How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time

The great Tommy Armour played his best golf quite a bit of the time, winning more than 30 times on the PGA Tour, including three majors. "The Silver Scot" retired from professional golf in the 1930s, then became one of the game's most highly sought instructors.

How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time

In 1929 he took over the post of golf professional at the Boca Raton Club, in Florida, where over the next quarter of a century his instruction ranged prom teaching duffers how to break 100 to brushing up the games of the top tournament professionals when they couldn't iron out their own difficulties. Armour always claimed that the instructional part of his golf career was the best -- the part he enjoyed the most. The instruction would be good for a beginning golfer, there were a few tips scattered throughout for the long time player. 

Armour's tone versus his contemporary is quite authoritative and at times almost condescending in his depiction of the `average' golfer and his urging to play within their limitations. He models the early chapters after a visit to his golf clinic in Florida, speaking always as the teacher and never a peer. It was his stated intention to produce a thin volume of the absolute minimized, efficient teachings about golf.

 The genius of the book is that the techniques Armour suggests are easy to remember while you are actually out there in the process of swinging the club.

The Gist of Golf

The Gist of Golf

Harry Vardon was arguably the first golf "superstar." He was the first to hook up with an equipment company and produce eponymous golf clubs; he was the first British golfer to barnstorm the U.S. and draw huge crowds; and he was one of the first to write his own instructional book. Vardon's book is a great look into the thinking about golf that existed in the early 20th century.

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Harry Vardon

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 Date of birth: May 9, 1870
Place of birth: Grouville, Jersey (Channel Islands)
Date of death: March 20, 1937

Harry Vardon was the first international golf celebrity, and easily one of the game's most influential players.

The grip he popularized is now known as the Vardon Grip (a k a, the overlapping grip); the "Vardon Flyer" golf ball may have represented the first equipment deal for a golfer; his instructional books continue, to this day, to influence golfers; he won majors with both the gutta-percha and Haskell golf balls.

Search for the Perfect Swing

Search for the Perfect Golf Swing by Alastair Cochran is a book that explains the key points in the golf swing and how it can be applied to you.

The subtitle is, "The Proven Scientific Approach To Fundamentally Improving Your Game." Back in the 1960s, scientists in fields ranging from physics and anatomy to ballistics spent six years intensively studying golf pros in the British PGA.

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 Then the golf pros took their findings - one of the first scientific surveys of the golf swing - and applied the information to golf instruction. This book influenced a huge number of teaching professionals.

 This book covers effects of various aspects of the golf swing and explain each component of the swing and every phase of the swing.

 TOPICS COVERED:

Bio mechanics of the Swing
The differences between the American and European Golf Balls.
Statistics of professional versus amateur performance.
The physics of putting.
Golf club and putter designs.

 If you really want to improve your swing and your shots, then read and practice this book above all others.

Bobby Jones on Golf

Bobby Jones on Golf has been called "The Holy Grail of Golf " , one of the greatest amateur in the world, Jones' book also served as the basis for the movie shorts that have regained popularity through their airing on The Golf Channel.

By the best amateur golfer ever to play the game, this is essential instructional reading for the millions who have taken up golf during the 20 years this marvelous, this book is very easy to read and a compelling break down of the golf swing. 
 
The book also clearly discusses swing tempo and rhythm, essential to a good golf swing.

 In his book, "Bobby Jones on Golf", Jones really gets to the spirit of the game. This is a great book on the idiosyncrasies, nuances, technicalities, and philosophies of the game of golf. If you read carefully and take his advice seriously, I believe you will become a better player. I can't guarantee this, but there is no reason why a beginner can't shoot in the 80's within the first year of playing. If you do the reading and practice the fundamentals; after 3 years of playing on a regular basis (at least 3 to 4 times a week) you should be shooting in the 70's.

One of the longer paperbacks in this category, Bobby Jones on Golf is a top golfing classic read.  Robert Tyre Jones, A.K.A., Bobby Jones, was an amateur champion between 1923 and 1930.  Because of his competitive ability to win and then win again, he set the standard for golf as we now know it.