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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 Thank a Vet For Their Service Today! In This Issue Tom's Featured Tip: Handling Pressure Tour Greens: Tour Quality Synthetic Greens Tom's Bonus Tip: Chip It Low Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say Sponsors: Plum Creek Driving Range Batavia Country Club - REDUCED RATES FOR 2016 SEASON PASS MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE UNTIL DECEMBER 20TH, 2015 - PLUS PAY NOW PLAY NOW 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 Plum Creek's 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: Handling Pressure For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. If you fold like a cheap suit on four foot putts or habitually skull or chunk chips, there are a couple things you can do to improve your performance. You can work on technique ie: keeping weight more on the forward foot for chips, and you can employ a tempo mantra such as "straight back - straight through" for putts, or "swing back - swing through" for chips. Both of those things will definitely help, but there's also a very simple mental "trick" that I used to use with my college golf teams that really helped calm the nerves down in high pressure situations. The basis of the cure was this question: What's The Worst That Can Happen? I used to tell my college players to ask themselves that question whenever they faced a pressure situation - like a four foot putt to win a match. The worst thing that could happen as a result of missing that four footer is that you lose the match. Life goes on, those that loved you before still love you. Your friends are still your friends. You live and learn. Worrying about missing that putt serves no useful purpose. You need to view these seemingly important events in context with a larger view of life. I had a college player tell me during his match, that it was a "must win" if we were going to get to nationals. I explained that a "must win" was World War ll (I borrowed that phrase from Marv Levy), and I think that helped the player put things in perspective. He won his match easily that day. In the vast scheme of things, that four footer really isn't that important. And here's the bonus - when you adopt that frame of mind, worry and tension diminish, and you'll actually make a higher percentage of better swings as well as more putts! Adopt a big picture mindset and ask yourself "What's The Worst That Can Happen?" in pressure situations when you play golf (and in life), and your performance will improve. Try it, you'll like 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: Chip It Low For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Chip shots should be on the ground and rolling as soon as possible, which means they should be a low trajectory shot. A great way to practice this - indoors or outdoors - is chipping under a bench. Put this practice drill on your winter practice bucket list. 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. Reduced rates for 2016 Season Pass Memberships available until December 20th, 2015 PLUS pay now and play now on 2016 membership. See website below for rates. 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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