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How to Play Better Golf Today: Lessons of a Lifetime
If you’re looking for information about how to swing the golf club, there’s no shortage of available options. You cango on YouTube, watch Golf Channel or read one of the monthly magazines and find thousands of tips. But it isn’t how much information you have that determines how good you are as a golfer. You need the practical advice that works for your game. Hank Haney has helped thousands of players travel the road to better golf—from the best players of all time to the best 20-handicappers at their club. With this guide, you’ll hit better shots without the complexity, confusion and contradictions. You’ll shoot better scores, and you’ll have more fun.In How to Play Better Golf Today, Haney assembles the most practical and immediately useful swing, strategy, equipment and mental game advice he has perfected in more than 30 years teaching at the game's highest level. The tips will help any player who wants to skip the jargon, confusion and hype that has made golf instruction so hard for many golfers to follow.Hank Haney has been recognized as one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers every year since the list was created in 2000. He has worked with tour players like Tiger Woods and Mark O’Meara, as well as celebrities, athletes and CEOs both on television and privately at his bases in Texas, Arizona and Idaho. For more information, go to hankhaney.com.
118 pages, Paperback
Published February 24, 2020
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May 4, 2020
I've actually subscribed to Hank Haney's instruction videos for a couple of years now and have found them to be very helpful to my game. I find his teachings to be very practical, memorable, easy to understand, easy to take to the range and course and - most importantly - they work. I went from a 15 handicap to a 10 in 6 months playing only 1 or two rounds a week just by watching his weekly videos and easily recalling his concepts.
When this book came out, I thought it might bring some new guidance or ideas. What it turned out to be was a very good reference summary of the videos I've been watching which is great because it's short, easy read and is divided intuitively into easily accessible chunks.
To be honest - imho - the ideas on this book probably provide the most value for the average bogey player to improve and shoot in the 80s consistently, but I still find a lot of value here as I try to move into the single digits as it's all about consistency and hitting more greens for me now.
His three keys are painfully obvious, but pure gold: eliminate penalty shots, eliminate two short game shots to get on the green and eliminate three putts. It sounds so simple, but when you're on the tee with trouble on the right (right handed slicer), thinking of stretching a hybrid to get over water that's 180 yards out to a green that's 210, sit 10 yards off the green with a tight lie or need to get over a green-side bunker, these things pop right into your head. You make better decisions. It's easily worth 3-5 strokes for a bogey golfer. Again, the 8-12 handicap golfer probably already executes on these things, but the basic reminder sticks through a lifetime of playing golf. Keep it in play, get on the green, the speed of your putt is more important than the line.
Not everyone is willing to take the time to watch so many videos so spending a couple of hours reading this book will allow you to highlight the tips that are meaningful to you so that you can search out more in depth info from him.
I will be giving this book to my 24 yo son (8 handicap) who has a passion for golf and a big ego to make every tough shot but no patience for sifting through 10s of videos or reading a 200 page book on the technical aspects of golf. I think he'll read this cover to cover quickly and cut a few strokes off immediately just by making better decisions - in the putt/chip/pitch area in particular.
It keeps golf improvement simple.
When this book came out, I thought it might bring some new guidance or ideas. What it turned out to be was a very good reference summary of the videos I've been watching which is great because it's short, easy read and is divided intuitively into easily accessible chunks.
To be honest - imho - the ideas on this book probably provide the most value for the average bogey player to improve and shoot in the 80s consistently, but I still find a lot of value here as I try to move into the single digits as it's all about consistency and hitting more greens for me now.
His three keys are painfully obvious, but pure gold: eliminate penalty shots, eliminate two short game shots to get on the green and eliminate three putts. It sounds so simple, but when you're on the tee with trouble on the right (right handed slicer), thinking of stretching a hybrid to get over water that's 180 yards out to a green that's 210, sit 10 yards off the green with a tight lie or need to get over a green-side bunker, these things pop right into your head. You make better decisions. It's easily worth 3-5 strokes for a bogey golfer. Again, the 8-12 handicap golfer probably already executes on these things, but the basic reminder sticks through a lifetime of playing golf. Keep it in play, get on the green, the speed of your putt is more important than the line.
Not everyone is willing to take the time to watch so many videos so spending a couple of hours reading this book will allow you to highlight the tips that are meaningful to you so that you can search out more in depth info from him.
I will be giving this book to my 24 yo son (8 handicap) who has a passion for golf and a big ego to make every tough shot but no patience for sifting through 10s of videos or reading a 200 page book on the technical aspects of golf. I think he'll read this cover to cover quickly and cut a few strokes off immediately just by making better decisions - in the putt/chip/pitch area in particular.
It keeps golf improvement simple.
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