Recommended Golf Instruction Books
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by Mike Adams, T.J. Tomasi, Ph.D. and Dr. Jim Suttie
Published by Harper Collins, 1998
$25.00 U.S.
Three of America's top-rated golf instructors have come up with a technique that customizes body type to swing type.
The "LAWs" of the title The LAWs of the Golf Swing reflect those types: "L" for leverage (average build with average flexibility--think David Frost or Annika Sorensam); "A" for arc (tall with maximum flexibility--think Davis Love or Michelle McGann); and "W" for width (thicker torso and minimum flexibility--think Tom Lehman or Meg Mallon).
Mike Adams, T.J. Tomasi, and Jim Suttie first help you identify which group you belong to, then offer a series of lessons and drills to help you construct the appropriate swing to minimize your natural deficiencies. In other words, they build on what you can do while at the same time assist you in getting out of your own way.
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by Dr. Jim Suttie
Published by Human Kinetics, 2006
$19.95 U.S., $25.95 Canada
Every golfer has an ideal swing based on natural tendencies, physical strengths, and desired shot pattern, which is why copying friends or favorite players usually doesn't work. In Your Perfect Swing, leading PGA instructor Dr. Jim Suttie shows you how to identify your tendencies and master a swing that's consistent and repeatable under pressure.
Suttie's award-winning teaching system will show you step-by-step how to:
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- Match the feel for your swing with the actual mechanics.
- Find your physical power source and use it to build a fundamentally sound swing.
- Select from 13 pro models that share your power source and reinforce your ideal swing pattern.
- Recognize patterns based on ball flight, divots, and club selection in order to make adjustments during a round or on the range.
- Customize your swing based on personal preference and on-course situations.
- Use the 14 key swing positions as a maintenance tool to keep your swing on track.
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Visualizing the Perfect Swing to Maximize Your Game by Nick Bradley, Justin Rose
$25.00
Leading tour coach Nick Bradley shows you how to build a powerful and consistent golf swing with his revolutionary approach, which distills the swing into seven laws to help golfers develop a greater awareness of the correct swing motion.
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The Top Selling Swing System that has Revolutionized the Teaching Industry by Jim McLean, Tom Kite, Dom Lupo (Illustrator), Jeff Blanton (Photographer)
$19.95
The updated Eight-Step Swing has nine new chapters, including specific instruction for women and junior golfers, advice on preparation and preshot routine, Jim McLean's fundamentals of golf, and much more.
In this indispensable instructional manual, PGA master coach Jim McLean presents the innovative swing system that has helped championship winners like Tom Kite, Brad Faxon, and Liselotte Neumann elevate their game. |
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| With characteristic clarity and expertise, McLean breaks down the swing action into the eight key checkpoint positions that will build a grooved, repeatable, and mechanically sound swing. Helpful practice tips and mental exercises supplemented with beautiful, technically accurate photographs and illustrations keep you on track. McLean also presents brilliant strategies and advice for the long game, the short game, the mental game, and overall game management to ensure that you will boost your performance to the next level no matter how long you've been playing. |
The Definitive Golf Instructional Book by David Leadbetter, John Huggan (With), Nick Faldo (Foreword by)
$35.00
An organized, systemic method of accelerating the learning process. Modern golfing guru David Leadbetter discloses the secrets that transformed the game of golfing pros.
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The Complete Guide to Mastering the Green by Dave Pelz, James A. Frank, James A. Frank
$34.95
Over 150,000 readers have purchased Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible after just its first year of release publication, making the book an instant classic. Now, let Dave help you shape up your game on the greens with his new Putting Bible, which is sure to make all other putting manuals obsolete.
Dave Pelz looks at putting, golf's least-understood skill, as no one has ever approached it before. Because a putt is the terminal shot on every hole and there is no possibility of recovery from short misses, putts count almost a disproportionate amount.
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Every golfer knows a 2-foot putt counts the same as a 300-yard drive—one stroke. And while the putting stroke is only one of several types of swings golfers make, it accounts for nearly half of all the swings made—43 percent—and perhaps as much as 80 percent of all the anguish and frustration involved in the game. These are some of the reasons every golfer needs Dave's insights into the putting game and the simplicity he brings to improving their ability to putt.
Putting is also different in another way: It is one of the few skills in all of sport in which any player, regardless of size, strength, speed, gender, or education, can compete equally with—and have a realistic chance to surpass the skills of—the best professionals in the world
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As Dave explains, putting is actually simple to understand and do. Once golfers grasp his concepts, they can perform on the greens as never before.
Using decades of scientific research from studying thousands of golfers, Dave shows readers the simplicity of putting that escapes most golfers and lays out the fifteen well-defined building blocks of theputting game that each of us already has and owns. This comprehensive guide from the internationally revered master of the short game and putting game—packed with charts, photos, and easy-to-understand instruction—will be the essential volume for all golfers who want to take strokes off their score with better putting.
A former NASA physicist and founder of the World Putting Championship, Dave brings a scientific rigor to his instruction that has made him the top putting expert in the world. Observing and teaching thousands of golfers to better their scores, Dave's body of knowledge in putting is unequaled. By uncovering the mysteries of this part of the game, Dave Pelz's Putting Bible raises putting instruction to a new level.
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The Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots Like the Pros
Price: $17.13
Author: Jim McLean, John Andrisani
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 for a more powerful, accurate, and consistent swing.
Great ball-strikers like Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, and Jack Nicklaus were slot swingers. Today, Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia and Jim Furyk provide dramatic examples.
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Author: Jim Mclea
Price: $13.59
This fully updated edition of the classic Eight-Step Swing reveals the best advice from the top golf school in America, offering a detailed explanation of the true fundamentals of the golf swing. PGA Master Instructor Jim McLean, who has coached many of the game's greatest professionals, has incorporated his latest research into the art and science of the golf swing, breaking it down into a new building block approach.
In this indispensable instructional manual, McLean presents the innovative swing system that has helped championship winners like Tom Kite, Alexis Thompson, Cristie Kerr, and Bernhard Langer elevate their game.
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Author: Jim Mclea
Price: $18.95
A comprehensive guide to golf's short game that is ideal for newcomers to the game, but can also help experienced golfers sharpen their skills and lower their scores. Jim McLean teaches golfers the best short game techniques from the ground up:
-- The basics of pitching, chipping, putting, lobbing, distance wedges and bunker play
-- How to read greens and judge distance
-- How weather affects trajectory
-- The use of height, spin, and roll to diversify chipping
-- Recovery shots such as tree-trunk chips and bladed chip shots from the rough
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How to Raise the Level of Your Driving, Pitching, and Putting Games
Author: Jim Mclea
Price: $10.55
One of Golf Digest’s top-ten teachers—and one of The Golf Channel’s star instructors—gives unique and invaluable advice on the three clubs that have the greatest impact on your score. |
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Author: John Jacobs
Price: $32.87
The clearest, most effective teaching tool ever, for any player with an imperfect swing. Two-color illustrations throughout. |
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