Download or read book The Golf Book written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the history of one of the world's most popular sports, and learn how to master the perfect swing along the way. Find out all there is to know about golf, from its ancient origins to its most celebrated competitions. Learn about the turning points and winning strokes of the most famous championships ever played - from the Open to the Curtis Cup. Bringing you face-to-face with the stars, such as Tiger Woods, The Golden Bear, and The Shark, entries analyse their trademark strokes and detail their finest performances. Showing you exactly what it takes to achieve an effective - and consistent - golf swing, this ebook also walks you through the fairways of all the pre-eminent courses, while working systematically through every type of shot, from tee shots, iron play, pitching, and chipping, to coping with bunkers and putting. Learn the sport's key rules and golfing terms, and discover everything you need to know about how to buy the right equipment - from drivers to carts, along with guidance on custom fitting - and the all-important golf etiquette. Brimming with detail and superbly illustrated with over 1,500 photographs, illustrations, maps, and diagrams, The Golf Book is the definitive guide to the famous game for players and fans alike.
Download or read book Golf VISUAL Quick Tips written by Cheryl Anderson and published by Visual. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golf VISUAL Quick Tips has the answers you need?fast. With detailed color photos and concise instructions, it covers: choosing the right club for the situation; improving your grip, stance, and swing; handling tricky situations on the course; drills to help you perfect your driving, chipping, putting, and bunker shots; and key rules and etiquette. Perfect for throwing in your golf bag, this visual guide is packed with straightforward task descriptions, succinct explanations, easy-to-follow instruction, and helpful tips.
Download or read book Understanding the Golf Swing written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern classic of golf instruction by renowned teacher Manuel de la Torre (the 1986 PGA Teacher of the Year and the #11 teacher in America as ranked by the editors of Golf Digest in 2007) presents a simpler approach to the golf swing based on Ernest Jones’s principles. Understanding the Golf Swing includes information on the philosophy of the golf swing (with emphasis on the development of a true swinging motion), the most thorough analysis of ball flights available, and analysis of the principles of special shot play (including sand play, pitching, chipping, putting, and playing unusual shots) and the mental side of golf and effective course management. The final chapter offers an organized approach to understanding golf courses and playing conditions. The result is a blend of philosophy and practical advice found in few golf instructional books.
Download or read book The Complete Golf Manual written by Steve Newell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering every possible aspect the game, from tee shots, iron play, pitching and chipping to coping with bunkers and putting, The Complete Golf Manual works is the ultimate self-improvement guide to playing better golf. With a series of exercises designed to develop your technique, routines to help you think more decisively on the course, and a section on the top 10 most common faults, Steve Newell offers a fast track to a lower handicap for all-from the novice to the experienced club golfer.
Download or read book The Ultimate Round written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A players visual guide to Pebble Beach Golf Links emphasizing the beauty and challenge of the course with hole-by-hole photos and graphics
Download or read book Swing Like a Pro written by Ralph Mann and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 1998-12-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading biomechanics expert and a premier golf instructor share the secrets of the perfect swing using a breakthrough learning tool—for novice and advanced golfers alike. For seventeen years, CompuSport International’s biomechanics expert Dr. Ralph Mann devoted himself to studying the swings of more than 100 PGA and LPGA Tour players to uncover the keys to a better game and a lower handicap. The results: the computer-generated composite Pro, which embodies the mechanical elements of the holy grail of the golf swing—efficient, effective, and now achievable. Illustrated with 175 animated 3-D stills of the Pro that pinpoint the exact motions of a body executing the perfect swing, Swing Like a Pro provides accurate, consistent information about how to play the game properly, breaking down the exact steps you can take to develop and refine your skills at performing every aspect of the shot. Mann teams up with renowned golf instructor Fred Griffin to examine and explain • Setup, including how to grip and align the club properly while finding the perfect balance for your body • The seven characteristics of a great backswing, with drills for improvement • How to achieve distance with accuracy through your downswing • How to put all these elements together with both timing and tempo • And much more! With its unique cutting-edge, scientific approach, and the expertise of its authors, Swing Like a Pro promises to be the best golf Pro you ever consulted to help you improve your swing and shave strokes off your handicap—and proves that there is such a thing as a perfect swing.
Download or read book Complete Golf Manual written by Steve Newell and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your golf game with this expert guide - and lower your handicap too Learn to play like a pro and improve your golf game, whether you are a novice or experienced club golfer. You'll start by taking a test to discover your level of ability, then follow progressive exercises designed to develop your golfing technique. From tee shots to coping with bunkers, learn to improve your golf swing immeasurably. Give yourself the winning edge with over 160 practice drills, then discover how to fix the top 10 most common faults that can creep into any golfers game. Find expert tips on buying your golfing equipment, learn the all-important golf etiquette and refresh your memory on golf's most important rules and lingo. It's the ultimate guide to playing better golf.
