Golf stories are funny, caddie stories are hilarious Caddy Tales is proof of this statement. Scott has done an outstanding job of putting a few of his actual caddying experiences on paper which allows the reader to feel like they are sitting in the same room reliving the stories. These tales capture the comedy that ensues when the golf gods shake the elite and private members to their core. 33 million people play golf in the United States every year, yet less than 1% of them will have ever taken a caddie. The 99 % that do take caddies are not your PGA Tour Pro's or Professional golfers. They are members and resort guests that shoot an average of 95. Caddy Tales is a unique one of a kind book which tells the hysterical stories that develop when people from all walks of life take a caddie.

Golf -the romance of the socialite, or more conventionally, the social-elite-is trending across all social groups these days. Authored by an avid golfer and PGA veteran writing under a penname, this Smart & Easy Guide is a joy to read for anyone who is interested in Golf. Written like with the same rhythm and control that define golf itself, the book introduces you to a number of subtle factors and simple techniques that make the difference between winning and losing. This book would help you learn: How to achieve your balance and focus while golfing How to leverage wind, weather, and golf course condition to your advantage How to hold the clubs, attain proper posture and swing When to use which particular club, and the qualities of each Tips and technique for putting Avoiding and getting out of golf traps Golfing software and where to use them Golfing etiquettes And, most importantly, how to develop a winning habit "To find a man's true character, play golf with him," said P G Wodehouse. However, you can't prove your mettle in golf unless you are good at it. Losing game after game makes you hate the sport, until an occasional win lifts your spirits. After reading this book, your triumph in golf would not depend on chance as much as it used to. Those who have played golf may be aware of its addictive potential. It's a game of tremendous drama and intense emotion. Winning at golf can mean living on the high, while losing game after game can drain your confidence, apart from causing extreme frustration. Thankfully, Smart & Easy Guide to Winning at Golf is a book that seems to contain all the secrets to golfing success in its 60 or so pages. The absorbing style of the book engrosses you right from the first chapter, which talks about the importance of balance in golf and compares it to Zen meditations. The following chapters give you a quick rundown through the basics of golf-the wind, the weather and the warm up-before exploring the more intricate subjects of stance and grip in a simple and practical manner. The properties of golf courses; the use of clubs, woods and putter; putting techniques and tips; golf traps; pitching and sand wedging-it's all in there, described with great simplicity. The guide contains valuable tips and insider secrets that could only have come from a professional golfer like the author himself. Toward the end of the book, there are a couple of chapters on golfing software that professional golfers use for tracking their handicaps or improving their swings. There's practically no area of golfing that the book doesn't touch. It can be rightfully termed as a golfer's handbook or a golfing manual for beginners and intermediaries. If you are struggling at the Tees or the Greens, or maybe in the Roughs, this Smart & Easy Guide will take you to the next level. Following its easy, step-by-step guidance, you can overcome your shortcomings and play golf like pros. It's a good read for any golfer, though.

Dr. Simpson is a medical specialist and mind coach working with clients on the European Tours. He knows from his experiences that successful putting depends much more on using effective mind skills than technique. Dr. Simpson explains his revolutionary methods that you can use immediately to hole more putts, and have a lot more fun too. Drive for show, and putt for dough. It is a cliche, but nevertheless it is true. The fastest way to bring your handicap down, or make more money on tour, is to shave a few putts from your round. Even just one would make a huge difference. It is the easiest thing to do, or the hardest, depending on how you think about it, and which part of your brain you are using. Children are often very good at putting because nobody has told them how difficult it is, or blinded them with technique. There is a lesson there for you too. Adopt the mantra that you will follow your process, and your results will take care of themselves. In other words if your processes are good more putts will drop, and your statistics will improve as a result. This is the process that you will use to improve your putting stats. There are only four magic mind secrets to this process. Adopt them and they will open your mind, and as a result you will hole many more putts. Here they are: - Be confident about the line - Be confident about the speed of the green - Be confident in yourself - Be confident to stroke the ball smoothly This sounds easy, and it certainly can be. The power word that applies to all these four secrets is confidence, and Dr. Simpson's role is to explain HOW you can increase your confidence in these four critical areas. In this audiobook he explains in an engaging style the way that your brain works, and unearths a few clues explaining why most people get in their own way, and make putting, and life, a lot more difficult than they should.

