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One of America's leading golf teachers-and star instructor from the Golf Channel-teams up with Golf Digest (over 1.5 million circulation) for a breakthrough book that is sure to help everyone from low handicappers to weekend duffers lower their score.
To golfers of all proficiency levels, skills and drills go hand in hand. Taking that concept to an exciting new level, one of the greatest living teachers of the game has collected 140 precision exercises to address a wide array of golfer's concerns. From tee shots to the short game, Golf Digest's Ultimate Drill Book allows readers to customize practice sessions depending on their unique trouble spots.
Revealing his time-tested tactics for overcoming pitfalls, golf guru Jim McLean revolutionizes the learning process with strategies for every aspect of the game. Novice golfers will discover how to avoid bad habits from the start, and veterans will discover how to diagnose and overcome ingrained aspects of their swings, grips, stances, or even mindsets that may interfere with achieving a superior score.
With over 200 step-by-step photographs and proven advice, Golf Digest's Ultimate Drill Book will help ensure you make those hours on the driving range and putting green time well spent.
ISBN13: 9781592400188
Condition: New
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Good to have on hand, but see your pro!
Review Date: August 18, 2004
Reviewer: T. Enst,
We've all done it: you look at a news article on some nasty disease, you read the symptoms, and you think you might have whatever it is they're talking about. Well, not might. You are convinced you need immediate hospitalization by the time you finish. Then you read that it only aflicts about 1% of the population on some island on the other side of the earth...
Delving into a drill book without good professional backing is a similar experience. The only difference being that there is no salvation with statistics.
Not to be understood, this book is a gem (5 star even). No other volume has such a complete collection of fixes for what ails, and photos to help.
The chief problem is rather that a person who buys this book at random looking to shave a stroke or two off his score is liable to end up with his weekends stopped up with him doing drill after drill for problems he has absolutely no need of fixing. Worse yet, as with drills even your pro teaches you, if you do one or two things wrong you can even ingrain new faults into your swing.
My recommendation is to buy this and set it on the shelf until it becons to you. Then, flip through it, find something that looks good, and check with your pro first. Most PGA professionals will know all the drills (plus some) in this book and should be able to help you get things done right. At worst, they will tell you that you don't have that particular problem and should work on something else.
For the "self-made" golfer, this is one book that requires an even larger amount of caution, for the reasons just gone over and more. Although a good cross reference for other material, this is not by any means a "golf school in one volume". It can be a trap waiting to be sprung. If you are more attentive to your development than most, however, this will be a valuable addition to your library, if for any other reason than it is the virtual bible of golf drills.
120 Drills to Specifically Targeted to Swing Improve
Review Date: September 5, 2004
Reviewer: rodboomboom, Dearborn, Michigan United States
One of golf's great teachers provides 120 of his best drills for all aspects of the game: driving, chipping, iron shots, putts, sand, as well as warmup and mental focus.
Each is accompanied by excellent two page format showing: problem, result, goal and practice procedure, with an accompanying photo.
There are just some exellent drills here for what ails you. For me there are some ten or so already that have helped. Check this one out, especially if you are the skilled player who already has a pretty solid idea of your problems. This is some good stuff for those as well as some basic good drills for all golfers.
GOLF DIGEST'S ULTIMATE DRILL BOOK
Review Date: September 29, 2005
Reviewer: Joseph B. Spund, ALEXANDRIA VA.
AS HE ALWAYS DOES JIM MCLEAN DEMONSTRATES THAT HE KNOWS GOLF. HE KNOWS HOW TO FIX DEFICIENT GOLF SWINGS. THE DRILLS HE OFFERS MUST BE A BENEFIT TO EVERY GOLFER, BEGINNER AND PROFESSIONAL. BUY THIS BOOK AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
I Really Like McLean's books
Review Date: September 29, 2008
Reviewer: C. R. Downing, Chippenham, Wilts England
Think I've owned all his books and this one's a good read and a collection of Golf Digest articles reworked into a book. If you like this one you'll like McLean's "The 8 Step Swing"The Eight Step Swing: The Top Selling Swing System that has Revolutionized the Teaching Industry (HarperResource book), which I though was his best and certainly better than any Ledbetter book or DVD I owned. (Not to say I didn't still keep the Ledbetter stuff - I just found personally the 8 Step Swing really worked for me.)
Ultimate drills for champions
Review Date: January 3, 2007
Reviewer: Marcos Amatucci, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Even if you, like me, don't intend to be a champion pro (maybe an Am champion...?), these drills will improve your game for sure. Anyway they are the pro's drills. I've checked many other sources in books and DVDs and these are the most common drills advised for golf players. And no other source were so complete. I gave 4 stars instead of 5 because there are only drills. It could be completed with a swing overview, in order to make the drills more understandable (some of them are really weird and you have a hard time trying to figure out how they could possibly improve your swing). This is not in this book because the author has another book only on the 8 parts of the swing. But it worths the price. Above all, remember: these are just drills, and you are not supposed to play that way in real games!!!
Good to have on hand, but see your pro!