced my advice. Personally, I've been carrying a note with the number "68" on it in my money clip so that I see it every time I take out any cash. That's my age, and I want to shoot it this year. The bad news is that it hasn't happened yet (I was close twice) the good news is that I will be changing the note to read "69" in about a month :-) The value of the written goal is that every time you see it, it reinforces your determination to accomplish your goal. It will keep you on track when you are tempted to wander. Does it always work? No, but it will provide motivation when you are tempted to be lazy (like skipping a scheduled practice or workout), or when you are losing your focus. So if you have a specific - and it needs to be specific - golf goal, take a minute to write it down on an index card, put it in your pocket, and look at it daily. If it is a long range goal or one with the purpose of breaking a bad habit, have it laminated so that it will last. Writing it down and seeing it daily is a powerful motivator. Just ask Dicky Pride. 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 - Wrists For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Here's an addition to last issue's tip about a flatter swing plane vs. a vertical swing plane (merry go round vs. ferris wheel). After you arrive at a good swing plane for your driver, add the thought of "oily wrists" to your brain and your swing transformation should be complete. That thought really helps your clubface square up at the correct time. Try it, you'll like it. 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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