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Summary: Read this a you'll understand how to putt better.
Review: ... this book really started out slow. After about 70 pages it dawned on me, "I'm learning new information, and it's going to help me. A lot!" This thing really drags out for awhile, but I really understand so much more than I did before reading it that it's worth every penny and every minute I spent with it. After awhile it gets very, very interesting as things start to come together. After a few hundred pages Pelz starts to go through drills and they look like real gems. He's got more drills than my dentist. There are months and months worth of great things to work on! I love that because it means I'll get better, and I look forward very much to the work. This book should have an index. It does not and I would recommend that you highlight useful text in yellow, and write in pen atop each page a short summary. What's the best putter grip, the best club, the best way to putt at an angle downhill, why putt at a target at 3X your ball deviation from the aimline, etc., etc? Dave Pelz covers it all. Pelz pushes some of his products but that is useful. Who knows better how they work? And a workperson is worthy of her/his hire. Glad someone has these useful tools available though I plan to make some of the more expensive ones myself. If you want to putt better, need some exercises and some basic information so you can figure out your own problems on the green? Then buy this book. If there is a better book on putting, I have not seen it....END
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Summary: Absolutely the Best
Review: A master work from one of Golf's best instructors! Systematic, detailed, and highly informative, this book is essential for the golfer's library!
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Summary: Dave Pelz' Putting Bible
Review: As a novice golfer, I have found Dave Pelz's books to be invaluable teachihng aids. The information is well assembled in a manner allows anyone to quickly pick up his technique. Pelz does not use golf lingo but instead creates a better vocabulary which both explains and forces one to rethink what putting is.I believe almost anyone could and would improve his game by following the Pelz dogma. The only thing missing is a putter and a ball.
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Summary: Tick Tock the Pendulum-man
Review: At the beginning of this book Dave Pelz reveals that this is the second book in his series on the different "games" in the sport of golf. The first book was on the short game. There will also be other books on the full swing, the mental game, and the strategic game. But this is about putting, about rolling the ball on the green in a line that drops the ball into the cup. Pelz defines break, grain, slope, and all the other factors that affect putting, and he reviews all the known, USGA allowed putting styles. His conclusion is that George Archer's putting style, the pure pendulum motion with dead aim at the cup, is the best, most repeatable way to put the ball in the hole. And the rest of the book is a description of a thousand and one (I exaggerate) different practice exercises to learn the pendulum swing, including different and expensive thingamajigs you can buy to help you perform the exercises. A little ingenuity will reveal ways to perform every exercise except the one that requires a laser with much simpler items. Despite these cavils, I recommend this book to everyone who wonders about the mechanics of putting.
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Summary: Tick Tock the Pendulum-man
Review: At the beginning of this book Dave Pelz reveals that this is the second book in his series on the different "games" in the sport of golf. The first book was on the short game. There will also be other books on the full swing, the mental game, and the strategic game. But this is about putting, about rolling the ball on the green in a line that drops the ball into the cup. Pelz defines break, grain, slope, and all the other factors that affect putting, and he reviews all the known, USGA allowed putting styles. His conclusion is that George Archer's putting style, the pure pendulum motion with dead aim at the cup, is the best, most repeatable way to put the ball in the hole. And the rest of the book is a description of a thousand and one (I exaggerate) different practice exercises to learn the pendulum swing, including different and expensive thingamajigs you can buy to help you perform the exercises. A little ingenuity will reveal ways to perform every exercise except the one that requires a laser with much simpler items. Despite these cavils, I recommend this book to everyone who wonders about the mechanics of putting.
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Summary: Minutia Alert!
Review: Chock full of brilliant glimpses of the obvious. Only someone trained as an engineer could take a few basic principles and turn them into a 394 page book touting the importance of keeping something simple. After reading this you won't putt any better but you will know 125 reasons why you are missing. Dave proves that 78 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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Summary: Rocket Science?
Review: Chock full of brilliant glimpses of the obvious. Only someone with a research engineer's background could take a few basic principles and turn them into a 396 page tome extoling the virtues of simplicity. You won't put any better after reading this book but you will know 125 reasons why you are missing. Dave proves that 84% of all statstics are made up.
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Summary: Ron Stonestreet Golf Instructor would recommend this book
Review: Dave out did himself on this one, better than Put Like the Pros, this will help anyones game.
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Summary: Good for bad putters, but...
Review: Dave Pelz can sure talk about what's wrong wih the way bad golfers putt, including some pros who don't seem too knowledgable even though they are highly regarded. But when you get down to brass tacks and ask what does Pelz have to say that is original about HOW to putt well, he essentially says use a shoulder motion and read more break and hit the ball so if it misses it stops 17 inches past the hole. (Yawn.) This book is just Putt Like the Pros lengthened but not even updated. There's really nothing new here that Pelz didn't say in 1986. And some of that is quite suspect, from a scientific point of view. For example, Pelz claims to have "proved" that his so-called 17-inch rule is the best for all types of grass, playing conditions, and putt lengths. However, anyone who read his original research report in 1977 in the July issue of Golf Digest will see his research proved just the opposite. There he claims he "proved" there is no one optimal speed; that the best speed varies with grass type and playing conditions; and that the best speed varies from as low as 5 inches to as high as 40 inches. The rest of Putt Like the Pros was not original at all. The ball roundness and balance testing comes from Golf Digest 1974, and Bob Charles. The so-called "lumpy donought" comes from Golf Digest in an article about the "volcano" around the hole. And so on throughout the book. Sure, Pelz helps bad golfers putt better -- practically ANY book on putting would help -- but that doesn't mean Pelz really knows much about HOW the human body makes the best putt possible. Try Rik DeGunther, Dave Stockton, George Low, and Todd Sones for that. Their books are available at Amazon.com too. These guys actually know something. Perhaps it's time to acknowledge that the Emperor has no clothes.
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Summary: the complete putting book
Review: Dave Pelz does a thorough job of explaining the putting stroke from an engineering/scientific point of view. As an engineer, i found it all very helpful including analyzing ones miss patterns.
The book serves as a putting reference for all time.
My only question is, how did so many people become good putters without his information? Well two of golfing buddies, who carry handicaps of +1, and +4 respectively spent hours on the putting greens. Since I don't have the kind of time now, i've fully invested in his tools and drills. They are very proficient.
The best part of the book is the truth resulting from science. If anyone watches touring professionals on television, they generally do roll the ball a couple of feet past the hole just as he indicates. As good as this book is, i believe the short game bible to be even better.
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