Sports & Recreation : Golf

For more than forty-five years, Golf Magazine has attracted the best instructors in the sport. Now, Golf Magazine brings together its Top 100 Teachers to offer quick, essential tips -- only one page long and each with its own illustrative photo -- to help you save strokes the very next time you play. Every golfer knows that approach shots often expose a player's inconsistency -- and that no two holes ever play the same. In this book, such renowned teachers as Kent Cayce, Rick Martino, and Jim Flick help you size up and attack your long shots. This book spans every aspect of iron play and the long game with professional-grade help you can put into play now. Try a tip. You'll be playing Better By Saturday. more...

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Tiger Woods is a breakthrough athlete -- and a multicultural icon. In golf, he's the longest driver, the strongest iron player, the greatest clutch putter. He is made up from so many different ethnicities that he renders racial stereotyping irrelevant. This incisive and provocative book will find its place among the classic works of sports philosophy. more...

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You're no idiot, of course. You run your projects like clockwork, keep the neatest yard on the block, and even manage to plan a major family vacation. But when it comes to sinking a little white ball into a hole, you're not sure what's taking the biggest clubbing - your ego or the ball. Don't hang up the golf spikes yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Golf helps you build the skills you need to beomce a consistent, more successful golfer. more...

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“Golf . . . is a sport in which the whole American family can participate--fathers and mothers, sons and daughters alike. It offers healthy respite from daily toil, refreshment of body and mind.”. --President Dwight D. Eisenhower. On January 24, 1953, four days after his inauguration, the New York Times reported that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had been spotted on the White House lawn practicing his short irons in the direction of the Washington Monument. This image of “The Golfing General” was one that the American public quickly became accustomed to, as Eisenhower is said to have played nearly 800 rounds during the course of his two-term presidency. He befriended the game's most beloved players, including Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, and Byron Nelson, and was the subject of hundreds of golf jokes and cartoons. The public's awareness of Eisenhower's obsession with golf led directly to the sport's mid-century surge in popularity. In Don't Ask What I Shot , noted historian Catherine M. Lewis offers a unique alternate portrait of Ike and this watershed period in American history. “Any time you have a person in the position of President Eisenhower, who was so enthusiastic about golf and had the press paying attention to his many excursions on the golf course, it was going to make people aware of the game and how much he enjoyed playing it.”. --Arnold Palmer. " Don't Ask What I Shot is a fascinating examination of one of golf's pivotal decades, and the remarkable president who did more to popularize the game than any other in history.". -Mark Frost, award-winning author of Grand Slam and The Greatest Game Ever Played. "Whatever remained to be done to remove the last traces of the average man's carefully nurtured prejudice against a game originally linked with the wealthy and aloof was done by President Eisenhower.". --Herbert Warren Wind, renowned golf writer more...

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