"Find all there is to know about golf: from its ancient origins to the global competitions today. Learn about the strokes and analyze the talents of the world's best. Check out the gear and try out the equipment, from drivers and irons to carts and clothing. Meet the players fro…
Discover the competitive and cultural history behind one of the world's most popular sports, and absorb expert advice to mastering the perfect swing. Find all there is to know about golf: from its ancient origins to the global competitions today. Learn about the strokes and anal…
Covers the history of the game, rules and techniques of play, the leading men and women players, the most remarkable courses, and winners and records for each of the major championships.
This comprehensive survey of the game of golf begins with a history of the game--including its origins and rich traditions--covers the world's most prestigious golf championships, and showcases the very latest developments in equipment. Full-color photographs throughout.
"Papwa Sewgolum acquired his first golf: club a roughly hewn wooden stick, when he was just seven years old and spent hours hitting an old golf ball into a tin can buried in his back yard." "From these humble beginnings the impoverished and illiterate Papwa came to dominate Sout…
Want to get your handicap down or just get out of a bunker? Golf For Dummies, 2nd Australian and New Zealand edition, is the complete reference for golfers of all experience levels. Get some great advice on improving your technique with step-by-step instructions and photographs.…
"Want to get your handicap down or just get out of a bunker? Golf for Dummies, 2nd Australian and New Zealand edition, is the complete references for golfers of all experience levels. Get some great advice on improving your technique with step-by-step instructions and photograph…
Managing and co-ordinating tourism in a destination requires the organisation and co-operation of a large number of sectors, businesses, local authorities and individuals. Since tourism is an important driver in many economies, destination governance in tourist destinations need…
Applying ancient Buddhist techniques and principles to the game of golf, a PGA tour instructor shows golfers how to master the mental game by clearing their minds, developing concentration by blocking out distractions, and focusing only on the task at hand.
In this invaluable book, Mike McGetrick, one of Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teaching Professionals in America and 1999 National PGA Teacher of the Year, shows how to make the best shot possible and shave strokes off your game. Sharing the same methods he uses when coaching some of t…
Whether you're a novice or trying to bring your handicap down, Essential Golf Skills teaches the basics on grip, posture, rhythm, and ball control, as well as basics rules, types of courses, and styles of play. PrelimsIntroductionChapter 1: The basics of the gameThe object of th…
Beginning with a test that establishes the reader's level of golfing expertise, an instructional golf handbook offers photomontages of swing sequences illustrating the perfect golf stroke, and includes more than two hundred drills.
Even for the weekend golfer, with no aspirations of going pro, the game of golf is still highly rewarding- sand traps or no. The daily travails of the average golfer, who simply enjoys the game- and revels in his own small victories- is detailed in this brilliantly funny book. A…
"Millions of words are written in this field every year, but few better than those that come from I.J. Schecter."--Jane Carter, Editor, Golf Monthly. "In golf, there are the elite, and then there are the rest of us. We others, lumped together in the Duffer Zone--you know us from…
