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How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time (Paperback)
by Tommy Armour
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To get all the basics about golf, read this book by Armour with Five Lessons by Hogan, and practice what they teach. |
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Author: Tommy Armour
Publisher: Fireside; Reissue edition
Pub. in: May, 1995
ISBN: 0684813793
Pages: 160
Measurements: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00396
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0684813790
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First published in 1953, this golf classic has stayed the test of time and is still worth the time and money. |
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How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time by Tommy Armour is the single most comprehensive golf instructional text bound together in a concise and elegant fashion. Armour not only teaches you golf, he also imbibes in you a pronounced willingness not only to play better, but an appreciation for the art that is the game. Simplicity and awareness are the essential ideologies found within these pages, and once absorbed can leave you with a strong foundation and understanding for the fundamentals; which could only improve anyone's game. Even if golf is not your game, Armour's philosophy is so crafted in verse, that you might soon find this title shelved along-side some of the world's most revered classic authors.
Target readers:
All golf players and learners.
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Born In Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the University there, like all British boys of his generation Tommy Armour left school to fight in the First World War. He joined the Royal Scots as a machine gunner and later became an officer in the then new branch of the service, the Tanks Corps. While serving with the tanks he was caught in a mustard gas attack and lost his eyesight, but later he regained sight in his right eye. The winner of many amateur golf events in Europe as well as the French Open, Armour came to the United States soon after the war ended and turned professional in 1925. In 1927 he won the U.S. Open Champion- ship and the Canadian Open. Subsequently he went on to win every major championship: the British Open; the P.G.A.; the Western; the Metropolitan; and too many cash-prize tournaments to attempt to list. In 1929 he took over the post of golf professional at the Boca Raton Club, in Florida, where over the next quarter of a century his instruction ranged prom teaching duffers how to break 100 to brushing up the games of the top tournament professionals when they couldn't iron out their own difficulties. Armour always claimed that the instructional part of his golf career was the best - the part he enjoyed the most.
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Tommy Armour's classic How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time provides timeless golf instruction on the following subjects: - How to learn your best golf - What can your best golf be? - Taking you to the lesson tee - How your clubs can help you - The grip holds your swing together - How to get ready to swing
- Footwork, the foundation of best golf - The art of hitting with the hands
- The waggle, preliminary swing in miniature - The pause that means good timing - Assembling your game in good order - Saving strokes with simple approach shots - The fascinating, frustrating philosophy of putting - The simple routine of an orderly golf shot
These classic bits of advice are accompanied by over four dozen two-color illustrations.
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CHAPTER ONE
Why This Book Is as Short and Simple as It Is?
After declining numerous proposals to write a book of golf instruction, I took on the task which this book represents.
The responsibility was accepted because I have been allowed to teach in this book as I teach on the lesson tee - without embellishment or padding to stretch out the basic training, and without a multitude of detail to confuse the pupil. The brevity of this book may shock those who have been encouraged to believe that a good golf game may be bought by the page, pound or hour - or even bought.
I have paid for hundreds of lessons when I was a lad and didn't have much money to pay as tuition fees. Vardon, Duncan, Braid, Taylor and Edgar - all great players and all gifted teachers - were among my instructors who not only taught me the foundation of golf but also taught me how to learn.
Association with the greatest American players added to my instruction. As I competed against them I studied them, and as I have played friendly rounds with them or followed them in some of their competitions, I have continued to be the student.
Simplicity, concentration, and economy of time and effort have been the distinguishing features of the great players' and great teachers' methods which have added to what I consider my knowledge of the game.
Hundreds of pages that might have accompanied these that you will read were eliminated from the first draft of the manuscript. Dozens of illustrations showing interim phases of the swing were cut out, and I have retained only those pictorial moments in the swing which are significant in so far as instruction is concerned. I decided that those pages and drawings portrayed refinements of technique not suitable for the practical use of most golfers and would distract the reader from profitable concentration on the essentials.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
This very good little book is absolutely not to be bundled with Hogan's books. I'm sorry, but Armour's instruction is way beyond Hogan. Hogan was not an instructor - Armour was one, and one of the best ever - and he could talk the talk and walk the walk. A book is certainly limited, but Armour does a pretty good job. If you want to be pointing your elbows and contorting your body from memorizing the little iddy bitty micro movements described by Hogan, then go ahead and enjoy that misery; but that is not how your brain performs wonderful and simple motor skills. Wouldn't it be better to have one whole swing that has everything it needs and nothing it does not need?
Armour gives you a good chance at reaching your best. Being able to "see" the swing would be better, and Armour does indicate the limitations of the book medium; however, this book is superior to anything Hogan did. Hogan was a gentleman and a fine golfer, but not an instructor. |
Joel Tomaneng (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I've taken several courses in college, listened to every piece of advice on the range, and had my swing analyzed on videotape. Yet, I found my swing getting more inconsistent - skulls, chewing the fat, hooks, slices, you name it. After applying Armour's techniques, my shots are now consistently straight. Armour breaks down the swing into its basic elements. Not only does he provide theory, but he explains how to apply the theory to where it counts - your head, hands and body. I almost spent another $200 on golf videos, but with this book I saved over $180. This book is a must for any beginner. |
J. Hardy IV (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
This is a helpful instructional book that could easily be bundled with Hogan's Five Lessons. Where Hogan's text is meticulously precise in its depiction of the mechanics of the golf swing, Armour's offering delves into the mental arena and probes the mindset behind the various aspects of the game. Copyrighted 1953, its year of publication even mirrors that of Hogan's, but beyond that the contrasts are striking [granted Hogan's text started out as a series of SI articles]. Having worked through some personal golf issues with Hogan's book and after writing a review for that, I noticed Armour's under the "if you liked this book" link. I purchased it on a lark being obliquely familiar with Armour's professional and teaching career, and seeing the quote by Harvey Pennick on the cover. Armour's tone versus his contemporary is quite authoritative and at times almost condescending in his depiction of the `average' golfer and his urging to play within their limitations. He models the early chapters after a visit to his golf clinic in Florida, speaking always as the teacher and never a peer. It was his stated intention to produce a thin volume of the absolute minimized, efficient teachings about golf. This I believe he accomplished. The instruction would be good for a beginning golfer, there were a few tips scattered throughout for the long time player. Unfortunately, I didn't see too much new and fresh that I could take with me onto the course, perhaps because his themes have long been drilled into our heads by modern pros. The illustrations are nowhere near the quality and detail of the Hogan book. Ultimately I did get more out of the Hogan text, but Armour's was very interesting to "hear" his teaching methodology and his numerous references to players and tournaments of the 30's and 40's. Punctuating this timelessness, when I was talking to my father the other night I mentioned to him this was the latest golf book I was reading, to which he replied, "Yep, that's what I learned with 40 years ago." Recommended to be read along with Ben Hogan's Five Lessons. |
Harvey Penick (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Tommy Armour had a big bearing on my life and teaching - I have used much of his wisdom, teaching and playing. |
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