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Summary: Slice gone forever...
Review: I bought this book last year upon seeing the word "magic" on the cover. I felt that it would take some magic to help me improve my golf swing. I had taken a series of lessons last year from a PGA professional. This helped improve my game. However, I could not seem to conquer my slicing tendencies, especially with my woods. After reading Joe Dante's "Four Magic Moves to Winning Golf" I found that by practicing the techniques in the book focusing on my wrist position throughout the swing in particular, my slice vanished. I play a game of golf more than once a week and can seriously say that after reading this book, I have sliced the golf ball only 5 or 6 times all year!!! And, when I have, I've been able to IMMEDIATELY correct and get back on track. I give this book a full thumbs up and a well-earned 5-star rating!! Try one, you'll see what I mean.
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Summary: Magic Move #4 may destroy your back, but .....
Review: I have been studying the game of golf for 27 years now, and I can talk from experience. It is very easy to become misled regarding the golf swing, and to meander down many roads to find the nuggets that will assist you in executing the swing correctly. I've been there and done that. This book clears away much confusion. The explanations of what to do to swing properly are unmatched. It is an enjoyable read and, to me, one of the best breaths of fresh air regarding golf that is available. Get this book and work with it if you want to bring your scores down, and hopes up!
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Summary: Magic Move #4 may destroy your back, but .....
Review: I have enjoyed the game for decades and have dozens of golf instruction books and videos in my library. It is highly unusual, in my opinion, to see much of anything that is unique and calls into question the core assumptions that are the foundation of most of these golf guides. This book is one of those rare ones that will cause you to ask some questions about what you think you know about the golf swing. I really like the Ralph Mann book "Swing Like a Pro", but I think I might like this one even more. Even if you do not follow the four magic moves covered in the book (I think the last one may well ensure future back problems), a reading of chapter 2 (called something like "sweeping out the rubbish") is worth the price of the book on its own. For me, I am going to try to firm up my grip and experiment with the author's early wrist set. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Outstanding insight into the fundamentals of a golf swing
Review: I have read about every book on the golf swing. This one has changed my game forever. Other than Hogan's Five Fundamentals, I have never experienced such an immediate change in the way I swing the club than since reading this book. It was like a light went on and in a instant, I UNDERSTOOD the objective. I have read it dozens of times and bought more than one copy for friends. It examines many errors of teaching, and takes the reader to the "four magic moves" that must be mastered to create a repeating and efficient swing.This book lit a fire in my and my love for the game, and the feeling that I can "get it", continues to burn.
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Summary: This is the secret to golf
Review: I just finish reading this book and by far it is the best book to date that i have read about golf.This book gives you the secret to hit the ball a long way just like the pro's do it, by using coam(coefficient of angular momentum). Also know as the delayed hit or lag that you here about all the time. This is how Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, David Duval Charles Howell And Paul Azinger and Ben Hogan ect... hit the ball so far when it looks like they are not trying. They accelarate the shaft length wise not across wich throws it off plane. Other books that teach this The golfing machine, by Homer Kelly, John Redman's Esentials of the golf swing also there is a video available on this web site called ultimate power golf swing that you can purchase to see it on video by an instructor named Bobby Shaffer. I have all three books and the video and this book explains this magic move the easiest over the golfing machine wich is complicated but tells you the secret just like Mr. Redmans book does also and recomend it to. The video will let you see this magic move over and over again. I look forward to using this book to help get down to single digit from my 18 handicap in the future.
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Summary: I like this book
Review: I like the golf technique taught in this book. I liked the golf myths section of this book. It presents with some solid advice. I also recommend for beginning golfers --Ben Hogan's Five Lessons--...
For all golfers I think you can benefit from
---The Ultimate Golf Instruction Guide: Key Techniques for Becoming a Zero handicap Golfer or Better (ISBN 1933023090)---
This last book helped me to become a highly skilled golfer. In fact, I used to be a 10 handicap, with the help of The Ultimate Golf Instruction Guide, I now am down to a 3 handicap. However, this book will show you that you can keep getting better and you don't have to be stuck a certain handicap level.
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Summary: I've been searching for this book since I lost mine in 1969.
Review: I purchased this book at a used book store in 1969. After reading it I loaned it to a friend who never returned it. As a beginner at the time, it helped me more than any other golf book, before or since. I've been searching for another copy of the book in bookstores, new and used, ever since. As a lark, I decided to check the Amazon list and sure enough there it is, having been republished. I am currently a nine handicapper, but I feel I still need to have this book again. I especially recommend it to beginners, but I believe experienced golfers will also benefit. I am ordering me another copy today
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Summary: The simplest and best golf instruction book ever
Review: I read this book, practiced Move #1 for a couple of weeks, then shot 3-over (with a couple of lipped-out putts!), my personal best ever. Over the 30 years I have played, I have read every golf instruction book I could lay my hands on, including all the usual recommendations. Joe Dante is the most effective. Most of the books in this genre claim to teach "2 moves" or "3 positions" or whatever, but then it turns out that each step has a lot of sub-steps - in other words, it quickly gets complicated. Hogan's book is a prime example - each of the "5 Moves" involves a bunch of detailed positions - I actually injured myself trying to do what Hogan described. Not to mention, who can remember all that on the course? Dante is the exception. The "4 Magic Moves" really are simple, easy to check even without a mirror, and give you confidence that you can execute the shot.
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Summary: Dante's "Magic" is teaching new tricks to old dogs.
Review: I went from a 3 handicap in high school to what G.P.Wodehouse describes as a "goof". When I couldn't play every day my game went to pot. I had never developed a solid swing that I could repeat time after time, I was clueless. I am now 41 years old and this book changed my life. Well, my golf life at least. I love the game again. Joe Dante teaches the "magic moves" in a way even I can understand and I'm a hardheaded old dog to whom new tricks are hard to teach. The key to golf is delivering the club head to the ball square to the target (accuracy) while generating maximum club head speed (distance). Dante's early wrist break method is the key to consistent accuracy. His lateral hip shift is no secret to golf but it is the key to clubhead speed. The magic is that Dante teaches these moves in such a clear and concise way that, if you follow directions and practice his method, you will improve your golf swing and scores!
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Summary: Best Instructional Book on the Golf Swing Ever Published
Review: I've read many instructional books on the golf swing. I am proof that one can greatly improve their game through books and time on the practice range. I went from a 31 to a 7.5 handicap in less than 4 years without any lessons. I credit Joe Dante with the last 6 or 7 strokes of my improvement. The Four Magic Moves reveals the "trick" of the golf swing. Ever see a card trick or a magician act and wonder how the heck it was done. If the "trick" is revealed to you, its then obvious why it worked out. The Four Magic Moves is the only book out there that reveals the trick! If you are not already aware of this trick, it will have a dramatic effect on your game!
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