Inner Game

Inner Game
Author: Dr. Mac Powell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2004
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780975521205

Personality rules performance in all athletic mediums, yet the paramount importance of personality in golf remains largely unnoticed and unaddressed. Golfers regularly fail to see the limits of their personality and become patterned, repeating inconsistent performance after inconsistent performance. Optimizing performance requires understanding your personality and its tendencies, and recognizing that there is no room for mental preparation once you?ve addressed the ball. You must have prepared for the shot well before you begin your pre-shot routine, before you?ve entered the course, before you?ve finished your practice at the range. Enhanced performance in any sport, but particularly golf, requires understanding and mastering the way personality and mental processes determine particular outcomes. This book addresses personality in terms of Types, unique characteristics that form the what of who we are.

How to Break 90

How to Break 90
Author: T. J. Tomasi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780071836364

Charlie Takes His Shot

Charlie Takes His Shot
Author: Nancy Churnin
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0807511277

2018 Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Honor Award, presented by the California Reading Association When the rules kept Charlie Sifford from playing in the Professional Golf Association, he set out to change them. Charlie Sifford loved golf, but in the 1930's only white people were allowed to play in the Professional Golf Association. Sifford had won plenty of Black tournaments, but he was determined to break the color barrier in the PGA. In 1960 he did, only to face discrimination from hotels that wouldn't rent him rooms and clubs that wouldn't let him use the same locker as the white players. But Sifford kept playing, becoming the first Black golfer to win a PGA tournament and eventually ranking among the greats in golf.

Going Low

Going Low
Author: Patrick J. Cohn
Publisher: Contemporary Books
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2001
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780809294589

Drawing primarily from the experience of top professionals and the author's own work, a compilation of tour-proven mental strategies for any golfer who wants to break through his or her individual scoring barriers.

Break 100 Now

Break 100 Now
Author: Mike Adams
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998-01-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0062734806

Now, for the vast majority of golfers who struggle to shoot below 100 for 18 holes, a practical instruction book... In Break 100 Now!, renowned "Swing Doctor" Mike Adams provides a sensible, non-technical approach that high handicappers can put to immediate use to lower their golf scores. Unlike traditional golf instructionals, Break 100 Now! focuses more on the practical and less on mechanics. It stresses simple but proven strategies, such as replacing long irons with easier-to-hit fairway utility woods (4-5-6-7) and forsaking the driver for the more reliable 3-wood -- an exchange of only eight yards for accuracy. Written in clear, straightforward language, this book offers both the beginner and the novice a ninety-day program that enables them to go from hacker to golfer in the shortest time possible. Even experienced golfers can benefit from these invaluable tips and advice.

The Single Plane Golf Swing

The Single Plane Golf Swing
Author: Todd Graves
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 161254892X

“Through this wonderful book, frustrated golfers can learn to swing like Moe [Norman] and improve their games.” —Anthony Robbins, #1 New York Times–bestselling author The mysterious and reclusive genius Moe Norman is acknowledged as the best ball-striker in the history of golf by many of the game’s greats. The Single Plane Golf Swing: Play Better Golf the Moe Norman Way reveals the secrets of the swing that enabled him to hit the ball solidly with unerring accuracy and consistency—every time. Norman’s simple, efficient, and easily understood Single Plane Swing has improved the games of thousands of golfers. Golf professional Todd Graves, known as “Little Moe” and regarded as the world authority on Norman’s swing, comprehensively teaches readers the mechanics, drills, and feelings of the Single Plane Swing that Moe called “The Feeling of Greatness.” Graves shares Norman’s brilliant insights and liberating approach to the game and demonstrates why the conventional “tour” swing is too complex and frustrating for the majority of amateurs. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and written with Tim O’Connor, Norman’s biographer, the book also engagingly tells Norman’s bittersweet life story and explores the teacher-student bond forged between Norman and his protégé Graves. “One of golf’s greatest untold stories, Moe Norman’s life illustrated a simple and powerful truth: greatness is built from practicing the right swing in the right way. In this book, Todd Graves has given us a blueprint for that swing, for those practice habits, and most of all for a process that builds success.” —Dan Coyle, New York Times-bestselling author of The Culture Code

Breaking Glass - Broken Barriers

Breaking Glass - Broken Barriers
Author: Joyce Verplank Hatton
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480855855

Joyce Verplank Hatton’s life has embraced community and political leadership, entrepreneurial success, love and family, and worldwide sailing adventures. Writing with courage and candor, she shares her life’s journey following a trail from a small harbor town on Lake Michigan to Aspen Colorado, New York City, Washington, D.C., and beyond, while skiing the Rockies and sailing the Caribbean. Hatton’s entrepreneurial drive became evident in 1957 when she developed the first nursery school in Western Michigan, the first child care company to go public in 1970, and the first multi-state computerized USDA child care food program in 1976. Encouraged by a supportive family and a dynamic mentor, Hatton also established herself in media ventures that included FM radio, UHF television, and cable networks. Hatton brought her leadership experience to state and national politics as well: she was a candidate for Michigan’s new State Board of Education in 1964, Republican County Chairman in President Gerald Ford’s Fifth District, and a delegate to the 1968 GOP national convention in Miami. And she logged over a decade of ocean sailing, charting the course with a talented lifelong sailor. In this personal narrative, Hatton hopes to encourage other women to value independent economic status, be entrepreneurial, take risks, and march to their own drum.

Beyond a Boundary

Beyond a Boundary
Author: Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822313830

In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.

Dream On

Dream On
Author: John Richardson
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-04-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1616080264

The author describes his life and his determination to meet the demands of being a good father, run a business, and break par in golf within a year.