It's true that players often sacrifice power for accuracy. It's also true that power players are often inaccurate. But it doesn't have to be that way.

The series of drills you'll learn in HIT IT HARD will take you from the basic swing motions necessary for "any" fundamentally sound swing to a full-blown, grit-your-teeth, bust-that-ball power swing

In this Quick Guide you'll learn: How swinging hard affects the mechanics of your swing How to use connection to keep your hands in front of you Some simple checkpoints to keep your swing on plane Why your lower body always starts your downswing... and how to move your lower body properly and powerfully How to start your downswing correctly every time How to create upper and lower body separation How to stop excess tension from wrecking your swing And much, much more

So why settle for a swing that's either powerful or accurate when you can have both? Learn how to swing freely -- "no matter how hard you want to swing" -- and just HIT IT HARD

In the 1950's, Ben Hogan was recognized as the premier golfer by the golfing community, idolized as the best ball striker and an inspiration to all golfers for many reasons. He has traditionally been portrayed as a person who guarded his privacy and this novel intends to show another side of his personality. At some stage of his career, every professional golfer has tried to emulate Ben Hogan, either his work habits, intensity, knowledge of the game and swing mechanics, or 'his secret'. This novel imagines what would have happened if Ben Hogan had a protege.

There are many instructional books about golf. There are many inspirational books about golf. I have not added to this mess. I have tried to address the vast majority of golfers, the mediocre players that continue to play lousy golf despite all the efforts to instruct and inspire them. There is no attempt to add new techniques or thoughts that will elevate the lousy golfer to the sparse ranks of the accomplished golfer. There is an effort to make golf a little more fun and the nineteenth hole a more significant part of the game. I couldn't pass up poking a little fun at a lot of others as well. I know little about playing accomplished golf. Few do. I do know how to play lousy golf. Professional golf is a sport and it's played by talented athletes just like any other sport. Other professional sports depend on paying spectators, many of which have never even played the game. Golf may have spectators, but mostly it's got a bunch of hackers buying expensive equipment and paying green fees to maintain the courses for those few that actually know how to play golf. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's just the nature of the game. It's been that way for hundreds of years and I expect it will go on for hundreds more. Through some warped sense of logic I've come to believe it takes a lousy golfer to inspire pathetic golfers. Good golfers know little about playing lousy golf. Most folks just don't know what to do with the advice they give. Golf's frustrating enough as it is. Golfers are constantly bombarded by game improvement gizmos and instructional material to improve their game. The goal is to reach your potential. I don't think there has ever been a golfer that thought they had reached their potential. It's a disease. The cure would be constant improvement. Maybe it's time to work on the symptoms; those sinking feelings after your usual lousy score, or the trauma of returning to normal after one of those rare exceptional rounds. Golf's a good game, really. Learn to enjoy it. Golf life can be good for the lousy golfer. You get to remember the feel and sight of a well struck ball. The accomplished golfer only gets to remember those that aren't stuck well. You can celebrate at the nineteenth hole remembering the few highlights of your golf round. The good golfers just get to cry in their beer over the few lost strokes that shouldn't have been. Best of all, the lousy golfer gets to win just as many matches as the good golfer. Golf has handicaps. It's a strange thing. You can win on the score card while getting your clock cleaned on the course. I guess that's just the concession the good folks had to make so they'd have somewhere to play. It's no wonder they stick to themselves.

"Feherty is at his self-effacing best." -- Los Angeles Times "Golf is not a game, it's a punishment." -- David Feherty The New York Times bestselling author of A NASTY BIT OF ROUGH and SOMEWHERE IN IRELAND, A VILLAGE IS MISSING AN IDIOT, returns with a singular assortment of ribald observations on golf, life, and how best to not take any of it seriously. "First Joyce, then Yeats, now Feherty. The tradition of Irish literary excellence continues, but with this difference: of the three, only Feherty is funny." -- Steven Pressfield, author of THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE and THE WAR OF ART

A series of golf tips from over 60 years of playing golf. I am a scratch player. The first time I shot my age was 62. I am hopeful that this legacy of golf tips is helpful to the next generation of players.

This is the Female Edition on how to play winning golf A great tool to carry with you when you are playing. Learn the tips that all the professionals that win on the PGA tour use to develop a winning golf game. Easy to follow and fun to read.

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

Originally this instruction book was my golf diary, it slowly evolved as I kept notes during my long journey back to playing golf after a hip injury. I never intended to publish it. I'm not a professional golfer; my golfing friends and others I have taught encouraged me to publish this book, but it took a stranger playing in our foursome to convince me. After we had played a few holes I complimented him on his swing; he told me that he was a beginner. To my surprise he held up a few pages of my golf notes that I had given to our mutual friend. After I informed him that they were from my golf diary, he asked if he could have a copy and suggested I should consider writing a golf instruction book. This is it. I hope it helps you as much as it helped him and others. Most beginner golfers know what a good swing looks like; they've seen the best golfers on television. However, when they attempt to learn the game, they soon discover they can't organize all the moving parts to send the ball in the right direction. Knowing how to communicate to your body, and understanding your natural golf swing builds confidence and gets good results. After you've learned how to communicate the golf swing to your body it compensates for your swing hitches; the correct swing positions will happen naturally on their own.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt