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#1 Amazon Golf Book Best-SellerLower Your Scores, Increase EnjoymentAre you struggling to take your golf game to the next level? Learn the philosophy that has helped thousands of players worldwide lower their scores and improve their relationship with golf.Swing tips come and go, but foundational golf skills last forever. Whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced player, The Four Foundations of Golf will give you the blueprint to build a stronger, longer-lasting game. This is not your typical, fluffy golf guide that leaves all the important details out.Since 2015, Practical Golf has been one of the top online game-improvement resources for golfers. Jon Sherman has written hundreds of articles, sharing his perspective as a “player-coach.” You can finally get all of the methods he’s used to become a scratch golfer and coach other golfers in one complete guide.Every golfer wants to know the secrets to golf. But they are always looking in the wrong places. There are four foundations to building a successful game - expectation management, strategy, practice, and a sharp mental game. In each of these sections, you will receive tangible and actionable advice.In this book, you will learn how to:• Become a happier, more fulfilled golfer through expectation management• Understand how scoring truly occurs and use modern data analytics to lower your handicap efficiently• Learn a strategic framework a golfer of any level can quickly adopt - pick smarter targets with every club in your bag and watch your scores drop overnight• How to practice efficiently. Get detailed, step-by-step instructions on methods that will increase your skills and finally transfer your practice range game to the course• Improve your swing without thinking about your technique• The secrets to increasing your distance used by touring pros and elite amateurs• Use statistics to customize your practice sessions and strategy• Learn mental techniques to calm yourself, build routines, and stand over the ball with more confidence• And much, much moreFinally, you will no longer have to feel like you are lost and alone in your golf game. The Four Foundations will teach you how to be your own coach, and not waste time on methods that don’t work. Stop listening to your friend’s questionable tips and learn what all the greats have figured out.If you like detailed, straightforward information with plenty of examples, you will love this book. It will reshape how you think about golf entirely and give you the tools and strategies to transform your entire game. Read more

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Doesn’t matter if it’s a 200-yard drive or a two-foot putt—a stroke is a stroke on your scorecard.So why would most amateur golfers prefer to spend the few practice hours they have wringing themselves out on the driving range when they could take a huge bite out of their score just by improving their speed control on the green?By learning how to chip it within a few feet of the cup?By discovering how to conquer the bunker once and for all?Maybe it’s because traditional short-game strategies create more headaches than headway. Between the overcomplicated sequences, constant mental clutter, and demand for precision, the best-known techniques are only a recipe for more tension, deeper frustration, and zero progress.It’s time to try something new. Something groundbreaking.Major champion golf coach and bestselling author Todd Kolb helped golfers of all ages reclaim distance, accuracy, and confidence with his eye-opening, tee-to-green VLS Full Swing System. Now he’s divulging the secrets to faster-than-ever gains with an innovative short-game system designed for clarity, simplicity, and success.Loaded with images, charts, checklists, practice plans, and drills you’ll actually enjoy, The Easy Break is a guaranteed revelation for every golfer who’s ever struggled to move the needle in their short game.Find the formula for consistent putting, chipping, and bunker play. Master the mindset of a short-game champion.And get ready for your biggest golf breakthrough yet. Read more

