Play Real Golf


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Play REAL Golf is an unbelievably simple and effective approach for learning and improving one's golf game. This is a must-read for golfers, parents and coaches. Alan Ochiai PGA Master Professional 1999 So. Cal. Teacher of the Year From the beginner to the PGA Tour player, everyone who plays golf is on a journey to improve, constantly looking to answer the question, how can I get better? So while nearly all golfers want to create change, most simply don't know how to initiate long lasting improvement. Play REAL Golf offers an effective interactive system to create positive emotional-behavioral changes that will improve golf performance and, more importantly, enjoyment of the amazing game of golf. Play REAL Golf is formatted as a workbook to coach players through a process to relax and achieve better golf. The REAL Golf Process features a systematic yet flexible approach to golf, ensuring the positive emotions necessary to perform better and truly enjoy golf. Play REAL Golf is based on nearly four decades of combined teaching and coaching experiences. PGA Professional "Coach" K. Tracy Roberts along with PGA Professional Stephen Plummer developed Play REAL Golf, which takes players of all abilities, from the beginner to seasoned professional through a proven and reliable emotional-behavioral process that helps golfers of all skill levels reach their performance goals. "Coach" K. Tracy Roberts' "REAL" approach to golf as well as life has resulted in success and happiness on and off the course. He is a certified PGA Class A Teaching Professional and has been coaching golf and other sports at the championship level for the better part of two and a half decades. He has served as a coach of Championship California Interscholastic Federation golf and basketball teams as well as individual golf champions. He has competed on both the amateur and professional level. As a longtime teaching professional at one of the largest instructional facilities in the country, "Coach" has been afforded the opportunity to share The REAL Golf Process with students of all ages and abilities. "Coach" holds a Masters Degree in Education and B.A. in Social Sciences. PGA Class A Teaching Professional Stephen Plummer has been playing the great game of golf for more than two decades and has been sharing his expertise with golf students of all ages and abilities for 13 years. Stephen has proven to be a fierce competitor at the amateur and professional level, with a competitive low score of 63. Although competing is a vital part of Stephen's career, teaching the REAL Golf Process at one of the most successful golf instructional facilities in the country also brings joy to his life.




The Lost Art of Golf


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When was the last time that you felt your score accurately reflected your true ability as a golfer? Do you remember a time when you felt truly comfortable on the golf course, treating it as a playground to explore? Can you imagine what it feels like to create unique golf shots in your mind and then execute these intentions? The lost art of playing golf suggests answers to these profound questions. It will help you to re-connect with the soul of the game. Learn how to approach the game you love in a profoundly different way -- and liberate yourself to derive more pleasure from your precious time playing golf.




Every Shot Counts


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Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie’s paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics and golf analytics to transform the game. Mark Broadie is at the forefront of a revolutionary new approach to the game of golf. What does it take to drop ten strokes from your golf score? What part of Tiger Woods’ game makes him a winner? Traditional golf stats can't answer these questions. Broadie, a professor at Columbia Business School, helped the PGA Tour develop its cutting-edge strokes gained putting stat. In this eye-opening new book, Broadie uses analytics from the financial world to uncover the secrets of the game of golf. He crunches mountains of data to show both professional and amateur golfers how to make better decisions on the course. This eagerly awaited resource is for any player who wants to understand the pros, improve golf skills, and make every shot count.




Chi Chi's Golf Games You Gotta Play


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Presents a collection of golf games designed for singles, pairs, groups, and teams, along with side bets, driving games, and games to improve golfing skills.




The Single Plane Golf Swing


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“Through this wonderful book, frustrated golfers can learn to swing like Moe [Norman] and improve their games.” —Anthony Robbins, #1 New York Times–bestselling author The mysterious and reclusive genius Moe Norman is acknowledged as the best ball-striker in the history of golf by many of the game’s greats. The Single Plane Golf Swing: Play Better Golf the Moe Norman Way reveals the secrets of the swing that enabled him to hit the ball solidly with unerring accuracy and consistency—every time. Norman’s simple, efficient, and easily understood Single Plane Swing has improved the games of thousands of golfers. Golf professional Todd Graves, known as “Little Moe” and regarded as the world authority on Norman’s swing, comprehensively teaches readers the mechanics, drills, and feelings of the Single Plane Swing that Moe called “The Feeling of Greatness.” Graves shares Norman’s brilliant insights and liberating approach to the game and demonstrates why the conventional “tour” swing is too complex and frustrating for the majority of amateurs. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and written with Tim O’Connor, Norman’s biographer, the book also engagingly tells Norman’s bittersweet life story and explores the teacher-student bond forged between Norman and his protégé Graves. “One of golf’s greatest untold stories, Moe Norman’s life illustrated a simple and powerful truth: greatness is built from practicing the right swing in the right way. In this book, Todd Graves has given us a blueprint for that swing, for those practice habits, and most of all for a process that builds success.” —Dan Coyle, New York Times-bestselling author of The Culture Code




The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf


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The perfect golfing gift: A book that is a complete, working 9-hole miniature golf course, with miniature golf balls and putter included. The first book you can play through. The book that's a true original. Featuring nine themed courses, from pirates to dinosaurs to the classic windmill, The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf celebrates the silliness and the golf-for-everyone! attitude of Putt-Putt. Each page in the book is a cleverly designed hole, modeled on real mini golf courses. Tap the ball through the grooves and make sure to avoid the obstacles. Then see if you can get it in the clown's mouth on the last hole. Every hole is par fun.




Let's Play Golf!


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Let's Play Golf! is an engaging and interactive golf book for youngstgers ages 4+ as they learn about the game of golf kid-style via rhymes, games, illustrations and basic skill concepts. Read or complete a challenge and earn points! Youngsters will learn about the history of the game, equipment, putting, chipping, sand shots, full swing and on-course play. Coaches and mentors can also use the suggested agenda at the back of teh book to create classes.




A Course Called Scotland


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “One of the best golf books this century.” —Golf Digest Tom Coyne’s A Course Called Scotland is a heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course in Scotland, the birthplace of the game he loves. For much of his adult life, bestselling author Tom Coyne has been chasing a golf ball around the globe. When he was in college, studying abroad in London, he entered the lottery for a prized tee time in Scotland, grabbing his clubs and jumping the train to St. Andrews as his friends partied in Amsterdam; later, he golfed the entirety of Ireland’s coastline, chased pros through the mini-tours, and attended grueling Qualifying Schools in Australia, Canada, and Latin America. Yet, as he watched the greats compete, he felt something was missing. Then one day a friend suggested he attempt to play every links course in Scotland and qualify for the greatest championship in golf. The result is A Course Called Scotland, “a fast-moving, insightful, often funny travelogue encompassing the width of much of the British Isles” (GolfWeek), including St. Andrews, Turnberry, Dornoch, Prestwick, Troon, and Carnoustie. With his signature blend of storytelling, humor, history, and insight, Coyne weaves together his “witty and charming” (Publishers Weekly) journey to more than 100 legendary courses in Scotland with compelling threads of golf history and insights into the contemporary home of golf. As he journeys Scotland in search of the game’s secrets, he discovers new and old friends, rediscovers the peace and power of the sport, and, most importantly, reaffirms the ultimate connection between the game and the soul. It is “a must-read” (Golf Advisor) rollicking love letter to Scotland and golf as no one has attempted it before.




1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die


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Whether readers play for fun or for serious sport, this guide will encourage them to live their ultimate golfing fantasies at the world's premier courses. Each golf course has been selected for its interest either as a challenge to play, a place of outstanding beauty, a famous occurrence, or the brilliance of its design.




The Outlook


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