Download or read book Shrink Your Handicap written by Phil Lee and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback Don't you wish golf on the course was as easy as golf on the practice range Don't you wish you could bring your range game to the course Now you can, thanks to a golf psychiatrist and a top golf teacher. You can drive off the tee the way you do on the range -- you can also putt under pressure just as accurately as you putt on your carpet. You can hit out of the sand in a tight match the same way you hit over land. Shrink Your Handicap solves your golf problems with the help of Phil Lee, behavioral psychiatrist, and Jeff Warne, a Golf magazine Top 100 instructor, who together have formed a unique collaboration that shows readers how to overcome the mental obstacles that keep them from playing their best . . . every day.
Download or read book Shrink Your Handicap written by Phil Lee and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2000-04-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behavioral psychiatrist and top 100 golf instructor offer a unique perspective on how to understand and overcome a golfer's greatest obstacle: the brain Anyone who thinks golf isn't a mental game has never played a round with his boss, has never missed a shot he's hit a hundred times on the driving range, and has never swung wildly on a crowded first tee. Golf is a mental game, and the best way to improve your game is to understand the psychological processes that make the sport both frustrating and satisfying. In Shrink Your Handicap, a behavioral psychiatrist and a top 100 golf pro have formed a unique collaboration that shows readers how to overcome the mental obstacles that keep them from playing their best. Focusing on anxiety reduction, technical skills, and the importance of establishing a pre-shot routine, it offers step-by-step instructions on how to relax, focus, and perfect the swings that are vital to any golfer's game. More effective than high-tech golf clubs, and less expensive than private lessons, this remarkable book can help any golfer reduce their handicap by increasing their understanding of the mind-body connection.
Download or read book Every Shot Counts written by Mark Broadie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie’s paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics and golf analytics to transform the game. Mark Broadie is at the forefront of a revolutionary new approach to the game of golf. What does it take to drop ten strokes from your golf score? What part of Tiger Woods’ game makes him a winner? Traditional golf stats can't answer these questions. Broadie, a professor at Columbia Business School, helped the PGA Tour develop its cutting-edge strokes gained putting stat. In this eye-opening new book, Broadie uses analytics from the financial world to uncover the secrets of the game of golf. He crunches mountains of data to show both professional and amateur golfers how to make better decisions on the course. This eagerly awaited resource is for any player who wants to understand the pros, improve golf skills, and make every shot count.
Download or read book Bang written by Linda Kaplan Thaler and published by Currency. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to get our message heard. And in Bang!, marketing gurus Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval tell us how. They and their talented colleagues are the brains behind a host of memorable and highly successful ads, from the enormously successful AFLAC duck to the irresistibly sentimental “Kodak Moment” to Herbal Essences’ outrageous “Totally Organic Experience.” In Bang!, Kaplan Thaler and Koval offer proven strategies for creating a loud, clear, attention-grabbing message about and product or service. Full of entertaining anecdotes and inspiring accounts of campaigns that have propelled revenues and dramatically increased market share, Bang! shows managers how to create a marketing campaign that cuts through the message clutter and creates a genuine marketing explosion.
Download or read book The Enlightened Bracketologist written by Nigel Holmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every March, the NCAA men's basketball tournament blankets newspapers and the Internet, and attracts millions of television viewers over the course of three weeks. Will a perennial favorite like Duke win? Or will it be a dark horse like Gonzaga? The phenomenon known as March Madness galvanizes a nation of viewers as few other sports events can. The reason? Bracketology. America eagerly watches as 64 teams become 32, then 16, then 8, then 4, then 2, and finally #1. Now it's time to use the same rigorous method for everything that really matters in culture, people, history, the arts and more. In The Enlightened Bracketologist the editors have organized the world's most haunting and maddeningly subjective questions into a scheme of binary pairings that finally reveal what is truly the best in its class: La Tache or Chateau Latour? (1) Barry Bonds or Terrell Owens? (2) "Vissi d'arte" or "Dove Sono"? (3) OJ verdict or JFK assassination? (4) "Top of the world, Ma" or "Nobody's perfect"? (5) Two by two, The Enlightened Bracketologist pits our cultural mainstays against each other; only the finest survive. Every double-page spread of this book will contain a series of brackets compiled by experts and celebrities, with text call-outs that highlight the reason why one competitor moves on and another doesn't. Already committed are Elvis Costello on popular songs; David Bouley on cookbooks; Leon Fleisher on piano music; Reneé Fleming on opera arias; Henry Beard on French phrases; Joseph Ward on wine.
