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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: Haste Makes Waste Tour Greens: Tour Quality Synthetic Greens Tom's Bonus Tip: Knowledge is Power 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: Haste Makes Waste For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Have you ever stroked a putt on what you thought was the correct line, then it broke the wrong way? I know that I have, and on a couple of occasions I then looked at the line from behind the hole in the direction of where the ball was and saw the correct line. (I just had a Eureka moment - maybe that's where the phrase "hindsight is always 20 - 20" came from.) My haste caused me to shorten my pre-shot routine by not getting the "hole to ball" view, just the "ball to hole" view, and it caused a stroke to be wasted. For me it happens every now and then when I'm rushing, usually for no good reason. That's something I can work on in 2016 for sure. Whenever you have a putt where you are not 100% sure of the direction of the break do two things:
One more thought on this subject. When the break looks different from the "ball to hole" view than it does from "hole to ball" view, and your feet didn't tell you a lot about the slope when you stalked the putt, play it straight. This has paid big dividends for me, because I always tend to see some break in a putt, even the straight ones. This has straightened out my brain on quite a few occasions, and I've made putts that I would have missed if I didn't trust the process. 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: Knowledge is Power For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Here are a few Rules nuances and changes you may have missed, enjoy. Q: A player is not permitted to lift their ball from a bunker to identify it. True or False? A: False. Rule 12-2. This Rule was changed in January 2012 and at the same time, Rule 15-3 was changed to remove the exemption from penalty for playing a wrong ball in a hazard. Q: Can a player rake a bunker when his ball is in it? A: Since January 2012, players are permitted to smooth sand or soil in a hazard at any time, including before playing from that hazard, providing it is done for the sole purpose of caring for the course and nothing is done to improve the position or lie of their ball, the area of their intended stance or swing, or their line of play. Rule 13-4. Q: If there is "reasonable evidence" that a ball that has not been found is in an abnormal ground condition, the player may take relief under Rule 25-1c. True or False? A: False. In January 2008, the term "reasonable evidence" was replaced by the stronger requirement of "known or virtually certain". Q: Following a wayward drive, a player may not play a provisional ball once they have left the immediate area of the teeing ground and started walking towards the place where their original ball is likely to be. A: Not so! A player may now return to play a provisional ball if they have not proceeded more than approximately 50 yards towards where their original ball is likely to be. Decision 27-2a/1.5 (revised January 2014). Q: In stroke play, a player makes a stroke at their ball in a bunker; it hits the lip of the bunker and rebounds, hitting their shoe. They incur a penalty of two strokes. A: Nope. The penalty was decreased from two strokes to one stroke in January 2008. Rule 19-2. Q:Which of the following questions may a player ask a fellow competitor without incurring a penalty? a) What is the distance between my ball and the hole? b) What is the distance of this par 3 according to your rangefinder? c) How far do you think that water hazard is from this teeing ground? d) All of the previous questions? A: d) All of the previous questions. In January 2008, the definition of "advice" was amended to allow the exchange of information on distance, which is not now considered as advice. 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. Early deep discount membership deadline has expired, but great discounts are still available until April 1st. The earlier you pay the larger the discount. Check website for specific rates then call or stop in to purchase your 2016 membership. 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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