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TomTuckerGolf.com Golf Tips Newsletter Issue 540 - Wed. January 16th, 2019 Website Newsletters Archive |
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Prepare to play your best golf by doing something now! Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say Sponsors: Plum Creek Driving Range Batavia Country Club Chestnut Hill Country Club Click here: INDOOR GOLF LESSONS for details on how to improve your game over the winter. Plum Creek Driving Range, Batavia, NY, Open All Year Simulator Course Play Specials: BataviaGolf.com Call 585-993-0930 or Email Mark to reserve simulator time! Buy Gift Certificates for Lessons Sample Gift Certificate Golf lessons - Outdoor and Indoor - are available at Plum Creek. Please call me (Tom Tucker) 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: Swing Circuit Training For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Before I get started on this week's article, I received more feedback on clubfitters. Eric B. researched TXG - Tour Experience Golf in Toronto, Canada and he's very high on them. I included his comments in an addendum to his previous remarks, you can view them here: Tom Tucker Golf Newsletter - Issue 539 look for ADDENDUM Swing Circuit Training This is the time of year when most serious golfers here in the Northeast start hitting the dome or indoor training bays in an effort to develop a better swing for the upcoming season. I'm going to provide some details in this article on how to to make your practice time efficient and productive. Before I do, there are a few caveats that I need to mention. They are:
When you practice, make sure that you are making changes to improve performance, not for aesthetics. If prizes were given to only those golfers that had beautiful swings, Jim Furyk would be broke. As it is, his weird looking but efficient (for him) swing has rewarded him with millions of dollars in tournament winnings. If you study the game, you should have an idea on how your swing mechanics need to change to accomplish the result you want. If you don't, do some research or enlist the aid of a swing coach/instructor in the beginning to get you on the right track. To really build a body movement change permanently into your brain and body, you need to apply the principles of spacing and variability in your training. To do that, incorporate swing circuit training into your practice sessions. Most of you have probably heard of circuit training for weight training or calisthenics - where you proceed from one exercise to a different one to get a full body workout. In your golf practice you can utilize swing circuit training by hitting different shots with different clubs then repeating. This type of circuit training builds an effective retention process by moving you in and out of the learning environment for your specific challenge. By doing that, it forces you to keep re-learning your desired swing correction technique when you are at that circuit. It challenges and improves your recall. For example, if you have been in the habit of hitting most of your irons fat, you need to practice hitting the ball before you have turf interaction with the sole of the club. Ball first, ground second. The training circuit for that would be hitting soft swing, stock swing, and firm swing punch shots with a pitching wedge, with a towel positioned 2" to 4" behind the ball to give feedback - if you are striking the ball first or the towel (ground) first. Move the towel closer to the ball as you get more proficient with your strikes. Your circuit stations for this ball striking correction might look like this:
As far as feedback goes, use a training aid that gives you feedback without doing the work for you. Something that makes your body make moves on it's own to accomplish a result. For example, restraint devices like pool noodles positioned on the ground can help guide your swing to an improved swing path, but your body needs to make the necessary changes to avoid striking the pool noodles. If you are a more sophisticated player and know how to use TrackMan, try making swing changes to change the numbers without looking at the numbers after each swing. Make the swing adjustment, guess the numbers, then check them out. That develops a cause and effect relationship with your swing changes. The end result should be to turn your thought changes into feel. Your swing thought changes should produce shots that feel correct and produce correct results. Introducing circuit training into your practice sessions absolutely will help you improve, 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 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 (585) 343-7600 www.bataviacc.com 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. Pre-pay for a 2019 membership now and your membership will apply to the rest of this year! FISH FRYS ARE BACK AT BCC and other dinner specials with soup and salad bar - starting Friday October 5th, 4pm - 9pm Chestnut Hill Country Club (585)-547-3613 www.chestnuthillgolf.com THE WESTERN NEW YORK LEADER IN GOLF OUTINGS! Only minutes from Buffalo, open to the public. Tee times online or by phone in season. All the best, Tom Tucker Teaching Pro, Plum Creek Driving Range & Practice Facility WGTF ' "Top 100 Golf Teacher" USGTF Class "A" Teaching Professional IGPA Certified Golf Psychology Coach Cell: (716) 474-3005 Email: ttucker@rochester.rr.com http://www.TomTuckerGolf.com "There are no substitutes in the quest for perfection!" ~ Ben Hogan |
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