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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: Back Pain Tour Greens: Tour Quality Synthetic Greens Tom's Bonus Tip: Squaring The Putterface 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 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: Back Pain For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. This season - 2015 - I dealt with a bulging disc in my back and some mildly herniated discs in my neck. The neck never really caused me any swing issues, but the bulging disc in the thoracic area of my spine affected my game severely and took me completely out of action for a couple of weeks. I went to see a neurosurgeon who said that he didn't think surgery would be appropriate, and that basically I had to live with it because the golf swing is "hard on the back". I should have checked to see if he was a golfer before I made the appointment, but at least I had peace of mind that surgery wasn't necessary. My daughter Colleen is a Physical Therapist Assistant at the V.A. Hospital in Buffalo, and I mentioned the problem to her. I caught her just as she had completed some McKenzie Method training on back issues, and she showed me an exercise that I've been doing ever since that has helped me immensely. Just to cover my butt I'm stating that you shouldn't try this exercise without your doctor's consent if you have back pain. Here's the exercise I do faithfully every day that has all but cured my problem:
I do it for five consecutive minutes every morning, after I play golf, and after any exercise session. I believe that it has realigned my disc to the point to where I should be able to progress to more thoracic spine stretching exercises. This is the next exercise I am adding. I'm working into it gently and will continue to do if my back allows: Side Lying Thoracic Rotation Give these exercises a try in the same sequence as recommended if you are experiencing thoracic back pain, and I think you'll find some relief. 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: Squaring The Putterface For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Florida at my son Tom's home. While there I had the chance to play several rounds with him, my grandson Cameron, and my brother Jim. Tom was a Club Pro at one time in his life, and he's a high level player. During our first round, he was leaving his putts to the right because his face wasn't squaring up, and he did something interesting the second time we played. His putter of choice is a small mallet head Scotty Cameron putter, but for that round he switched to a toe drop blade putter to help him feel the putterface squaring up. His stroke is a mildly arcing to square stroke, and the switch did the trick. He switched back to his Scotty Cameron putter for subsequent rounds, and he was squaring the putterface fine after that. Here's the lesson:
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 See website for rates. www.bataviacc.com (585) 343-7600 - Course Still Open & Taking Tee Times thru This Weekend & Beyond (weather permitting). Pro Shop Open Daily, 9-4 for Golf, Memberships & Gift Certificates... Pro Shop Merchandise Still Available! 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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