Golf Books To Improve Your Game

The best players know that golf is a game of confidence, and most important, concentration — the ability to focus and block out distraction. The goal of achieving clear thought is also at the heart of Buddhist teachings. PGA coach and Buddhist instructor Dr. Joseph Parent draws on this natural connection and teaches golfers how to clear their minds, achieve ultimate focus, and play in the moment for each shot.

Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie’s paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics and golf analytics to transform the game. This eagerly awaited resource is for any player who wants to understand the pros, improve golf skills, and make every shot count.

Supported by state-of-the-art motion analysis research, “short game guru to the pros” James Sieckmann unveils his “finesse wedge” swing — a proven and pragmatic way to learn, practice, and perform with each wedge in the bag in every situation — and shows players that upgrading their short game is possible.

The remarkable true story of a lone genius whose quest to unlock the science behind the perfect swing changed golf forever.

Internationally revered golf instructor Dave Pelz’s bestselling classic can show you the way to lower scores by improving your short game. With a foreword by Lee Janzen, two-time U.S. Open winner and eight-time winner of the PGA Tour.

“The Pro Tours’ Hottest Coach” (Golf Digest) reveals the secrets that helped Phil Mickelson win the 2010 Masters and can utterly transform every player’s game. Illustrated throughout and filled with anecdotes about how Stockton’s lessons have helped today’s leading players, Unconscious Putting is a must-have golf book and a category classic-in-the-making.

The classic guide to sharpening your mind and raising your performance as a golfer and in the game of life. No matter what your skill set, Gallwey’s pioneering strategies, real-life examples, and illuminating advice are perfect for anyone who strives to live up to their full potential.

An in-depth, full-color, step-by-step guide to the new golf swing that has taken the PGA Tour by storm. Making these breakthroughs available to everyone, The Stack and Tilt Swing is a handsome, fully illustrated, complete course, packed with more than two hundred photographs that make it easy for golfers at all levels to adopt this radical yet simple approach. Enhanced with practice routines, a troubleshooting list, test cases, and point-by-point assistance, this is the breakthrough guide to golf’s hot new secret weapon.

As coaches to some of golf’s top players, Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott have designed and refined a revolutionary way of teaching the game, with phenomenal results. Emphasizing the individual golfer rather than a rigid set of mechanics, their VISION54 method takes the frustration out of the game. Why 54? Because they believe it’s possible to shoot a 54 (making a birdie on every hole of a par-72 course) if you have the right mind-set and well-honed intuitive power.

Hank Haney’s candid, surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of very few people allowed behind the curtain and observed Tiger in nearly every circumstance. There’s never been a book about Tiger that is as intimate and revealing — or as wise about what it takes to coach a star athlete.

From the glamor of 1930s Hollywood, to John Montague’s extraordinary skill and triumphs on the golf course, to the shady world of Adirondack rumrunners and the most controversial, star-studded court trial of its day, The Mysterious Montague captures a man and an era with extraordinary color, verve, and energy.

To be a golfer is to tinker — with everything from equipment to grip to swing. But one thing most players don’t give enough attention to is the mental game. Mastering Golf’s Mental Game will change the way you think about golf, and is a must-read for any player serious about shooting better scores and getting more enjoyment out of the game.

Here, Dan Jenkins delves into the greatest rounds of golf he’s ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game’s most magical moments — and its most absurd. Unplayable Lies is an ode to the game of golf and the people who play it. This is Jenkins at his best, writing about the sport he loves the most.

With compelling detail and pure passion, James Dodson recounts the singular brilliance of three golf titans and how they saved the professional tour and created the game as we know it today.

In Slaying the Tiger, one of today’s boldest young sportswriters spends a season inside the ropes alongside the rising stars who are transforming the game of golf.