How to Learn Golf: The First Complete Guide to Golf Instruction Based on Exclusive Sessions with the Game's Top Teaching Pros

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Golfers hoping to improve their games should read this book before buying any more swing aids or signing up for another expensive golf camp. Hurt's emphasis is not on how to swing the club but on choosing a swing that fits you--your size, flexibility, and perhaps most important, what you want out of the game. With all of these factors in mind, he analyzes the three basic swing types--small muscle, large muscle, mixed muscle--and explains which big-name instructors promote which type. Golfers at all levels, he stresses, should choose a swing (and an instructor) that fits their body type and their expectations (large muscle for strong, flexible, flat bodies out to shoot par; small muscle for weaker, stiffer folks who dream of breaking 100). The topic is a bit technical in nature, but the prose is straightforward, and the analysis is fresh and fascinating. Bill Ott
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Peter Kessler former host of "Academy Life" and "Golf Talk Live" and the Golf Channel I've never seen a book on finding your best golf swing quite like this one, and I've read them all. Harry Hurt III exposes his unique golf wounds without shame. He understands through brutal playing failures that our collective golf dreams are the triumph of hope over experience. In his deeply researched and knowing book...Harry helps minimize our ultimate pain by streamlining the learning process. There are hundreds of ways to learn to play. Harry cuts to the chase and identifies the best ones and the best one for you. Harry doesn't want you to abandon your golf dreams -- he wants to help you make them come true.


Book Description
Talk to any and all golfers, be they Tour professionals or once-a-month country clubbers, and you'll hear that they want to improve their game in some way. But up until now, most expert books on golf instruction have focused only on the approach advocated by a particular teaching pro or famous player; the authors usually talk about "the golf swing" or "the putting stroke" as if there is only one way to do it -- their way. With How to Learn Golf, the first comprehensive guide to contemporary golf instruction, Harry Hurt III will help you become a better golfer by identifying what type of player you really are, and which of the several leading methods are right for you and your golfing goals. Based on Hurt's sessions with all of America's top ten instructors, this book helps you choose between the two main types of golf instruction available -- error correction, which offers a quick fix for a specific swing flaw, and swing development, where the focus is on building the swing from top to bottom. Hurt provides illuminating detail on the most effective approaches to improving each aspect of your golf game: putting, the full swing, the short game, and the all-important mental game. Hurt also includes a biographical listing of the best golf instructors nationwide and where their expertise lies, so you can determine who may be best suited to your needs. And if you've never sought an instructor before or you've had problems communicating with yours, there are two handy worksheets: eighteen questions you should ask your teaching pro and eighteen questions your pro should ask you. From beginners and high handicappers to scratch players and Tiger Woods wannabes, golfers of all skill levels looking to take the next step to improving their games need only look to How to Learn Golf.


About the Author
Harry Hurt III, a journalist and bestselling author, was a top junior and college golfer. After giving up golf for twenty-five years to concentrate on his writing career, at age forty-three he launched a comeback, which he chronicles in Chasing the Dream: A Mid-Life Quest for Fame and Fortune on the Pro Golf Circuit. Editor at large of T&L Golf, he is also the author of Texas Rich, For All Mankind, and Lost Tycoon. He lives with his wife and son in Sag Harbor, New York.


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Based on Hurt's sessions with all of America's top ten instructors, this book helps you choose between the two main types of golf instruction available - error correction, which offers a quick fix for a specific swing flaw, and swing development, where the focus is on building the swing from top to bottom. Hurt provides detail on the most effective approaches to improving each aspect of your golf game: putting, the full swing, the short game, and the all-important mental game.


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