Senior Golf

Senior Golf

Author: Robert Faber

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0595350410

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After all those decades of work and responsibility, retirement should be a welcome period of rest and relaxation, a time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Unfortunately, that "rest and relaxation" often turns out to be more a burden than a blessing. Unprepared for the vast amount of idle time at their disposal, too many retirees find themselves without direction, without purpose, without pleasure. Author Robert Faber urges retirees to use golf as therapy, proposing the game--with its competitive stimulation and social opportunities--as a fulfilling alternative to excessive unstructured leisure time. With the assistance of retired University of Michigan golf coach Tom Simon, Faber provides technical instructions specially tailored to the physical limitations of senior amateur golfers. With humor and pertinent insights into the special needs of seniors, Senior Golf: It Takes Balls To Retire offers information on the origins of the game, its equipment, its rules, and the demographics of those who pursue it. Senior Golf will help you look at retirement not as the end of employment, but as the beginning of life's second phase.


Play Better Golf for Seniors

Play Better Golf for Seniors

Author: Mike Adams

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 1998-08-05

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780805059205

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Specially designed for golfers over fifty, from the nation's premier golf school. From the powerhouse author team that created Play Better Golf and Play Better Golf for Women comes a comprehensive new book for the rapidly growing population of senior golfers across America. Mike Adams, known throughout the country as the "Swing Doctor," T. J. Tomasi, and Kathryn Maloney share simple, ingenious techniques for developing a swing that the senior golfer's changing body will allow. The dynamic "Senior Swing" compensates for lost strength and flexibility and allows players to "put time back into the hourglass." Throughout the book, beautiful full-color stop-action photo sequences teach proper technique and reveal the swing mechanics of the great stars of the senior tour, such as Nicklaus, Floyd, Irwin, Trevino, Stockton, and Player. Special sections discuss selecting proper equipment, dealing with joint pain and decreased vision, keeping fit as a senior golfer, and, most importantly, putting all those years of golfing experience to the best use, especially against younger opponents. Play Better Golf for Seniors shows the path to success on the course to readers of any age.


The Single Plane Golf Swing

The Single Plane Golf Swing

Author: Todd Graves

Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM

Published: 2015-03-03

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 161254892X

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“Through this wonderful book, frustrated golfers can learn to swing like Moe [Norman] and improve their games.” —Anthony Robbins, #1 New York Times–bestselling author The mysterious and reclusive genius Moe Norman is acknowledged as the best ball-striker in the history of golf by many of the game’s greats. The Single Plane Golf Swing: Play Better Golf the Moe Norman Way reveals the secrets of the swing that enabled him to hit the ball solidly with unerring accuracy and consistency—every time. Norman’s simple, efficient, and easily understood Single Plane Swing has improved the games of thousands of golfers. Golf professional Todd Graves, known as “Little Moe” and regarded as the world authority on Norman’s swing, comprehensively teaches readers the mechanics, drills, and feelings of the Single Plane Swing that Moe called “The Feeling of Greatness.” Graves shares Norman’s brilliant insights and liberating approach to the game and demonstrates why the conventional “tour” swing is too complex and frustrating for the majority of amateurs. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and written with Tim O’Connor, Norman’s biographer, the book also engagingly tells Norman’s bittersweet life story and explores the teacher-student bond forged between Norman and his protégé Graves. “One of golf’s greatest untold stories, Moe Norman’s life illustrated a simple and powerful truth: greatness is built from practicing the right swing in the right way. In this book, Todd Graves has given us a blueprint for that swing, for those practice habits, and most of all for a process that builds success.” —Dan Coyle, New York Times-bestselling author of The Culture Code


