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Fame
- Tiger Woods
(Paperback)
C.W. Cooke; Edited by Darren G Davis; Illustrated by Marcelo Salaza
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This book looks into the lives and times of some of Rhodesia’s and Zimbabwe’s most well-known golfers.
Co-written by Hannes Wessels and Nick Price, The 15th Club covers the history of the game and is full of first-hand accounts of events on and off the golf course. The book is dedicated to Simon Hobday whose exploits are recounted in some detail.
Often hilarious and thoroughly engaging, The 15th Club is a must read for all golf enthusiasts out there.
As Jack Nicklaus once observed, fear is the golfer's greatest
enemy. It can turn you from a brilliant shot-maker on the practice
range into an incompetent hack on the course. Most golfers
understand this, but do not have the tools to overcome it. That's
where pioneering sports psychologist Dr Gio Valiante comes in.
Having studied the sources of an athlete's fear and its
physiological and neurological impact on performance, he has
developed a groundbreaking programme for conquering it. Emphasising
the need to replace a fixation-on-results with a commitment to
mastery of one's body and one's mind, Valiante's approach will help
golfers reach their true potential. Through concrete confidence and
mastery drills, he presents specific ways to break free of fear's
grasp and perform at your best - even under the most extreme
pressure. Fearless Golf is the ultimate guide to the mental game.
If you have ever wanted to keep a record or your golf scores so you
can monitor how you are doing then this book is for you. If you use
many different golf courses and want to remember how you did the
last time you played this course, then this book is for you. Record
the course, how you played it - hole by hole and for the complete
round, the weather conditions and the course conditions.
Professional Golf 2014 provides a complete overview of men's
professional golf, covering every major tour worldwide, numerous
developmental circuits, and more than 500 of the game's top
players. The volume is divided into three sections, with the first
providing a comprehensive overview of the 2013 season, including
extensive tournament records from each of the major tours and
summaries of multiple developmental circuits. The second section
previews the 2014 season in detail, with specific attention paid to
profiling new players and events on the PGA and European PGA Tours,
as well as providing our exclusive lists of the world's top 50
players, top 100 under-24 prospects and top 25 players poised for
breakout seasons. And finally, the third section profiles roughly
500 of the game's top players individually, providing career
perspective, records of tournaments won worldwide (both
professional and amateur) and year-by-year results in Major
championships, seasonal money lists and the year-end Official World
Ranking. Also included are individual player ratings in key
statistical categories, as well as our forecast for each player's
performance level in 2014. The only source of such information on a
worldwide basis, Professional Golf 2014 is the ideal volume for
fans, media and fantasy game players alike.
Every player has beaten balls on the driving range working on his
or her game, either alone or with a teacher. Everyone has paged
through a copy of Golf Digest looking for the latest tip. Or
watched an instructional video looking for the easiest way to lower
scores. But all of that access to top-tier instruction, video swing
analysis and game improving equipment hasn't made golfers any
better as a group. The average handicap hasn't budged in 30 years.
It's still the same 19.1. Why? Because the information is being
delivered inefficiently-even if it's ideally suited to the player.
Any player from beginner to aspiring tour player can improve in a
much more direct and enjoyable way using a time-tested and
results-proven method backed by cutting-edge research in human
learning and brain function. It's a technique used by the Marine
Corps, Harvard Business School and the NBA. Unlike the dozens of
other instruction books that come out every year, Real Golf isn't a
collection of mechanical adjustments, tips and drills. It is a
complete guide to sorting, evaluating and successfully integrating
the instruction players are already receiving from a teacher,
magazine, book or a video. It is instruction on how to use
instruction. Using the sophisticated, personalized self-scrimmage
strategies detailed in the book, players can make dramatic scoring
breakthroughs immediately, and see massive handicap improvement in
eight to 10 weeks. Most players improve their game to a point, then
stall at a certain handicap. The scores they shoot stubbornly
cluster in five or six shot comfort zone. Real Golf is rooted in
cutting edge research on human behavior and learning, but the
results aren't theoretical. Joe Bosco has been developing these
techniques for nearly 20 years as an award-winning golf instructor
in the Chicagoland area. Trained by a high-level management
consultant, Bosco has built his reputation as a complete game
teacher. In addition to teaching alongside Stan Utley-who will
write the foreword to the book-Hank Haney and Mike Adams, Bosco has
helped dozens of competitive players earn club championships and
Division I scholarships. A nominee for Golf Magazine's 2012 Top 100
Teachers list, Bosco has led the North Shore Country Day Raiders
boys' golf team to the last two state championships, and has
personally coached seven individual high school state champions in
the state of Illinois. Many of the techniques shared in Real Golf
have been incubated in Bosco's high-performance "golf classroom"
for junior players. He is also a regional board member of the
Positive Coaching Alliance-a non-profit organization dedicated to
helping youth and high school athletes receive a character-building
and positive sports experience.
In March 2004, Hank Haney received a call from Tiger Woods in which
the golf champion asked Haney to be his coach. It was a call that
would change both men’s lives. Tiger – only 28 at the time –
was by then already an icon, judged by the sporting press as not
only one of the best golfers ever, but possibly the best athlete
ever. But Tiger was always looking to improve, and he wanted
Hank’s help. Over the next six years of working together, the
supremely gifted Woods collected six major championships and
rewrote golf history. Hank was one of the very few people allowed
behind the curtain. Always haunting Tiger was his fear of ‘the
big miss’ – the wildly inaccurate golf shot that can ruin an
otherwise solid round – and it was because that type of blunder
was sometimes part of Tiger’s game that Hank carefully redesigned
his swing mechanics. Towards the end of their time together, the
champion’s laser-like focus began to blur and he became less
willing to put in punishing hours practicing. Hints that Tiger
hungered to reinvent himself were present in his bizarre
infatuation with elite military training, and – in a development
Hank didn’t see coming – in the scandal that would make
headlines in late 2009. It all added up to a big miss that Hank,
try as he might, couldn’t save Tiger from. There’s never been a
book about Tiger Woods that is as intimate and revealing – or one
so wise about what it takes to coach a superstar athlete.
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