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TomTuckerGolf.com Golf Tips Newsletter Issue 565 - Wed. July 10th, 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 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: Mental Toughness - Can It Be Manufactured? For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Junior Golf Camp at Batavia Country Club The 2019 BCC Junior Golf Camp dates are as follows: Ages 7 - 10: July 22 - 26, 2019 Ages 11 - 15: July 29 - August 2, 2019 For more details click here: BCC Junior Golf Camp What is mental toughness for golf? Mental toughness is having the ability to
Here's how you can manufacture mental toughness and take your game to a higher level: FAKE IT UNTIL YOU FEEL IT What you think, what you say to yourself, and your body language can trigger emotions. Your emotions can control how you feel, your confidence, and your ability to perform under pressure. If your inner voice is telling you that you can’t do something, you will have more negative emotions, which lead to negative physiological reactions including tension, which is one of the big swing killers. The good news is that if we can control our thoughts, talk to ourselves in the right way and adopt positive body language, we can elicit positive emotions (confidence being one), which will lead to positive physical reactions that are swing helpers. Separating you the player from you the person. One of the first places to start in building mental toughness and superior confidence is being able to separate the player from the person. When you understand that your results on the course are not a reflection of you as a person, you're on the road towards mental toughness. You essentially need to fake it a little bit and force your inner self into the image of a winner. All great athletes do this. They are able to reach within themselves and access their positive self image regardless of how they feel about their actual performance at the moment. In that sense, they are great actors. Their body language will actually trigger an emotional response from within. Research has shown that when you’re feeling stressed and anxious, you have more of a hormone called Cortisol. When you’re feeling confident, you have less Cortisol and more testosterone. A study was done between Harvard and Columbia Universities which had 42 subjects adopt different body postures and afterwards, their hormone levels were tested. The results showed that those with the more "high-power" postures (standing up, back straight, shoulders back), had much higher levels of testosterone and lower levels of cortisone i.e. they felt more confident and powerful and less stressed. Conversely, those that adopted "low-power" postures (slumped posture, low shoulders, looking down etc), experienced greater stress levels. Fake, force, or "act" your way into the right frame of mind. In the same way, actors use similar techniques. Research shows that movements in your facial muscles can elicit certain emotional responses. Frowning can produce a feeling of displeasure, whereas smiling can make you feel happier. Try smiling right now just for the sake of it, and see if it lifts your mood, even just a little. Next time you’re on the course, fake it until you feel it. Now that you know what an impact that can have on your emotions, use very confident body language no matter how you’re playing. Act like you are playing your best. Walk confidently between shots with a little spring in your step, tall postiure, shoulders back, eyes up, and a smile on your face. Try all of this, I really think 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. 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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