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Recommendations Needed for a Reference Style Golf Teaching Book

Harry Longshanks

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Harry Longshanks Great Member

Harry Longshanks

I have a lady friend who has expressed an interest in playing golf more frequently. Can anyone recommend a golf teaching book organized in a "reference" format?

That is, a book set up so the reader looks up a particular issue, and the book gives simple, bullet point directions. For example, if the reader wanted to know how to hit a greenside bunker shot, the reader would look in the index or table of contents for "sand shot, greenside" p. XX

  • Do not ground club
  • Take open stance
  • Open club face
etc. (but obviously written better than I have done here.)
I've looked at a few books (including ones like "Golf for Dummies"), and they just aren't what I'm looking for. She's a very "just tell me how to do it and I'll remember it" rather than someone who needs an explanation of why it works.

Thanks.
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rubbery Well Established Member

rubbery

Here is the bunker shot page from Tiger's book "How I Play Golf."

If there are any other particular pages you would like to see to gauge how helpful this book would be for her, just let me know.

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4223/tigergk4.jpg

Driver: Nike VRS Covert 

3 Wood: Taylormade Rocketballz

Hybrid: Nike Sumo 18*

Irons: Titleist AP1 4-PW

Wedges: Cleveland CG12 60* 56* & 52* 

Putter: Scotty Cameron Studio Style Newport 1.5

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Here is the bunker shot page from Tiger's book "How I Play Golf."

Thanks rub,

I actually have Tiger's book. For some reason I didn't remember it being the kind of book I was looking for. But after looking at your scan (thanks for that!), now I'm going to have to dig it out and refresh my memory. Maybe it is what I need after all.
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sabram Well Established Member

sabram

Three I would suggest are:

Faults and Fixes by David Leadbetter
A Swing for Life by Nick Faldo
Bob Toski's Complete Guide to Better Golf

They are each arranged in variations of waht you described
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Harold Well Established Member

Harold

While it's circa late 1990's a book called Golf Instruction Manual by Steve Newell has a lot of great information from everything to grip, etiquette, basic rules knowledge of OB and hazards to common faults and the possible fixes. I usually see it in the bookstores so it is a fairly common book. I still refer to it and it has a few things I have never seen explained elsewhere. For example one of the faults listed is the Popup. Teeing too high might be the issue. It's probably more likely the club (usually driver) is being chopped at or swung on a too steep of an angle. Lots of pics too.
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ClairefromClare Established Member

ClairefromClare

Kellie Stenzel has a couple that may be of use: The Woman's Guide to Consistent Golf and The Woman's Guide to Lower Scores . They're arranged more by drills to deal with specific issues, but there's some good stuff in there.
WITB
Driver--PING Rhapsody, 16*
Fairway Wood--PING Rhapsody 22*
Hybrids--Cobra Bafflers, 3 (23*), 6 (32*)
Irons--Callaway X-20, 7-AW SW--Wilson ProstaffLW--Nancy LopezPutter--Bettinardi HawkBalls--Pinnacle Gold DistanceBags--Datrek IDS (cart), Sun Mountain 3.5 (carry)
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ClairefromClare

I can't use those! I'm not a woman!

They're for HER, not you.

WITB
Driver--PING Rhapsody, 16*
Fairway Wood--PING Rhapsody 22*
Hybrids--Cobra Bafflers, 3 (23*), 6 (32*)
Irons--Callaway X-20, 7-AW SW--Wilson ProstaffLW--Nancy LopezPutter--Bettinardi HawkBalls--Pinnacle Gold DistanceBags--Datrek IDS (cart), Sun Mountain 3.5 (carry)
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