Golf My Way: The Instructional Classic

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Simon and Schuster, Nov 1, 2007 - Sports & Recreation - 399 pages
Learn the Golden Bear’s secrets in the classic that took the golf world by storm and sold more than two million copies worldwide.

Finally, Jack Nicklaus, golf’s leading master, definitively covers the whole of his game through a lifetime of greatness. Golf My Way presents an all-inclusive, A-to-Z explanation of how this greatest of champions thinks about and plays the game.

This book includes:
  • New introduction, endpiece, and illustrations
  • Brand-new chapters discussing the changes in Nicklaus’s outlook and techniques
  • Reflections on the differences in tournament golf today compared with when Nicklaus joined the PGA tour in 1962
  • Advice on the mental elements of improved playing that are not directly related to ball-striking or shot-making
 

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Contents

Foreword by Jack Grout
Introduction
It Helps to Know Whereand HowYou Want to
Why I Always Played the Fadeand Now Sometimes
Some Plane Truth
Leverage Centrifugal Force
Golfs One Unarguable Universal Fundamental
My Equipmentand Yours
Following Through
INTO THE GREEN
ODD ANGLES
How Much I Do and How I Do
Wedge Play and Other Pitches
A Multifaceted
Skimming Is the Trick
That Other Game

Not a Knotty Problem
Ninety Percent of Good ShotMaking
BALL POSITION
MENTAL AND MUSCULAR CONDITION
Starting Back
To Impact
THE CONFIDENCE FACTORS
THE GRIP
THE STROKE
How Time Changed My Game
THE ACCURACY CLUBS
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About the author (2007)

Jack Nicklaus was born in 1940 in Columbus, Ohio, and maintains a home there and in Florida. Widely regarded as the greatest golfer of all time, he has achieved a record of twenty major championship victories, consisting of two US Amateurs, six Masters (also a record), four US Opens, three British Opens, and five PGA Championships. The winner of more than 100 professional tournaments around the world, Nicklaus was named Golfer of the Century in 1988.

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