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TomTuckerGolf.com Golf Tips Newsletter Issue 548 - Wed. March 14th, 2019 Website Newsletters Archive |
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USGTF Class "A" Teaching Professional
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If you don't take action, you'll never improve. 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: Maximizing Driver Distance For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. If you feel like you are not getting maximum distance out of your driver, here some keys for improvement. Notice that I said maximum distance, not maximum carry. What's the difference? The difference is ground conditions. If the ground is neutral or firm, you want a medium trajectory, penetrating shot with draw . If it's soft and not yielding much roll out, you want a higher trajectory shot for maximum carry. Here are some thoughts on obtaining either more carry or more roll out. Most players, especially as they age, can benefit from more loft on their driver regardless of ground conditions. So either buy a fixed loft driver with at least 10 degrees of loft, or if you have an adjustable driver make the adjustment to get at least 10 degrees of loft, and even more may well be better. Keep in mind that when you add loft to the clubhead with an adjustable driver, you close the face slightly, so you are building in draw bias - which I think is a good thing for slow to average swing speed players. Adding loft will launch the ball higher, but getting a lot maximum carry also depends on your ball spin rate. Your choice of shaft weight and flex also weighs in, but for now I'm only going to address impact angle conditions that effect spin rate and launch angle. There are a few slightly different opinions on the number of degrees that your ball should launch at, but I'm not even going to address that here. If you use TrackMan or another type of simulator and are able to get that data, that's fine. If you don't use anything like that, you can judge your results by what you actually see at the range or when you play. In addition to adding loft and learning to hit a draw, which is simply having the face slightly closed to the path at impact, to get maximum carry you need to hit the ball on the ascending part of your swing arc. Not flat, not down, up. That means that you need to position the ball so that you hit it on the upswing part of your swing circle. It usually means that it's positioned forward of center in your stance. When you do that, the ball launches high and the spin rate on the ball diminishes. The ball carries well, and lands at an angle that provides good roll out. When you master hitting the draw, you'll get maximum roll out. If you hit the ball at the exact bottom of your swing arc (flat) or when you hit it on a descending part of your swing arc (down), you'll get too much spin on the ball and it will drop at an angle that won't allow for maximum roll out, even with a draw. That's not ideal for maximum distance. You need to experiment at the range to find the best ball position for your desired launch angle. It takes a little work, but it's time well spent for the reward. Teeing the ball a little higher is necessary if you are playing it more forward in your stance, because the clubhead will be travelling more upward at impact. Here are your keys for more distance with your driver:
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. FISH FRYS AT BCC and other delicious dinner specials with soup and salad bar - Fridays, 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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