The Best Golfers Books for Beginners

By the best amateur golfer ever to play the game, this is essential instructional reading for the millions who have taken up golf during the 20 years this marvelous, timeless book has been out of print and unavailable. B & W line drawings.

From the bestselling author of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and the preeminent golf psychologist to the game’s top players comes the defining guide to mastering the enormous challenges of chips, pitches, bunker shots, and putts. Dr. Bob Rotella is the preeminent golf psychologist to the game’s top players—he has coached stars like Keegan Bradley, Padraig Harrington, and Darren Clarke—and he has offered his advice to golfers of all skill levels in his bestselling books, including Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and Golf Is a Game of Confidence. Now, he tackles the mind’s role in the most difficult aspect of golfing—the short game.

It’s no secret that more than two-thirds of the shots a golfer makes are short ones: putts, chips, and pitches. Long drives may garner applause, but whether a golfer wants to win the Masters or just five bucks from a friend on Saturday morning, it’s the little shots that make the difference. Yet many players either fail to recognize or choose to ignore the importance of the short game. In The Unstoppable Golfer, Dr. Rotella applies the same wisdom and experience that have worked for clients like Davis Love III and Graeme McDowell to help every golfer master this special art of short shots and take all the frustration out of this increasingly challenging element of the game. Requiring extraordinary levels of concentration, the short game is typically a source of fear for amateurs and pros alike. In this book, Dr. Rotella teaches readers how to overcome that fear by using their minds to achieve a state of calm in which the focus is on one thing alone: the hole. Rotella shares stories about professionals with whom he has worked who have mastered the psychological aspect of successful putting by adhering to simple—but hard-to-follow—rules and practices that will improve any golfer’s game: stay focused on your targets, visualize your shots, commit to your routine, and accept completely whatever happened to the golf ball. On top of citing his experiences with golfers, Dr. Rotella also probes the science of memory and how knowledge of the brain’s workings—especially those areas that deal with physical tasks—can markedly improve a golf game, particularly when it comes to getting out of a bunker or taking the measure of a long putt. For casual and dedicated golfers alike, a better short game provides one of the ultimate pleasures of golf—a pleasure they will come to know by training their minds to allow them to become unstoppable golfers. Since 1984, golfers coached by Dr. Bob Rotella have won a total of:. -74 major professional titles 2 Masters tournaments. -12 U.S. Opens. -12 British Opens. -11 PGA Championships. -4 U.S. Women’s Opens. -6 LPGA Championships. -5 Kraft-Nabisco Championships. -5 Tradition Championships. -7 Women’s British Opens. -2 Senior PGA Championships. -5 U.S. Senior Opens. -3 Senior Players Championships.

The traditional path to becoming a skilled golfer is not working. Most every Junior golfer starts off with excitement, but the truth is this: Nine out of 10 beginner golfers end up quitting shortly after starting. Why? Beginner golfers are not provided with a fun, motivating plan to follow where they are immersed in an encouraging environment. The traditional introduction to the game is akin to putting a child alone in a school system with no progress checkpoints, curriculum to learn from, standards to strive for, or graduation. Juniors are taking lessons or practicing without a purpose.

The curriculum lacks structure and players have no idea if they are progressing or not. But instead of feeling lost, overwhelmed, and frustrated there is a better plan that anyone can follow. How to Create a Junior Golfer introduces you to a revolutionary path to becoming a golfer. Operation 36 is a golf program, development model, and technology that is changing the way golfers learn how to play. Founded in 2010 by PGA Professionals Ryan Dailey and Matt Reagan, the program and model has been adopted and shaped by over 1,400 golf professionals around the world who want to give beginners a better plan to become a skilled golfer. They have helped build close to 700 active communities around the world where each and everyday junior golfers are provided the tools and encouragement to be successful with the help of a golf professional. How to Create a Junior Golfer is your Junior's blueprint for golf.