Golf Instruction Blog

Perhaps the best known golf instruction book ever written.  Most modern golf teaching is  based on  Hogans's method.  If you are looking for a place to start building a swing, this is it. It explains grip, posture and the fundamentals of a strong movement.  However, be aware that Hogan's method was idiosyncratic, and had elements that will not help the average or even good player.  A book that every golfer should read, but maybe not follow too closely.

 

Probably the first golf 'psychology' book, and still one of the best.  Gallwey's concept of 'relaxed concentration' is the best description of the perfect mindset with which to play the game. I have recently re read this book after reading 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle.  The Inner Game made a lot more sense having understood the role the go plays in what and how we think.

 

I love this book.  Based on the principles of 1920's teacher Ernest Jones, it takes the basic concept of simply swinging the clubhead and expands it.  Although the principle is simple, there is a lot of detailed analysis of ball flight and shot patterns.  The chapter on the mental side of the game is some of the most common sense I have ever read on what can be an over complicated subject.

 

Around the end of 2006 I had a really bad time with my short game. Actually, I had the yips, and this was after spending my entire amateur career with a great short game.  My technique was unusual, and I worked on feel. When it started to go wrong I completely lost my confidence.  I found some articles in Golf Digest by Stan Utley.  The technique Stan was advocating just got me straight away.  Totally different from anything had seen, but so simple and effective.  It works on the same fundamentals as what I use and teach in the long game.  My short game is now the strongest part of my game.  I have taught these techniques to students from single figures to beginners with fantastic results.  This book is brilliant.