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October 27th, 2011
Posted in Sports
“Bobby Clampett is one of the most knowledgeable golfing minds in the game.”–Tom Lehman, 1996 British Open Champion, 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup team captain
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Impact has long been called golf’s “moment of truth,” and great golfers have spent countless hours working on their swings trying to upgrade their impact dynamics as the golf club approaches, contacts, then swings through the ball. For the first time, with The Impact Zone, golfers will have a book that focuses their attention on the very same region of the swing on which professional golfers have
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October 24th, 2011
Posted in Sports 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
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October 16th, 2011
Posted in Sports How Short Hitting, Bad Golfers Break 90 All the Time is the basic handbook for beginning golfers, and those golfers who can’t break 100. This book explains in light easy to read language, what your pro doesn’t tell you:
1) A simpler, natural way to hit the ball2) Any why it works
It tells you not only how to hit the ball, but hot to play the game, with easy to learn strategies to help you shoot lower scores.
When you know what to do, how to do it, and why you do
September 21st, 2011
Posted in Sports *ON SALE* Normal Price – $10.99 Today’s Price – $3.17 (save 71%) + Bonus audio CD
Attention Golfers… How to Hit Longer and Straighter.
How does this out-of-shape 65 year old hit the golf ball Longer and Straighter down the fairway than golfers in their 20′s?
Well it’s all pretty simple (if you follow the program).
First up, Darrell is going to show you how to hit it longer.1. Learn how to correctly Release the golf club2. Find and Hit your personal Power Point3. Set up and Swing Free to the finish.
These three
September 20th, 2011
Posted in Sports A deeply moving true-life tale of courage, wisdom, and friendship between two men united by their love of golf Part travelogue, part meditation on the great game of golf, In Search of Burningbush is a beautifully written true-life story of an unlikely friendship between two men with nothing in common save a consuming and abiding passion for the links. Michael is a successful young journalist, educated, traveled, and sophisticated. Don deals poker at a small Las Vegas casino, is well into middle age, and smokes a pack a
September 17th, 2011
Posted in Sports NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREstarring Robert Duvall and Lucas BlackThis book is about influence and inspiration and a deeper, more profound way of looking at life. The story is based on thousands of athletes who author and performance psychologist Dr. David Cook has counseled, and the great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned. Told through the lives of two characters—an eccentric rancher with a passion for teaching truth, and a young golf professional at the end of his rope looking to escape the pressures of the game—they represent
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September 12th, 2011
Posted in Sports The bestselling classic novel about an American traveler’s spiritual journey into the world of golf
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When Michael Murphy first meets golf pro Shivas Irons on one of the most beautiful courses in Scotland, he doesn’t know that his life—and his golf game—will change forever. But with the first swing of the Scotsman’s club Murphy realizes he is in for a most extraordinary day.
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By turns comic, philosophical, mythic, and autobiographical, this tale traces the arc of twenty-four hours—from a round of golf on the Links of Burningbrush to a night fueled by
September 8th, 2011
Posted in Sports “Once you pick up Deep Rough, forget putting it back down. Meticulously researched and superbly paced, Chris Blewitt does a fantastic job of painting a detailed and realistic Masters Tournament, as well as piling on relentless suspense that makes you constantly want to peak ahead to the next page.” — Michael Robertson, author of Regret (writing as Dan Dawkins)
When Craig Waltrip, an associate at a Philadelphia sports agency, uncovers a meeting with his boss and a man from Augusta National Golf Course, all bets are on. Deep Rough takes the
September 5th, 2011
Posted in Sports
The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
August 26th, 2011
Posted in Sports Was there ever a year in golf like 1960?        It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the sport collided. Here was Arnold Palmer, the workingman’s hero, “sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying”; Ben Hogan, the greatest player of the fifties, a perfectionist battling twin demons of age and nerves; and, making his big-time debut, a crew-cut college kid who seemed to have the makings of a champion: twenty-year-old Jack Nicklaus.        And of course, the rest: Ken
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