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Summary: excellent
Review: excellent on strategy, and the mental process. The section on short game could have used some visuals and less talk.....I bouth their book "How To Break 100" a few years back.....Honestly this year I am breaking 90 about 1/2 the time...solid golf book if you actually follow the direction they provide.....
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Summary: excellent
Review: excellent on strategy, and the mental process. The section on short game could have used some visuals and less talk.....I bouth their book "How To Break 100" a few years back.....Honestly this year I am breaking 90 about 1/2 the time... solid golf book if you actually follow the direction they provide.....
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Summary: Great advice...
Review: I am fairly new at golf and decided to read this book to help me get lower scores. For the most part the book has been helpful but I do wish there was a cheat sheet or series of diagrams at the back that recaps ball position, swing path, foot position etc. It is hard to keep all the advice in your head and somewhat difficult to find any specific passage on club advice. My biggest complaint - and this is true for almost every book on golf that I have looked through up to now- is that they don't tell you how to hit a 3 iron. They just suggest that you can never hit this club - go and sell it - don't even look at it, etc. This kind of ticks me off because after I finally found some simple advice on how to hit long irons, they have become the most reliable clubs in my bag! They could have spent a little time talking about swing plane and that it is different for every club and here is where your hands will likely be for each club on your backswing - etc. It is not as hard as they blow this up to be. Sadly - even though the advice in the book is good my score hasn't changed at all. I did tell a friend not to use his driver and his score got better - hurray for him!
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Summary: It works!
Review: I don't know whether it was just my focus or the book or both, but I'm now scoring in the mid 80's regularly. The think I liked about the book is that it is practical...that's what makes it work! You won't learn the perfect swing or the perfect anything here..you'll just learn how to score using your basic skills! Some of the book is a rehash of things you already know, but that's golf...you already know WHAT to do, it's just DOING IT.
This book helps you use your brain to score. Good luck.
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Summary: Changed my game for the better
Review: I havent broke ninty yet but I see light at the end of the tunnel for the first time. Great book.
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Summary: You! can break the 90 barrier!!
Review: If you regularly card a 100 to 110 this is the book for you! There are no slick gimmicks or awkward exercises in this book. It just shows you how to maximize the swing you have and avoid the costly mistakes that most people make again and again. I loved the early chapter about "personal par". To shoot a 90 means you average 5 shots per hole. Rather than pushing your game to shoot the stated par on a hole, take your shot-making ability and try to card a par plus one on every hole. Voila! You are now shooting a 90, which is a respectable score with any partner on any course. Guess what?! This book worked for me and it can work for you, too. Read it this winter on those long, cold nights when you long for the chance to be out in the sun sinking a tough breaking putt.
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Summary: If you can hit it straight 200 yds and in, you can break 90
Review: Level Fives is the simple system the author introduces to help the good golfer become an 80's shooter. Level Fives just means adding 1 to par for each hole and having a plan for when to go for GIR and when to get a safe GIR+1 and leave 2 putts for bogey. In addition to the course management stuff, there is also good advise on working the ball and some basic mechanics for good putting, chipping and pitching. This book combined with Bob Rotella's Golf Is Not A Game Of Perfect really helped me to lower my scores. If you hit it well on the range but always seem to have a few big numbers that wreck your score, this book and Dr. Bob's will definitely help you. I also read and am a big fan of the Pelz putting and short game books as well as Hogan's 5 essentials for the full swing. And of course what library would be complete without Harvey Penick's Little Red Book. Also, not to ramble, but for general golf fun I like Bill Murrey's Cinderella Story and John Feinstein's A Good Walk Spoiled. I got the Tiger book and wasn't overly impressed.
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Summary: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96 ...
Review: Your scores WILL drop if you read this book (thoroughly)
and start putting its commonsense advice into practice. Of all the instructional books I've read in ANY category (and
I say this as a professional writer myself), this one stands
out for its clarity, sense of humor, and easy readability. However, for the next edition, let there be more diagrams! In spite of the authors' brilliant description of the swing -- the
best I have read yet -- I wish they'd have included a diagram
of a solid take-away, my own personal golf bugaboo. (Perhaps the authors assume we already know how to do it.) All the same, for a relatively small cash outlay you can't beat
this book. But you will beat your friends.
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