Improve your golf swing in a day? Easy.Playing golf is fun—but there's a reason why it's known as the most maddening (if not wondrous) game of all. The intricacies of perfecting your golf swing can "tee off" even the most patient golfer, but that's where this handy little guide comes in.Improving Your Golf Swing In A Day For Dummies is packed with tips on improving grip and posture, the essentials of a good swing, and the mechanics of putting. Plus...

An informative and entertaining guide to the world of golfWant to get your handicap down or just get out of a bunker? Golf For Dummies, 2nd Australian and New Zealand edition, is the complete reference for golfers of all experience levels. Get some great advice on improving your technique with step-by-step instructions and photographs. Pick up the right equipment, hit the green and have fun along the way!Challenge yourself to play better - get tips on taking your game...

The fun and easy way to get into the swing of things and take strokes off your game fastWhether you're a total beginner or you've clocked a few hours on the links, Golf For Dummies, 2nd Edition is the only guide you need. Packed with expert tips and techniques for everything from mastering your grip, stance and swing to shaping up with golf-specific exercises, this updated and expanded edition of the international bestseller features new, step-by-step photos, tips for women playe...

Level up your own golf game, or enjoy the sport as a spectatorGolf is a great sport for all types of people. It's a low impact form of exercise, a social activity, and it gets you outdoors. Golf For Dummies teaches you the rules of the game and gives you tips on improving your play. If you're more of a spectator, you'll love this book's coverage of the latest golf trends and the best players on the pro courses. Helpful illustrations make it easy to underst...

In Bad Lies, golf's wittiest observer, photographer Charles Lindsay, celebrates the hazards and pitfalls of the game.Lindsay stakes out the diabolic border territories that encroach on golf courses -- moon-crater bunkers, waist-high fescue grass, murky lake bottoms -- to capture the unbelievable my-ball-went-where? moments that make the game so infuriating and so addictive for so many.This hilarious follow-up to Lindsay's popular Lost Balls featur...

How can I stop slicing, topping, shanking a golf ball? How can I achieve more power and distance? Find out quickly and easily the simplest yet most effective way in Golf's Simple Secrets.

If you want a lower handicap, Golf's Simple Secrets - The Short Game, is the book that shows you the secrets of the pros. You will learn one basic action to use for pitching, bunker shots and the chip shot. You will be surprised how simple and effective this action is to use and how by using it you will hit the ball with more confidence, enjoyment and distance in an effortless and seamless way.

Do you want to attack the pin and leave yourself shorter putts?Then "Accurate Iron Play" is the Quick Guide for you. It focuses on the approach shot—what makes it different from a drive for distance—and how it enables you to zero in on your target. It looks at the techniques that improve both distance control and accuracy with your irons:** Understand the strategic choices involved in approach shots** "Hold" your wrist cock during the downswing** Avoid casting...

Every golfer has left the course thinking about the short putt they missed or trying to justify their poor performance by declaring that their "head wasn't in the game." Anyone who plays golf recognizes the importance of the mental game. Mastering the skills involved in the mental game is not difficult. Golfers just need to practice as much mentally as they do physically.In an easy-to-understand format, Why Bad Golf Happens to Good People provides golfers a practical means to devel...

We all know what it is like to hit a good shot followed by a terrible shot leaving us bewildered and/or frustrated. We know we can hit the shot we have chosen so what happened? How can we fix these mistakes?This book explains what happens inside your head and introduces you to strategies to overcome the deadly "sergeant major mindset" so that you can harness your mind constructively throughout your round of golf.Learn how to work on a few simple exercises at home and the dr...

"Whether you struggle with the swing flaw commonly called 'coming over-the-top' or not, this Quick Guide will probably help your game."That bold first statement opens "Stop Coming Over-the-Top," but it's true. The vast majority of swing faults in any weekend player's swing can be traced back to a poor takeaway and a poor change of direction at the top of the backswing. Using some simple instruction, a few easy drills, and 35 diagrams, "Stop Coming Over-the-Top" can help any golfer ...

Most golfers have difficulty with the concept of hitting down at the ball to make it fly. Surprisingly, a great many players surveyed did not even know you need to hit down to get the ball up in the air.Hit Down Dammit! concisely explains the concept - and the technique - of hitting down at the golf ball for proper trajectory, increased backspin, much improved distance, proper divot taking, and best of all: consistent shotmaking.If you are inadvertently - or intentionally -...