In Golf University, Scott Weems offers comprehensive advice to excelling on the golf course that takes readers beyond traditional tips on putting and driving.
This modern classic of golf instruction by renowned teacher Manuel de la Torre (the 1986 PGA Teacher of the Year and the #11 teacher in America as ranked by the editors of Golf Digest in 2007) presents a simpler approach to the golf swing based on Ernest Jones's principles.
Beginning with his triumph in the 1958 Masters, Arnold Palmer took the nation by storm with his small-town charm, go for broke style, and Sunday comebacks.
Over the past few years, perhaps due to an increase in work and family commitments, there has been a noticeable rise in the number of golfers interested in playing nine-hole courses.
The works in Incredible Golf Stories cover the full trajectory of ones careerfrom discovering the game as an amateur to making ones way to (and even winning) a major tournament.
Eight Minutes to Better Golf enables golfers to find their best swing quickly using a simple, effective approachthe Focus Drill methodthat golf instructor Ji Kim has been perfecting over a thirty-year period.
The dean of American golf writers pays tribute to the nation's greatest tournamentOver the course of his forty-year career at the New Yorker and Sports Illustrated, Herbert Warren Wind covered the game of golf from many different angles, providing readers with eloquent insights on the iconic courses of Scotland as well as Bing Crosby's lifelong love affair with the sport.
These essays by the legendary sports writer "e;put readers right in the galleries"e; watching "e;all the great golfers, from Harry Vardon to Jack Nicklaus"e; (The New York Times Book Review).
The classic history of golf in America beginning with the first clubs to arrive on the coast-from "e;golf's most respected and authoritative writer"e; (Golf magazine).
Elegant and perceptive musings on the world's greatest game from the dean of American golf writersThis illuminating collection features many of Hebert Warren Wind's most famous essays, including "e;Jones Breaks Through,"e; his masterful portrait of Bobby Jones's first major championship, won in an epic eighteen-hole playoff against Bobby Cruickshank at the 1923 US Open, and "e;North to the Links of Dornoch,"e; an evocative travelogue that established the venerable course in the Scottish Highlands as one of golf's premier destinations.
There's an interesting point at which the psychological and technical sides of golf meet--and Tom Nieporte and Don Sauers discover this by talking with America's leading golf professionals.
RIGHT HANDERS GOLF MANUALThe Right Handers Golf Manual is intended to provide players at all levels step-by-step instructions on how to play golf and is designed to help you develop your skills and ability.
The author has played golf for over fifty years, played to scratch, won the club championship at golf clubs in two different countries, and had a best-ever round of 64 on a par 72 course in America.
Lena Hagman has found a unique way of telling stories that are not usually told though they are about the utter joy we all can sense whenever we meet someone who can share the splendor of being who we are, in an activity that brings every aspect of our personalities out in the open, as during a round of golf.
If youve been golfing for any stretch of time, youve probably been exposed to the myth that movement-based functional training and sport-specific exercise can make you a better golfer.
The founders of the world-renowned VISION54 training program and the authors of the bestselling Every Shot Must Have a Purpose take golf instruction to the next level in this groundbreaking new approach to mastering the game.
From one of the best sportswriters in America (The Washington Times)the New York Times bestselling story of the friendship and rivalry between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, whose sparring matches defined the sport for more than a decade.
The success of the PGA Tour lies in the compelling stories of the individual quests for achievement--making the tournament cut, winning a tournament, qualifying for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and the ultimate challenge of making it onto the Tour, where victory is often determined by a single stroke.
Set against the background of the Great Depression, this book presents the life of Ralph Guldahl, who for a brief period in the 1930s was widely recognized as the best golfer in the world.
This book tells the story of the Scottish golf professionals who came to America in 1888 and struggled to earn a living and the respect of the wealthy amateur golf establishment and the United States Golf Association who controlled the sport.
This account of professional golf during the Great Depression begins with a look at the "e;roaring 1920s"e; and how the game developed during this exciting decade.
'Wodehouse would have made an excellent sports writer' Sunday TimesAs Wodehouse s biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was above average at games .
One of the most successful caddies of the modern era, having amassed 150 wins, Kiwi Steve Williams has worked with some of the golfing world's best, including 13 years on the bag of Tiger Woods.
