The Wisdom of Harvey Penick | 
 enlarge | Authors: Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 339116
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0684845083
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352
EAN: 9780684845081
ASIN: 0684845083
Publication Date: October 8, 1997
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Amazon.com Review
A master of parable and the Socratic method, Harvey Penick, the Texas pro who molded the games of Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw, emerged late in his long life as the golf world's pied piper. With the phenomenal success of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, his first primer, Penick earned a dedicated international following eager to hang on his anecdotes and embrace the practicality of his gentle advice that always seems more personal than generic. The Wisdom of Harvey Penick gathers the best of that first volume and joins it with highlights from Penick's three bestselling successors: And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend; For All Who Love the Game, which is geared particularly toward women; and The Game for a Lifetime. The compilation forms a single, convenient lifelong studies program complete with photos and keepsakes from the Penick family scrapbooks.
Product Description
When Ben Crenshaw sank his putt at the seventy-second hole for a one-shot victory in the 1995 Masters, he bent over, buried his face in his fingers for a moment, then wept in the arms of his caddie. This was Ben's way of telling the world that what he had just done was his own memorial to his great friend and mentor Harvey Penick, who had passed away almost exactly a week before. With Crenshaw's victory, every golfer, every lover of the game, joined Ben in giving thanks to the greatest golf teacher of all time.Harvey Penick's life in golf began when he started caddying at the Austin Country Club in Texas at the youthful age of eight. Over the next eighty-plus years, he enlightened the members of that club with insights into golf and life. In 1992, at the age of eighty-seven, he offered the world that same wisdom in a timeless collection of pieces entitled Harvey Penick's Little Red Book. He followed that with three more books, all bestsellers, and all filled with thoughts, stories, and golf advice that had stood the test of time. Now, Bud Shrake, Harvey's friend and collaborator, gathers together the very best pointers, portraits, and parables from all four of Harvey's previous works. Filled with nuggets of wisdom from Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend, For All Who Love the Game, and The Game for a Lifetime and enhanced with dozens of personal photographs and keepsakes from the Penick family scrapbooks, The Wisdom of Harvey Penick is a lasting treasure from the most beloved teacher in all of golf.
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| Customer Reviews:
Nice tips for golfer at all levels January 4, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nice tips for golfer at all levels, don't have to read the entile books, each pages have different tips to help/advice the game of golf. Will be nice just flip open a page each day during golf seasons.
Outstanding January 30, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
For us average golfers the tips are worth 5 strokes a game. I now understand more about the mechanics of the game after reading Harvey's books, than from all the instruction tips in monthly golf magazines. An entertaining and helpful book for weekend golfers. A must read for young and new golfers. Great for both men and women.
Mr. Penick Encourages & Guides Without Being Technical August 23, 1998
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book provides the best of Penick's great anecdotes. He has so many golf related stories from his days of teaching, coaching, and assisting, and each one sheds a new perspective on this timeless game. His best contribution to golf writing is his ability to provide clear visuals in association with sound golfing principles. He doesn't leave the reading wondering how to implement an idea, but puts it in concrete terms by providing examples from his own life as well as the people he coached. Apart from the wonderful golf tips, this is just a plain good read, which borders on an autobiography. If you love the sport and you love life, you will truly enjoy this book.
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