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Five Lessons: Modern Fundamentals of Golf

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This is a great book about learning the fundamentals of golf. It is well written and very descriptive with images to guide you along. I would suggest this book for anyone who golfs and wishes to improve their game.

I was a low handicapper, 7 hdcp. I couldn't seem to break below that mark. With the fundamentals in this book and the swing changes and grip changes I made as a result of his simple well explained, and diagramed instructions I was able to drop to a 2 hdcp. I just stuck with the changes and had great results. This is a great book.

The only two golfers to own their golf swings were Ben Hogan and Moe Norman. What more should I say about the instruction in this book? My book The Golf Swing: It's all in the Hands takes the illustration found on page 68 of Ben Hogan's book and delivers detailed instruction on the hand action of the golf swing using the waggle as a means to learn the hand action of the golf swing. In my opinion, it supplements Ben Hogan's instruction on the waggle extremely well.

The other point I would like to make about Ben Hogan's book is the instruction he gives on the position of the right foot. Hogan is adamant about positioning the right foot perpendicular to the target line. When I first read this as a teenager, I thought he was taking the right foot position rather seriously. Some years later when my golf swing was fully developed, my doubts about Hogan's thoughts on the right foot position came back to humiliate me. He had good reason for being adamant. I thought to myself, how could I have been so foolish to doubt the great Ben Hogan!

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.

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.

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.

This book is a must have for any golfer. All the basics of golf are covered in a straight forward fashion. There is no fluff contained in this book, just the fundamentals of golf.

This is a must have for all golfers!

There's only so much you can learn from a book. Ben Hogan basically invented the modern golf swing but I think lessons would be more helpful. Save your money and go play a round or two, its the best way to improve.

Not to be too overly gushy but this book revolutionized my golf game. I have shot in the 100+ range my entire life (35) and after reading this book a few times and practicing the techniques at the range I instantly started to shoot in the 90's. His instruction is simple to understand and the pictures are a great help to visualize the actions. I know refer back to this book at least once a month if my swing starts to get out of whack. It is the best $10.00 you will ever spend on your game.