Golf Digest's Ultimate Drill Book: Over 120 Drills That Are Guaranteed to Improve Every Aspect of Your Game and Lower Your Handicap

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Summary: 120 Drills to Specifically Targeted to Swing Improve
Review: One of golf's great teachers provides 120 of his best drills for all aspects of the game: driving, chipping, iron shots, putts, sand, as well as warmup and mental focus.

Each is accompanied by excellent two page format showing: problem, result, goal and practice procedure, with an accompanying photo.

There are just some exellent drills here for what ails you. For me there are some ten or so already that have helped. Check this one out, especially if you are the skilled player who already has a pretty solid idea of your problems. This is some good stuff for those as well as some basic good drills for all golfers.

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Summary: Good to have on hand, but see your pro!
Review: We've all done it: you look at a news article on some nasty disease, you read the symptoms, and you think you might have whatever it is they're talking about. Well, not might. You are convinced you need immediate hospitalization by the time you finish. Then you read that it only aflicts about 1% of the population on some island on the other side of the earth...

Delving into a drill book without good professional backing is a similar experience. The only difference being that there is no salvation with statistics.

Not to be understood, this book is a gem (5 star even). No other volume has such a complete collection of fixes for what ails, and photos to help.

The chief problem is rather that a person who buys this book at random looking to shave a stroke or two off his score is liable to end up with his weekends stopped up with him doing drill after drill for problems he has absolutely no need of fixing. Worse yet, as with drills even your pro teaches you, if you do one or two things wrong you can even ingrain new faults into your swing.

My recommendation is to buy this and set it on the shelf until it becons to you. Then, flip through it, find something that looks good, and check with your pro first. Most PGA professionals will know all the drills (plus some) in this book and should be able to help you get things done right. At worst, they will tell you that you don't have that particular problem and should work on something else.

For the "self-made" golfer, this is one book that requires an even larger amount of caution, for the reasons just gone over and more. Although a good cross reference for other material, this is not by any means a "golf school in one volume". It can be a trap waiting to be sprung. If you are more attentive to your development than most, however, this will be a valuable addition to your library, if for any other reason than it is the virtual bible of golf drills.