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The Golf Swing: The Definitive Golf Instructional Book
Provides step-by-step instructions on how to develop a sound golf swing.
- GenresNonfictionSports
Hardcover
First published April 2, 1990
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January 14, 2020
Golf is a complicated sport. It’s not that the rules are hard to follow - well, actually they are as there are so many that not even the professionals know them all - it just that it’s so hard to become skilled at it. I’ve been playing on and off for over 20 years and I’ve nowhere near cracked it.
Back at the start, or near the start, I received this book as a gift and I spent hours pouring through the detail. At that time the author was coach to top British player Nick Faldo and here he breaks down the detail of the golf swing using text and diagrams. Now it should be all be quite simple shouldn’t it, what’s complicated about swinging a golf club? The answer is everything - if you want to do it well. But using the text and diagrams I did become proficient enough to at least work my way around a golf course without too much embarrassment.
The reality is that there’s actually a lot of moving parts in a golf swing and any one of them can cause a problem. I’m a tinkerer and I’m always spotting a ‘problem’ in my swing and then, thinking I’ve identified the solution, I change something. Sometimes the changes help but more often they just make things worse - I become the dreaded hacker once more. So it’s back to basics for me. I’m working my way through this book once more as I did 20 years ago. Will it transform my game? Well, I’m not holding my breath!
Back at the start, or near the start, I received this book as a gift and I spent hours pouring through the detail. At that time the author was coach to top British player Nick Faldo and here he breaks down the detail of the golf swing using text and diagrams. Now it should be all be quite simple shouldn’t it, what’s complicated about swinging a golf club? The answer is everything - if you want to do it well. But using the text and diagrams I did become proficient enough to at least work my way around a golf course without too much embarrassment.
The reality is that there’s actually a lot of moving parts in a golf swing and any one of them can cause a problem. I’m a tinkerer and I’m always spotting a ‘problem’ in my swing and then, thinking I’ve identified the solution, I change something. Sometimes the changes help but more often they just make things worse - I become the dreaded hacker once more. So it’s back to basics for me. I’m working my way through this book once more as I did 20 years ago. Will it transform my game? Well, I’m not holding my breath!
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