Want to Shoot Lower Scores Without Changing Your Swing?Wicked Smart Golf is your ultimate guide to playing better golf, no matter your current handicap. Written by a +2 handicap, tournament golfer, and mental golf coach, this book provides a proven five-pillar system to help you improve without complicated swing changes.Golfers Are Getting Results Like These:“Your book changed my golf game and took me from the high 90s to the mid 80s in 3 months.”“I read your book twice and went from an 18 to a 9.9 handicap this season.”“My handicap dropped from 26 in March to 6 by the end of summer!”This is NOT just another book about the mental game.While mindset is critical, it’s only part of the equation. Wicked Smart Golf takes a holistic approach, combining mental hacks, course management, short game strategies, and practice tips to save shots every round.If you’re tired of chasing the “perfect swing” and want real results, this book is for you. You’ll learn how to:Practice effectively to maximize your time on the range.Build confidence on the greens and STOP 3-putting so often.Master your mental game and reprogram your mind for better golf.Turn missed greens into scoring opportunities with better wedge play.Play smarter golf with course management strategies to avoid costly mistakes.With over 111 actionable strategies, this book provides a step-by-step blueprint to break 100, 90, or even 80—or become a scratch golfer—all without overhauling your swing. Plus, learn how to play CONSISTENT golf and actually enjoy the game.What’s Inside the 5-Pillar Approach:Section I: Mental Game MasterySection II: Practicing Like a ProSection III: Peaceful PuttingSection IV: Becoming a Wedge WizardSection V: Playing Wicked Smart GolfSection VI: Crushing Your CompetitionMore Golfers Are Saying:“I broke 80 for the first time after reading just half of your book!”“This book helped me drop from a 25 handicap to a 14 in just months.”“After listening to Wicked Smart Golf, I finally broke par twice in one weekend!”If you’re ready to stop wasting time with conflicting advice and start shooting lower scores, Wicked Smart Golf will give you the tools to make it happen. Simplify your game, have more fun, and reach your goals—whether it’s breaking 90, 80, or even par.Start your journey to smarter, better golf today! Read more

Filled with insightful stories about golf, Dr. Bob Rotella’s delightful book will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player.Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest performance consultants in America today. Among his many professional clients are Nick Price (last year's Player of the Year), Tom Kite, Davis Love III, Pat Bradley, Brad Faxon, John Daly, and many others. Rotella, or “Doc,” as most players refer to him, goes beyond just the usual mental aspects of the game and the reliance on specific techniques. What Rotella does here in this extraordinary book, and with his clients, is to create an attitude and a mindset about all aspects of a golfer's game, from mental preparation to competition. The most wonderful aspect of it all is that it is done in a conversational fashion, in a dynamic blend of anecdote and lesson. And, as some of the world's greatest golfers will attest, the results are spectacular. Golfers will improve their golf game and have more fun playing. Some of Rotella's maxims include: -On the first tee, a golfer must expect only two things of himself: to have fun, and to focus his mind properly on every shot. -Golfers must learn to love 'the challenge when they hit a ball into the rough, trees, or sand. The alternatives—anger, fear, whining, and cheating—do no good. -Confidence is crucial to good golf. Confidence is simply the aggregate of the thoughts you have about yourself. -It is more important to be decisive than to be correct when preparing to play any golf shot or putt. Filled with delightful and insightful stories about golf and the golfers Rotella works with, Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player. Read more

Simplicity is the key to Dan's golf coaching. He has created a short game system that any golfer can apply with immediate results – breaking down how you can improve your short game by learning new techniques and increasing your golfing IQ. Combining better technique and a better way of thinking will improve your ability to perform on the golf course.Amateurs tend to have very little understanding of the short game when playing golf, specifically how it differs from the long game or how they can make better decisions. They have no plan. This book will give you a clear, simple system you can apply immediately and play better golf.3 Releases: The Short Game System will give you the three key shots you need around a green. A low-running chip shot, a soft-landing spin shot, and the lob shot. You will learn the set-up and swing fundamentals to execute these shots. In addition to the greenside shots you will learn the art of bunker play and pitching, along with many other specialist shots to add to your repertoire.Dan has taught these shots to hundreds of Tour Professionals and his clients have won Major Championships, Tour Championships, and several European Order of Merit titles. As well as learning these exact techniques, proven at the highest level in golf, you will acquire crucial performance skills. You will develop an understanding of the intricacies of assessing the lie, the art of practice and, fundamentally, how to learn so you can perform to the best of your ability and further enjoy your golf.Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, including swing sequences and practice drills, 3 Releases is your ultimate short game guide.Dan Grieve is the head golf professional at the internationally renowned Woburn Golf Club, home of the European Tour's British Masters for many years and 10-time venue for the Women's Open Championship.Testimonials:“I was very much a long game player before I met Dan. He taught me the short game which was the key ingredient to gaining my European Tour card”. Inci Mehmet, Tour Pro and Sky Sports Analyst.“ Dan’s Short Game System is revolutionary” Owen Hargreaves, Ex - England International Footballer.“ Dan is one of the best coaches in the world, this is your chance to enjoy his World-Class coaching.” Sir Clive Woodward“Dan taught me a completely new way to chip and pitch” Charley Hull“I have no doubt this book will lower your scores.” Jos Buttler, England Cricket Captain Read more

