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Title: The Laws of the Golf Swing: Body-Type Your Swing and Master Your Game by Mike Adams, Jim Suttie, T.J. Tomasi ISBN: 0-06-270815-5 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Did I read the same book!
Comment: I thought this book was very, very difficult to follow. There are not enough photos for the descriptions that the author tries to portray. He explains how to grip the club, but doesn't have a photo to show you exactly how to do it. There are practice tips in the book, but again, photos are missing. Also, trying to follow the body type test proved to be a challenge. There were several details left out and I ended up guessing on what the author meant. Again, a person cannot rely solely on the text when learning something so physical as golf. Even Ben Hogan stuggled to match the text with pictures(5 lessons). A person (a least me) requires a lot of photos to understand exact positioning of hands, legs, feet, etc..
This book gave me some things to try, but it is not the ultimate golf swing book as far as I'm concerned. I don't think that Mike Adams revealed any hidden secrets.
Rating: 5
Summary: Clears up the confusion
Comment: With all of the tips found in books, in magazines, on TV, etc, a golfer needs help to decide which tips will help, which tips will hurt, and which tips will do nothing. This book is that helper.
The book describes how physical attributes determine how each person is able to swing a golf club. Each body type (leverage, arc, width) is suited to a particular swing. The book explains why using a single model swing to fit all body types is a mistake. I'm primarily a width player, but all of the books and magazines that I read seem to be arc or leverage oriented. Even in my lessons my swing coaches would try to fit me into the leverage player mold. Now having read this book, I understand why some of their advice worked and why some didn't. I'm now better prepared to diagnose my own swing problems. Best of all this book gives every golfer a blueprint for the swing best suited for them and a way to customize that swing.
The explanation aren't always crystal clear, and the authors should have spent a little more effort in describing how the various elements of each swing type feel. If nothing else more pictures in the swing sequences would have greatly enhanced the explanations in the book. However, after experimentation on your own or consulting with a swing coach (ie: take a lesson!), you should be able to figure out what's being described.
I finally feel I know what I should be doing throughout the entire swing and know where to change things based on my ball striking. I'm hitting the ball better than ever, but better yet, when I make a mistake I know why and what to do to fix it! I don't feel like a failure now just because I haven't been able to duplicate everything my swing coaches have suggested based on a "perfect" swing model.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book
Comment: This book is excellent. There is so much depth and detail into each of the swing descriptions. The swing drills are very good and doing them correctly is easy as there is adequate feedback usually by using a prop such as a chair.
Very few books explain the relationship between the hips and the arms the way this book does. The book tells you how to customise your swing so that your hips and arms do not out race each other - ie if the hips outrace the arms then the arms are late resulting in a slice, or if the arms outrace the hips the clubface will be closed resulting in a pull. It starts to become clear that most poor shots are caused when the timing of these two components do not match.
I found some of the tests where you are supposed to determine what body type you are a little confusing. Therefore I was not totally sure what type I was, although the book says that the amount of flexibility you have should be the most important aspect in determining your type.
There is so much depth in the explanations regarding how each swing type should swing the club. In particular the drill that made the biggest difference was the drill for starting the downswing for the leverage player. I do agree with the comments from the other reviews that more pictures would have been more helpful.
I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Total Golf by Mike Adams, T. J. Tomasi, Kathryn Maloney ISBN: 1572434589 Publisher: Triumph Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Four Magic Moves to Winning Golf by Joe Dante, Len Elliott, William Canfield ISBN: 0385477767 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The 30-Second Golf Swing : How to Train Your Brain to Improve Your Game by T.J. Tomasi, Kathryn Maloney ISBN: 0060196106 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Tour Tempo: Golf's Last Secret Finally Revealed by John Novosel, John Garrity ISBN: 0385509278 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf by Ben Hogan ISBN: 0671612972 Publisher: Fireside Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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