Description
Book SynopsisFeaturing expert tips and techniques for everything from mastering your grip, stance and swing to shaping up with golf-specific exercises, this title presents step-by-step photos, tips for women players, seniors and lefties, and golf history facts. It provides tips on choosing golf balls and clubs; and, more.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Welcome to a Great Game 7
Chapter 1: Why Play Golf? 9
Chapter 2: Choosing Your Weapons Wisely 17
Chapter 3: Taking Golf Lessons (and Other Sources of Help) 35
Chapter 4: Getting in Golf Shape 49
Chapter 5: Where to Play and How to Fit In 77
Part II: You Ain't Got a Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing 87
Chapter 6: Getting into the Swing of Things 89
Chapter 7: Improve Your Move: Refi ning Your Swing 121
Chapter 8: Chipping and Pitching: Short-Game Secrets 131
Chapter 9: Putting: The Game within the Game 143
Chapter 10: Bunker Play: It’s Easy (Really!) 173
Part III: Common Faults and Easy Fixes 183
Chapter 11: Did I Do That? Solving Common Problems 185
Chapter 12: Beating Bad Breaks and Bad Weather 207
Part IV: Taking Your Game Public 227
Chapter 13: Step Right Up and Play! 229
Chapter 14: Rules, Etiquette and Keeping Score 247
Chapter 15: Gamesmanship and Sportsmanship 267
Chapter 16: Stepping Up Your Game 279
Part V: How to Be a Smart Golf Consumer 287
Chapter 17: Watching Golf in Person and on the Telly 289
Chapter 18: Getting Your Golf Online 303
Chapter 19: Screen Gems: Surveying the Best of Virtual Golf 311
Part VI: The Part of Tens 315
Chapter 20: Golf's Ten Commandments 317
Chapter 21: Ten Excellent Courses for Beginners 321
Chapter 22: Ten Great European Courses 329
Chapter 23: Gary's Top Ten Male Players 335
Chapter 24: Gary's Top Ten Female Players 339
Chapter 25: Ten Immortal Golf Moments 343
Part VII: Appendixes 347
Appendix A: Golf-speak 349
Appendix B: Golf Organisations 365
Index 369