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

Far is FUN. One of golf's great pleasures is watching your shots fly farther than ever before. The Power Primer walks you through the Essential Elements of increasing distance... quickly and easily. Book #1 of the EvoSwing Series made sure you found The Sweet Spot. Book #2 made it simple to Groove Your Move. Now it is time to Prime your Power game When you want immediate improvement and lasting results... Learning Progressions are the key to making effective change. The Power Primer gives you a step by step blueprint to guarantee you add more yards... without sacrificing accuracy. Step one in Priming Your Power is maximizing distance using your current swing speed. Optimizing Launch Quality and Tuning Your Timing are your Prime Power boosters. Step two is adding speed. Faster means Farther. The Power Primer gives you simple concepts and crystal clear images of the most direct influences on generating speed. The information in The Power Primer is a blend of Flight Science, Golf Psychology, Helpful Suggestions and Entertaining Anecdotes. If you want to light the fuse on your golf shots...The Power Primer is your match.

"GOLF SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of a good walk spoiled." This golf art book showcases artwork along with quotations about golf that covers topics including sportsmanship, golf humor, the pros, Scotland, and even presidential golf. This collaborative publication has two goals in mind: first, to honor and highlight the great game of golf though text and artwork, and secondly, to showcase the talents of new and emerging artists who focus on creating golf art. Both professional and nonprofessional artists were invited to submit their work to be a part of this golf art book. The end result includes 36 artists from countries including the US, UK, Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden. GOLF SAYINGS features a variety of golf art styles including golf photography, illustrations, collages, and paintings. A perfect gift for all golf and art lovers. BookCollaborative.com, founded by Bradford G. Wheler, is a collaborative service that assists a wide variety of artists to reach the public through the publication of collections of their works. Past releases include CAT SAYINGS: wit & wisdom from the whiskered ones, HORSE SAYINGS: wit & wisdom straight from the horses mouth, DOG SAYINGS: wit & wisdom from man's best friend, and SNAPPY SAYNGS: wit & wisdom from the world's greatest minds. More information on BookCollaborative.com publications and participating artists is available on the website www.BookCollaborative.com or visit our facebook page "Golf Sayings Book"

Join the "Elite" Group of Golfers that Consistently Shoot Scores in the 80s... A proven blueprint for breaking 90, not just once, but every time you tee it up What if there was a simple, proven blueprint for breaking 90, not just once, but every time you tee it up? And all you had to do was execute this simple strategy? What if I could show you how join the "elite" group of golfers that break 90 on a regular basis? Do you think you could shoot lower scores and get more enjoyment out of playing golf? If you answered "YES," you'll want to download my Blueprint that reveals all the details including: How to quickly create a plan for breaking 90 before you even hit your first tee shot... The 4 simple skills you need to master to break 90 with any set of golf clubs... A simple strategy for two-putting every green... The right way to play every hole (it's probably NOT the way you're currently playing golf)... And much, much more Christian Henning

"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

Methods of Early Golf Architecture features selected writings from premier architects C.B. Macdonald, George C. Thomas, and Robert Hunter. With precision and detail, these visionaries discuss each element of golf course design, and no detail is left untouched.

Methods of Early Golf Architecture Includes:
- Characteristics of a Golf Architect
- Psychology of Design
- Deciding Where to Build
- The Design Process
- Utilizing Natural Features
- Teeing Grounds
- Through the Green
- Hazards
- Greens and Greenkeeping
- Ideal Holes
- The Construction Process
- Overseeing Construction

Characteristics of a Golf Architect
"A golf architect must be a student of agriculture, understand nature, have a knowledge of soils, knowledge of implements, drainage, and above all the particular character of the layout which tantalizes a lover of the game and holds him spellbound."
"- C.B. Macdonald"

Psychology of Design
"How deadly dull are two or three holes of the same character when they follow each other A drive and pitch followed by a drive and pitch is a good deal like serving a watery pudding after a watery soup."
"- Robert Hunter"