Learn how to BREAK 80, have more fun, and play more consistent golf...fast!Wicked Smart Golf II is designed to help you shoot in the 70s consistently without making drastic swing changes. As a +2 handicap and mental golf coach, I’ve spent years developing a proven approach to lowering scores by focusing on the mental game, smart practice, a solid short game, and course management. This book isn’t just about mental game tips—while a positive mindset is essential, you also need the right skills to play better golf.Learn from myself and legends I’ve had on my podcast, including Scott Fawcett (DECADE Golf), John Weir (Mental Golf Type), Dr. Joseph Parent (author of Zen Golf), Mark Immelman (On the Mark Podcast), Lou Stagner (Arccos Golf), PGA Tour winners and other experts. Their insights will provide you with actionable tips that go beyond just thinking positively—they’ll show you how to put those thoughts into practice to play your best golf.When you read this book, you will learn:Pillar I: Mental Game MasterySimplify the mental game so you can access "the zone" to play effortless golf. A good mental game is key to staying calm, focused, and confident on the course. Learn how to develop a strong mindset that helps you handle pressure, bounce back from bad shots, and perform your best when it counts. Not to mention, have more fun!Pillar II: Scratch Golf Practice StrategiesBreak through plateaus with efficient, targeted practice and avoid common equipment errors. This pillar covers how to practice the right way, focusing on the areas of your game that matter most. With proven drills and routines, you’ll learn how to build trust in your swing so you can take that confidence to the course.Pillar III: Putting (The 7-Step Confidence Formula)Putting can make or break your round, and in this pillar, you’ll learn my 7-Step Confident Putting Formula that will transform the way you approach every putt. Build confidence, minimize three-putts, and develop a reliable, pressure-proof putting game.Pillar IV: Wedges & Short GameMaster your wedges and short game for more scoring opportunities. This pillar is packed with techniques and routines that will help you from 125 yards and in, ensuring you can save strokes around the green with more consistency and confidence.Pillar V: Expert Course ManagementMake smarter decisions on the course with the strategies that PGA Tour players use. Learn how to think your way around the course, manage your game, and minimize blowup holes. This pillar is about playing smarter and learning to make the right choices that lead to lower scores.Whether you're struggling with course management, mental toughness, or your short game, this book has the actionable advice you need to see real improvements. Stop waiting for luck to break 80—start implementing these proven techniques today and take control of your game.This book is a more comprehensive look at improving your game compared to Wicked Smart Golf. Dive deep so you can break 80 consistently and maybe even become a scratch golfer. Your best golf is ahead of you when follow this proven blueprint. Read more

The twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work—the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as “the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style” (The New York Times)—includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and never-before-published materials from the Penick family archives.The most beloved golf book of all time, Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book has become required reading for all players and fans of the game, from beginners to seasoned pros. The legendary Harvey Penick, whom Sports Illustrated called the “Socrates of the golf world,” began his golfing career as a caddie in Austin, Texas, at the age of eight, and over the course of nearly a century worked with an amazing array of champions. In this classic book, which is named for the red notebook he always kept, Penick’s simple, direct, practical wisdom pares away the hypertechnical jargon that’s grown up around the golf swing, and lets all golfers, whatever their level, play their best. This twentieth-anniversary edition features a treasure trove of rare images from the Penick family archives, commemorates Penick’s lasting achievement with a moving new foreword by 2012 Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III—whose father learned the game under Penick’s tutelage—and reminds golfers everywhere to “take dead aim.” Read more

