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Summary: Only for true beginners
Review: This little 90-page softback book disappointed me. I was hoping for something just a bit better than a host of generalizations. There was little quantification of the various angles, weights, and lengths to satisfy the curious golfer seeking to better understand modern golf clubs. For example, it would be helpful to include a table showing the ranges of loft angles for the irons and woods (metals). Ranges of shaft lengths for the clubs, especially the modern drivers, would also have been of use to the beginning golfer to provide some ideas of the changes that are occurring in club manufacture. It would have been nice to point out that the wedges are the shortest, but heaviest clubs; while the driver is the longest, but lightest club. The dissertation on golf balls did not not mention that the distance golf balls travel is limited by USGA rules, so that no manufacturer can realistically claim his ball outdistances all others, for, if true, it would be illegal. T! here is a semiannually-updated list of conforming balls published by the USGA. It was not mentioned that there is a minimum diameter for the golf ball, but no maximum; and there is a maximum weight, but no minimum. There was no mention of the fact that there are a variety of "oversize" balls, sometimes called magna or magnum, which certain golfers may find advantageous in use, if only from a psychological point of view. There was no warning that there are certain limitations in the USGA rules on club design that are worthy of note, especially in putters. The unsuspecting consumer might easily purchase a putter with either an illegal grip or an illegal lie angle. The book needed a bit sharper editing, also. There is a section on lie angle and the impact board in which the author states,"When the club hits the board, presumably at the same time or just after impact, a mark is left on the sole of the club, the heel of the club is off the ground, and the lie is too flat." I ! thought, "Huh?" After rereading the sentence several times,! I decided he meant to say a mark is left on the sole near the TOE of the club... The author emphasizes the absolute must need for getting properly fitted clubs throughout this little book. He even states that "Ill-fitted clubs will do more to retard your progress than anything else." Although I'm all for well-suited clubs for an individual, it makes me wonder how on earth Sam Snead ever developed one of the greatest swings and golf games of all time while cutting clubs out of old hickory branches! Oh, well, it won't be the last time I buy a golf book I didn't need.
Rating:
Summary: Only for true beginners
Review: This little 90-page softback book disappointed me. I was hoping for something just a bit better than a host of generalizations. There was little quantification of the various angles, weights, and lengths to satisfy the curious golfer seeking to better understand modern golf clubs. For example, it would be helpful to include a table showing the ranges of loft angles for the irons and woods (metals). Ranges of shaft lengths for the clubs, especially the modern drivers, would also have been of use to the beginning golfer to provide some ideas of the changes that are occurring in club manufacture. It would have been nice to point out that the wedges are the shortest, but heaviest clubs; while the driver is the longest, but lightest club. The dissertation on golf balls did not not mention that the distance golf balls travel is limited by USGA rules, so that no manufacturer can realistically claim his ball outdistances all others, for, if true, it would be illegal. T! here is a semiannually-updated list of conforming balls published by the USGA. It was not mentioned that there is a minimum diameter for the golf ball, but no maximum; and there is a maximum weight, but no minimum. There was no mention of the fact that there are a variety of "oversize" balls, sometimes called magna or magnum, which certain golfers may find advantageous in use, if only from a psychological point of view. There was no warning that there are certain limitations in the USGA rules on club design that are worthy of note, especially in putters. The unsuspecting consumer might easily purchase a putter with either an illegal grip or an illegal lie angle. The book needed a bit sharper editing, also. There is a section on lie angle and the impact board in which the author states,"When the club hits the board, presumably at the same time or just after impact, a mark is left on the sole of the club, the heel of the club is off the ground, and the lie is too flat." I ! thought, "Huh?" After rereading the sentence several times,! I decided he meant to say a mark is left on the sole near the TOE of the club... The author emphasizes the absolute must need for getting properly fitted clubs throughout this little book. He even states that "Ill-fitted clubs will do more to retard your progress than anything else." Although I'm all for well-suited clubs for an individual, it makes me wonder how on earth Sam Snead ever developed one of the greatest swings and golf games of all time while cutting clubs out of old hickory branches! Oh, well, it won't be the last time I buy a golf book I didn't need.
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