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TomTuckerGolf.com Golf Tips Newsletter Issue 557 - Wed. May 15th, 2019 Website Newsletters Archive |
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USGTF Class "A" Teaching Professional
WGTF "Top 100" Teacher IGPA Certified Golf Psychology Coach |
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 Ping Club Fitting Day, Thursday May 23rd. 3pm - 6pm, no obligation to buy. Appointments appreciated, open to the public. 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 TomTuckerGolf@gmail.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: Step, Swing, and Push for Speed For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. I was asked a question today while booking a lesson over the phone. The student asked me if I felt that the downswing should be started with the lower body, or with the arms or shoulders. His question deals with a critical fundamental downswing tenet - starting the downswing with your lower body, NOT your shoulders or arms. Starting the downswing with the shoulders or arms is one of the most common mistakes I see at the range, as well as with my novice students. It always leads to a bad downswing path, and it robs the player of a HUGE amount of swing speed. The swing speed pyramid starts with ground reaction forces, then moves up through the body and eventually makes its way out to the wrists. The backswing starts with the upper body and works down; the downswing starts with the lower body and moves up. A decent analogy would be a spring winding up from top down, then unwinding in the opposite direction from the bottom up. Thinking that way only tells half the story though, because there are vertical ground forces that add to the lateral and rotational forces to build swing speed. It's the pushing up with the left leg after it has been loaded in proper sequence with the unfolding of the downswing that adds the icing to the cake as far as swing speed goes. Here's the drill I use all the time in conjunction with my lessons, especially with students that are unloading their downswing out of sequence and without power. The purpose of the drill is to insure that the left leg is pressured into the ground prior to rotating the swing through the ball, and then extending the left leg for power and swing speed at the right time in the sequence. I call it the Step, Swing, and Push Drill.
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 Ping Club Fitting Day, Thursday May 23rd. 3pm - 6pm, no obligation to buy. Appointments appreciated, open to the public. 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 Served in the dining area of the lower level snack bar for the summer season. 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: TomTuckerGolf@gmail.com http://www.TomTuckerGolf.com "There are no substitutes in the quest for perfection!" ~ Ben Hogan |
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