Download or read book The Golfing Machine written by Homer Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Course Called Ireland written by Tom Coyne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hysterical story bestseller about one man's epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world's greatest round of golf By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and paean to the world's greatest game in the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf trip to end all others, Coyne looked to Ireland, the place where his father has taught him to love the game years before. As he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary, it dawn on Coyne that Ireland was ringed with golf holes. The country began to look like one giant round of golf, so Coyne packed up his clubs and set off to play all of it-on foot. A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking-averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending sixteen weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland. Along the way, he searches out his family's roots, discovers that a once-poor country has been transformed by an economic boom, and finds that the only thing tougher to escape than Irish sand traps are Irish pubs.
Download or read book The Women s Guide to Consistent Golf written by Kellie Stenzel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you constantly searching for that ever-elusive consistent game of golf? You may know how to hit the shots, but do you know how to play the game of golf? Do you play a round of golf, feeling that you have played pretty well and find that you are continually frustrated that your score has not decreased as you would have hoped? Learning the art of scoring on the golf course is part of the natural progression of learning the game of golf. To this point you have learned "how" and now you have to take accountability for the more important question "how many?". The book includes methods to increase consistency through practice techniques and on course strategies. It gives you the questions you need to ask yourself to make the right decisions on the course. It teaches you how to make your practice time productive and shows you more advanced shot making options that are available to you now as you are a more experienced player. Once you learn each particular skill: putting, chipping, pitching, sand and full swing, you will then need to learn to make them work under the pressure on the course when each shot counts. Apply the techniques you will learn over time and you will see your scores and your handicap drop. Learn what the lower handicapped players are doing and thinking. Learn to choose the highest percentage shot in different situations, along with a short game progression to help you to decide whether to putt, chip or pitch. Most golf instructionals - especially those for women - deal with the absolute beginner. This program is unique in that it helps golfers with the next stage of their game, thereby enhancing their enjoyment on the course.
Download or read book The Handicap Principle written by Amotz Zahavi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers. The elaborate mating rituals, lavish decorative displays, complex songs, calls, dances and many other forms of animal signaling raise fascinating questions. To what degree can animals communicate within their own species and even between species? What evolutionary purpose do such communications serve? Perhaps most importantly, what can animal signaling tell us about our own non-verbal forms of communication? In The Handicap Principle, Amotz and Ashivag Zahavi offer a unifying theory that brilliantly explains many previously baffling aspects of animal signaling and holds up a mirror in which ordinary human behaviors take on surprising new significance. The wide-ranging implications of the Zahavis' new theory make it arguably the most important advance in animal behavior in decades. Based on 20 years of painstaking observation, the Handicap Principle illuminates an astonishing variety of signaling behaviors in animals ranging from ants and ameba to peacocks and gazelles. Essentially, the theory asserts that for animal signals to be effective they must be reliable, and to be reliable they must impose a cost, or handicap, on the signaler. When a gazelle sights a wolf, for instance, and jumps high into the air several times before fleeing, it is signaling, in a reliable way, that it is in tip-top condition, easily able to outrun the wolf. (A human parallel occurs in children's games of tag, where faster children will often taunt their pursuer before running). By momentarily handicapping itself--expending precious time and energy in this display--the gazelle underscores the truthfulness of its signal. Such signaling, the authors suggest, serves the interests of both predator and prey, sparing each the exhaustion of a pointless chase. Similarly, the enormous cost a peacock incurs by carrying its elaborate and weighty tail-feathers, which interfere with food gathering, reliably communicates its value as a mate able to provide for its offspring. Perhaps the book's most important application of the Handicap Principle is to the evolutionary enigma of animal altruism. The authors convincingly demonstrate that when an animal acts altruistically, it handicaps itself--assumes a risk or endures a sacrifice--not primarily to benefit its kin or social group but to increase its own prestige within the group and thus signal its status as a partner or rival. Finally, the Zahavis' show how many forms of non-verbal communication among humans can also be explained by the Handicap Principle. Indeed, the authors suggest that non-verbal signals--tones of voice, facial expressions, body postures--are quite often more reliable indicators of our intentions than is language. Elegantly written, exhaustively researched, and consistently enlivened by equal measures of insight and example, The Handicap Principle illuminates virtually every kind of animal communication. It not only allows us to hear what animals are saying to each other--and to understand why they are saying it--but also to see the enormously important role non-verbal behavior plays in human communication.
