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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: Cold Weather Driver Tip Tour Greens: Tour Quality Synthetic Greens Tom's Bonus Tip: Cold Weather Putting Tip 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 Plim 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: Cold Weather Driver Tip For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. It's that time of the year again, cold weather golf time. We get it twice per year, in the spring and in the fall. Last Saturday we teed it up at 7:15 am and the wind chill was 38 degrees. I was bundled up with several layers to stay warm, but the problem was the loss of swing speed that comes along with layering your body. Combined with the cold temperature, it results in a loss of elevation as well as a shorter carry distance for your driver swings, and a loss of rollout due to soggy ground. With your iron swings you solve the problem by simply taking more club, but what do you do with your driver? The answer for players who generate dynamic speed and great rotation regardless of the weather is to just allow for less distance on their drives. For other players and for senior golfers, there is another option. Get a new driver by simply changing out the shaft on your adjustable driver to a shaft with a softer flex. When I was playing really competitive golf about 20 years ago, I always had two drivers that were identical except for shaft flex. I would use the "R" flex driver for when the temperature was below 45 degrees, or when I was wearing layers due to cold feeling conditions, and I would use a "S" flex driver for warmer conditions. Having two drivers was a little pricey, but nowadays with adjustable shafts all you need is two shafts for the same driver head, and you can find deals for that option. I just ordered an "R" flex driver shaft for my Ping G30 driver because it will compensate for a less dynamic swing when I'm layered up for the cold. Here's what it will give me (with good swing technique) in cold weather play:
If you overswing with a shaft that flexes more than your normal shaft, the face could either be open at impact resulting in a push, or the face could close too rapidly, turning a nice draw into an ugly hook. The stiffer the shaft, the tighter the torque, less stiff means softer torque. Torque is the factor that determines how fast or slow the face closes through impact. If you do not generate a ton of swing speed, try a shaft one flex softer than your warm weather shaft when the weather gets cold and I think you'll really like the results. 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: Cold Weather Putting Tip For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. This tip is not an equipment tip, it's a technique tip. I've always been a proponent of a shoulder powered pendulum stroke for putting, and here's a side benefit of that method. When you are playing in weather cold enough to be wearing two gloves, you won't suffer any loss of consistency by putting with both gloves on. The shoulder powered stroke is one that actually works best with virtually no hand movement, so it's a perfect technique for cold weather. I teach a shoulder powered pendulum stroke with a straight back - straight through swing path because I feel that it's by far the best technique around for overall putting excellence. So if your putting is sub par and you are looking for a reason to change your putting technique, add cold weather putting to the 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. 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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