LPGA's Guide to Every Shot

LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Author: Ladies Professional Golf Association
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780880119801

With clear, concise technique-teaching points accompanied by large, helpful photos, this manual makes an excellent instructional tool. From the basics of hitting each standard shot to proper selection of those shots on the course, this book covers everything from tee to green. 208 color illustrations.

Separate Games

Separate Games
Author: David K. Wiggins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610756002

Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection. The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the twelve essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these “separate games” provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination. The significance of this sporting culture is vividly showcased in the stories of the Cuban Giants baseball team, basketball’s New York Renaissance Five, the Tennessee State Tigerbelles track-and-field team, black college football’s Turkey Bowl Classic, car racing’s Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, Negro League Baseball’s East-West All-Star game, and many more. These teams, organizations, and events made up a vibrant national sporting complex that remained in existence until the integration of sports beginning in the late 1940s. Separate Games explores the fascinating ways sports helped bind the black community and illuminate race pride, business acumen, and organizational abilities.

Uneven Lies

Uneven Lies
Author: Pete McDaniel
Publisher: American Golfer
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2000-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781888531374

A fast-moving heart-warming narrative on the history of African-Americans in golf. Beginning with the 1896 U.S. Open where blacks first played in national competition, to the invention of the golf tee by an African-American dentist in 1899, to the early clubs and facilities open to people of color, to the service roles that served as an introduction to the game. And much, much more.

GOLF

GOLF
Author: JACK THOMSEN; KATHRYN THOMSEN
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 146698032X

When learning Thomsen was writing Golf: Find Center, Enter the Circle, many had emphasized the diversity of golf due to its natural setting, and golf’s natural setting was open to amateurs, professionals, and all ages also. Thomsen was quick to agree. “Golf can serve the needs of many. It’s my job to open up to more and increase the standards within the art form—golf.” Thomsen said. Some have asked, “Who do you think will read it, Jack?” “Few,” came the reply. “Golfers mainly, and only the most obsessive of those. There’s no popular market for this book. Materialism is too much in demand, and serving the spirit has become lost in the equation.” That brief exchange reveals an unvarnished truth: golf is essentially caught in a materialistic grasp as an overview of the game, and yet as an art form, independent players function in it. The artist Vincent van Gogh had sold few of his paintings. Someone else had done that. Is the treasure the money or the art? Golf: Find Center, Enter the Circle’s genesis from a personal journal’s beginning had been imbued with a Joycean stream of consciousness that, in its intuitiveness, is likely to engage none but the determined reader. By way of contrast, however, the book’s title forthrightly distills Thomsen’s thesis. Golf, he asserts, can be a spiritual practice when done as an expression of the golfer’s essential self and if engaged in it for the sheer love of golf’s diversity, its wholeness, bringing on its transcendental nature. Accept Thomsen’s invitation. Turn your attention inward, tap into the answers that are there, feel the resultant centering, the balance, and project that centering—enter the circle. “A liberated person possesses perfect senses and with perfect senses only can serve the sense proprietor,” says the Bhagavad Gita.

The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Golf

The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Golf
Author: Stephen Holiday
Publisher: Richards Education
Total Pages: 205
Release:
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Unlock your potential on the golf course with The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Golf, the definitive resource for golfers of all levels. Whether you're a novice eager to learn the basics or an experienced player aiming to refine your skills, this comprehensive guide offers everything you need to elevate your game. Dive into the rich history and essential fundamentals of golf, then journey through advanced techniques, course management strategies, and mental toughness training. Each chapter is packed with practical advice, expert tips, and detailed drills to help you master every aspect of the sport. From perfecting your driving game to excelling in competitive play, this book covers it all. Discover how to: Achieve the perfect golf stance, grip, and swing. Master the short game with chipping, pitching, and putting techniques. Navigate any golf course with strategic play and course management. Enhance your physical fitness and mental focus for peak performance. Continuously improve and stay motivated for lifelong enjoyment. With The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Golf, you'll not only improve your skills but also deepen your appreciation for the game. Celebrate your progress, set new goals, and embrace the joy of playing golf like never before. Get ready to transform your approach to golf and become the amazing golfer you’ve always aspired to be.

Golf: Steps to Success, 2E

Golf: Steps to Success, 2E
Author: Schempp, Paul G.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-06-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1450450024

Golf: Steps to Success, Second Edition, provides step-by-step instruction and full-color photos of golf’s fundamental skills. You first learn the simplest stroke—putting. Then you progress to more challenging shots—chipping, pitching, full swing, trouble shots. There are detailed chapters on the mental game, course management, and practice skills.

Golf

Golf
Author: Paul G. Schempp
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492584525

Develop a consistent swing and master every shot on your way to a lower handicap. Golf: Steps to Success provides detailed, progressive instruction with accompanying full-color photos for every shot: putts, chip shots, and pitch shots as well as shots from the fairway, tee box, bunker, rough, and bad lies. Practice and improve your shot making with over 100 drills that feature a scoring system for gauging and accelerating your progress. After building a solid skill base, improve the mental side of your game: Learn to select the right club, analyze ball flight, overcome tough lies and shots in the rough, and manage stress and emotions to raise your level of play and enjoyment of the game. This self-paced learning tool allows you to develop a solid overall game and build on any initial golf lessons you may have had. As part of the popular Steps to Success Sport Series—with more than 1.8 million copies sold—Golf: Steps to Success is the guide you’ll find most valuable not only on the practice range and green but also on every hole you play.

Real Golf

Real Golf
Author: David Gould
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1449437591

Golf is a game that challenges its players to excellence. While private golf lessons and long stints at golf school may work wonders, David Gould has a better answer. In Real Golf, the author builds on 17 years of playing the game with PGA teaching professionals. The result is a meat-and-potatoes instruction book for the experienced nonexpert, weekend, or after-work golfer. On every page, Real Golf provides instant assistance, giving golfers a virtual partner at the ready. More than 120 tips, lessons, and fixes for faults give readers the tools for self-diagnosis and solutions for curing the slice and hook, getting out of trouble, saving strokes around the green, and more.

Fix It Yourself

Fix It Yourself
Author: David Leadbetter
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2024-05-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1250253314

From the world's number one golf coach, the pro who teaches the pros, comes the only guide you'll need to improve your game, whatever your level of play. Leadbetter's Faults and Fixes, published in 1993, remains one of the most important golf guides to players all over the world. Over thirty years later, he brings us a modern approach to this revolutionary format, based on the extraordinary innovations in performance and technology in recent years. While golf superstars push the boundaries of performance, most recreational golfers lack access to the technology that would enable them to take their game to the next level. If you are serious about golf, you will forever be in search of clear-cut remedies to the various faults that plague your game. This comprehensive fault-finding guide, containing easy-to-understand solutions to the game's most common errors, is invaluable for any aspiring player. In this manual, you will find: - Solutions to 72 of the most common problem areas in golf - Drills and exercises specially designed to cure even the most persistent faults - Full color illustrations to take you step-by-step through your grip and swing - A unique instruction package that will enable you to identify the weaknesses in your game—and then systematically eliminate them. Golf's #1 instructor has reimagined his bestselling book, to the benefit of golfers everywhere!