The Design Process
"The ability to create is to consider all the problems of a golf course. The architect must visualize the effect his work will produce from all angles of the game."
"- George C. Thomas"

Utilizing Natural Features
"Now and then one finds a hole of real distinction which nature herself has modeled, and to add anything artificial would be a crime."
"- Robert Hunter"

Golf Fore Ever provides very helpful information for the novice or newcomer to the sport of golf. The information provided in Golf Fore Ever will make golf an even more enjoyable and rewarding experience for you and help you avoid the pitfalls most players encounter when they are first learning to play. Golf Fore Ever is a guide for beginning golfers taken from the experiences of Mike Deagle who has over thirty years of experimenting and playing golf. This guide will provide you with the right information to help you start to play golf the "right way." On your journey to a better golf game, you will discover the delights and frustrations associated with the game of golf. Golf can be a roller coaster ride of emotions, from euphoria when you hit a career shot to a tight pin placement, to complete dismay when your ball finds the water or goes out of bounds on the very next hole. It is up to you, the player, to determine whether you enjoy the ride by not letting the game get the better of you. This guide will truly help you on your challenging journey to the wonderful world of golf.

In golf the playing field is also landscape, where nature and the shaping of it conspire to test athletic prowess. As golf courses move away from the "big business, pristine lawn" approach of recent times, Bradley S. Klein, a leading expert on golf course design and economics, finds much to contemplate, and much to report, in the way these wide-open spaces function as landscapes that inspire us, stimulate our senses, and reveal the special nature of particular places.
A meditation on what makes golf courses compelling landscapes, this is also a personal memoir that follows Klein's own unique journey across the golfing terrain, from the Bronx and Long Island suburbia to the American prairie and the Pacific Northwest. Whether discussing Robert Moses and Donald Trump and the making of New York City, or the role of golf in the development of the atomic bomb, or the relevance of Willa Cather to how the game has taken hold in the Nebraska Sandhills, Klein is always looking for the freedom and the meaning of golf's wide-open spaces. And as he searches, he offers a deeply informed and absorbing view of golf courses as cultural markers, linking the game to larger issues of land use, ecology, design, and imagination.

If you've been playing golf for long, you know it's true that... size doesn't matter You've seen puny punks blast drives deep down the middle and you've seen short, skinny fellows bomb their drives 300 yards or more. Hopefully you haven't suffered the humiliation of being badly outdriven by some scrawny golfer that looks like he hasn't eaten in a month It used to happen to me on a regular basis...but not anymore I got so sick and tired of being called a "short knocker" that I decided to do something about it. And after years of intense and exhaustive research, I finally discovered the simple secret to adding 30 yards (or more) to your drives faster than you ever imagined possible. I've distilled what it took me years to learn into this easy to follow book. And, I'm going to share what I learned so you can quickly and easily add distance to your tee shots and hit your drives L-O-N-G and straight. As it should be In fact, you'll add distance to every club in your bag. First I need to explain something: If you're not bombing your drives deep down the middle of the fairway, attacking pins with short irons, and shoot the low scores you deserve to be shooting, it's NOT your fault. You've been misled (just like I was) by golf instructors, equipment manufacturers, and the golf media who make this simple game sound as complicated at nuclear physics Trust me, it's not that difficult. It's not in the golf industry's best interests for you to know the truth. The longer they can keep you confused, frustrated, and on a constant search for solutions, the longer they can separate you from your hard-earned money buying more lessons, more gadgets, and more books and magazines. By now, I'm certain you've noticed that some of the longest bombers have some of the smallest frames. You'll NEVER Guess How Many Short, Skinny Pros Hit their Drives Farther than BOTH Tiger Woods AND Phil Mickelson... Just look at the current PGA driving statistics (as of this writing) and you'll discover a bunch of pint-sized golfers who absolutely pulverize their drives. People like: Ryan Palmer. He's listed at just 5' 11" and 175 pounds, yet he CRUSHES his drives an average of 302 yards. And he's far from the only long bomber who's under 6-feet tall and rail-thin. There's also: 2-time Major champion Rory McIlroy (5' 10" 160 lbs.) Average Drive: 299 yards Listed at 5' 10" and 160 pounds, Rory McIlroy is not a very physically imposing figure...but the two time major champion's 300-yard bombs off the tee can certainly be intimidating to opponents. You too can add 30-yards (or more) to your drives. The secret key to ULTIMATE Golf Distance? The key is your core - a collection of muscles and tendons between your thighs and your chest. Your core acts as an accelerator for your golf swing. A strong and flexible core allows you to: -accelerate through the golf swing -generate more clubhead speed -and add more distance to every club in your bag The key is not the latest golf technology dreamed up by a marketing department, the newest golf training gadgets invented to separate you from your money, or more expensive lessons from someone who couldn't care less if you get any better. Don't get me wrong. Technology, gadgets, and lessons all have their place and used properly they can help you improve your game, but none of them is the real key to adding distance and power. The real key is a strong, flexible core. Do you need PROOF? Who's the best golfer of this generation? It's Tiger Woods without a doubt, right? "For golfers, core strength is just as important as flexibility. Core muscles help control movement and transfer energy from the center of the body out to the limbs, which can obviously impact how well you strike the ball. My core training builds overall strength and flexibility and helps me maintain an ideal state of posture and symmetry." - Tiger Woods You only need 30 minutes a few times a week to see result

