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There are many books that detail the lone golfer's ever-failing
battles with the golf course. While Fluffed Chips Shouldn't Count
again shows how the courses, despite their different natures and
settings, continue to triumph, it also shows there is much solace
in the companionship of good friends who frequently suffer similar
fates. Fluffed Chips Shouldn't Count traces the developing
friendship of four aspiring golfers over a period of forty years
when they met while working in Nassau in those idyllic Bahamian
islands. Between the years of 1972 to 1980, they somehow scraped
through (sometimes literally) a long initiation at the hands of the
brutal Coral Harbour Golf Course (RIP) and became firm friends. In
the late 1970s, they returned to their native lands and became
involved in the chores of domesticity and fatherhood. But the
friendships were strong and survived distance and time, and in
1994, with the obligations of family waning slightly, they met
again to play golf in Scotland. Such was their enjoyment and
renewed camaraderie that they made a commitment to meet and play
every two years in different parts of the world. In that period,
from 1994 to the present, they have played in England, Scotland,
Ireland, Canada, America, and the Bahamas. They have aged and
become more realistic about their golfing abilities, but they
remain unbowed, and Chris still harbours hopes of turning pro.
The 600-year-old sport of golf was once considered a metaphor for
culture, sportsmanship, and accomplishment in America. So why has
participation declined so much in recent years? The answer,
according to author Pat Gallagher, is the sport's resistance to
productive change. While other sports have embraced new technology
and innovation with open arms, traditionalists strive to protect
the game of golf and keep it exactly as they love it-even in the
face of suffering courses and shrinking audiences. This first-hand
account documents how Gallagher and his partners advocated new
thinking to revive the game of golf, from both a sporting and
business perspective. In January 2011, they founded the Alternative
Golf Association and Project Flogton (not golf spelled backwards),
in an attempt to challenge the leaders in golf to think differently
and grow participation in the sport. In this informative true
story, readers will get a front row look at the ideas behind
Alternative Golf, what they accomplished, where they were wrong and
what they now believe ought to happen in the future to reverse
golf's steady decline. In addition, you'll find out the facts
behind some of the biggest myths perpetuated by the golf industry,
from participation numbers to the real consequences facing golf
courses and investors.
Amazon #1 Best Seller - Golf Books
Amazon #1 Best Seller - Sports Psychology Books
Mental golf expert and bestselling author Darrin Gee reveals 50
simple and powerful ways to play the best golf of your life.
This effective book is full of easy-to-learn golf tips to help
golfers of all levels, who know they can play better than their
scores reflect.
Play great golf by eliminating mistakes.
Golf is 90% mental. That means that 90% of mistakes, miscues,
mishits, bogeys, double bogeys or worse are caused by mental game
errors. Eliminate those errors and you'll cut strokes, shoot lower
scores and have more fun.
Simple, easy and practical.
This book gives you 50 simple, easy and practical mental game
tricks to eliminate devastating pitfalls that ruin rounds. Conquer
your fears and learn how to: Eliminate confusing swing thoughts
Handle stress under pressure Hit in front of a crowd Overcome first
tee jitters Eliminate distractions Play with strangers Hit over
water Commit to your shot Play well when rushed by the group behind
Eliminate boredom and tension Read greens and putt with total
confidence Recover from mid-round tailspins
Stop repeating the same errors all golfers make.
All mental golf tricks have been created, tested and proven
effective based on the feedback and suggestions from golfers like
you at the author's Spirit of Golf Academy, which was named one of
the top golf instruction schools in America by Golf Magazine.
A note from the author.
All golfers, from PGA and LPGA tour professionals to beginners,
have experienced frustration on the golf course and the driving
range. I am no exception. I started playing golf when I was in
college and steadily improved over the years. My handicap got down
to the single digits, but then I plateaued. I knew I could play
better. I started messing with my swing and my golf game went
south. I got so frustrated, I quit.
After a long break, I started hitting golf balls again.
Something was different this time around. What was different? What
was I doing? NOTHING. No swing thoughts, no distractions, no second
guessing, no effort. I got out of my own way. This was the
beginning of my explorations into the power of the mental game.
With my education and research in psychology and my passion and
commitment to the game of golf, I started my golf academy that
exclusively offers mental game instruction, education and
techniques to help golfers play their best.
