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The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons (平装)
by Michael McTeigue
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Golf, Sports |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Though less known, this is a powerfully practical guide to high-quality golf swing. Read it and enjoy. |
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Tim Baldwin (Coach emeritus, Stanford University's Women's Golf Team) (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
This is the simplest, most easily understood, best overall golf instructional presentation I have ever read. Understanding the "lighthouse turn" alone is worth the price of admission. |
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Ken Bowden (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Most golf instruction books are written by famous performers about how they personally swing the club, and there's no doubt the better ones can be helpful-especially if you share the author's athleticism, ambition, appetite for work, and opportunities for practice and play.
This book was written by a very bright but at the time "unfamous" young teacher whose daily bread depended on delivering permanetly decent-to- good golf games to averagly endowed people with no interest in becoming slaves to the sport. He became so successful at that in his immediate community that his pupils demanded he put the system on paper for their constant reference and reminder. He called the result The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing, and sent it to a number of star players, one of whom passed it on to me. After one quick reading I believed that the book would help so many other existing and would-be golfers to such an extent that it just had to be made available nationally. Jim McQueen, one of the world's top golf artists and a former professional, fully shared those sentiments and agreed to do the illustrations, and the nation's leading golf book publisher became an enthusiastic third party.
The key to Michael McTeigue's success with his thousands of pupils af all sizes, shapes, ages and ability levels in California, and the beauty of this book, is the clarity and simplicity and the supremely logical sequentiality of its approach to the golf swing.
Follow the easily mastered steps or "keys" in the recommended order and with a reasonable degree of patience, and in a remarkably short time, you will be experiencing entirely new sensations of both accurate striking and effortless power. Encouraged by those - and the accompanying evaporation of confusion - you will persist with these simple and clear cut moves until they become thoroughly muscle-memorized. At that point, you will be swinging the golf club effectively and with total confidence on every shot entirely by feel, which is the closest you or anyone else will ever come to golf's "secret" (ask any champion if you doubt that). Gone forever at long last will be the Band-Aids and the gimmicks and all that frustrating stumbling from one fruitless theory to another.
If you love golf and want to play better for a lot less effort, then forget Michael McTeigue's fame quotient and work with this little gem of a book. It could make you as big a fan of his as all those happy pupils for whom he originally wrote it.
(MSL remarks: A former editorial director of Golf Digest magazine, Ken Bowden has coauthored more than a dozen golf instruction books, seven of them with Jack Nicklaus)
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Roger Knight (MSL quote), Germany
<2007-01-09 00:00>
A couple of years ago I wrote "the only book you should read is Jimmy Ballard's 'How to Perfect Your Golf Swing,'" well here is another. It is true that this book is based on Jimmy Ballard's teachings and for this reason you must own this book too.
Mr McTeigue has reduced the swing to a simple minimum. This a great thing for the golfing world. His lighthouse drill is excellent, it will help anyone feel the correct swinging sensations a good player has.
As a golf instructor I can tell you what works and what doesn't, and this works. The book is based on sound fundamentals, is easy to understand and is simple to practice. What more does a golfer want? Most books are far too complicated and you cannot put into work what the author has written because it is too difficult. We need a plan and Mr McTeigue has given the world one. Do yourself a favor, buy this book and practice what is in it. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Michael McTeigue's The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons is a marvelous book. I found that Mcteigue did a terrific job in taking the myriad complexities which seem to make the golf swing so difficult to understand, and distilled them to down a small handful of points and concepts which are easy to grasp. The exposition and organization of the ideas is clear and easy to follow. There's an elegant simplicity to having the keys presented be so straightforward - "balance", "momentum", "rhythm", etc. In particular, the notion of the "lighthouse turn" has helped my game enormously, and gives me a concept I can turn to (no pun intended...) when on the course and starting to encounter difficulties. Everyone who plays golf is striving for a powerful, efficient, repeatable swing. It's an elusive goal (as even Tiger has seen lately). This book will help golfers of all levels in their quest to attain such a swing. |
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M. Hardcastle (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I've read more books on golf instruction than I care to admit. To me, Mr. McTeigue's approach is the most straightforward and easily applied that I've come across. My swing and overall game have benefitted greatly since adopting the "effortless swing."
With newfound confidence in my full swing, I've shifted my focus to the short game and my scores have improved dramatically. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the best golf instruction books are necessarily written by touring pros. As is the case with many things in life, teaching something like the golf swing often takes a unique set of skills. And the great thing about McTeigue's book is that he knows how to take what most of us perceive as a "complicated" swing and reduce it to a few basic steps. By following these (and not having to try to remember a dozen little things during the swing), it's easy to commit the golf swing to "muscle memory" and start having fun. And after all, isn't that the reason we're playing this game? |
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Bill Fitzgerald (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
For 13 years, I struggled with every "swing thought" imaginable. Finally I had this book recommended to me as a very simple way to train your swing. More importantly, it was one you could practice without having to hit balls initially. Its critical points have helped ease tension and facilitates a smooth weight shift and now I am swinging through the ball rather than hitting at the ball. Golf is more enjoyable and I only wish I had this book 12 years ago. |
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S. Medina (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I have been golfing for about 1 year. As a beginner this book helped me immensely! Don't expect to just read through it and improve though. I would suggest holding off on the driving range while you dedicate yourself to doing the exercises he suggests over & over again until you know exactly what you should be "feeling" during the exercises (weight transfer, are your elbows where they are supposed to be etc... ) This book suggests that you should not be trying to hit the ball but rather teaching your body to swing the club the exact same way every time which obviously builds consistency (something we could all use more of) It is a very quick read but don't read it too fast. Let the concepts sink in by reading important points several times. |
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Ernest Banchero (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
This book is beautifully constructed, concise, gracefully written, and should be of immense help to most golfers. If you've read Ernest Jones, Percy Boomer, or Jimmy Ballard (for example) and enjoyed the insights but found it difficult to transfer the written word to your swing, try "The Keys...": You will read a book that may finally lead you to improve your game. My swing improved markedly after I came to understand author McTeigue's "lighthouse turn" (Lesson Two: Momentum). |
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J. Schrempp (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I met Mr. McTeigue at a picnic at a local park. We have common friends (uncommon people, for sure) and he was giving an impromptu lesson. For each person, he had them swing a club a few times and then gave them some simple little trick to do. "At the top of your backswing, count out loud: one, two. Then start your swing." Amazingly, this made a huge difference to Draak's swing. He was giving each person a different tip. I asked where to get more of these tips and he pointed me to the book. I bought one for myself and now I have given away several to other friends. Clearly he is the Golf Whisperer. |
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