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 enlarge | Authors: Pia Nilsson, Lynn Marriott, Ron Sirak
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
List Price: $22.50
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 37602
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1592401570
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781592401574
ASIN: 1592401570
Publication Date: September 22, 2005
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 Avid Golfer June 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best golf book I have ever read! The book is alot about fine tuning. Awsome.
taking strokes off your handicap... May 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After applying these concepts to my game I took 4 strokes off my handicap by the end of the season! This is not an instruction manual but a great "head game" book for anyone! A must read for all golfers!
Guaranteed Improvement February 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great read! guaranteed to improve your game ... and ... your enjoyment on the course (regardless of your handicap). Provides specific 'games' and ideas that truly make it possible to 'have a purpose' with every shot. Their 'point' system regarding 'hitting fairways', 'up and downs', '1-putts' , etc ... is very inventive and easy to apply while playing. So impressed, I bought 3 more as Christmas gifts for my playing partners - and they have all said the same things about the book! You will be happy with this purchase - easy to read and use!
A Purpose for every Shot! January 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My first time on the course after reading and applying the recomendations written in this book, I was able to hit seven out of nine fairways on the front nine, instead of my usual, just two! Lynn Marriott & Pia Nilsson have a unique way of helping a player to realize that they CAN improve their oncourse play and reduce their scores. Their unique approach to focus on this shot, has helped me to stay within the fairways, even on the narrow courses, and improve my opportunities to make more birdies. I reccommend this book for every golfer, it will be a valuable resource, just like "5 Fundamentals of the Modern Golf Swing" by Ben Hogan. If you read and apply just a few of the principles in "Every Shot Must Have A Purpose" a golfer will soon see dramatic improvements in their game and enjoyment.
A very good and practical book about mental golf January 4, 2008
I liked the hands-on aproach to mental golf with practical mental training tips of this book.
The book really showed that mental golf is the most crucial part of the game especially the stress management. No matter how good your swing is in the range it doesn't matter if the tension under pressure breaks the swing in the actual course.
The stories and quotations from PGA tour showed the different mental game practices and their importance for the pros and also clearly shows what separates the best from the top.
In the heart of the authors thinking is the idea of a playing focus which helps the mind to be concentrated on the task at hand with simple tasks to focus on while playing. The vague concept is explained in the course of the book very thoroughly with practical mental training tips and methods to follow one's progress. I liked the process oriented aproach of the book. The excellent results are a product of a process and not an end in itself.
The book has the most lucid definition that I have ever seen of the concept "being in the zone" or a state of optimal functioning of a human mind and body that is associated with peak performance in all the sports. It really opened my eyes to see what I as a recretional player and the golf teachers usually do to prevent this state from happening: the conscious thinking of the swing mechanics when preparing for the shot and hitting the ball. This prevents the body to do what comes correctly on natural instincs. It is like riding a bicycle: you don't have to think about it to do it. Thinking makes it more difficult.
Although I have read a lot about mental training I really thought this book was helpfull because it helps to bring the abstract and difficult ideas to practice. It shows that the mental skills are not self evident and learning them takes more effort and commitment than learning the physical side of the game.
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