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Author: Ladies Professional Golf Association
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780880119801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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.
Author: David K. Wiggins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1610756002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner 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.
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Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
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Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1434977196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: JACK THOMSEN; KATHRYN THOMSEN
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 146698032X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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.
Author: Stephen Holiday
Publisher: Richards Education
Published:
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlock 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.
Author: Schempp, Paul G.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2014-06-04
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1450450024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGolf: 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.
Author: Paul G. Schempp
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1492584525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelop 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.
Author: David Gould
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1449437591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGolf 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.
Author: David Leadbetter
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2024-05-07
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1250253314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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!
Author: M. Scott Peck
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2009-09-16
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0307556441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGolf. It's the ultimate head game. And when nothing but the best advice will do, along comes M. Scott Peck, M.D., the celebrated psychiatrist and author of the best-selling self-help book of all time, The Road Less Traveled. In Golf and the Spirit, M. Scott Peck writes a book for beginners and masters alike--and even for nongolfers. It goes beyond mechanics to explore the deeper issues, ways of successfully managing the emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of this most wonderful, maddening, deflating, and inspiring game. Playing side by side with M. Scott Peck on an imaginary course of his own design--complete with illustrations of each hole--you will come to see the profound truths in this seemingly simple game. Appreciate that life is not linear. Come to understand your own anger and how to heal that which gets in your way. Accept the gifts of humility. Appreciate kenosis, the process by which the self empties itself of self. Benefit from teachers. Know that in weakness often there is strength. Realize that to experience the blessings of golf and life fully, you must accept the divinity that underlies all things. Like the best-selling volumes of Harvey Penick and Michael Murphy, Golf and the Spirit makes a unique contribution to the literature of golf and life. It goes beyond the body to address the heart and soul of the game, creating a rare opportunity for transformation in the lives of its readers, both on and off the fairway. It seems to me the human condition is most basically that we are willful creatures living in a world that, much of the time, doesn't behave the way we want it to. We live in the tension between our will and reality. Sometimes with great effort and expertise, we can change reality or bend it to our will. At other times--also with great effort and expertise--it is we who must change by coming to accept the limitations of the world and of ourselves. How we do this--how we deal with the hazards of life--is quite akin to how we deal with the hazards of a golf course. Sooner or later golfers who stick with the game long enough will almost always come to see it as a metaphor for life. But the word metaphor fails to do justice to all that golf has to teach us. I would go even further and say that, in its own way, golf is life and, not only that, life condensed. If we choose to use it as such, I believe that golf, next to marriage and parenthood, can routinely be the greatest of life's learning opportunities.
