The Pocket Guide to Perfect Golf Practice is a valuable tool to increase any golfers skill. The premise behind the book is to introduce chipping and putting games that allow a golfer to have fun while practicing and focus on specific areas of their golf game. Players need to remember to "Play the Game like a Kid".

Join David Cook--world-renowned sports and performance psychologist, speaker, and bestselling author--as he teaches you that in golf and in life, it's time to get out of your own way and let your true self shine.Based on thousands of athletes Cook has counseled and great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned, Golf's Sacred Journey is told through the lives of two characters--a rancher with a passion for teaching truth and a young golf professional ...

John Montague was a boisterous enigma. In the 1930s, he was called “the world's greatest golfer” by famed sportswriter Grantland Rice. He could drive the ball 300 yards and more, or he could chip it across a room into a highball glass. He played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes and W. C. Fields to Babe Ruth and Bing Crosby. Yet strangely, he never entered a professional tournament or allowed himself to be photographed. Then, a Time magazine photographer snapped his picture wi...

Now in paperback, the official physician to the PGA Tour shares his groundbreaking research on preventing back pain and adding more yards to your drives.It is estimated that half of all recreational golfers and one-third of all professional golfers suffer from some form of lower-back pain. Conventional wisdom suggests that the twisting nature of the golf swing is the sole culprit. But research conducted by sports-medicine specialist Vijay Vad, M.D., reveals that th...

There's no doubt about it that the game of golf is one that is massively popular all over the world. Golf is a low-impact sport that can provide participants of all ages not only a fun recreational activity but also some type of exercise. Golf is good for the body, it's good for the mind, it's good for social activities, and it's good for business.There has been a renewed interest in golf lately among the younger generations with the rise in popularity of golf phenomenon Tiger Wood...

Before Tiger Woods—and before Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan, and even Bobby Jones, there was the great Canadian George S. Lyon. This first account of Canada’s little-known golf legend, Olympic Lyon traces his incredible journey from small-town Ontario to the final match of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. At age thirty-seven, the fire insurance salesman and natural athlete from Toronto picked up a golf club for the first time. Just a few years la...

As a professional educator, Bill found it natural to collect the pearls of wisdom of his golf mates from scenic Granite Pointe Golf Course in Nelson, British Columbia. Advice was and is freely given every Thursday night. The advice will resonate with golfers everywhere as it speaks to the very obvious problems which every striker of the ball faces when looking down at the ball and then to the hole in the ground which the ball should seek to find. Should is the operative word. Bill is the a...

Ten years ago I could easily have cleared that pond. Im okay until about the fourteenth hole; then I can feel myself getting tired. Ive had to shorten my backswing; otherwise, my old back will keep me up all night. Sound familiar? As much as we may hate to admit it, at sixty-plus were different from younger golfers both physically and mentally. While this isnt necessarily bad, it does impact how we play. In How to Drop Five Strokes without Having One, author Dr. John D. D...

A fascinating biography of a forgotten golf legend, a riveting whodunit of a covered-up killing, a scalding exposé of a closed society—in To Win and Die in Dixie, award-winning writer Steve Eubanks weaves all these elements into a masterly book that resurrects a superb sportsman and reconstructs a startling crime.J. Douglas Edgar was the British-born golfer who broke every record, invented the modern swing, and coached such winners as Bobby Jones, the greatest amateur in history, a...

A compilation of inspirational quotes, stories, and anecdotes from Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and many others."Focus not on the commotion around you, but on the opportunity ahead of you." —Arnold PalmerMost people live their lives chained to the oars of their own choosing, whether defined by one's job, relationships, self-image, or even their golf game. More often than not, the biggest obstacles we face in life are th...

Written by golf journalist Neil Tappin, The Little Book of Golf Legends is part of the fantastic Legends of Sport series featuring Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket and Grand Prix. Packed with 4-page profiles of 30 of the world's most admired and revered golfers, The Little Book of Golf Legends includes key statistics about each legend, illustrated with some of the best known photographs of them together with a fascinating profile of their career.

This book contains a collection of poems about golf. While poetry is always fascinating, the ability of a few people to evoke the nature of the game in the late twentieth century in the United Kingdom is remarkable.