Best golf instruction book I have ever read and I have read a bunch,
including Penick, Hogan, Armour, Leadbetter, Haney, Harmon, etc
It is the swing rather than hitting the ball is Percy Boomers moto, All motion below the waist is active, while all movement above the waist
is passive, or responsive to the hips, knees and feet. Jones, Hogan,
Sarazen, Snead, even Moe Norman, arguably the greatest ball striker in
golf history, employ this motion. While none appear the same in terms of
setup, posture, grip, etc, they all utilize the body to swing the
clubhead.
If you buy this book and read it, then practice its concepts and you will find
yourself capable of nailing every shot. Of course, the result is that
golf becomes a very fun game again, as it should be.
Harvey Penick - Little Red Book was in his 80s when this book came out, and the book
itself just entered its second decade of printing. But the words within
were compiled over the course of Penick's 60-year teaching career,
jotted on scraps of paper that Penick saved and finally collected. It
has become the best-selling golf instructional book of all-time.
The legendary Harvey
Penick, who began his golfing career as a caddie in Austria, Texas, at
the age of eight, worked with an amazing array of champions over the
course of nearly a century, dispensing invaluable wisdom to golfers of
every level. Penick simplifies the technical jargon of other
instructional books and communicates the very essence of the game, and
his Little Red Book is full of inspiration and homespun wisdom that reflects at once his great love of golf as well as his great talent for teaching
The lessons Harvey Penick teaches the basics and fundamental of the game of golf that we all should go back to..
The golf swing is basically the same, and Penick could teach it better
than anybody. For most of his life, he never intended to publish his Little Red Book,
a notebook of golf wisdom and anecdotes that he compiled with the idea
that he'd pass it on to his son.
But, for the sake of history, it's a
good thing that he changed his mind. Contained in its 175 pages is just
about all you need to know about golf from a technical standpoint, along
with Penick's priceless memories of working with famous pros, teaching
absolute nobodies to get the ball in the air, and finding a horde of bat
guano and hauling it across town in a pickup truck to fertilize his
golf course
This book is about life,"Take Dead Aim!" With
his teachings and those words as my mantra, I have not only improved
the quality of my golf game but I have improved the quality of my life.
This book is a testament to the fact that not all things in life can
be had by making more money than the other guy, but rather by finding
what you like to do (play golf), work at being the best you can be
(practice), and then treating others as you would be treated were you
in their shoes. A must have for not only any golfer interested in
improving their game, but for anyone.
Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings From a Lifetime
in Golf started out as a notebook of things that he learned about golf
over the years. He opens with, "An old pro told me that originality
does not consist of saying what has not been said before; it consists of
saying what you have to say that you know to be the truth".
Ernest Jones was one of golf's first "superstar" instructors. He taught
decades ago, but what he taught - summed up in the title of this classic
book - is still influencing golfers and teachers of the game. Jones realized you couldn't have a swing unless you have the motion of a
swing in the clubhead. Furthermore you couldn't dissect motion into
parts and still have motion: therefore it is impossible to take a swing
apart and still have a swing.
There is a frustratingly easy drill in this book that I want to share
here. Jones uses the example of a pocketknife tied to the end of a handkerchief to illustrate a pendulum motion. The knife builds speed as
it travels along the swing arc.
The teachings of Ernest Jones are of a distant generation, yet no one
with the possible exception of Percy Boomer, has such an influence on
modern day golf instruction. Jones is quoted in countless magazine
articles, and golf instruction books by well known players and teachers,
including Jack Nicklaus, and Gary McCord. McCord, most well known for
his humor in golf broadcasts, is a very intelligent and serious student
of the golf swing. In his book Golf for Dummies, McCord lists Swing the
Clubhead as one of his Top Ten Golf Books.
This book is easy to understand and really exploits the current-day
theories and how they target people like you and me. They have a great
revenue model: Adults, particularly men, thrive on details and
information.
They keep throwing us more "swing secrets" and gadgets and
we keep asking for more - when does it end? Swings come in all shapes
and sizes - stop chasing that "perfect swing" and go back to the true
roots of the golf swing...swing that clubhead!
By producing a swinging motion with the clubhead you will have:
was first published in 1946 and has gone through more
than 20 reprints as modern golfers keep rediscovering it.
