Rating: Summary: After reading it, I still need to take another lesson. Review: Description of Mr. Haney's inventional teaching concept is pretty convincing. However, the pictures and how-to are hardly mentioned in the book.
Rating: Summary: Great book for troubleshooting Review: Excellent book for discovering the common flaws and how to correct them. I first read "Ben Hogan's Five Fundamentals". I would recommend it also, but Haney's book shows you the possible flaws creating your bad shots. Hogan tries to explain getting on plane for better shots, while very important, it doesn't give you immediate results.I have only been playing the game for 5 weeks. I'm now addicted. After reading Haney's book, I went out and broke 100 two days in a row and hit par for 3 holes in a row. I was usually a huge hack at 115 even though I went to the driving range at least 4 times a week and played 18 holes on the weekend. If someone is willing to commit to practice until their swing becomes more second nature, this book will help you straighten things out. As I swing the club more, I become more aware of what I am doing and realize my errors when Haney points them out. As with everything in life, there are no shortcuts, in order to be good and excel one must apply himself and practice, practice, practice.
Rating: Summary: Great book for troubleshooting Review: Excellent book for discovering the common flaws and how to correct them. I first read "Ben Hogan's Five Fundamentals". I would recommend it also, but Haney's book shows you the possible flaws creating your bad shots. Hogan tries to explain getting on plane for better shots, while very important, it doesn't give you immediate results. I have only been playing the game for 5 weeks. I'm now addicted. After reading Haney's book, I went out and broke 100 two days in a row and hit par for 3 holes in a row. I was usually a huge hack at 115 even though I went to the driving range at least 4 times a week and played 18 holes on the weekend. If someone is willing to commit to practice until their swing becomes more second nature, this book will help you straighten things out. As I swing the club more, I become more aware of what I am doing and realize my errors when Haney points them out. As with everything in life, there are no shortcuts, in order to be good and excel one must apply himself and practice, practice, practice.
Rating: Summary: Now I GET it!?! Review: Fairly new golfer, got down into the low 80's without any lessons, but although I could drive fairly well (250ish) I couldn't hit an iron to save my life(5 iron 150 yards). I gave this book five stars, not because of it's brilliant "innovation" or anything like that, but when coupled with a pro who teaches in the same vein as this book, you can re-invent your game very quickly. I've added three clubs to my irons, (5 iron is now 195) and it's all because I teamed up with a pro at Hank Haney golf ranch, and read the book and reviewed on my off time. Took me 10 weeks, now I'm a 4 handicapper, and I owe it to my pro and the Hank Haney methodoligy. Change your ball flight, change your game.
Rating: Summary: Want to have a consistent swing read this book! Review: For anyone who has read all the so called golf instruction books and manuals this is a book that will open your eyes to what really matters in golf, better impact of the ball. Hank Haney takes you back through the years of learning from the great teachers such as John Jacobs and Jim Hardy in golf schools fixing hundreds of swings and finding what works. Unlike some so called gurus, Haney doesn't claim to have dreamed all this information up. He can back it all up from years of trial and error. This is a great book if the reader will let go of the old conceptions of how a golf swing should work. If you read John Jacobs' "Practical Golf" with Haney's "The Only Golf Lesson You'll Ever Need." Your golf game will forever prosper.
Rating: Summary: Great book for troubleshooting Review: Haney certainly is a John Jacobs disciple. The flight of the ball is the feedback mechanism that is sending feedback. Haney writes and teaches in a simple, straightforward manner that is easy to follow. Not so easy to execute, as we golfers know all too well. There are good sections on equipment, stance, shortgame, and cures. As good a start as this is, I don't think that for most players this replaces lessons with a good pro. I recommend highly the John Jacobs schools, where you get the best there is.
Rating: Summary: Good All-Around Approach to Improving Your Swing Review: Haney certainly is a John Jacobs disciple. The flight of the ball is the feedback mechanism that is sending feedback. Haney writes and teaches in a simple, straightforward manner that is easy to follow. Not so easy to execute, as we golfers know all too well. There are good sections on equipment, stance, shortgame, and cures. As good a start as this is, I don't think that for most players this replaces lessons with a good pro. I recommend highly the John Jacobs schools, where you get the best there is.
Rating: Summary: Swing Plane: Ben Hogan Revisited Review: Hank Haney explain in this book why the swing plance is so important for a good contact. He explains us why we have to revise the Ben Hogan's theory on the same subject.Hank Haney is a well-known instructor and helped a lot a well-known golfers ( O'Meara,Kuehne Kelly and Hank). Good investment for lowering your handicap.
Rating: Summary: Haney's book a masterpiece for educating you about the swing Review: Hank Haney's book is the most knowledgeable golf instruction book I've ever read. It takes you step by step through the process of analzying your ballflight, then applying that to fix your swing. It also paints an amazingly clear picture of understanding a very misunderstood part of the swing; the swing plane. I would highly recommend this book to anyone trying to further their knowledge of the golf swing.
Rating: Summary: Brilliant Swing Concept Review: Hank Haney's concept of a swing traveling through a series of parallel planes is the most valuable golf idea I ever encountered. It changed everything for me. Now I have a really good swing that I understand. The strange thing is that nobody else writes about this concept. Other authors differ, writing about the club always pointing at the target line, or about a single pane of glass, or about a curved swing plane. However, Haney's concept makes tremendous sense and really works!
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