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| The Negotiable Golf Swing: How to Improve Your Game Without Picture-Perfect Form | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph Laurentino
Publisher: Mountain Lion Press
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 24168
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 206
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0977003922
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780977003921
ASIN: 0977003922
Publication Date: March 2008
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The Negotiable Golf Swing August 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the Best golf instruction book! The author allows you to be an individual and shows you how to make your swing work. Just the section on chipping is worth the price of the book. It's probably the first book I've read cover to cover in 10 years. I'm reading it again because there is so much good info that I want to get it all. The instruction has taken much of the stress off of my swing and allowed me to really start enjoying golf for the first time in the 40+ years that I've been playing. There is so much good and understandable info that this is a must read if you want to play better.
A very easy to apply golf instruction book... July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book because it had several reviews with 5 stars. I have to agree with them! Joseph Laurentino does a marvelous job in breaking down the swing into negotiable and non-negotiable details. He writes in an easy to read manner and I have already benefited from his book in my iron play from one chapter in the book. Finally my iron shots have stopped pulling left of the target and I am more able to hit greens for GIR's and thus pars and maybe birdies. I was able to shoot a career best round of 90 at a local course two weeks ago (I am a 44 year old, 20 handicapper). I highly recommend this book for any golf nut, 5-35 hndcp.
Objective Views of the Full Golf Swing and How to Make Simple Adjustments May 27, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Since I started playing golf 30 years ago, I have taken lots of lessons from four different professionals. Each one taught me a different swing, and those swings produced vastly different results on the course. Only one of the professionals taught me a swing that was very repeatable and reliable. That professional spent a lot of time letting me see what the swing was supposed to look like and then giving me lots of objective information on how my swing was different.
With the other three professionals, my game always got a lot worse after taking a lesson . . . even if I hit the ball well during the lesson. I also found that I was confused . . . because these professionals had told me things that contradicted one another.
As a student of how people learn, I'm a big believer in using feedback from experience to spot errors and correct them. But none of the four professionals ever taught me to how take information from ball flight and use that to make adjustments. As a result, I learned relatively little about how to hit the ball well.
I found that The Negotiable Golf Swing was like a breath of fresh air because Joseph Laurentino shows what must happen in a swing . . . and where you have room for personal preferences. After 30 years of confusion, I found that he demonstrated objectively three things that I do wrong in my swing that account for most of my current problems . . . all of which are based on my misunderstanding of what is supposed to happen during a swing.
Without picking on any of the professionals who confused me, it's clear that they demonstrated those three points in ways that included errors . . . errors that I memorized and struggled to repeat. It's clear that the professionals could have used access to this book's fine photographs and analyses.
Before you take any lessons, read this book. I was also impressed that the book referred to the most helpful other golf books that I've read over the years. If I had read this book 30 years ago, I would have been a better golfer and saved a fortune in lost balls and unnecessary lessons for the full swing.
The book is, however, not as complete as the Pelz books on short game and putting. For those important subjects, rely on Pelz . . . as Mr. Laurentino also suggests.
Hit 'em where you want to!
Connecting the dots May 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What so impressive about this book is its ability to help me link the dots in my golf swing. More amazingly, it allows me to choose my own dots and connect them as I see fit; as long as I adhere to some governing rules that are non-negotiable.
Non-negotiable rules related to club face, club path, and swing path, cannot be bent. Hence, you MUST adhere to them in order to improve your ball flight. As I become more aware of them during my practice, I see my ball flight begins to take a gradual ascending shape - this is what I was looking for :). My short and mid iron play is getting sharper. I can't wait to work on my longer irons to make the ball flights more predictable as well.
What this book tells me to do is; as long as I adhere to these simple rules that govern the ball flight, I can keep my own unique swing, even if I don't swing like a pro, and still manage to hit great shots.
This book will pass the test of time and remains as one of the greatest books ever written. It humbly unravels the mysteries behind your unique golf swing and convinces you that; it's ok to swing the way you swing; as long as you adhere to some basic rules of a good golf swing to maximize your ball-striking ability.
Worked well for me... April 10, 2008
Golf books get alot of criticism and I was skeptical when I bought it but I approve of the authors writing ability and applying his concepts on how to diagnose and correct a major flaw in your swing realy helped me.
It's geared more toward the frustrated golfer but there is some practical knowledge advanced players may find useful as well.
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