"The Frustrated Golfer's Handbook: 50 Mental Golf Tricks to Get
You Back on the Golf Course...Fast," an Amazon #1 best seller, is
the result of over 15 years of working with golfers like you and is
designed to be a simple, easy-to-use golf book that will help you
eliminate common mistakes so that you can enjoy this game and play
the way you are capable of playing. For all ages and all
levels.
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"From the publisher: " This book was written for golfers looking
to rapidly improve their golf performance and golf swing. It's a
perfect golf coaching tool for PGA teaching professionals and
junior golf coaches, pairing the mental/inner golf game with
mechanics. Darrin Gee is the founder of the Spirit of Golf Academy
in Hawaii and a leader in golf psychology. His simple yet highly
effective mental game approach has helped over 10,000 golfers from
around the world.
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.
There is little doubt that most average golfers have too many
"swing thoughts" swirling around in their heads when preparing to
hit a golf ball. Our natural desire to analyze, dissect and try to
improve on everything we do and often overthink something which
should be natural has resulted in much golf instruction being just
too complicated. Having a mental picture of a good golf swing as a
"swinging motion" from start to finish is a positive thought but
trying to break that movement down into dozens of parts just
doesn't work. In this book I have tried to limit conscious thoughts
as much as possible by focusing on the three necessary basics of
GRIP, ALIGNMENT and POSTURE at address and the three basics of
CORRECT WRIST HINGE, ROTATION OF THE ARMS though the impact area
and GETTING OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY through to a finish position. You
will read nothing about "swing plane" "spine angle" in this book
but will instead learn to let the various body parts react to the
swinging motion of the golf club. "Club focused" instruction is not
new and was described some ninety years ago by the great teacher
Earnest Jones in his book "Swing the Clubhead." This very simple
and uncomplicated way to learn to swing a golf club has since been
modernized by Manual de la Torre and Jim Flick and a growing number
of younger instructors. The idea of simply training the body to
react and respond to the "swinging motion" of the golf club will be
dismissed by many as being just too simple. After all, golf is not
supposed to be simple. I agree that It is necessary to learn to
hold the golf club in a way that will get the best results, line up
toward the target and have reasonably athletic posture but after
that there should be little need for conscious thought of where
certain body parts are as the golf club is swung back and through
toward a green or fairway. If you are frustrated and tired of
trying to remember all those memorized body positions and "swing
planes" you read about, see on TV or may have been told were
necessary, you owe it to yourself to read this book.
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN PRINT ON THE MAJOR
CHAMPIONSHIPS OF GOLF This is the ninth book by Alun Evans on
Golf's four biggest events - the Masters, The US Open, The Open
Championship and the PGA of America Championship since the
original, now comparatively scratchy, survey saw the light of day
in 1998. In order to make the review as close to an annual update
as possible, much material form older editions has been omitted to
save space and to keep costs down. For those readers who want to
know about the first 150 years of Majors in detail, ie from 1860 to
2010, you are pointed to the jam-packed 750 pages of the author's
From Old Tom to the Tiger, which was nominated in 2012 for the
British Sports Book of the Year. The years 2011 and 2012 are
covered in depth in the author's year books of 2012 and 2013, now
suitably discounted, of course. Alun Evans' Golf Majors Book, 2014
does exactly as it says on the tin. It covers in detail the Majors
of 2013, when Adam Scott deservedly won his first Major at the
Masters; Justin Rose became the first Englishman to win the US Open
since Tony Jacklin in 1970; Phil Mickelson at last added the Old
Claret Jug to his portfolio; and super-cool Jason Dufner mugged
everyone at Oak Hill to collect the PGA Championship - and, like
Scott and Rose, became a Major Champion for the first time. Details
can be found in this edition of the golf courses to be used in the
2014 round of Majors, based on first-hand information gleaned from
the host sites and/or the organizing committees of each.
Particularly of interest in 2014 will be the back-to-basic
topography of Donald Ross' Pinehurst No2 in the US Open after the
Coore and Crenshaw overhaul. And of course, there are the Records.
Fully updated stats and full players' records are to be found for
those appearing in the 21st Century; plus the expected CVs of those
greats of golf who became Major Champions before the change in
millennium and the Hall of Fame compiles for comparison the records
of the top 100 performers in Majors.
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