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Ernest Jones' Swing the Clubhead | 
 enlarge | Author: Ernest Jones
Publisher: Skylane Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $11.95
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 42398
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 126
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0976017407
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780976017400
ASIN: 0976017407
Publication Date: May 28, 2004
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Product Description
The teachings of Ernest Jones are of a distant generation, yet no one with the possible exception of Percy Boomer, has such an influence on modern day golf instruction. Jones is quoted in countless magazine articles, and golf instruction books by well known players and teachers, including Jack Nicklaus, and Gary McCord. McCord, most well known for his humor in golf broadcasts, is a very intelligent and serious student of the golf swing. In his book Golf for Dummies, McCord lists Swing the Clubhead as one of his Top Ten Golf Books.
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 An Essential Golf Book March 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only wish I'd connected with a golf instructor with Ernest Jones' teaching method when I first learned to golf 35 years ago. This classic book is more important and spot-on than ever, with his simple and fundamental ideas about swinging the clubhead on an arc.
So much modern golf instruction is cluttered with hundreds of different and confusing details about the endless positions in a golf swing. These positions might be important to pinpointing a specific problem in a swing, but Jones understood that the individual golfer needs to get most of these details out of his mind when he makes his swing and instead focus on the important action of making a properly-arced swing.
In reading other reviews, it sounds like there are some problems with the naming of this book and a conflict with other editions, but this is still a very valuable and fundamental treatise about golf instruction. Golf is a very difficult sport to play well, but if you apply yourself to Jones' principles, you will enjoy yourself much more on the course by de-cluttering your head from the minutia of details and ideas you'll find on the instructional pages of Golf or Golf Digest.
Stick to the fundamentals to play better golf January 7, 2008
This is a book about the fundamentals and offered a whole new dimension to my thinking about the swing. I think this book is every bit as relevent as it was when written. Perhaps it becomes even more so as the golfer is inundated with the mechanics driven and fault detection methods offered by the golf publishing industry in this new century.
 A classic golf instruction book December 7, 2007
Ernest Jones was a famous instructor whose most famous theory was Swing the Clubhead. There have been many pictures over the years of Jones swinging a penknife attached to a handkerchief, sometimes alone, sometimes while griping a golf club.
But reading the book was a bit of a disappointment. Its a very quick read and it seems full of Jones' explaining why swinging the clubhead is so important. But outside of the familary drawings of him swinging the penknife there isn't much instruction on how to swing the clubhead. Or how to get this feeling of swinging.
Review of Ernest Jones' "Swing The CLubhead" November 22, 2007
Simple, straightforward approach to the golf swing. No frills, no mind cluttering concepts, rules, etc.
The focus is on relaxation throughout the golf swing. No mechanics to clutter up the mind and tighten up the body!!!
Not the Original; Neither has it much to say November 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I echo the reviews posted earlier: This is NOT the original book with the title. Amazon should state so as NOT to mislead the readers. I bought it in a hurry and did not do my home work. Jeff Bezos & Co, are you listening?
The publisher has a disclaimer but it is all in the fine prints as we are accustomed to nowadays. Quote,
Publisher's Note: This book is not "Swing the Clubhead and Cut Your Golf Score," by Ernest Jones and David Eisenberg, Copyright 1952. It is a revised and retitled version of an earlier Ernest Jones' work titled, "Swinging Into Golf." It is not our intent to devalue the collector editions of earlier Jones' books, but to make his teachings available for all golfers at a reasonable price.
Unquote. My bad. Buyers beware.
To sum it up after breezing through the book: play with feel. If you still feel the urge to read it because the ORIGINAL title is in the hostage of book collectors as per this publisher's rationale, I can conceive worse ways of losing that $12.
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