Swing Book Recommendations Please!

jweighell · #1 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006, 08:45 PM

The subject says it all!

I'm fairly new to golf, although improving pretty quickly. Looking for something to help me reinforce my game and to add consistency really. A clear explaination of the swing plane and how to make sure I stay on it, and how to reliably strike the ball with a square clubface, would be good!

I've already got in my Amazon basket Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible to cover my short game aspects as I've seen this book mentioned serveral times.

Thanks!

LowPost42 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006, 09:10 PM

Hogans Five Lessons is a good read.

pnearn · #3 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006, 09:47 PM

Manuel De La Torre: Understanding the Golf Swing:

Best book on the swing ive ever read

biggaryT78 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-01-2006, 08:31 PM

Zen Golf!
and Hogans Lessons! The only books I still own.

g

Andycap · #5 (**permalink**) 03-02-2006, 09:22 AM

"Seven days to better golf" and "The swings the thing", both by Dick Farley and Harry Obitz. Very simple to understand, and following the advice could see your handicap quickly reduce.
I read it back in the eighties, and went from shooting around the hundred mark to mid seventies in about six months.

nickwbryant · #6 (**permalink**) 03-02-2006, 09:46 AM

Nick Faldo's Swing for Life - very simple book, well illustrated and easy to read. The one golf book i keep going back to.

I read the Hogan book not long ago - whilst I like it - it has to be read with an understanding that what Hogan did and thought he did, will not be easy for a normal person to do and follow.

nick

JohnP · #7 (**permalink**) 03-02-2006, 01:00 PM

Here's some great free tips - lesson 11 about the start of the downswing helped me more than anything else I've ever read - and I've read a few!

http://www.golftoday.co.uk/proshop/tuition/

james.welsh · #8 (**permalink**) 03-03-2006, 01:01 AM

Golf My Way -- Jack Nicklaus
Swing Secrets and Lies -- Mike Hebron
Just buy Golf Digest and go straight to the gate-fold each issue of a frame by frame of a pro's swing. Worth the cover price alone.

GolfJunkieSr · #9 (**permalink**) 03-03-2006, 03:57 AM

Just about anything authored by Earnest Jones, or de la Torre. GJS

shadowjack · #10 (**permalink**) 03-05-2006, 01:43 AM

Along with whats in my signature below ad Tommy Armour "How to play your best golf all the time", and Bob Rotella "Golf is not a game of perfect". Ben Hogan left me tied up like a pretzel.

Broadus · #11 (**permalink**) 04-12-2006, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andycap

"Seven days to better golf" and "The swings the thing", both by Dick Farley and Harry Obitz. Very simple to understand, and following the advice could see your handicap quickly reduce.
I read it back in the eighties, and went from shooting around the hundred mark to mid seventies in about six months.

Is that Six Days to Better Golf? I just ordered a copy from amazon.com. I went to Farley's "Swing's the Thing" website and it reads as though he has changed his thinking on some aspects of the swing after becoming acquainted with Gerry Hogan. Here's what Farley writes:

Quote:

It directly challenged every fundamental belief that I had held for so long about the golf swing, yet results were happening in front of my eyes that I could not believe were possible. I later introduced my partner, Rick McCord to Hogan’s work. A long and intense relationship developed between the three of us. Every question that Rick and I could ask was answered and every answer was fully supported by immutable law and rules. We were finally forced to accept that this understanding is the long awaited Major Breakthrough in the understanding of the golf swing that someone, somewhere, at sometime would eventually make. Collectively Rick and I have taught golf professionally for about 85 years. No one has ever tried harder or applied themselves more diligently, in trying to understand the true fundamentals of the golf swing. Our goal has always been to seek information that could be proven as “ truth” with measured results. We believe that Gerry Hogan has done that. As a result we did what was morally and ethically the right thing to do; we made Mr. Hogan an offer to become a partner in Swing’s The Thing, which he accepted.

You can find the whole quote at http://www.swingsthething.com/method.php .

Anyway, three reviewers on amazon.com five-starred the book, so I'm going to give it a read.

Is anyone familiar with Gerry Hogan? He's supposed to have a great video on his swing theory.

Bill

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