Download or read book Core Performance Golf written by Mark Verstegen and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Core Performance Golf, golfers will discover a training program that is ideally suited to developing the golf swing, with exercises designed to help you create more torque and balance, thus adding yards to drives and precision shots. You'll also get a conditioning regimen and nutrition program that will help you build strength, flexibility, power, and stamina, while reducing the risk of injuries and speeding recovery time. Best of all, Core Performance Golf will keep you focused and ready to perform at your best for all 18 holes.
Download or read book Jocasta s Gift written by Deborah Hockney and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While studying at the Woodbridge Academy on Earth, Jocasta is surprised to discover that, along with her friend David, she has been selected to train as a cadet for the prestigious Elite Corporation. This involves training on Mars, far away from her family and home, where she will learn all the skills necessary to become one of the special Elite students, who will enhance the work of the corporation.On her journey, she develops new friendships and meets some strange and interesting characters – the fascinating but hostile Antigone and the excitable Tara. Jocasta finds out that every other cadet possesses a talent or gift, be it transmogrification or telepathic ability, but much to her dismay she seems unable to discover what hers might be. Until, that is, she embarks on an illicit and dangerous journey across the plains of the red planet, leaving behind the safety and security of the Elite life.This is the story, not only of Jocasta’s search for her own unique and elusive ability, but of a secret that has long been buried under the shifting red sands of Mars. Jocasta’s Gift is an adventure story that will appeal to children aged 9 to 14 years who enjoy fantasy and science fiction novels. Author Deborah is inspired by a range of authors, including John Wyndham, Enid Blyton, Michael Morpugo, J. K. Rowling and George Orwell.
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Download or read book The Perfect Swing written by Andrew McCombe and published by Andrew McCombe. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamt of hitting the perfect shot? A swing so effortless, so precise, it feels like an extension of yourself? The kind of shot that leaves you grinning from ear to ear, not just because of the accomplishment on the course, but because it embodies a deeper sense of mastery and flow? This book isn't just about achieving that perfect swing on the golf course. It's about unlocking the potential within you that transcends the green. It's about harnessing the profound lessons learned on the fairway and applying them to the grander game of life. Perhaps, like the author, you've felt the frustration of inconsistency, the grip of self-doubt, the nagging feeling that you're not quite playing to your full potential. What if the keys to achieving a perfect swing – both on the course and in life – lie not just in physical technique, but in cultivating a state of mind? Embark on a transformative journey alongside Ethan, a golfer burdened by self-doubt and unfulfilled potential, as he stumbles upon Fairway Meadows – a sanctuary where he encounters a mysterious old pro whose wisdom whispers of a life lived beyond the game's superficial trappings. Through a series of profound lessons, Ethan learns to silence his inner critic, embrace uncertainty, and discover the harmonious connection between mind, body, and spirit. Zen Golf becomes his guide, revealing the secrets to playing with passion, purpose, and peace, ultimately leading him not only to lower scores but to a richer and more meaningful life. Join Ethan on his transformative journey and discover how you too can unlock your potential through the power of Zen Golf.
Download or read book Proper Doctoring written by David Mendel and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone. In crisp, clear prose, he introduces readers to the craft of medicine and shows how to practice it. Discussing matters ranging from the most basic—how doctors should dress and how they should speak to patients—to the taking of medical histories, the etiquette of examinations, and the difficulties of diagnosis, Mendel moves on to consider how the doctor can best serve patients who suffer from prolonged illness or face death. Throughout he keeps in sight the fundamental moral fact that the relationship between doctor and patient is a human one before it is a professional one. As he writes with characteristic concision, “The trained and experienced doctor puts himself, or his nearest and dearest, in the patient’s position, and asks himself what he would do if he were advising himself or his family. No other advice is acceptable; no other is justifiable.” Proper Doctoring is a book that is admirably direct, as well as wise, witty, deeply humane, and, frankly, indispensable.
Download or read book Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown written by Agatha Christie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie is the world's most popular fiction writer; her works have been outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for her classic crime novels such as Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the short story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. With such masterpieces as 'Witness for the Prosecution' (the basis for the classic film) and 'Three Blind Mice' (the basis for her Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history), as well as some of her lesser known works, including all of her supernatural suspense tales, this collection of twenty-eight ingenious tales displays Agatha Christie's full range as an author.