A Hispanic father gives his son an opportunity to become the next Tiger Woods. However, when his son Gus, is suspended by the PGA Tour, Gus returns home and is confronted by his father, and uncovers the reason and motivations for his father's actions, while rediscovering his love for the game.

The objective of this book is to provide a process or approach for managing one business and golf expectations. Broken down into three parts, the book presents the nine steps to meeting one's business and golf expectations. My approach presents the "how-to" with a process for getting results and meeting one's expectations. The increasing popularity of golf throughout the world and particularly by business executives should make the book highly appealing to them as well as to others who are trying to get a better perspective on their lives as well as manage their time, business and golf expectations.

Golf Mind Play is an indispensable guide for golfers of all standards. It is a concise and convenient quick reference tool. The practical tips and routines will allow you to play out of your mind. "Mastering the fundamentals makes up only part of what it takes to be an accomplished golfer. If you can master the mental game, you will take strokes off your handicap." says Tracy Tresidder golf mind coach. The practical tips and routines will allow you to play golf out of your mind, lower your handicap and enjoy your golf more than ever. You will learn how to relax and play golf in the zone, lower your handicap by outsmarting your brain, remove your self sabotaging techniques, eliminate bad habits and mental mistakes, discover how to stay clam, enjoy your golf more and lower your handicap. Chapters include: Overcoming negative influences, high score anxiety, fear, focus, using your instincts, trusting your subconscious, playing in the present, overcoming destructive thinking, learning to love the challenge and the importance of consistency. The final chapter provides a list of practical playing tips using mind play and a comprehensive list of recommended readings. This book is for both the new and experienced golfer. Start practicing and mastering the mental tips and strategies you will find in this book and watch you golf game improve out of sight

Is it worth it? There are many obstacles to change: Some we put in our own way, some are put there by others. We're going to help you identify these obstacles and develop strategies for overcoming or bypassing them. Once you've learned this, making a change in your golf game will be that much easier. Most of us say we want to change something, but in your present state are you a good candidate? Once you decide that you want to do this, you have to ask yourself two questions: Is it worth the effort? Am I capable of doing this? If you can say yes to both questions, then you're a candidate for change, a candidate for real improvement.