There is a war going on within your mind. It’s a battle between the positive and the negative. The side that wins determines the life you live.This book will show you how to take control of your thoughts and win the inner war against negativity.In this inspirational fable, Jack McKee is a professional golfer who has just suffered through the most humiliating meltdown of his career. After years of struggle, he is ready to quit on his dream. He has convinced himself he doesn’t have what it takes to make it on the PGA Tour.In a desperate attempt to figure out why his career has ended up the way it has, Jack reaches out to one of the game’s greatest former players for advice. This legendary golfer teaches Jack that the problem is not in his swing, but in his mind.As Jack learns to combat his thoughts of self-doubt and worry, his golf game improves right along with his mindset, culminating in the most important tournament of his career.As this story plays out, you will learn...- How to take control of your thoughts and make sure they are working for you instead of against you.- The importance of talking to yourself instead of listening to yourself.- How to develop a morning and evening mental routine that will keep you in a positive state of mind.- The technique used by many of the world’s most successful people to make gratitude a part of their daily lives.- The fastest way to fight off worry and negative thoughts.- How to protect your mind from the negative, anxiety-producing, and failure-oriented messages that surround us daily.- The importance of your self-image and how to program it for your benefit.- The biggest, yet often-misunderstood, key to performing at your best when the pressure turns up.- How to find peace and confidence no matter what is going on around you.- And much more...This book is about the mental game we all must play on a daily basis — regardless of our chosen profession. It will show you how to win the inner war that takes place within your mind.Once you start winning the war in your mind, you will start winning in the game of life. Read more

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In 1956, a casual bet between two millionaires eventually pitted two of the greatest golfers of the era -- Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan -- against top amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi. The year: 1956. Decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery has just made a bet with fellow millionaire George Coleman. Lowery claims that two of his employees, amateur golfers Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, cannot be beaten in a best-ball match, and challenges Coleman to bring any two golfers of his choice to the course at 10 a.m. the next day to settle the issue. Coleman accepts the challenge and shows up with his own power team: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with fourteen major championships between them. In Mark Frost's peerless hands, complete with the recollections of all the participants, the story of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day-legendarily known in golf circles as the greatest private match ever played-comes to life with powerful, emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Read more

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 great vision.Unlike any other golf book, Every Shot Must Have a Purpose offers cutting-edge techniques for integrating the physical, technical, mental, emotional, and social parts of a player’s game. The book’s revolutionary pre-shot routine will improve your focus, leading to a golf swing that is not only successful but can be repeated under extreme pressure. Emphasizing the individual golfer rather than a rigid set of mechanics, their VISION54 method takes the frustration out of the game. Why 54? Because they believe it’s possible to shoot a 54 (making a birdie on every hole of a par-72 course) if you have the right mind-set and well-honed intuitive power.An engaging read for the beginner or the seasoned golfer, Every Shot Must Have a Purpose is inspiration for life, not just the links. Read more

From the author of the bestselling Golf is Not a Game of Perfect comes a masterly illumination of golf's mental game.When that book was published, Dr Bob Rotella made accessible for the first time what he had learned from working with the best golfers in the world. Dr Rotella follows up the success of Golf is Not a Game of Perfect with a book filled with anecdotes and motivational instruction focusing on the most important skill a golfer can have: the ability to think confidently. Filled with inspirational stories about the great players, great courses and great tournaments, Golf Is a Game of Confidence encourages golfers, no matter what their level, to reach new heights in their games and their lives. Read more

If you’ve followed all the “best” golf tips to the letter and you’re still slicing it, struggling to make solid contact, and leaving the golf course frustrated, there’s a reason. And it has nothing to do with you. How is that possible?Traditional golf instruction is designed for top level players, tour professionals who are world class athletes and spend hours a day practicing. It’s not designed for the average golfer like you who has a career, a family, and a life away from the golf course.If you love golf but no matter what you try, the game never gets any easier…If your only goal is to enjoy weekends on the golf course but you leave frustrated and discouraged…If you’ve lost strength or flexibility due to age, injury, or surgery but still have a passion for the game…If you feel you’ve been neglected by a golf industry that only focuses on the best players……you’re about to uncover a secret that will change the game for you forever.PGA Instructor Todd Kolb has made it his mission to help the average golfer discover new confidence on the course. With easy-to-follow concepts, simple drills, and down-to-earth instruction, Kolb reveals “the bad lie” that’s been holding you back and introduces the Vertical Line Swing system, an approach to golf that capitalizes on the strengths and advantages of the average golfer.You can hit a solid draw off the tee. You can hit a high, soft flop shot. You can break 80, and you can love this game long into your retirement years. You just need instruction that was made for you. And you just found it. Read more

