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1) The Leadbetter Golf Academy handbook: techniques and strategies from the world's greatest coaches
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Certified instructors Sean Hogan and Kevin Smeltz, along with championship golfers Suzann Pettersen and Ian Poulter and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Nick Price, provide invaluable advice on how to improve upon every aspect of the golf game by gaining a clear and concise understanding for each key element of the sport. The book shows golfers how to improve their full swing, short game, practice routines, and how to better their mental and physical...
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Just when we need some magic in our lives, bestselling author James Patterson brings us a stirring tale of life, love, and the power of Christmas miracles.
Travis McKinley's life has drifted sideways. His job, his marriage, even his children all feel disconnected and distant. Has he really accomplished nothing of consequence in his life? One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself for the first time in the zone-playing...
Travis McKinley's life has drifted sideways. His job, his marriage, even his children all feel disconnected and distant. Has he really accomplished nothing of consequence in his life? One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself for the first time in the zone-playing...
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Herman "Hank" Fins-Winston was a pro golfer destined for greatness. Now he lives in a condominium on the thirteenth fairway of one of heaven's glorious courses – a fact he finds surprising and amusing, since for one reason or another, a fair percentage of golfers never make it to paradise. Hank is having the time of his afterlife until he's summoned one idyllic morning to play a round with the Almighty. It seems that God is having some trouble with...
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Although there are fourteen clubs in a golf bag, most of the game is decided by just three: the driver, the wedge, and the putter. In THE 3-SCORING CLUBS, top PGA instructor Jim McLean gives you the tips and techniques to lower your score in a unique primer packed with more than 100 precision photos. Customizing his advice in each section for three skill levels—high handicaps, intermediate golfers, and scratch players—McLean tailors a set of...
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The 1960 U.S. Open Golf Championship played at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado, remains perhaps the most dramatic, competitive, and passionate of all Open championships. In 1960 the young lions of the game were eager to reach the top tier occupied by venerable players such as Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. In this Open only a single stroke separated the three leaders-Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, and a young but talented amateur named Jack Nicklaus-on...
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Shouting at Amen Corner is a collection of the best of Ron Green's columns and articles from his 45 years of covering the Masters for "The Charlotte News" and "The Charlotte Observer." It's a book about Hogan, Palmer, Nicklaus, Watson, Faldo, and Wood, but it's also about Norman, Weiskopf, Miller, and others who have come so close, only to see the Green Jacket slip away at the last moment. This book is unique in that it recounts history as it was...
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Straight Down the Middle is a humorous and insightful account of journalist and former-18-handicap golfer Josh Karp's quest to achieve inner peace and improve his golf game—all through the art of Zen. Assisted by a quirky roster of excellent practitioners of esoteric, Eastern-fueled, nontraditional golf instruction, Karp embarks on a unique journey across the fairways of North America (and Scotland, of course!) that's as funny as it is illuminating....
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Chevy Chase's infamous speech from the movie Caddyshack provides the perfect title for this book, which deals with the mental side of golf. Be the Ball includes interviews with more than 100 professional and amateur golfers and instructors — each telling readers how they, too, can reach this higher state of control. Some of the biggest names in golf offer their unique tips, philosophy, and thoughts on becoming the very best golfer
...10) Hey, Tiger-You Need to Move Your Mark Back: 9 Simple Words that Changed the Game of Golf Forever
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Experience the thrill, twenty-five years later, of Steve Scott's epic finals match against Tiger Woods in the 1996 United States Amateur Championship!
In August of '96, Steve Scott went head to head against Tiger Woods at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in the finals of the US Amateur Championship. Five thousand three hundred forty-five players whittled down to two. Scott found himself a surprising 5-up after the first 18, but at hole 35 Tiger squared the...
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The Golf Delusion is a collection of stories, instruction and step-by-step photography designed to improve the swing of the amateur golfer. Each entry is a light-hearted but informative look at the golf swings of the famous – and sometimes not so famous – pupils of the Knightsbridge Golf School, founded by Leslie King, who pioneered a new approach to golf swing tuition in the 1950s. Over the past 60 years, the Knightsbridge Golf School has improved...
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Can I Get a Ruling? offers entertaining and thought-provoking golf moments on the pro tour that will stir your sense of justice and challenge your own knowledge of the rules. You'll share the players' frustrations - and other times feel perplexed by their actions and the consequences. You'll see again that the mightiest titans that even strode the green are still like us - sometimes impatient, sometimes forgetful, sometimes exasperated at his or her...
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"Bobby Clampett is one of the most knowledgeable golfing minds in the game."-Tom Lehman, 1996 British Open Champion, 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup team captain
Impact has long been called golf's "moment of truth," and great golfers have spent countless hours working on their swings trying to upgrade their impact dynamics as the golf club approaches, contacts, then swings through the ball. For the first time, with The Impact Zone, golfers will have a book that...
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The new Rules of Golf 2019 are here! As a serious golfer, you are already aware of the "major" changes, which have been widely and rightly-heralded for simplifying certain aspects of play.
You will soon discover, however, that this "snapshot" of major changes isn't even close to the whole picture, as the Rules revisit play, penalties, and relief on a broad canvas, starting with the basics ... numerous changes in the very language of golf.
As a player,...
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Finally, a book about the game of golf as you play it. This book is not about great professional players past or present. It is not about the world's great courses. It makes no claims that you will be a better player after reading it. This book is about you and the game as you play it. In this whimsical collection of essays, author Jeffrey Thoreson writes about his 30-year journey through the game and does so in a way that relates to anyone who has...
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The book is about the inception and creation of an iconic golf company and the success that was achieved by the Ben Hogan Company for over twenty-five years. This was followed by the turmoil the company went through, following a corporate raid, and by reorganizing the management team and how by featuring Ben Hogan in an ad campaign at the Riviera Country Club pole-vaulted the company to once again become the leader in golf club manufacturing. Then...
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In 1999, the PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament, known to many as Q School, found itself sitting on 35-years of unique history. Q School Confidential chronicles this tournament's deep, dense story of heartbreak, black humor, back-room politics and magnificent golf under dire circumstances.
Using the 1998 PGA TOUR Qualifying School finals as his backdrop, golf writer David Gould recounts for the first time ever the history of the pro tour's annual qualifier,...
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Groundbreaking studies show that the adult brain can learn only one new motor skill at a time. The golf swing is a series of fundamental motor skills, all simple to learn, but not easy to master or combine. Mastery of these fundamentals is the key to consistently good golf, round after round.
In Golf from the Ground Up Bob Mullen emphasizes the critical importance of the "platform," the synergy of grip, stance, footwork, rotation, alignment, and ball...
19) Golf Etiquette
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A revised, more focused edition of the essential golf etiquette handbook.
Tiger Wood's popularity has introduced golf to thousands. Very few, however know proper golf etiquette-which is essential to enjoying the game. The revised edition of the classic book is vital for amateur and experienced players in addressing golf's number one problem: slow play. The book Paul Harvey lauded as "The first and last word on how properly to behave on and off the...
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