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Summary: Fantastic but ...
Review: In truth this book contains many great thoughts, but you need to understand who you are before you buy.We are looking at lots and lots of pages - the detail is huge. However, the style is really annoying, lots of gems hidden within David's rambling style - such inconsiderate loquacious communication. I gave up; the effort was not worth the reward for the high handicapper that I am. If you count yourself a good golfer, it may be worth the investment. For example while sitting behind hole #8 during the Champions competition in Houston, I saw most of the pros putts missed the hole down slope; they had under read the slope as David predicts they will. Some of those guys need to read this! If you are looking at this book and are not very confident of your golf game, I recommend that you get instead "The Scrambler's Dozen : The 12 Shots Every Golfer Needs to Score Like the Pros" The chapter on putting in this recommends that you only look at the line of your putt from ?3 directions instead of the 7 or was it 9 different perspectives that David recommends. With the way I play golf, looking at my putting line from anything more than from 3 directions is ... well just a pretentious waste of time. If your handicap is lower than the average number of stars that this book scores, buy it. Otherwise look elsewhere.
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Summary: Great Source of Information
Review: It is a totally comprehensive book detailing the observations Dave Pelz has made from his schools and from his engineering studies of how a golfer can putt successfully by learning the feedbacks necessary to understand the mechanisms of putting. His "tools" can be made easily. There is a wealth of information, well presented, and informative pictures!
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Summary: The definitive book on putting -- 5 stars isn't enough
Review: Knowing of Pelz's background as a NASA engineer, my fear was that a 400-page book on putting would be so technical as to leave me paralyzed on the greens ("paralysis through analysis," along the lines of what happened to Bobby Clampett after he immersed himself in Homer Kelley's incomprehensibe "The Golfing Machine"). Instead, I found the book extremely practical and educational. Pelz is an excellent teacher whose instruction is based on solid research rather than pet theories, and this book does a super job of explaining what you ought to be doing and why (as well as what you ought not to be doing and why). It is very readable and well-illustrated -- the 400 pages go very quickly. Even after 35+ years of playing, I had a hard time understanding how to achieve a straight-back-and-through stroke as opposed to one that opens and shuts the clubface like a screen door. Now I do understand, and I know what I need to be working on. You simply will not find a clearer, more comprehensive treatise on putting; it is light years ahead of anything else I've seen, and I've read hundreds of golf books. It would be equally valuable for a beginner or an experienced player -- Pelz is so good at explaining himself that even a raw beginner won't find the material over his or her head.
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Summary: The best book on putting so far
Review: Let's face it - anything that is a real challenge is not going to have easy solutions, and Dave does not provide any quick fixes. He tells you what the real problems are in putting, and offers techniques that will make you better. But he doesn't sugar coat it, in the sense that he's honest enough to tell you how much effort will be involved to become truly good. But at least he does tell you exactly how to do it. Others have said that he's hawking his improvement gadgets in this book. Maybe, maybe not. The fact is, getting feedback on the things he has shown to be important is not easy. You can make the gadgets yourself. They won't be as pretty, but there's not rule saying you must buy them from him. He's simply adding another resource for those who want the convenience. Note - this is not for those looking for a few tips, band-aids, or just some feel-good words to make you feel better about yourself. This is serious game-improvement stuff. If you just want to daydream about being a better putter, get a putting book by one of the other guys. If you REALLY want to be a better putter, get this and get to work! If you have this book, you don't need "Putt Like The Pros", as this has everything that has and then some.
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Summary: Putting is Not Rocket Science!
Review: Let's face it, Dave Pelz is the man when you talk short game improvement.But,by God man! this is way to much information.Skip the first 200 pages of this book, unless you're some kind of technical information masochist.The rest of the book is an updated version of "Putt Like The Pros". Don't get me wrong, I think this book is a great help to anyones putting, just way to long.
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Summary: great understanding
Review: Now I know why (most) putts behave the way they do. I tend to learn better by understanding what is going on and this book explains it very well. If I only had 48 hours in a day I would be a great putter.
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Summary: Great book for scientists, engineers and librarians!
Review: Once again, Dave Pelz reduces the game to mechanics and physics and ignores the most important aspect of good putting which is freeing your mind from the specific mechanics of the physical stroke.Having said that, this book is chock full of interesting facts, most of them completely useless to the average player who wants to improve his putting. Pelz's book does not address the fact that great putters such as Jones,George Low,Palmer,Stockton, Crenshaw and Faxon have utilized widely different strokes,grips and tempo.What they all had in common was a consistent pre-shot routine,tremendous feel,and supreme
confidence that they could hole every putt.
Readers looking for technical answers to better putting, which is the focus of this rather unorganized book are probably going to be disappointed.
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Summary: The three putt breaker
Review: One word describes this book and Dave Pelz. WOW. Here is a guy that has helped out my game. This book covers everything about putting that you can think of. This book is a must have for the beginner golfer to the pro. With using a lot of the drills devised in this book I have stopped being a three or four putter person. I can see this as a top selling book for a long time! Thank God for Dave!
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Summary: Best on the Subject To Date
Review: Pelz is amazing. His passion for the game and his collection of data and its distribution is contagious. He shares this regularly on the Golf Channel and his schools, and now here in book form. Here is almost 400 pages which he admits is like giving the notebook of all his experience studying, analyzing, researching and compending what he has gleaned about this most vital part of the game. Great stuff on grips and stance and swing and equipment. Significant to golfers is his research on break. What we see in our heads about break is not what is actually there. The sections "Develop Your Artistic Senses (Fee, Touch, Green-Reading)" and "Face Your Special Problems" I find particularly revelatory for my game. There is so much in this massive tome on the subject. You'll benefit from its purchase and application to your work on the moss.
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Summary: Excellent for the long haul
Review: Reading this book AND PRACTICING will undoubtably make you a much better putter. However you must be in it for the long haul, because this is simply not a putt great by tomorrow type of system. Pelz leads you somewhat laboriously through all the whys and hows of putting. I like this kind of information because I want to understand and be able to do. This satisfies my intellectual curiousity and gives me greater confidence that I can pull off the shots automatically without having to think too much about them. He then details equally detailed guides to exercises designed to improve your putting. He is also honest in the sense that he readily acknowledges to truly learn his system will probably take years of diligent work on your part. The book is great however it could have been signicantly better with little additional work. Namely Pelz please please include an index in your future books. A simple index would make finding little tidbits easy instead of the current search to find the information you need. It would only take a few extra pages and a computer could do the indexing work for you quickly............PLEASE!
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