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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: Q&A: Ball Going Right - Tour Greens: - Tour Quality Synthetic Greens - Tom's Bonus Tip: Q&A: Shaft Lean - Lesson Comments: What Students Have To Say - Sponsors: Plum Creek Driving Range Batavia Country Club 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 the Equipment & Apparel and 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: Q&A Ball Going Right For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Q: Hi Tom, I wanted to give you an update from our last lesson and hopefully get a "point me in the right direction" tip. My putting the last 2 rounds has been very good to great. I am stroking the ball down the line I've chosen very well. The drill with the skewers and string is great. Driving has rarely been an issue for me, and we haven't worked on that in lessons. I have been much straighter so far this year by cutting down the speed and length of my backswing by a little and haven't seen any loss in distance. I may be even hitting it a little farther if that makes sense. Definitely hitting more fairways and feel like have fewer mishits. We worked on my short game just before you went on vacation. I hope you had a wonderful time. I am hitting way more quality shots with all my wedges. My issue is my miss is consistently short and right with full swings and just plain right with half or less swings but perfect distance. Here's an example: yesterday played my league in gale force winds and drove the ball in the fairway 6 of seven holes with short irons home. 1st and 4th were 110 yards - missed right and short by about 10 yards in each direction on both - wind not a factor. 2nd - 20 yard short chip onto green but right of where I was aiming (not a bad shot just not scaring the hole). 3rd was 80 yard shot with pin on the left - hit a knock down gap wedge to exactly hole high but 45 feet right of the hole. 125 yard par three - 10 yards short and right. I shot 42 and had bogeys on 3 of those 5 holes where I would hope to have a chance at birdie on 4 of the 5. I also had a penalty stroke on a par 5 when I missed a 9 iron layup shot to 20 yards to the right into a pond. Without the misses I have reasonable shot at shooting par or under. Any help with the misses right and short would be great. Steve T. A: Thanks for the question Steve. Here's a checklist of my best guesses to fix your misses (without actually seeing your short shot swings). If you're still stuck after trying the suggestions below, give me a call and I'm sure we can solve the problem at the range.
Hope this helps, let me know! All the best, Tom 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 - they can even withstand our challenging WNY winters. 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: Q&A: Shaft Lean For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective. Q: Hi Tom, I've never taken a lesson, but I read your tips and try things out with my game. I'm 65 and play senior shafts with my clubs. My question is this: when I get what I think is good forward shaft lean for my iron shots, the ball seems to go to low. Any ideas on this? Thanks, Bill W. , Fort Erie, Canada A: Thanks for the question Bill. I'm assuming that your swing speed is rather slow - senior flex shafts - and this is a clue to your problem. If a persons swing speed is on the slow side, the maximum compression point for shaft lean with irons is not what they should strive to attain. The flight will be way too low and you won't hold any greens that you carry the ball to. In fact, you probably won't be able to carry the ball to many greens. The solution for you for full shots is to hit the ball with less shaft lean to give you more elevation on your shots. Practice setting up with the club more vertical - but still slightly forward leaning, and you'll see a world of difference. Experiment with the shaft lean angle until you are hitting your fulls shots with adequate elevation, then lock it down. Your chipping setup should remain what is has been as long as you can chip the ball onto the putting surface with your current setup. This should help, all the best, Tom 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 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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