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Summary: If I had to pick one golf book, it would be this one.
Review: "Just" the basics. This book will allow you to "feel" what is good or bad about each shot that you make. This is important because knowing what you have done right or wrong is half the battle in learning golf. I also like this book because there is a lot you can learn about your swing without even having to hold a club...you can develop your "feel" just waiting for the bus
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Summary: Great Golf Instructional Book!
Review: A great golf instructional book! I think it would be especially helpful to the beginner. The book was written in a very logical sequence and in the order of importance to help reader understand the entire golf swing. Drills in each chapter were simple to perform and effective.
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Summary: Great - finally puts the body parts in the proper order
Review: After many lessons and lots of soul searching and bad adjustments made to my swing, this book really sets out the priorities of what makes a good swing. I supposedly swing outside in and have a slice. I have tried to use my legs, swing inside out with the clock method, swing slower, have a stronger grip, etc., etc. In frustration I locked my wrists and could manage a 23 handicap with mainly shoulder action. Finally this book tells how the hands lead, then the arms and the shoulders only follow. I also concentrated on a good follow through, but now know that it will be better when every thing else gets in the right order. Now that I have concentrated just on the hands for a while without any other movement, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Hitting is a lot easier on the body and when I do get things right it goes pretty far! Hooray.
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Summary: get this book
Review: As a new student of golf, I've read over a dozen books to improve my swing and this book is by far the best! It helps the reader develop a real feel for the golf swing in the most natural, developmental way I can imagine. Starting with hands and arms and then moving through each part of the body, it describes how the swing should feel. Best of all, the authors have designed numerous drills and exercises for the reader to actually FEEL the swing in each part of the body. While this description sounds mechanical, it produces a swing that is anything but. Not only has my swing become more fluid, controlled and consistent, my golf scores have improved significantly as well. I highly recommend this book for both beginning golfers and teachers of the game.
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Summary: The Title Says It All!
Review: As a new student of golf, I've read over a dozen books to improve my swing and this book is by far the best! It helps the reader develop a real feel for the golf swing in the most natural, developmental way I can imagine. Starting with hands and arms and then moving through each part of the body, it describes how the swing should feel. Best of all, the authors have designed numerous drills and exercises for the reader to actually FEEL the swing in each part of the body. While this description sounds mechanical, it produces a swing that is anything but. Not only has my swing become more fluid, controlled and consistent, my golf scores have improved significantly as well. I highly recommend this book for both beginning golfers and teachers of the game.
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Summary: The best I've found.
Review: Being new to golf, I read many books and purchased many videos. This book has been the most helpful by far. Over Jim McClain, Bobby Jones, Ledbetter etc. It truly communicates what you need to feel. Learning mechanics is one thing, but until you FEEL it, you won't progress. Personally, my iron shots now are great! From just one pointer in the book and it is now hard not to hit my irons straight. Great book. Great teachers.
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Summary: Perhaps The Only Golf Book You'll Need
Review: How to Feel a Real Golf Swing takes over where other books leave off. Keeping within a concise framework it contains a huge amount of detail to what really is important in a good golf swing. Starting with the basics on how the club head moves to lesser discussed topics like tension and how it can ruin a fluid and powerful swing, this book pretty much has it all! It has helped me immensely!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I did not like this book. It does not explain the golf swing sufficiently for the user to perform the swing correctly. There are certain aspects that I believe leave the reader unclear. For example, the book says that you need to imagine the inside path to the ball in the downswing as a slide going down to the ball. It does not say how the reader should actually perform this move.I found there is very little in this book that I found to help my game. There are defiantly many fundamentals of the golf swing that this book doesn't even start to discuss. I also don't like the way that the book recommends that you learn how the hands/arms use before learning how the entire body should be used. The book even says that you can swing well without even reading the body/hips section. IMO this will turn the reader into a very "handsy" type of player. It is my belief that the swing is a blend of the entire body and advocating that it is possible to learn how the hands move without even addressing the hips and body is wrong. There are better books around such as the LAWS of Golf, and Four Magic Moves to Winning Golf.
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Summary: Simply the Best
Review: I'm a single digit handicap golfer who loves to study the golf swing. Of all of the books out there, this one is simply the best. Learning to "feel" your way to a proficient golf swing is right on the mark because if you can feel your swing, you can trust it and play with confidence. The whole body is involved with swinging the golf club, but the hands, arms and feet are the gateway for moving beyond analysis and finally feeling your own swing. Toski and Love communicate the fundamentals in such a straight-forward, easy to understand format that you may just sell or junk all of your other golf books.
Jason Wallace
Kaysville, UT
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Summary: Cure for the Paralysis of Analysis
Review: Some of us golfers cannot work with the over-analysis of some very good mechanical teachers, i.e. Leadbetter, etc. Here Toski and DL3's dad (since deceased) provide drills to develop us feel players. For example, there are drills to feel what it's like to leave the clubface open on the backswing, closed, etc. This combined with feedback system of "ball flight" from an expert like John Jacobs is all I use for my swing corrections. This is truly a classic instruction book for those of us who play by feel, not by mechanics.
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