Score the Ball, Volume 1, The Fringe Situation is a great new book that builds on an exciting and solid scoring concept called Situational Golf. It is all about scoring the ball, getting the ball into the hole in the fewest number of strokes. This system teaches golfers to recognize, evaluate, and determine the highest percentage shot for a particular situation, and then executing that shot with a high level of success. The situation always dictates the shot. You will find that this concept is strong, consistent, and efficient. Score the Ball, Volume 1 focuses on situations when the ball comes to rest just off of the green, where it can be contacted cleanly, but it cannot be reliably putted. This is a common situation that the average golfer may see 6-10 times in every round, and therefore handling it well is critical for good scoring. Each year numerous professional tour golfers are successful handling this situation and saving par well over 90% of the time. Yet many amateurs fail to achieve even a 10% success rate, and they generally struggle with it. The key thing is that the shots to handle this situation do not take much athleticism or strength. No tour professional has any physical or athletic advantage when hitting these shots. So anyone can learn to handle this situation very, very well with the right techniques. Another key element is that consistency leads to confidence which leads to aggressive play and to better scoring. This book shows you how to infuse complete consistency in your short game, which has many more facets than just practicing until your back aches. It incorporates proper mechanics, productive practice techniques, and on course mental approach. You will also come to know and understand concepts such as 'shot purity', 'experience library', 'natural calibration', 'target affinity', and 'pre-shot routine' in connection with handling this situation. They will work to make you a more aware, insightful, and better player. Your practice sessions will be very productive and they will translate directly to better scoring. This book includes setup and mechanics with detailed text and diagrams, situational analysis, exercises, drills, and methods to fix problems that you might have. There are over 40 instructional pictures. While the book is in black and white, the instructional pictures are also available in color with an enlargement option on the accompanying website 'situationalgolf.com'. Look for the next book in the Score the Ball series which moves the golfer a little further back off of the green and showcases a different situation that can be handled by a higher, softer shot.

This book is the most comprehensive home study guide that is based on a learn-by-doing and applying method. In this book you will be exposed to the hidden secrets of the golf game, human relationship skills, proper golf etiquette, hygiene and many other tips and techniques to get you started on your way as you enter the secret world of golf caddying. You will learn the same techniques, tips and strategies that I have used for the last 25 years to become very effective and successful. Some of the topics that you will learn and master in this book are: Customer Service, comprehensive step by step instructions on how to treat your players, why it is very important to be professional at all times, better communication skills, how to build more self confidence, how to increase your earnings instantly, how to maintain a positive attitude, how to give superior service to the players, the importance of patience and how to read a pin sheet and yardage book.

Written by Dr Paul McCarthy (the first-ever resident Sport Psychologist at the home of golf - St Andrews Links) and leading golf consultant Dr Marc Jones, The Successful Golfer is designed to help address 50 of the most common faults that players experience; faults which hold you back. These include: hitting the self-destruct button when winning, nervousness on the first tee, lost confidence, failing to practise as you play, losing focus off poor drives, and many more. Each fault is remedied with a clear practical fix. You will learn to develop effective practice plans, build a dependable pre-shot routine, cope with the pressures of competitive golf, and deal with distractions.

In the second part of the book, lessons from 30 fascinating research studies on golf are presented to help keep you ahead of the field. They include research on putting, practice, choking, and overthinking. In the third and final part of the book, clear instructions are provided on developing a number of highly effective techniques that can be used across a wide variety of situations. These include: pre-shot routines, breathing exercises, goal setting, and how best to practice.

The Successful Golfer is a must-read addition to any golfer s bookshelf. Read it and fix those mental faults that stop you from playing your best golf.

Just some of what you will learn:

- Learn to play consistently on the golf course and win when it matters most

- Develop unshakeable confidence in all facets of your game

- Build a consistent pre-shot routine to concentrate effectively and manage distractions

- Boost your resilience and learn to cope with the demands of competitive golf

- Uncover the secrets of success from the world s best golfers "

