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| Golf Digest Perfect Your Swing: Learn How to Hit the Ball Like the Game's Greats | 
 enlarge | Author: Matthew Rudy
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1028220
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1552979865
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3523
EAN: 9781552979860
ASIN: 1552979865
Publication Date: September 4, 2004
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Product Description
Features the world's greatest golf tutors. What secrets can be picked up from the professionals? Why can they consistently drill the ball accurately off the tee and over 250 yards down the fairway when your mightiest of efforts veers and bounces past the out-of-bounds marker? The answer to these questions and many more are to be found in this unique volume that brings together the complete swing sequence archive of America's favorite golf magazine Golf Digest. Golf Digest Perfect Your Swing features an analysis of over forty of the best golfers ever to play the game, including: - Current superstars: Tiger Woods, John Daly, Davis Love III, Vijay Singh
- Legends: Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus
- LPGA stars: Grace Park, Karrie Webb, Laura Davies
- Many others: a who's who of professional golf.
The golfers are organized alphabetically. Each golfer's swing is presented in sequential color photographs from both a front and rear point of view. The key points to each golfer's success are analyzed in detail to provide an invaluable insight into how the game really should be played. Golf Digest Perfect Your Swing is the ultimate reference for golfers at any level of the game.
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Get it from the library October 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Try not to spend your money on this book. Try getting it from the library / friend.
Its ok. I was able to go through about 70% of it.
 Historical perspectives in golf October 23, 2008
To mimick a swing of your golf idol is not ideal, nor will it improve your game. However, seeing the methods of professionals gives a perspective in the differences of how the talented individuals swing a club. The historical value includes the likes of Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen, and Mo Norman. Not every golfer is featured from the front, side and back angles.
The images are excellent. The technical points are good but not overly helpful in my opinion. Where this book shines is the illustrated nature of the golf swings in history. Even the vintage Tiger Woods of the late 1980s is here.
This is not an instructional book. You see many swing sequences, but not too much is here regarding a step by step breakdown of techniques.
The following is a better alternative to this book:
Lessons from the Golf Greats
No, this book won't make you a professional but you come to realize that there are many factors involved in a player's success.
VERDICT:
For historical value, I recommend it.
To improve your swing, your game and golf handicap, look elsewhere.
 shows the best golf swings in the world, frame by frame August 20, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are a visual learner, and are looking to improve your full golf swing, then I believe this book is for you. The book contains a frame by frame pictorial (in 3 different views) of some of the best golfers in the world. I think the best way to make this book work for you is to find the professional with the swing that is most similar to yours, and compare your positions to theirs. This book was eye opening for me, and helped my game (mirroring Steve Elkington's pre-impact position probably cut me down from a 12 handicap to an 8).
Views of a good number of players September 16, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is not a book of instruction: it is a book of swings, and analysis.
What makes this book so valuable is that, perhaps for the first time, people can look at many of the greatest players of all time and see how their swings differ (or are similar to) each other.
Where this book offers no great instruction, it gives the average person a look into the realm of swing analysis, that cryptic world beyond the comprehention of so many of us. It may also serve as a good teaching resource for golf instructors.
If any improvements are to be made, before and after shots of people who have undergone major swing changes, and a larger number of classic golfers (Demeret and Sarazen in particular) would be nice.
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