Golf category: 1025 books
Tales from Augusta's Fairways
A Collection of the Greatest Masters Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In Tales from Augusta’s Fairways, Jim Hawkins, who covered his first Masters in 1968, takes readers behind the high, thick hedges of Augusta National Golf Club for an intimate, entertaining glimpse of the classic cathedral that is home to golf’s most enchanting event. Tales from Augusta’s Fairways...
Breaking the Slump
How Great Players Survived Their Darkest Moments in Golf--and What You Can Learn from Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
In Breaking the Slump, NBC golf commentator Jimmy Roberts shares the “slump stories” of some of the greatest professional golfers of all time—from Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tom Watson to Phil Michelson and Dottie Palmer—offering valuable tips and strategies to help any player overcome that inevitable stretch of absolutely wretched golf.
Miracle at Merion
The Inspiring Story of Ben Hogan's Amazing Comeback and Victory at the 1950 U.S. Open
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Legendary sportswriter Red Smith characterized Ben Hogan’s comeback from a near-fatal automobile crash in February 1949 as “the most remarkable feat in the history of sports.” Nearly sixty years later, that statement still rings true. The crowning moment of Hogan’s comeback was his dramatic...
As Hogan Said...
The 389 Best Things Anyone Said about How to Play Golf
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2001
“Hit the ball up to the hole...You meet a better class of person there.” —Ben Hogan
No one knows exactly when the first golf quotation was spoken; nonetheless, we can be very sure it was unprintable. The game is a source of endless study, endless fascination, and endless frustration—which...
Cherry's Jubilee
Singin' and Swingin' Through Life with Dino and Frank, Arnie and Jack
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Don Cherry straddled the world of music and the world of golf. With his two innate talents, Cherry ascended to unbelievable heights—making gold records, winning major golf victories, and securing a place for himself in the history books. As a result, he touched the lives of dozens of big-time athletes...
Sir Walter
Walter Hagen and the Invention of Professional Golf
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his living playing the game rather than teaching it, Hagen won eleven major professional tournaments over his long career -- two U.S. Opens, four British Opens,...
One Magical Sunday
(But Winning Isn't Everything)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
For years Phil Mickelson symbolized the classic runnerup
in the golf world, always placing near the top of
every tournament, always near the top of the money
list, but never reaching the pinnacle of winning one of
the Majors. Then finally, on one magical Sunday, Phil's
dream came true as he sank an...
Hank Haney's Essentials of the Swing
A 7-Point Plan for Building a Better Swing and Shaping Your Shots
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"Hank knows more about ball flight and what controls it than anyone in the game." ?Masters and British Open champion Mark O'Meara
Get back to basics and build your best possible golf swing
Lots of golf instructors can show you tricks to correct a hook or to stop hitting the...
The Art of Scoring
The Ultimate On-Course Guide to Short Game Strategy and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
?The hottest instructor in golf?(Sports Illustrated) presents a revolutionary guide for lowering your score with a powerful new approach to strategizing, decision-making, and management for every part of your short game.
Stan Utley?s breakthrough short game and putting techniques have made...
by Zachary Howard
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This book includes several funny golf jokes such as:
The schoolteacher was taking her first golfing lesson. "Is the word spelt p-u-t or p-u-t-t?'' she asked the instructor. "P-u-t-t is correct,'' he replied. "Put means to place a thing where you want it. Putt means merely a vain attempt...
Every Shot Must Have a Purpose
How GOLF54 Can Make You a Better Player
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
Two legendary coaches give golfers a powerful new approach to the game... and to life.
As coaches to some of golf’s top players, Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott have designed and refined a revolutionary way of teaching the game, with phenomenal results. They don’t believe in prescribing the...
by David Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book asks the reader to consider the accepted beliefs about golf instruction, muscle memory and the value of practice.
Based on notes compiled from over eleven-thousand lessons, Just Hit The Damn Ball! offers a new perspective on learning by reinforcing a golfers' best shots.
If...
by Peter Lightbown, Cecilia Croaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Every time we pick up a golf magazine we read about increasing power through speeding up the clubhead. However, whenever we try and directly speed the clubhead up, we actually lose power because we become disconnected from our body’s central core, which is the source of our power. We will address these issues and fixes in this book.
The Slot Swing
The Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots Like the Pros
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Top golfing instructor Jim McLean shares the secret to a better swing and a better game
It's what every great golfer knows and every struggling player wants to know: how to find "the slot," the perfect channel through which the shaft and club head can meet the ball on the downswing...