A beloved New York Times bestselling author and golf aficionado shares his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in this cavalcade of original pieces about why we love the sport, now featuring three additional new pieces. This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an 11-year prison stint. We learn how a man on his third heart nearly won the U.S. Open, how a Vietnam POW saved his life playing 18 holes a day in his tiny cell, and about the course that's absolutely free. Reilly mines all of the game’s quirky traditions—from the shot of bourbon you take before you tee off at Peyton Manning’s course, to the way the starter at St. Andrews announces to your group (and the hundreds of tourists watching), “You’re on the first tee, gentlemen.” He means that quite literally: St. Andrews has the first tee ever invented. We’ll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that's underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators; not to mention Reilly’s attempt to play the most mini-golf holes in one day. Reilly expounds on all the great figures in the game, from Phil Mickelson to Bobby Jones to the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods. He explains why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau unless we hate genius, the greatest upset in women’s golf history, and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before, and the great fun of being Jim Nantz. Connecting it all will be the story of Reilly’s own personal journey through the game, especially as it connects to his tumultuous relationship with his father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. This is Reilly’s valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without.**The Sports Librarian’s Best of 2022 – Sports Books** Read more

THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED is the story of Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon, who in pursuit of their passion for a game that captivated them as children, broke down rigid social barriers that made their sport accessible to everyone on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, positioning golf as one of the most widely played games in the world. Ouimet and Vardon were two men from different generations and vastly different corners of the world whose lives, unbeknownst to them at the time, bore remarkable similarities, setting them on parallel paths that led with a kind of fated inevitability to their epic battle at Brookline years in the future. This collision resulted in the big bang' that gave rise to the sport of golf as we know it today.For Mark Frost, Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon represent everything that's right about sports in general and sportsmen in particular; gentlemen, champions, teachers, leaders, and each in their own quiet way, heroes. In THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, Frost attempts to create penetrating studies of both of these men, along with over dozens of the game's seminal figures, within the dramatic framework offered by the tournament when they finally met, one of the most thrilling sports events in history, the 1913 U.S. Open. Read more

The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers—and some celebrity duffers—with hilarious results in this New York Times bestseller.   Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their game by caddying, even though he had absolutely no idea how to do it. Amazingly, some of the best golfers in the world—including Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Tom Lehman, John Daly, Jill McGill of the LPGA tour, and Casey Martin—agreed to let Reilly carry their bags at actual PGA and LPGA Tour events. To round out his portrait of the golfing life, Reilly also persuaded Deepak Chopra and Donald Trump to take him on as a caddy, accompanied the four highest-rolling golf hustlers in Las Vegas around the course, and carried the bag for a blind golfer. Between his hilarious descriptions of his own ineptitude as a caddy and his insight into what makes the greats of golf so great, Reilly’s wicked wit and an expert’s eye provide readers with the next best thing to a great round of golf. Read more

Praise for Mind Gym"Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game."--Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup captain"Mind Gym hits a home run. If you want to build mental muscle for the major leagues, read this book."--Ken Griffey Jr., Major League Baseball MVP"I read Mind Gym on my way to the Sydney Olympics and really got a lot out of it. Gary has important lessons to teach, and you'll find the exercises fun and beneficial."--Jason Kidd, NBA All-Star and Olympic gold-medal winnerIn Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so. Through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes--many of whom he has worked with--you will learn the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." Mind Gym will give you the "head edge" over the competition. Read more

In Practical Golf, world-renowned teacher John Jacobs presents a simple, sound way to an improved game, no matter the skill level. Distilling his unrivaled knowledge of golf into clear, practical instruction, Jacobs shows how to develop a consistent swing, improve mental attitude, achieve superior results from the rough, cure a slice in five minutes, get greater distance, and much more. For decades, this book has helped golfers lower handicaps and better enjoy the game, making it one of the best ever. Read more