Re: A 'top 5' reading list - any suggestions?

I liked that one.

Re: A 'top 5' reading list - any suggestions?

First two books arrived today from Amazon - Tiger's how I play Golf, and Hogan's 5 lessons. If you'll all forgive me, having fed the cats, had tea, done my forum homework, and opened a bottle of wine...

...I have a good book to read

PS Nick Bradley next but it wasn't in stock

Re: A 'top 5' reading list - any suggestions?

I'm reading "Every shot must have a purpose" By Pia Nilsson and Lynn someone or other. I just finished reading "The elements of scoring" by Raymond Floyd.

Next up is "The Golfers Mind" by Bob Rotella.

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1. Jack Nicklaus - Golf My Way
2. Jack Nicklaus - Playing Lessons
3. Jack Nicklaus - Lesson Tee Series

How can you argue with the mans record?? The bestthing is he doesnt tell you how to swing a golf club, any fool can study the best players in the worlds swings and tell you how you should swing. Only Jack tells you how to actually play golf the only mechanics he goes into is how to stop doing the destructive things.

4. Hogans book
5. Sandy Lyle - Golf the Lyle Way

And DVD's - Ryder Cup 1985, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

D.

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Further to this, I bought Bob Rotella's book "Golf is not a game of perfect" and found it absolutely fabulous. I can't rate it enough. There were several things in it that now seem obvious, but were genuinely eye opening - for example; choose the smallest possible target. I have very much been guilty of trying to hit it down the middle of the fairway. Today I put it to the test.

So good. I visualised every shot, I expected to make every shot, I thought good thoughts, I believed in myself, and I worked harder at putting his course management into play, including taking driver less, even though I feel comforatble with it.

First four holes went par, par, par, par. Fantastic. The drive on the 5th was exactly as I wished, but had a melt down for a quadruple bogey. Hmm - still, I picked myself up. Then par, bogey (but had hit FIR and GIR, and last difficult downhill putt just died in the heart of the hole), double bogey, par.

Though that's two off my PB for 9 holes, 6 pars was fantastic, and I look forward to putting this more into practice. Admittedly, it's not, I think, in itself, the whole answer, but when I combine it with the Hogan 'left arm extended as far as poss in backswing so chin touches top of shirt' and BrianW's head on pillow' (/Luke Donald's spine angle no changee), I've been feeling really good about my game. I really felt on top of it, like I knew what I was doing and where I was going. It was a great feeling, and in a way, I'm all for having a one hole blow-out, rather than those shots being distributed across several holes.

Yeah! Good for Dr Bob. It won't appeal to everyone, but I loved it, and as soon as I finished it, I started reading it again. Can't wait to get out there again, and in particular, I intend to follow his advice that 70% of practice time should be with wedge and putter.

Dr Bob is my '3skills'. I'm on a mission to spread the word

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hi
just finished reading two great books.
SWING LIKE A PRO by Dr. Ralph Mann and Fred Griffin it a great brake down of the golf swing and what goes into a pro swing.
and the other book.
THE PLANE TRUTH FOR GOLFERS by Jim Hardy and John Andrisani and it tell you the difference between the one and two plane swing and what works and don't work with each swing.
i found both books a very good read and both i found interesting and cover some aspects of the golf swing i did not fully understand.
bill

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My favorite is Greg Norman's book "advanced golf"

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I have read many books, about the swing etc

The best book I have ever read to help with my game was "The Inner Game Of Golf" by Tim Gallwey, the old 1983 version paperback for around £7.00 pounds from Amazon.

This is a must read, nothing in there about the golf swing.

P.S I have heard that "Nail It" isn't bad either.............LOL


Ian.

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hi Ian
i did not think that much of the inner game of golf. it sounded like he wrote a good book on the inner game off tennis then thought he do one about golf, there is some good tips but i found it heavy going.
bill

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Bulldog2k,

I swear by Rotella.

"Putting Out of Your Mind" revolutionised my approach to putting. Now, when I putt bad, I forget not to be scared of it. When I ain't scared, I putt very well. Getting out of my own way, I think he calls it.

"Golf is a Game of Confidence" is also another cracker from Rotella.

"Extaordinary Golf" by Fred Shoemaker is a good read, although I was a bit selective over what I took from it.

If you fancy a higher plane of reading and some seriously subliminal messages about the golf game, and have the patience of a saint and don't mind reading between the lines, "Golf and the Spirit" by M Scott Peck is a real brain sizzler and you may have to read it twice! But I like it!

Having said that, I have read Rotella more than once.