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Summary: This really helped my Game
Review: Although the language is sometimes unclear, this book helped my game more than any book in recent memory. This book will be particularly helpful if you've been playing golf for several years. You will recognize all the advice you've received over the years and realize how inappropriate that advice was beacause it doesn't match your body type.
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Summary: The LAWs of Golf
Review: Excellent book. Suttie, Tomasi, and Adams do a great job explaining how the golf swing really works. Most great teachers would agree with the material presented in this book-It is the only book I have read that dosen't contradict what another book says. I compared the book to Golf My Way, and The Modern Fundamentals of Golf and both correlate with what The LAWs of Golf Teaches. In his book, Hogan writes, the shorter your arc the more quickly you need to get your left hip out of the way." That fits quite nicely with the LAWs Theory. The book also adds to the theory that the golf swing is a chain action, which was proposed by Hogan in his book, by telling how the position of the left foot influences how quickly the energy in your lower body is transfered up through the club. As a tall flexible arc player this book has helped me understand my game for once. Now I know why I have a tendency to come from the outside and have fixed that amazingly quickly with the help of the Laws model. In my opinion the book is a must for every golf enthusiast.
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Summary: Best Golf Instruction Book Ever
Review: I am an avid reader of golf books and golf theory, and am also an avid consumer of golf lessons. I recently managed to confuse myself terribly with all of this information, much of which is conflicting. One book or instructor would suggest "A" and another would suggest a very different "B" for things like the takeaway, right elbow position, moving of the head, etc. This book explains why "A" is good for some people, "B" for others, depending on their body type and flexibility. They develop three models, leverage, arc, and width, for three different body types and levels of flexibility. No one fits any of the model perfectly, so they introduce a number of variables (foot flare, ball position, stance width, etc) that will customize the model for your physical strengths and limitations. This may sound complex, but it is the clearest and most straightforward golf book I have ever read. If you are a student of the game, you will already be familiar with many of the techniques and golf truisms they discuss. The real strength of the book is that it resolves the conflicting advice and truisms we have all heard so many times, and pins down what will work in your particular case, and what will not. I broke 80 for the first time in 3 years after reading it.
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Summary: Finally, my thoughts are confirmed.
Review: I have long argued that it is almost impossible for me learn golf. My body is simply not suited for the game of golf. Other people laughed and said it is all in my head. But this book confirms that body shape matters. And not only that. It also gives advice on how to adjust your swing according to your body shape. And it seems that no PRO is aware of this. They all teach the same standard swing. So, from my point of view, tall and thin as I am, this is the best golf instruction I've ever got. A real breakthough for me.
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Summary: The Laws of the Golf Swing
Review: I loved reading and will go out this weekend and start working on an arc style swing. I'm a tall flexible guy and never could understand why it felt so difficult to achieve what some pros would be trying to get me to do. Thinking back, most of my teachers were, by chance shorter than me. The authors explain that different body shapes require different swings and they tell you how to get to a swing to suit your body. I could relate to several of the potential problems with each swing type having suffered some of those problems with my development. I enjoyed it for being different. A little repetitious out of the gate or I would have given it a 5 star.
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Summary: Finally something different on the golf swing!!!
Review: I loved reading and will go out this weekend and start working on an arc style swing. I'm a tall flexible guy and never could understand why it felt so difficult to achieve what some pros would be trying to get me to do. Thinking back, most of my teachers were, by chance shorter than me. The authors explain that different body shapes require different swings and they tell you how to get to a swing to suit your body. I could relate to several of the potential problems with each swing type having suffered some of those problems with my development. I enjoyed it for being different. A little repetitious out of the gate or I would have given it a 5 star.
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Summary: Did I read the same book!
Review: I thought this book was very, very difficult to follow. There are not enough photos for the descriptions that the author tries to portray. He explains how to grip the club, but doesn't have a photo to show you exactly how to do it. There are practice tips in the book, but again, photos are missing. Also, trying to follow the body type test proved to be a challenge. There were several details left out and I ended up guessing on what the author meant. Again, a person cannot rely solely on the text when learning something so physical as golf. Even Ben Hogan stuggled to match the text with pictures(5 lessons). A person (a least me) requires a lot of photos to understand exact positioning of hands, legs, feet, etc.. This book gave me some things to try, but it is not the ultimate golf swing book as far as I'm concerned. I don't think that Mike Adams revealed any hidden secrets.
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Summary: Confessions of a "width" player
Review: I won't go out on the limb and say you will be happy if you are a reader with an average build. The potential problem is that if you are a mixture of two body types this concept will become quite confusing. What I do know is that if you are stocky, with a broad chest and a lack of flexibility, you need the custom made suit this book provides. I am confident that for you, it will be the best golf book you can buy, by a WIDE margin. In fact, I predict it will allow you to make more progress in hitting the ball than 4 or 5 hours of private lessons from most competent golf pros that issue teach standard techniques to non standard bodies. This means this book is worth 10 times the price they are asking for it at Amazon.com.
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Summary: Sort out the Confusion Caused by Conflicting Swing Advice
Review: If you have read several golf instruction books or magazine articles about the full golf swing, then you have surely noticed that they don't all say the same thing. They give conflicting advice. Sometimes the conflict is more apparent than real, because different teachers may use different words and images to try to convey the same ideas. But in other cases there are real conflicts in the advice. For example, should your 5-iron ball position be two inches inside your left heel, or in the center of your stance? Should you use a strong grip or a neutral grip? Should you start the backswing with a one-piece takaway (arms, hips and shoulders together) or should you lead with your hands? Should you start the downswing with a hip-slide or a knee kick or what? And do the hips lead the arms or should they start together? Mike Adams et al help you sort out all of this conflicting advice and find the swing that is best for you. They describe three different swing types ! (Leverage, Arc, and Width [with two variations of width]) and explain which setup and swing elements go together successfully, and which elements cannot be successfully combined ("magic versus tragic" combinations). Your correct swing type depends mainly on your body build, and also on your flexibility. Once you understand your ideal swing type, you can fine tune it according to your typical ball flight pattern. In the two months before I bought the LAWS book I had been trying to learn to swing like Jack Nicklaus as described in his Golf My Way book. I wasn't having much success at it. The LAWS book explained why: I'm not built like Jack, and I'm not as flexible as he is (or was). I am rebuilding my swing in a way that isn't too different from what I had been doing naturally before I tried Nicklaus, but with the LAWS advice I am getting rid of some incompatible setup and swing elements and replacing them with compatible elements. The LAWS advice has already! led to better, more consistent drives and full fairway sho! ts, and I expect further improvement as I continue to practice and fine-tune my swing. LAWS is the most valuable book on the full swing in my golf library. My father bought LAWS recently, and he says he wishes it had been available 40 years ago.--Bill from Bangor
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Summary: the light is finally on!
Review: mike finally explains why we all do not swing alike. body type and physical assets are the key. now us big guys don't have to swing like gary player. the explanations are right on. the drills are good too. thanks mike.
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