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 enlarge | Authors: Bobby Clampett, Andy Brumer
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 23793
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312354819
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3523
EAN: 9780312354817
ASIN: 0312354819
Publication Date: April 3, 2007
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 Great Golf Book June 29, 2008
After reading this book and doing a little practice on the drills it contains, you will have a thorough understanding of what makes a golf swing. With this understanding you will be able to diagnose your own swing and others (keep and mind others might not want to hear your insight). This swing understanding also helps with shot making and understanding what your equipment does. Enjoy.
Best Golf Book Ever May 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best golf instruction book ever. The main insight from the book that has transformed my game (scoring) is the realization that there is a relationship to where the ball is struck and handicap. Clampett calims, based on his analysis of golf swings using CBS' hight speed camera technology (7,000 framers per second) that the pro golfer's swing bottoms out at 4 inches after impact. The hacker about four inches before impact. The key is to do whatever you have to do to create impact like a pro. If you're able to do it, you'll probably execute the fundamentals of the golf swing properly, since there is only one correct motion that allows you to arrive at the desired impact.
So, basically, focus on impact and the golf swing fundamentals will follow. Clampett's drill in which he draws a line in the sand and then has you practrice having the club bottom out 4 inches in front of the line, is the most valuable drill ever.
Clampett claims that the high handicap golfer, if he or she understands and practices the drill for about 30 minutes, will drop about 12 strokes off their handicap immediately,
As a 15 handicapper, I have been able, almost overnight to take 10 strokes off my score just by practicing this drill.
One of the keys here is confidence. Once you realize what you need to do, and can do it at will, the confidence you take into each shot is incredible.
Also, this concept gives you a practice discipline. Simply practice to impact four inches after the line. It's that easy and the outcome is quite remarkable.
Clampett has discovered a law (truth, key, etc.) that will in my opinion revolutionize golf instruction. Until the advent of the SwingVision camera technology, Clampett's discovery would not have been possible.
Thanks, Mr. Clampett, for making golf enjoyable.
 Interesting book - but it leaves me with a question April 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the book was valuable for several reasons; it is not a cookie-cutter instruction book, it presents concepts in a novel way, it breaks the swing process down into 5 easily remembered steps, and it entertained me with many of Mr. Clampett's personal golf anecdotes.
One of the main points of the book is that the bottom of your swing arc should come approximately 4 inches toward the target from your ball, a point which I have never seen expounded upon prior to this.
However, it is not clear to me on how to use his concept of the "aiming point", which is a spot approximately 4 inches in front of the ball, on the line between the ball and the target. He mentions that you should catch it "out of your peripheral vision" at the start of the downswing, but what is unclear to me is whether or not you should focus on that point at the address position. It would be helpful to get his opinion on that question, Mr. Clampett, are you out there ?
A cornerstone book. March 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Impact Zone guides you to focus on five 'dynamics' (swing principals) amidst the thousands of things you could be concerned about in your golf swing. In my opinion, this is a book for someone that has played for a while and is seeking to improve their ball striking. As with any golf book, you will need to think about the material presented, practice it and work through not having Mr. Clampett standing on the practice tee with you. That being said, the five dyanamics are presented in a logical, clear and usable way that should fit many different swing styles. I'm a one plane swing golfer, and this book has definitely helped me. I have more golf books than I care to admit to, and I think that The Impact Zone is a 'cornerstone' book, one of the best.
Impact Zone, Great teaching tool January 25, 2008
Very impressed with Bobby Clampett's book. Good instructions, am starting to see improvement in my golf game. Need to practice to keep my left wrist flat and stop turning my right wrist which is closing the face of my club.
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