Golf is My Game
Author | : Bobby Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Golf |
ISBN | : |
Bobby Jones' story of his life in golf, with his advice on improving one's game. Instructions about striking the ball, handling clubs, swings, etc.
Considerable Passions
Author | : Catherine Lewis |
Publisher | : Triumph Books (IL) |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"The official companion to the permanent exhibition "Down the fairway with Bobby Jones" at the Atlanta History Center, Considerable passions reveals the life and accomplishments of golf's most beloved figure."--Cover.
Hit Down Dammit!
Author | : Clive Scarff |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781497406650 |
Most golfers have difficulty with the concept of hitting down at the ball to make it fly. Surprisingly, a great many players surveyed did not even know you need to hit down to get the ball up in the air. Hit Down Dammit! concisely explains the concept - and the technique - of hitting down at the golf ball for proper trajectory, increased backspin, much improved distance, proper divot taking, and best of all: consistent shotmaking. If you are inadvertently - or intentionally - hitting up at the ball, Hit Down Dammit! is for you. If you are a seasoned amateur who has inexplicably "plateaud" - just cannot seem to get to the next level despite lessons and/or acquiring a library of books and videos - Hit Down Dammit! is for you. Symptoms of hitting up include (but are not limited to): - topping the ball - skulling the ball - pushing the ball - slicing the ball - poor distance - difficulty getting off back foot - poor backspin - no divot - fat divots - chunking the ball - thin/fat chip shots - roofing the ball with your driver - inability to hit long irons and/or fairway woods - good shots followed immediately by poor shots Hitting down at the golf ball is not a new concept, but it is a hitherto poorly explained (or completely avoided) concept. All pros agree on the need to hit down, so there is no debate there. Even Tiger Woods, in his 306 page "How I Play Golf," states the need to hit down at the ball - but does not explain how. Hit Down Dammit! does. Learn to hit down, watch the ball go up, and your scores go down.
The Grand Slam
Author | : Mark Frost |
Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1401381812 |
This Los Angeles Times bestseller takes a riveting look at the life and times of depression-era golf legend Bobby Jones. In the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports in the summer of 1930. Bobby Jones, a 28-year-old amateur golfer, mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, he conquered the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the United States Open, and finally the United States Amateur Championship, an achievement so extraordinary that writers dubbed it the Grand Slam. No one has ever repeated it. Mark Frost uses a wealth of original research to provide an unprecedented intimate portrait of golf great Bobby Jones. In the tradition of The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam blends social history with sports biography, captivating the imagination and engaging the reader. The Grand Slam is a biography not to be missed.
Fairway to Hell
Author | : Franz Lidz |
Publisher | : ESPN Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781933060439 |
Lidz takes a serendipitous journey around the world in search of golf's real soul, visiting all the margins of that ancient and maddening game. Far removed from the usual golf magazine perspective, he finds unlikely heroes and wildly comical connections.
Bobby Jones on Golf
Author | : Bobby Jones |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Golf |
ISBN | : 9781886947214 |
A player who never turned pro but held one or more major titles every year of his 15-season competitive career, Bobby Jones was the most famous amateur golfer ever to play the game. In the 20 years since his death, America has witnessed an explosion of enthusiasm for golf. Now comes a reissue of Jones' classic instructional, out of print and unavailable for two decades. Line drawings.
SwingQuest
Author | : Peter Finch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2018-12-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781790989461 |
SwingQuest is PGA Coach Peter Finch's first coaching book! Based on lessons delivered at Quest Golf Academy Finch shows how changes made to his clients improved techniques, scores and enjoyment of this wonderful sport. This book focuses on what Finch has learnt about the full swing throughout a decade coaching golfers of all abilities. It also looks at how technical models don't truly exist and how golfers need to learn that they have their own swing to master.
Down the Fairway
Author | : Robert T. Jones, Jr. |
Publisher | : Lyons Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-10 |
Genre | : Golf |
ISBN | : 9781493036998 |
Originally published in 1927, Bobby Jones's Down the Fairway has become what Sports Illustrated calls "an incontestable classic." Part memoir, part golf instructional, part golf history--and including wonderful vintage photographs--Down the Fairway is a must read for all who care about this most fascinating sport. Amazingly, Bobby Jones--along with sports journalist O.B. Keeler--wrote this book when he was only 24 years old. His thinking was that, having just become the first golfer ever to win both U.S. and British Open titles in one year (1926), he would never perform at such a high level again. It seemed a good time, then, to tell his story. In an age of big money, lucrative endorsements, TV contracts, and pouting millionaires, this earnest volume comes as a breath of fresh air. Infused with Jones's deep knowledge of and pure passion for the game, it evokes a long-ago time when an amateur could be the best in the world.