Download or read book Jack Nicklaus Lesson Tee written by Jack Nicklaus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 45 colorful, easy-to-follow lessons, Jack Nicklaus shares his tips, techniques, and tactics for playing winning golf. Readers will find all they need to know to play the game to the best of their ability, including hitting the shots as well as actually playing the game. Full-color illustrations.
Download or read book How to Speak Golf written by Sally Cook and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ace to zinger, How to Speak Golf includes over 125 golf terms paired with charming and clever illustrations that decode the words and phrases that fly around a golf course. Clubhouse Chatter sections are sprinkled throughout where you'll learn about everything from the origins of golf, the worst courses and biggest sand bunkers in the world, to the reason why there are so many bird references in golf terminology, a history of famous holes-in-one, and much, much more! Some of the terms included in the book are: -Army golf: The inconsistent hitting of the ball from one side of the fairway to the other. (Think: Left, right, left.) -Cabbage: The worst of the rough. (Also known as "Spinach" or "Lettuce." Whatever you call it, this is a salad to be avoided.) -Ham and egg: When two players on a team pair well, with one player excelling whenever the other falters. -Velcro: Greens that are slow, where it seems like the ball sticks to the grass. Author Sally Cook and illustrator Ross MacDonald offer the perfect blend of funny anecdotes and fascinating bits of history and trivia. This is the perfect gift book to have you talking like a master whether you're a pro, a lifelong fan, or a novice on the greens.
Download or read book Ben Hogan s Five Lessons written by Ben Hogan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can shoot in the 70's!Ben Hogan has long believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break 80 if he applies himself intelligently -- and here, with Herbert Warren Wind, and artist Anthony Ravielli, he tells you, step by step, just how to go about it.The greatest golfer of our generation has distilled his experience as teacher, player, and observer of golf into a series of richly illustrated "visual instructions" that not only can improve your game and lower your score, but also can help you get even more fun out of what many people already think is the most enjoyable game in the world.Each chapter, each tested "fundamental" is explained and demonstrated with amazing detail and clarity. It's as though the master himself were right there at your elbow, giving you a personal lesson with the same thought and care that has gone into his lifetime of golf.The Modern Fundamentals of Golfis no instant and easy shortcut. There is none. But with Ben Hogan as your pro,you can master these basic movements very quickly.And then you can go on to develop a correct, powerful swing that willrepeat.As Ben Hogan says, it's only then that you'll "discover golf for the first time."
Download or read book Smash Carve Golf the Art of Ball Striking written by Scott Minni and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Flexible Golf Swing written by Roger Fredericks and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 400 years, the secret of the golf swing has been one of the most fascinating and frustrating mysteries known to mankind. Despite remarkable advances in golf club technology, golf instruction, and golf course conditioning, the average golfer's handicap hasn't changed in the past 30 years. Not coincidentally, the nation as a whole is becoming less healthy due to the sedentary lifestyle that is harming our bodies at an alarming rate. We are then taking our dysfunctional bodies to the golf course. Roger Fredericks, a leading golf instructor and golf fitness pioneer who has worked with the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Arnold Palmer, takes readers on a step-by-step journey to explain precisely why golfers have a hard time improving and more importantly, what to do about it. In The Flexible Golf Swing, he lays out his commonsense approach and explains in detail the true fundamentals of the golf swing, and precisely how the mechanics are merely symptoms of how a body functions.
Download or read book Ultimate Golf Techniques written by Malcolm Campbell and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate Golf Techniques is a completely new approach to improving your game. Over 1,000 specially selected images, step-by-step shots and photographic sequences of professional players illustrate key lessons that have helped the world's great golfers to reach the top. Ultimate Golf Techniques will help you get to grips with the driver by studying the teeing-ground techniques of Greg Norman; learn to pitch the ball close to the flag with the precision of Nick Faldo; escape from the sand with the confidence of bunker craftsman Gary Player; tackle trouble shots with the never-say-die ingenuity of Severiano Ballesteros; and work the ball like the great Jack Nicklaus. Representing outstanding value for money, this stylish and contemporary series has been specially created for everyone with a busy lifestyle. Highly practical and inspiring, the DK Living series embraces every aspect of a wide range of popular topics, from gardening and cookery to beauty and sports.
Download or read book The Vintage Era of Golf Club Collectibles written by Ronald O. John and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the vintage era from the 1920s through the 1940s, this guide presents highly collectible clubs in over 450 color photos.
Download or read book Basic Golf Rules written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a variety of situations that the golfer may encounter and unravels some of the intricacies of the rulebook.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Golf written by Ben Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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