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Performance Golf
Developing and Perfecting
Your Golf Game
by Gerald A. Walford &
Gerald E. Walford
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Format: |
8½ x 11 inch
trade paperback |
Description: |
176 pages
text with 48 black & white
illustrations |
ISBN: |
ISBN
1-892495-33-3 |
Price: |
US $24.95 |
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- Selecting the best
equipment for your use
- Advanced techniques
- The role of vision,
imagery, and reflexes
- Analyzing your golf
game
- Making your golf ball
know what you’re doing
- Optimizing your mental
strategies for golf
- Enlightenment and
nature’s flow in golf
- The spiritual side of
golf
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This book will
teach you a thing or two about
swinging a club for a perfect shot. |
About the book
Performance Golf offers a
systematic approach to developing a
golfer’s overall technique, while
encouraging a personal style.
Covered are both the "mechanical,"
or physical, elements and the
equally important mental aspects of
the game. The various techniques of
the game are broken down and the
authors show how to improve each one
by simple analysis and a
step-by-step approach to
implementing the suggested method or
technique.
The authors effectively introduce
and explain many of the less-known
aspects of optimized sports
performance, ranging from clear
explanations of the physics of the
equipment and the biomechanics of
the game to neuro-linguistic
programming (NLP) and effective use
of visualization techniques. The
book is suitable for all levels of
golf players, from beginners to
advanced players.
About the authors
Gerald A. Walford, Ph.D. is a
long-time professional golf player
and PGA teacher. He holds a Ph.D. in
Psychology of Sports from the
University of Maryland and currently
teaches at the Physical Education
Department of Allice Lloyd College,
Pippa Pass, Kentucky and at the
Holiday Valley Resort Adult Golf
School in Ellicottsville, New York.
Gerald E. Walford, M.Sc.
is a licensed specialist in school
psychology for the Hays Consolidated
Independent School District, Buda,
Texas.
Table of Contents
Part I. Golf
and the Laws of Science
1. The Physics and
Biomechanics of the Golf Swing
2. The Physics of Golf Equipment
Part II. Using the Senses for
Learning
3. Evolution of the Golf
Swing
4. The Role of Vision and
Nonvision in Learning the Golf
Swing and Putt
5. The Use and Misuse of
Imagery, Reflexes, and Learning
6. Neuro-Linguistic Programming
and Golf
Part III. All About the Golf
Swing
7. Mechanics of the Golf
Swing
8. Learning the Swing
9. The Twin Pendulum
10. Science of the Short Game
Part IV. The Mental Aspects
of the Game
12. Golf Strategy: The
Percentage Game
13. Mental Strategies for Golf
Part V. Advanced Techniques
14. Does Your Golf Ball Know
What Your Body Is Doing?
15. The Practice Swing Is Always
Better
16. Don’t Aim
17. Don’t Hit the Ball Straight |
18. Club Selection 19. The Role
of the Right Elbow
20. Analyzing Your Game
21. Golf Drills for Feel
22. Practice Workbook
Part VI. The Spiritual Side of
Golf
23. Golf and Life: The Final
Stage
24. Enlightenment
25. The Tao: Nature’s Flow of
Golf
Appendix: The Rules of Golf
Chart 1. What a golfer may
and may not do
Chart 2. Water hazard, lateral
water hazard, unplayable lie,
lost, and out of bounds
Chart 3.
Obstructions–artificial/man-made
Chart 4. Lifting and cleaning
the ball
Chart 5. Line of putt
Chart 6. Casual water, ground
under repair, hole, cast, or
runway
Chart 7. Lifts, drops, redrops,
and placing ball
Chart 8. Loose Impediments,
natural objects
Chart 9. Ball moved, deflected,
or stopped
Chart 10. Lie, area of swing,
and line of play
Chart 11. Practice
Chart 12. Match and stroke play
Bibliography
Index |
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