Golf for Seniors

Golf for Seniors

Author: Bob Charles

Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781565541115

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Bob Charles is today's premiere senior golfer. He claims age doesn't matter in golfing, but "getting the basics right and practicing them is essential." In this unique volume, Mr. Charles gives tips for seasoned golfers and those players who have taken up the game in their later years. In addition to specifically targeting seniors, it also caters to both left-handed and right-handed players; from 1963 until 2003, Mr. Charles held the record as the only left-handed golfer ever to have won a major title. Mr. Charles' philosophy is to start simple, and that is exactly what he does. Beginning with the proper way to grip the club--possibly the most important aspect of the game--the reader is shown in full color photographs both the correct and incorrect manner to stand, swing, pitch, chip, and putt. Increasing in difficulty through progression, the book contains chapters on hard shots, faults, bunker shots, sand traps, tactics, and practice. Each chapter includes senior-specific instructions and highlighted notes of interest. One of the most valuable features for the reader is the section on the mental game in which Mr. Charles emphasizes that positive thinking is as important as a powerful swing. The final chapter of the book includes tips for choosing the best equipment. A diagram that shows flight and distance using various clubs will be particularly helpful in determining which club is the most appropriate choice for a particular shot. Golf for Seniors also contains a glossary to help the reader learn typical golfing terminology. As Gary Player acknowledges, "Every golfer will take away something positive from this edition."


Golf for seniors

Golf for seniors

Author: Wings of Success

Publisher: Aldo Press

Published:

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13:

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You still stand in the medaows to watch an applaud a game of golf? Are you as excited as you used to be in your younger days? Ever thought of playing the senior golf an winning a championship? Join the club!


A Difficult Par

A Difficult Par

Author: James R. Hansen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1592409393

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The definitive account of modern golf’s foremost architect from the New York Times bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Robert Trent Jones was the most prolific and influential golf course architect of the twentieth century and became the archetypical modern golf course designer. Jones spread the gospel of golf by designing courses in forty-two US states and twenty-eight countries. Twenty U.S. Opens, America’s national championship, have been contested on Jones-designed courses. New York Times bestselling biographer James R. Hansen, author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, recounts how an English immigrant boy arrived in upstate New York in 1912, just as golf was emerging as a popular pastime in America. Jones excelled as a golfer, earning admission to Cornell University, whose faculty consented to a curriculum tailored to teach him the knowledge needed to design golf courses. Cornell provided the springboard for an act of self-invention that propelled Jones from obscurity to worldwide fame. Jones believed that every hole should be “a difficult par but an easy bogey.” As gifted as he was at golf design, Jones was equally skilled as a salesman, promoter, and entrepreneur. Golf Digest’s annual rankings of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses have regularly featured about fifty Jones designs, paving the path for his two sons, Robert Jr., and Rees, whose work would carry on their father’s tradition. Hansen examines Jones’s legacy in all its complexity and influence, including the fraternal rivalry of Jones’s distinguished sons.


Men in Green

Men in Green

Author: Michael Bamberger

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476743835

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"Was golf better (to use one of Tiger's favorite phrases) back in the day? In [this book], Michael Bamberger, who fell for the game as a teenager in its wild Sansabelt-and-persimmon 1970s heyday, goes on a quest to try to find out. The result is a candid, nostalgic, intimate portrait of golf's greatest generation--then and now"--Dust jacket flap.


Fit for Golf

Fit for Golf

Author: Gary Player

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0671899945

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Combining stretching exercises, cardiovascular activities, weight training, and nutritional advice, Player's program will help golfers build their strength for greater distance off the tee, maintain flexibility, and consistency throughout a round, and increase their endurance, no matter how often they play. 200 4-color photos.


When Golf Was Fun

When Golf Was Fun

Author: Pat Wheeler

Publisher:

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780985326340

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"When Golf was Fun" is a collection of tales from what is known as the "beer and barbecue circuit" of golf tournaments. These tournaments held in small town all across the state of Texas were not only the beginning of the careers of many great golfers but also produced some local legends. It was a time when golf was still a game, not a big business. This collection of 38 stories will entertain and amaze as you read first-hand accounts of some of the greatest exploits in the history of golf. You will read about local golf pros who are unknown outside of their local country club and you will also read about legends like Ben Crenshaw, Bruce Lietzke, Charles Coody, Miller Barber, Ben Hogan and others. Texas has a very rich golf history and much of it is captured in "When Golf was Fun." The late, great beer and barbecue circuit was a bygone era of Texas golf in which many Lone Star legends were born and raised but has since given way to the more civilized and organized golf industry we know today. Much like baseball's barnstorming days, the barbecue circuit was a series of unaffiliated events that brought an extremely high level of golf and excitement to tiny towns like Center and Athens; Quanah and Pampa-places you might otherwise never have known even existed.