Tim Regan

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Stay golfing fit at home.

A lot of golfers have messaged me to ask is there a way of exercising at home which can help maintain the golfing muscles? And the answer is definitely yes so I thought what is the best way of showing you? So I would like to introduce my very good friend Mike Hickmott who is our Sports Therapist at Aston Wood he is going to be including some exercises in my newsletter over the next few weeks to help you stay golfing fit.

"Hi everyone. Some of you will know me from having treatments at the golf club, others I may have played golf with, and some may not know me at all!! My name is Mike (most will know me as Mouse) and I’m a sports therapist working from the golf club. I treat all kinds of injuries and conditions, as well as doing some one to one golf fitness/exercises.

I’ll be doing a few videos over the next few weeks/months whilst we are stuck at home, showing some general exercises we can all do to help a) with our general fitness/flexibility and more importantly b) to improve your golf.

I will start with what is probably the biggest issue for most, and the most important to correct. Flexibility. Most common tight areas for most if us are the hips or the thoracic spine (mid-upper back). Ive started off with some exercises to loosen up the hips.

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Please click subscribe and like the video, leave comments if you want to. I will be updating with more videos when I can. I'm happy to do some videos on specific content if requested!"

Mike Hickmott

Remember being flexible is only as valuable as the technique that follows. Whilst we are stuck at home, its a great time to increase your flexibility, then once we are allowed, get yourselves booked in with Tim or one of the guys down the pro shop and put that new found flexibility to use!!

Hope you are all keeping safe.

Weekly quiz

Masters edition

As we promised in last week's newsletter, our Quiz of the Week is here.

It's meant to be a bit of fun and a chance for you to see how good your golfing knowledge is - although, we all know how competitive we can be!

So, as it was supposed to be Masters week, we're kicking things off with a very special Masters edition.

Good luck and make sure you come back to test yourself again next week.

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Weekly challenge

We have a great game for you to try at home this week and, if you can succeed, it’ll really help to improve your touch and feel around the green. We've highlighted a couple of different ways that you can give it a go in the image below, and it can easily be made indoor-friendly too!

The idea

So, when chipping, a big part of the process is understanding where you need to land the ball on the green in order for it to finish close the hole, and this week’s challenge mirrors this by getting you to land the ball in different zones of a ladder.

The set-up

Lay a ladder on the ground in front of your hitting zone with a final target at the end. No ladder? Use your clubs to create one. Want to give it a try indoors? Get creative by using masking tape or anything that’ll end up looking like a ladder – and send us a photo!

How to play

The challenge is to chip a ball into each zone, starting with the closest and working your way towards the final target.

If you want to make it harder, move the ladder further away, try to hit each zone consecutively without missing or make each zone smaller.

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Golf at home

Hopefully, you enjoyed last week’s clock drill to try at home – if you didn’t see it, visit our website and you’ll find it under the 'Articles' tab. Carrying on with the putting theme, this week’s drill has been designed to improve the consistency of your stroke.

What you'll need

All you'll need to give this drill a go is your putter (no surprise there!), a golf ball, some tees and a mug.

Start off by finding a straight putt somewhere in your house. Place the mug down at one end with the open top facing towards where you’re going to be putting from. This is your make-shift hole.

The set-up

Then, take a few paces away from the hole and put your ball down. Grab your putter and address the ball as if you were about to hit a putt. Whilst your putter is down, place a tee upside down on the floor either side of the head (green tees in image). This is your gate. The idea is to make your stroke without hitting either of the tees.

Make it harder

If you find this easy then great, it means that you’re returning the putter to the middle of the ball.

To make things harder, give yourself a longer putt, reduce the distance between the two tees surrounding the putter or add some more tees at a ball's width halfway down the putt.

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Video of the Week

We stumbled across the video on The Masters' YouTube channel a few months back and, whilst this year's tournament has been postponed, we thought it was too good not to share with you! So, sit back and enjoy as Tiger Woods shares his insight on how to play Amen Corner at Augusta National.

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