"Golf's Grand Design," prepared as a companion volume to the PBS documentary of the same name, expands upon the information presented in the television program. Co-authored by Bob Cupp, one of America's leading golf course designers, and Ron Whitten, Golf Digest's longtime senior editor on golf architecture, the book features rare sketches and diagrams of golf holes-some never before published-by 34 past and present golf architects, including Alister MacKenzie, Pete Dye, Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doak, Gil Hanse, Doug Carrick, Steve Smyers and David McLay Kidd. In each chapter, based upon one of the drawings, Cupp and Whitten explore a different facet of the course depicted and present unique perspectives into the craft and art of golf course architecture. These sketches are the vehicles by which design becomes grass. They are not AutoCAD plottings used to clear permits (full of technicalities practically indecipherable by everyday folks), but intimate, immediate and sometimes idiosyncratic streams of consciousness that are handed to a bulldozer operator, along with words of instruction, which become reality; the very crux of golf design. These drawings seldom survive; ending up as grocery lists, note pads or even shelf paper. But if one comes back to the designer after the fact - after the hole has been played and proclaimed fun, the drawings become treasures. Written in a lively conversational format, "Golf's Grand Design" takes readers behind the scenes in the creation of many of America's finest courses, from the modest-budget Bully Pulpit in North Dakota to the mega-budget Shadow Creek in Nevada. The authors retell the discovery of the land that became the groundbreaking Sand Hills Golf Club in Nebraska and relate the extensive process required to complete the environmentally-sensitive Liberty National in New Jersey. They take readers behind the scenes with Jack Nicklaus at work and at play, analyze what made Donald Ross and A.W. Tillinghast such great architects, offer insights into the little-known design talents of PGA Tour Hall of Famers Tom Kite and Tom Watson and pass along revelations regarding such famous holes as "The Cape" and "The Redan." They conclude with a short discussion of the impact that technology has had on the world of golf. "Golf's Grand Design" is intended for all who enjoy golf or who, by virtue of these stories, might consider the game. It provides a fresh approach to understanding and appreciating good golf architecture. It will certainly be one of those books with a long shelf life because its content is not trendy but factual. It is the story of American golf and a living description of the creative process of a game that somehow worked its way into our very souls.

Professional Golf Management (PGM) Practice Question Workbook provides 600 comprehensive practice questions to prepare for PGM levels 1, 2, and 3. Master PGM 2.0 curriculum topics with intensive practice in the areas you'll find on each test. All questions are test-level difficulty and focused solely on helping you pass. Whether you're challenging the Knowledge Tests for the first time or trying again after an unsuccessful attempt, you will learn the critical skills needed to pass, and no detail will be left untouched. Level 1 PGM Topics: PGA History and Constitution Rules of Golf Golf Car Fleet Management Introduction to Teaching & Golf Club Performance Business Planning Tournament Operations Level 2 PGM Topics: Turfgrass Management Golf Operations Intermediate Teaching & Golf Club Alteration Customer Relations Golf Course Design Level 3 PGM Topics: Food and Beverage Control Human Resources - Supervising & Delegating Advanced Teaching & Golf Club Fitting Merchandising & Inventory Management Player Development Programs & Teaching Business Career Enhancement

This is Alun Evans' eighth GOLF MAJORS book. Critically acclaimed as the definitive, ongoing record of golf's premier Championships, the 2013 edition has been further extended by some 30 pages to provide more sections and greater depth to the most recent Majors, whilst still retaining the fullest historical record of these events. The natural progression and extension of the awesome From Old Tom to the Tiger (2011), Alun Evans' The Golf Majors Book, 2013 continues the story, comprehensively recounting the 2012 Championships and looking forward to those of 2013. It tells of the new American breed: the breath of fresh air that is new Masters Champion Bubba Watson; and the young star Webb Simpson, who collected the US Open title, only his third success on Tour, all coming within a 10-month period. It recalls, too, the return of the glory days for Ernie Els, an Open Champion again after a ten year period without any Majors success; and the feats of a genuine contender for the crown of Tiger Woods, Ulster's Rory McIlroy, who picked up the year's final Major, the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, his second Major title in as many years. Packed with facts and stats, yet highly readable, this is the only book anyone would need on THE GOLF MAJORS

For golf’s true enthusiasts, the game is far more—and far more complex—than a simple hobby, commodity, or slice of the sports industry. It is a physical and mental place to be, a community. It has a history, a hierarchy, laws, a language, and a literature. And in Richard J. Moss, it has a chronicler. From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups and downs, ins and outs, in the growth of golf as a community. Moss describes the development of the private club and public course and the impact of wealth and the consumer culture on those who play golf and those who watch. He shows that factors like race, gender, technology, suburbanization, and the transformation of the South that shaped the nation also shaped golf. The result is a unique, and uniquely entertaining, work of cultural history that shows us golf as a community whose story resonates far beyond the confines of the course. Purchase the audio edition.