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Great instructions and insights into the game of golf from one of the greatest. Fast easy reading.
And when I have a chance I need to buy another because I spilled coffee on mine :) Just look at (Charles Barkley)This book gets some of the real basic fundamentals for the rest of us on the right track. I found the book to be very helpfull, the price was right and the shipping was ontime.I am a beginner and find it confusing to have so many differant view points on golf.In every direction you turn. Ben hogans teachings are of the basic fundamentals and start off right from the grip to the stance.I believe when you are talented and practise 8 hours a day there is almost no right or wrong in any sport.
He is VERY detailed in his descriptions, yet manages to convey the images and positions with words the first time you read it (unlike any other golf texts I've come across. Hogan, somehow, knows exactly the correct words to use to describe 'feelings' and pressure points. it goes on to the full swing from there. Why didn't I start with this book 3 years ago. you know, the ones where you have to read them a few times and struggle to figure out what, exactly, the person is trying to describe).A must read, don't wait. Book is worth every cent if just for the first chapter on GRIP, which is infintely better at describing a correct grip than any other text, photos or images I've seen in books, videos, the web. I would have saved myself so many headaches. Mr.
Hogan explains things very clearly and makes good arguments on what should be done and what leads to different kind of solutions. This book is absolutely great. Amen. A must buy for all golfers. Things that Hogan has discovered a half a century (and more) ago are still very valid. This book has offered me more explanations on the fundaments of golf than eny other golf pro, magazine or video I've bumped into.
When I went to my first pro, he mentioned this book, and I've found it to be my best guide to learning the swing. It seemed like a stretch to me when I first read that, but I believed him. Hogan's lessons, probably like all the swing examples you're going to come across, are deceptively simple. Well, I've been working on them for three years, and it's just in the last couple of weeks that I've felt that I really have the basic essentials of a decent swing.
He's so clear that I thought I understood, but I really didn't, not until I had put in months and months (totalling, now, three years) of practice. Now, I'm quite sure he's right. If you're serious about learning the proper swing and willing to do all the arduous practice, you have to read and study this book. I consider myself a slow learner, with no aptitude at all for this game, or any other game that requires good coordination. It took me a long time to understand fully many of his teaching points. I also recommend Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed and Swing Like a Pro, and, of course, many of the instructional videos on YouTube.
I feel as though I'll be able to shoot in the 70's this coming season, and this wouldn't be a prospect at all without Hogan's book. So most people can probably learn what he teaches in about the six months he says it takes, if you practice seriously. At the end, he tells you that you can learn the fundamentals in about 6 months. Hogan also says, early in the book, that the average person who learns the fundamentals that he teaches in his five lessons can then go and break 80.
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