|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Product Description
From Amazon.com
Review
Timothy E. Sick Calgary After reading the first two articles, I had a 73 for the first time in my life, and hadn't played for six months before that.
Frank Sadler Professional, Bellingham Country Club, Bellingham, Washington It's the first time words and illustrations have made golfing technique absolutely clear. I'm applying the lessons to my teaching program here and highly recommending them to my pupils. I'd say it's the greatest instruction series of all time. Women are particularly keen on it. It'll make a lot of new golfers -- good golfers.
GOOD GOLF BEGINS WITH A GOOD GRIP. Read the first page
Concordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The first book on golf I ever read when I was 14,
This review is from: Five Lessons: Modern Fundamentals of Golf (Paperback)
When I was 14 years old I bought this book and devoured it. To this day I believe it is the best golf book ever written for anyone who has never played golf before. It helped me to become a scratch golfer. With all the books, gadgets, lessons, videos, gear etc. on the market today it is easy to overlook the most basic of fundamentals on golf. This is the best book available to get you back to those crucial fundamentals.
Do yourself a favour a BUY THIS BOOK, whether you are just starting out or are a scratch golfer. I lost my original copy over the years and was extremely happy to see Amazon carry it. I bought it again for my wife who is just starting to play golf and hope someday she will become a good player due to the help this book provides. You will not go wrong by reading from the man who many believe has the best golf swing ever. Ben Hogan. Enjoy it and if you follow the fundamentals Ben teaches, not only will you lower your golf score, but have a lot more fun and less frustration on the course. Thanks Amazon for stocking this, and especially at such a good price.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The Most Misunderstood Book In The World,
By A Customer
This review is from: Five Lessons: Modern Fundamentals of Golf (Paperback)
All golfers should buy this book, but few if any should follow its advice. Let me explain. This book is the golf-instructional bible, on which all modern-day teaching is based. Nevertheless, the modern golf instructors (Leadbetter, Harmon, etc.), all agree that much of the advice in Hogan's book would be disasterous if followed by the average golfer. If you don't believe me, ask yourself why even though millions have read this book, the same millions continue to hit week slices and shanks, and otherwise continue to find golf a maddening game, with no answers in sight. Hogan's technique was based on solving problems that the average golfer does not have. For instance, Hogan sought in vein to figure out how to hit the ball more from left to right - the average golfer needs to figure out how to do just the opposite. Further, Hogan had inate physical skills that the rest of us don't have. If you try to copy his technique, you are destined for a lifetime of frustration. My advice is this. Buy this book. Read it once through. Then buy David Leadbetter's book called "The Fundamentals of Hogan," and read it once through. You will then understand the origin of modern golf teaching, and see how it has evolved over the past fifty years. If you have any doubts, buy Tiger Woods' book called "How I Play Golf" and you will see that even Tiger agrees that Hogan's advice simply does not work for the average golfer. To be sure that there is no confusion, let me be clear - do not follow the advice in Hogan's book. It was right for him, but wrong for you.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great book - If you've got a Hook,
By A Customer
This review is from: Five Lessons: Modern Fundamentals of Golf (Paperback)
This classic is an exceptional, readable, and all-encompassing study of the golf swing. I learned much about my swing studying this book. The only problem I encountered was none of the information was very relavant to me or the vast majority of golfers who suffer from a slice.Ben Hogan had a strong hook and much of this book includes his corrections to overcome this deficit and straighten out his swing. However, for the slicer, these corrections do the opposite - my slice was worse than ever after following Hogan's advice and I couldn't correct it. An excellent book, for starters or as a follow-on to Hogan's "Five Lessons", is Leadbetter's "The Fundamentals of Hogan". Leadbetter reviews the Hogan swing, then tells why it doesn't work for most (Hogan was double-jointed, Hogan was correcting his hook, etc.) and what you should really do. After Leadbetter, I did straighten out my swing. Both books break the swing down into 5 parts: Grip, Stance, Backswing, Downswing, Summary. While Hogan's book was groundbreaking and certainly deserves a read, if you want to learn a basic swing, Leadbetter's is far more encompassing and just as readable.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
Most recent customer reviews |
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Sports > Golf > Instruction
- Books > Sports > Miscellaneous > Reference
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
|
