Introduces the essential rules, equipment, and strokes of golf and discusses how and where to play.
Studies in Golf Course Management (Studies in golf course management, #3)
by Malcolm Peake
If your golf game is on life support, then you need the golf doctor. Designed for duffers of every level of experience, the practical exercises and expert tips found here can shave strokes off your game and increase your enjoyment every time out. Starting with an easy-to-read symptom chart that reveals at a glance what may be causing those misplayed shots, you'll find real help for hitting off the tee, playing the short game, and putting. There's insight into golf psychology, including handling...
A brief description of the United States Open Golf Tournament, one of the world's major annual tournaments, open to both amateurs and professionals.
But this book is not all about golf. When the pressure is on, Gary knows what it takes to be a success, and he had channelled this knowledge into building his business empire. In No Fear, Gary explains how he became a champion and what it takes to win in professional golf - but he also explains how learning to cope in high-pressure situations can help anyone. Drawing on the most pressure-packed experiences from his eighteen major victories, Gary reveals how he managed to succeed when things were...
Lady Golfer's Guide - Golf Instructions for Women Golfers
by Frank J Peter and Anniket Coleman
Greenkeepers Training Committee Learning Materials Level 2
by Chris Bothwell, Nick Bisset, and Andy Wight
Bernard Darwin could easily have settled into a privileged life as a respected lawyer, one who also just happened to be the grandson of Charles Darwin. But his conventional upbringing didn't prevent him from choosing a different path, abandoning the relative security of the legal profession to follow his first and only passion - the game of golf. While Darwin was no slouch on the links - he was captain of his golf team at Cambridge and twice reached the semi-finals of the British Amateur Champio...
'Wodehouse would have made an excellent sports writer' Sunday TimesAs Wodehouse’s biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was ‘above average at games’. Luckily, he was known at school as ‘a noted athlete, a fine footballer and cricketer [and] a boxer’, and sport inspired much of his earliest writings, as well as some of his very finest and laugh-out-loud funniest. Wodehouse wrote with trademark wit on a rich range of games – and on cricket and golf...
Tom Watson explains all the rules, including rules governing match play and stroke play, rules about equipment, slow play, practice, rules about teeing the ball, lost balls, ground under repair, unplayable lies, playing the wrong ball, water hazards and bunkers. This book addresses every conceivable situation - including what happens if a seagull (or Airedale or mischievous child) makes off with that perfect drive straight down the middle. Watson does more than present the rules. He explains the...
Two legendary coaches give golfers a powerful new approach to the game... and to life.As coaches to some of golf’s top players, Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott have designed and refined a revolutionary way of teaching the game, with phenomenal results. They don’t believe in prescribing the same stance, grip, and swing to everyone, followed by hours of purposeless drilling. They don’t even believe in beginning with physical technique. Their success has proven to them that a great game begins with a...