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Summary: An exceptional guide to the full swing.
Review: I highly recommend this book. It truly helped my golf swing - a lot. The golf swing is subtle and difficult--many movements in many directions at once. Most students attempting to adopt the explainations of their teachers, books, magazines, or videos exaggerate those swing elements they are working on. This leads to even more problems. Swing Like a Pro distills the swing to a few essential elements, then guides you in their execution. Most importantly, they illustrate the exaggerations you are likely to make to prevent them from creeping into your swing. They also address most common myths about the swing and debunk most casual advice you are likely to receive (usually unsolicited). I have video tapes of private lessons with my PGA Professional where he clearly identifies my biggest problem (over the top move) but can offer no direct solution. Swing Like a Pro gave me solutions I can understand and use.Dan (a 12 soon to be a 6)
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Summary: Best Swing Theory Book I've Ever Read
Review: I just finished this book and I thought the concept was laid out well. The way they broke the swing down into phases and the way each phase was explained was excellent. I've read a ton of books on this subject and I can say this was the best book, hands down. I can't wait to try some of the drills and techniques I've read about. I've just had shoulder surgery so it's killing me not to be able to try this stuff out. But from just reading the book I understand a lot better what my swing should be like and I'm glad to know that I was heading in the right direction and I think this will help me get there faster.
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Summary: Bad News For Hackers
Review: I must say that I am far from being a good golfer, but this book did very little to aid in my progress. The purpose of this book seems to be providing a technical look at the golf swing. However, I do not think this is the best approach for beginners and I'm not sure how much an advanced player would gain either. Advice like slide-turn-slide-turn, and moving your lower body and upper body in different directions during the transition might be technically correct, but are not very good swing thoughts. I think a technical approach like this one breeds too much tension in most players. Most recreational players would benefit from a book like Jim Flick's "On Golf", much more.
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Summary: Well Worth the Money
Review: I started out just like every other beginning golfer out there...without a clue, and without a consistent swing. This book was exactly what I needed. After only reading through half the book and doing the exercises, my score dropped around 20 strokes to 85. Read this book and you will no longer have to figure out "what you did right the last time to hit the ball so straight." There are set guidelines for you to learn, so that that perfect swing will always remain with your game.
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Summary: Well Worth the Money
Review: I started out just like every other beginning golfer out there...without a clue, and without a consistent swing. This book was exactly what I needed. After only reading through half the book and doing the exercises, my score dropped around 20 strokes to 85. Read this book and you will no longer have to figure out "what you did right the last time to hit the ball so straight." There are set guidelines for you to learn, so that that perfect swing will always remain with your game.
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Summary: I am so HAPPY!
Review: I took up golf two years ago. I've been slicing since then. I did not know what a straight long drive (or a hook) was if it hit me in face. I tried many things to no avail. Then I got this book from a friend, read it, loved it. Bought my own copy from Amazon.com, of course, and read it again. I started hitting hooks for the first time (which is a big improvement for a perpetual slicer) and then I started hitting monster drives. Don't get me wrong. There is no magic cure in this book. I think the keys are understanding what to do and practice, practice and then practice some more. This book was a great buy for me and I recommend it very much
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Summary: No Mysteries
Review: I've recently taken up the game of golf and was interested in finding a definitive swing system to master while I was still new at the game; I didn't want to unlearn something that was detrimental to my game after I had ingrained it. "Swing like a Pro" IS that system. Based on biomechanics and intensive scientific research, this book completely demystifies the golf swing and gives you some of the best instruction and drills imaginable for developing a consistent, CORRECT swing that is fundamentally sound in all aspects. If you are looking to get past hype and want to learn the TRUE mechanics of THE great golf swing, this book is for you. To all the fans of "Search for the Perfect Swing," this is the tome that takes the concepts in that book to the next level.
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Summary: Finally, a book on the golf swing that answers my questions!
Review: If I had to recommend one book on the golf swing, this would be it hands down. I've read most of what's out there, and this is the first one that explains the mechanics of the transition and downswing in a manner that is both detailed and understandable (I can't agree with Amazon's reviewer who calls this "technically complex" and "dry"--and I'm a high handicapper who has only been playing for a few years). In fact, the crowning achievement of the book is that it takes somewhat technical material on the golf swing, from start to finish, and makes it easy to understand. The illustrations and drills are excellent, also. I have also purchased the CD-Rom, which can be found on Compusport's website, and it is an excellent product as well, featuring many informative animations. I could have saved a lot of money on golf books if this one had come out earlier. If you are seriously interested in understanding and improving your swing, you won't find a better place to start than here! By the way, the first couple of reviews posted at this site give excellent descriptions of the book--I won't attempt to improve on them (be sure and read them at the bottom of the list of reviews).
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Summary: This book is not scientific.
Review: If you are looking for a scientific look at golf, this is not the book for you. This book is an empirilistic look at golf. There is a world of difference. It is not suprising that this fact eluded an author who went to WSU, a party school. Evidently he didn't go to class very often. As far as the content of the book is concerned, it is O.K. However I believe that every golfer would be better off reading a full swing book by Leadbetter. I must leave you with my favorite quote from this incredibly annoying book. "Developing a swing that produces a superb blend of distance and accuracy is what the game is all about. Every real golfer knows this."(147) No, Dr. Mann. The game of golf is about shooting the lowest possible score. Every real golfer knows that. If you want an unscientific look at golf by an author who has no sense of what the game is about; I suggest you look in the dumpster behind your local grocery store because you just might find my copy.
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Summary: Beware average golfer
Review: If you don't shoot right around par, and especially if you slice the ball, this book will only make you worse. The transition from backswing to downswing as it is taught here is not only extremely difficult to execute, it will most certainly lead to swinging over-the-top (outside-in), causing you to, at best, pull shots left of the target (for right-handers) and at worst, slice the ball all over the place. If, however, you already hit a right to left hook, the book can help you. Unfortunately, the average golfer wouldn't know a hook if it bit him on the nose.
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