I hope you and everyone in your family are managing to stay safe and well. We are now one week into our ‘lockdown’ period and to those of you still working in the Health Service and as Key Workers…………. our thoughts and gratitude are with you.
 
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Hello Golfers,

 

I hope you and everyone in your family are managing to stay safe and well.

We are now one week into our ‘lockdown’ period and to those of you still working in the Health Service and as Key Workers…………. our thoughts and gratitude are with you.

Many thanks to those of you who were in touch after reading our message last week. We have received some great videos in addition to some kind messages too.

The link we all have together is our passion for golf combined with sharing this enjoyment here at York GC. There is never a good time for a pandemic but coming straight after an incredibly wet winter and when subscriptions are due, the timing of this could not have been worse.

All of us here at Team York GC are fully appreciative of members paying subscriptions in order to secure having our great club and its facilities for you and all the Golf Club staff to return to.

As many of you know I employ both TJ and Luke and I am glad to say they are both keeping well. At the moment I am in the process of putting them into Furlough and like many others, they are keen to return to work. This has only been possible because of the support of the Board and we are working closely together in these economically challenging times in order for us all to be in a position to return to work.

Coaching tips whilst at home

In last week's newsletter, I mentioned that we had made a makeshift net in our garden and to see a video how it worked visit our Facebook page – Mark Rogers Golf or click here to watch the video. 

Over the course of the next few weeks, we will look to interact with as many of you as possible and share tips and videos

We will also continue to offer advice on any videos you send of your swing. This has proved popular and beneficial so far by those who have taken up the offer.

Last weeks tip for putting has had some great feedback so far and this week’s tip is for you do a drill whilst swinging a club – where it is safe to do so!

 

Set up
Set up position

Simply hold the club in front of you with the shaft parallel to the ground and lower the club keeping it parallel to the ground until the underneath of your arms touch your chest.


Swing as if striking a ball
Swing imagining striking a ball 

Then swing the club as if you were striking a ball.

This drill encourages many key moves

·         Synchronisation of your hands, club and body in the takeaway

·         Tempo throughout swing

·         Rotation of shoulders

·         Swing plane to be similar on backswing and through swing

·         Swinging a club with stable balance

I look forward to receiving your videos. Please send to mark.rogers@foremostgolf.com

Take care and enjoy your practice.

Just for fun

The lockdown calendar

We came across a lockdown calendar last week and it revealed some highly amusing answers for the team, so we wanted to get you involved too!

All you need to do is match your birth date and your birth month with the answers given and you’ll create a brilliant lockdown scenario, like these:

Baking with Rory McIlroy
Cleaning your car with Fred Couples
Taking your bins out with Tiger Woods

It’s a little bit of fun whilst the majority of us find ourselves at home, so click the link below to take part. Don’t forget to email us your scenarios at the end!

View lockdown calendar here.


 
 
Weekly quiz

Something new for our readers

Us golfers are competitive at heart, so we thought we'd try to harness some of that spirit by introducing a new feature to our weekly emails.

We're going to kick things off next week with our very own Masters Quiz - it was supposed to be Masters week after all - so be sure to do some research before then!

For now, we have put up a short poll on our website that we'd love you to answer by clicking the button below. We'll let you know the results next week.

Quiz of the Week
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Weekly challenge

It’s times like these when thinking outside the box can result in all sorts of fun. So, we’ve rummaged through the garden shed and come up with a little game for you to try at home! If you don’t have any buckets or pots to hand, try creating different sized rings using string, tape or even ties – this would make it indoor friendly too.

Weekly challenge - Chipping Snooker

The set-up

Mark out your hitting zone like we’ve done using a mat in the image above. Then, from smallest to largest, lay your targets out so they get progressively bigger as they get further from the hitting zone. You then need to decide how many points each target is worth, with more points awarded to the smaller targets.

How to play

The great thing about this game is that you can play it by yourself or with the rest of the family. If you’re giving the challenge a go alone, you have five balls to get the highest score possible. You can play the same way with others or you can set an overall target score (e.g. 50 points) and the first person to reach that score wins!

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Golf at home

This part of our newsletter is all about trying to keep your golf game ticking over whilst we’re being told to stay indoors. With putting being such a vital part of lowering scores out on the course (and the easiest to practice at home), we’re going to kick things off with a simple putting drill for you to try.

Golf at home - Putting drill

The set-up

Grab your putter, six golf balls and a tee peg. Place the tee upside on the ground – this will be your target. From here, measure out a putter’s length from the tee and place a ball down. Repeat this five times at equal distances apart so that you have a circle of golf balls surrounding the tee peg – just like in the image above.

Too easy? Make it harder

Your goal is to go around the circle and hit the tee peg with each putt. However, if you miss, you’ll need to go back and start again – a nice way to mimic some pressure from the golf course. If you complete the circle, keep going until you miss to set yourself a target to beat next time or try increasing the distance of each putt from the tee.

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Video of the Week

What's Padraig Harrington laughing at here? Well, if you ever needed reassuring that even the world's best golfers are human, give this video a watch! Enjoy.

European Tour | Worst Shots (14 Club Challenge)
 
 
We hope you have enjoyed this week's update. We hope to see you soon.
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