A great Christmas gift for friends and family is to help them improve their golf, or to give them the encouragement to take up the game.

Tom Baker Golf gives you highly flexible gift solutions starting at £50, with vouchers you can put inside a card and present on Christmas morning.

The lucky recipient can redeem the voucher which could be a single lesson to a full coaching programme, including putting, swing building, problem fixing, increasing distance and course management. You don’t have to decide now though – simply purchase the voucher which is valid for 24 months, and you can decide what it’s used for at the time of the lesson.

There’s no age limit either – Tom Baker is highly experienced with coaching juniors from the age of 6, and  we’re seeing increasing numbers of retired men and women taking up the great game of golf.

To receive a payment link for vouchers, please message Tom directly on 07912 529478 or email tom@tombakergolf.co.uk – once your payment has been received we will send the vouchers to your email address.

For those of you who aren’t aware of the Aimpoint Putting System, here’s a quick introduction to the latest craze in golf.

The Aimpoint system was developed to dramatically improve putting percentages. The brainchild of US coach Mark Sweeney, it’s all about methods to improve the reading of greens – both the putting lines and the green speed.

Many professionals currently on tour use the method with great success – you may have noticed them eyeing up each putt and using their fingers to assess the line. They also use their feet to gauge the slope and eventual speed of the putt.

After going through an AimPoint Green Reading class, such as the events we hold regularly at Studley Wood Golf Club, you will learn that putting is predictable, and you’ll also discover the most effective and reliable ways to determine the direction and precise amount of break for any putt, all based on gravity.

To find our more about our upcoming Aimpoint events, contact Tom Baker on 07912 529 478 or email tom@tombakergolf.co.uk.

Get all the info about AimPoint at www.aimpointgolf.com

Putting is a mystery to all but the young – for most amateur golfers the putter is a magic wand one day, and a mallet the next!

However, most amateur golfers also don’t know that they can have their putter custom-fitted – effectively personalised for their build, stance and putting stroke.

Now I hear you ask – “What difference will that make, I don’t have a putting style??”

Well actually it makes a large difference, because everyone has their own putting style and having a putter fitted to that style can significantly increase confidence and control through improved consistency.

The main consistency gains are to be made in ball striking – how the putter makes contact with the ball and how the ball then rolls. Most amateur golfers will have a highly inconsistent ball striking pattern with their putter, maybe only striking 2 in 10 putts properly. That means that they are never quite sure how the ball will come off the putter face, how it will roll, how much break it will take….

In turn they’re not quite sure where to aim or how hard to hit – the whole process becomes a frustrating guessing game which can turn grown adults into whimpering wrecks!

Now imagine that you could increase that good ball striking ratio to 7 in 10 – all of a sudden things start to become clearer, the hole gets that little bit bigger, your confidence grows and ultimately your putting averages start to drop considerably. It all makes perfect sense when you consider how important consistency and spacial awareness is in any aspect of golf – if you don’t know how you’re going to hit the ball how can you possibly know where to aim, how hard to swing, or even what club to take!

At the AB Golf Performance Centre in Thame, we have the very latest technology in our purpose built putting studio – everything required to analyse your putting stroke and make the required changes.

At the Performance Centre we operate a SAM Puttlab high speed camera system. This high tech piece of equipment captures vital information about your putting stroke such as face aim, path, rotation, timing, dynamic loft and the impact spot. That’s 6 different factors determined by your individual putting style – all of which we can improve on to increase putting consistency.

Contact me directly, or our Performance Centre in Thame, to book an appointment for a putter fitting. We guarantee you won’t be disappointed with the results.

Please find all information regarding my 2017 Junior Academy below. The holiday camps are always busy so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Studley Wood Junior Memberships
Studley Wood Golf club offers two types of junior membership, the Studley Star membership which is a 9 hole membership and allows you to play 9 holes on the new junior course which is on the front 9 of the full course and you can sign adults in to pay with you for £10! The second option is the full junior membership which gives you the chance to play in full club competitions. If you wish to discuss anything regarding junior golf please drop me and email or give me a call.

Wishing all Juniors the very best for 2017, let’s start getting these handicaps cut! 🙂