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Golf Tips Newsletter - Issue 244 - May 8th, 2013
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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: Swings & Misses - Tom's Bonus Tip: Think Like Jack - Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say - Sponsors: Batavia Country Club Chestnut Hill Country Club Plum Creek Driving Range and PGA AboutGolf.com Golf Simulator GCC Golf Management Program Provoto Putting Systems PLUM CREEK DRIVING RANGE IN BATAVIA, NY, IS OPEN ALL YEAR Outdoors in season; Indoors - simulator available for play or practice. Call 585-993-0930 or email Mark at plumcreek4@rochester.rr.com to reserve your simulator time! Great money saving monthly specials, check them out here: http://www.plumcreekdrivingrange.com 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. Indoor or Outdoor Driver Fitting Get the most bang for your buck when you buy a new driver by getting professionally fitted first. Click for details: http://www.tomtuckergolf.com/indoor.html 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: Swings & Misses For the sake of simplicity, all advice on swings and drills is provided from a right handed perspective; lefties .... well, you know what to do! When I teach advanced players, I encourage then to have a one sided miss. For most of my right handed players, this miss would be to the right, never crossing left of the ball target line. Once in awhile I have a student with enough swing speed to play a power fade, that students' miss would be to the left. For all of my students, we cover ball flight laws during the Ball Striking lesson, so that they have an idea of why the ball starts where it does, and why it curves the way it does. When you understand the ball flight laws, you can start to determine what went wrong with a swing that produced an undesired outcome; you can even engineer shots to start in a certain direction and curve in a certain direction. For beginner golfers, or intermediate golfers that are taking lessons with me, I settle for a miss that might wander a few yards off center on either side of the ball - target line. Such a student would plan on hitting a straight shot, understanding that their skill level will most likely produce a shot that wanders a bit, but that if they aim straight they won't be too far off line. The difference between these two types of students is that the advanced student has mastered their version of swinging the club on their own angled circle. I don't necessarily use phrases like "swing plane", "D plane", "takeaway plane", "delivery plane", etc. because I personally think it's easier to envision swinging on an angled circle. "Angled circles (note plural)" may apply to players that utilize a more traditional swing style. The circle is a little more vertical for shorter clubs, and a little flatter for longer clubs, and the advanced student is able to repeat the same basic, repeateble, angled circle swing for each club. When that's the case, I hold these students to a higher standard of accountability for their misses - in order to get them hyper-focused on their target. The message here is fivefold:
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