Radical Golf: How to Lower Your Score and Raise Your Enjoyment of the Game
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Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. The author is going straight to the point. I may keep my putter, but removing some clubs and thinking more strategy this is a right way. Be ready to master the wedges and specially the lob wedge. I like to see the ball flying, and if you are good on that then bunker or not between you and the flag you will go for. I made my only par 4 and very long one following this strategy, 2 x I3, then one very short approach and put within feet. Developing skill on putting is not difficult and you can learn it at home with a mat.
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One person found this helpful. Michael Laughlin has written a terrific book. It's amusing, fun to read, and teaches you not only how to cut strokes from your game, but also how to increase your enjoyment of the game.
Photographs and drawings illustrating technique are also accompanied by Sheehan's insightful look at like on the LPGA Tour. English Choose a language for shopping. View or edit your browsing history. Be ready to master the wedges and specially the lob wedge. To ask other readers questions about Radical Golf , please sign up. Aside from "Strange Behavior" and "Strange Invaders," both of which received critical acclaim, he wrote and directed the thriller "Mesmerized" which starred Jodie Foster and John Lithgow, about a young bride in New Zealand at the turn of the century.
Most golf books are too technical, discuss the mechanics of the golf swing, and want you to improve by changing your swing. For the vast majority of players, this simply doesn't work well. You are pretty much stuck with the swing you now have, unless you take lessons from a golf pro and practice a lot. You might as well make the best of the swing you have. Michael teaches you the quick way to improve your game - by using course management and working smarter, not harder. As an example, I played a lot of golf as a kid, and always assumed that it made sense to hit the ball as far down the fairway as possible on each shot.
On a yard hole with an elevated green, and an out-of-bounds all the way down the right side of the fairway, I would hit a driver, then a long iron. Sometimes I would be on the green, but more often I would hit into a greenside trap or hit the slope near the green and bounce 30 yards away, into the rough, with a difficult pitch shot to follow. Michael shows that it might make a lot more sense to hit a smooth 5 iron off the tee, then another safe 5 iron down the middle, to set up a simple 80 yard wedge shot onto the green.
His point is that the 80 yard full-swing wedge shot from the middle of the fairway may well be easier to get close to the hole than the 30 yard finesse shot from the rough, even though you are hitting the full-swing wedge shot from 50 yards farther away from the hole.
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Thus, he puts great emphasis on planning, before you tee off, where you want to hit your approach shot from. He even has some great tips about planning your entire round before you tee off, simply by looking at the scorecard. Some sample chapters are titled: He is a writer, producer and director of several Hollywood films, as a kid knew Dean Martin, and was evidently married to Leslie Caron according to Imdb. I don't know about you, but I just instinctively trust someone with that pedigree.
Needless to say, he charms as he goes along, advising the reader to "Dress well - play well," eat chocolate and fall in love. I've read a lot of golf books. This is a terrific book.
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It is fun to read, but make no mistake -- there is plenty of extremely useful information here that will help you improve your score immediately. I believe that for most players, even those who already shoot in the low 80's or high 70's, Michael's approach will immediately lower your score and increase your fun quotient. If you feel the need for a more serious book, pair Michael's book with David Pelz's Short Game Bible, and you have an unbeatable combo.
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Golf enthusiast Michael Laughlin, whose day job is in the film business, reveals his proven, but completely radical strategies that The next time you play golf leave your woods at home, putt with your 2-iron, and you will be on your way to shooting in the 70s. Golf enthusiast Michael Laughlin, whose day job is in the film business, reveals his proven, but completely radical strategies that average golfers can use to dramatically lower their score.
In Radical Golf, Laughlin rethinks how the game of golf is traditionally played and shares his surprising and innovative ideas on how to play better golf.
Radical Golf: How to Lower Your Score and Raise Your Enjoyment of the Game
Unlike the usual technique-riddled golf books, Radical Golf offers practical and easy-to-use tips, and is written for the legion of average players who will never have the long, crunching power game of the professional. Laughlin also suggests that golf should be played as two separate games of tee-to-green and putts and that golfers should keep a separate scorecard for their putting game.
Equally radical, Radical Golf calls for using a 2-iron for putts rather than the "dreaded" putter the loft of the 2-iron matches the putter, "Calamity Jane," of legendary golfer Bobby Jones. Hole by hole, sensible shot after sensible shot, Radical Golf simulates a round of golf with a pro to show how a radical golfer can stay within strokes of par play. Written in a witty and easy-to-understand style, with entertaining sidebars and line drawings, Radical Golf will revolutionize how golf is played both on and off the course. Andrews and other great British courses are the backdrop for a touching look at a relationship forged on the golf course.
Rosaforte, a veteran on the golf beat, traces Woods' life from when his father first put a club in his hand as a toddler, through his remarkable amateur and into his astounding debut on the PGA Tour. Vigeland is fascinated with how people perform under pressure and his past books include the stress-filled lives of a fundraiser for Harvard and a musician for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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The fourth and presumably the last instruction book from Penick, the legendary teacher who died last year. As always, Penick offers not so much tips as he does common sense. His real insight is that everyone has a golf swing inside them if they just let it come out. An instructional book aimed at women, the fastest-growing segment of the golf market.