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Re: Golf Instruction Books
I have only seen excepts, but unless you are very technically minded, it will be a very hard book for you to understand. It is very math laden, and introduces a lot of vocabulary that is different or not used at all by any other book. If you are any kind of a feel player, this book may put an awful lot of thoughts rumbling around in your head -- resulting in a paralysis by over-analysis.
All that said, there is a small, almost cult-like group on the Internet that swear up-and-down on this book. They use all sorts of weird terminology (like I said above) and sometimes can be very argumentative (though, can't we all?). I am sure that what is in the book can work and does work.
The question becomes more of one of whether you can understand the book, or if it is worth the time it will take to understand it. Once I feel 100% behind my swing, I am going to read this book. I like learning about the technical aspects of golf, but I feel like I play my best when I do not have too much analysis going on in my head. I like to try to let habit and instinct and flow take over, not think about where to put each part of my body at each time during the swing. The equations and ideas in this book try to describe how to achieve the maximum force at the bottom of the swing, and that's obviously a everyone's goal. But, it is very easy to screw things up, and I'm reasonably happy with my swing at the moment, so I don't have plans to read this books anytime soon. If you do, report back to us and let us know how it goes.
Edited to add: If you are looking for books, I'd recommend Hogan's Five Lessons, it's a really good book that truly stands up to the test of time. Jim Hardy's Plane Truth books are also very excellent in my opinion.
Last edited by Bignose : October 22nd, 2007 at 11:13 PM.
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