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Dave Pelz's Damage Control

By Dave Pelz, Joel Mendelman, Eddie Pelz

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| Hardcover | 9780977813803

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http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/harby-golf/article?mid=431

When I first picked up golf, I spent quite a bit of time looking for the best books/ dvd/ web resources on technical aspects to improve my swings. Since last year I started to look around for books on course management. And this one caught my attention...
It was written by Dave Pelz - t ... (continue)

When I first picked up golf, I spent quite a bit of time looking for the best books/ dvd/ web resources on technical aspects to improve my swings. Since last year I started to look around for books on course management. And this one caught my attention...
It was written by Dave Pelz - the undisputed short game guru. He's also the short game coach for Phil Michelson, the No. 2 player in the world.
This book is rather pricey, and the shipping charge is outrageous, but I still decided to buy it, as too advertising statments convince me:
1. Golfers play two to fives strokes better than their handicaps for most of each round they play.
2. They also have disaster holes mixed in, bringing their total scores back up to their handicap level.
This is so true for high-handicapper like me! For a while I scored around 110 even though I teed off from white tee and have some decent holes. But almost in every round I would run into a number of disaster holes with terrible scores like 9 or 10 (or once 12 for a par 3). Most of it was due to poor course management or trying to play heroic shots
This book didn't talk about swing mechnism. It also didn't try to avocate how to avoid getting into trouble, but instead, how to get out of trouble.
The 300-page book is long (that's Dave's style, unfortunately!), but well illustrated with pictures, so I find it quite an easy read. Most important of all, a lot of the tips are applicable in an given round - coz chances are an amateur wouldn't find it too difficult to get into all kinds of troubles after teeing off
And I did save quite a few shots after buying this one, and play more consistent golf.
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http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/harby-golf/article?mid=431

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