100 Classic Golf Tips (100 Golf Tips) [Hardcover]

Christopher Obetz (Author), Anthony Ravielli (Illustrator), Tom Watson (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007 | Series: 100 Golf Tips

100 Classic Golf Tips combines over 50 years of the world's greatest teaching pros, golfing legends, today's most notable golf instructors, and the life-time works of Anthony Ravielli, distilled into a charming package. It includes time-honored tips useful to every golfer such as how to grip the club to square clubface for an ideal impact position, allowing the wrist to hinge properly; how the downswing of the club is similar to a baseball swing as it relates to weight shift; and how working on the finish of the golf swing can help identify any balancing problems. 100 Classic Golf Tips features artwork from the archives of Anthony Ravielli, who illustrated golf technique for Golf Digest and Sports Illustrated for 40 years, as well as the seminal Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf by Ben Hogan. Comments from top golf pros annotate and amplify the illustrations. Contributors include such renowned golfers and instructors as Butch Harmon and Hank Haney, instructors to Tiger Woods; Rick Smith, instructor to Phil Mickelson; David Leadbetter, instructor to Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie; and Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, and Tom Watson.

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About the Author

Christopher Obetz was destined to incorporate golf into his life. His father, Robin, was the childhood best friend and college teammate of Jack Nicklaus. Christopher Obetz is the author of Classic Golf Instruction.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Universe (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789315467
• ISBN-13: 978-0789315465
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,217,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing, January 26, 2008

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T. Greig "Darkstar" (AUST) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 100 Classic Golf Tips (100 Golf Tips) (Hardcover)

For me, this book becomes more and more irritating the more I read it.
The drawing for tip 94 bares no relationship to the tip. One talks about leg strength while the drawing appears to be about using a wall for club head position. The drawing for tip 97 mentions teeing up on the right side, 'aim for the left' and 'you can now fade the ball', yet the drawing shows the ball flight to the left, surely a draw or hook?
Tip 83 "Bermuda Grain". "The more pronounced the grain, the more you'll have to account for it on your read and in your stroke". Thanks for that.
While the drawings are suburb in that Readers Digest 1950's way I am yet to be convinced that they are enough to really clarify the tip sometimes. Golf tips at best are often contradictory and perhaps more than realised, not neccessarily suitable for your type of body mechanics, particularly swing tips. After reading this book several times I am left wanting.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 100 "tips" reduced to 3, August 29, 2010

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Daniel J. Warme "dwarme" (Van Nuys, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 100 Classic Golf Tips (100 Golf Tips) (Hardcover)

Want to continue the previous reviewers statements with this: The pictures don't match the "tips" for the majority of the 100, not just for the couple of examples given.

From the looks of things, the tips are nothing more that comments gleaned from interviews, probably a golf magazine. They are often presented out of context, or edited to be nearly incomprehensible in the form given. One has to be both well versed in golf lingo, and a mind reader to figure out what either the pro or the author is trying to say.

Combine that with pairing each "tip" with completely unrelated drawings and you have the makings of a completely useless book. Yes the drawings by Anthony Ravielli are excellent. But not when they don't match the tip. Also, there are frequently 2 or more examples given, but no correct version given. Your choice as to which drawing to follow. From the looks of things, the author grabbed what ever drawings the artist had produced, and then combined a supposed tip to go with each. All while obviously trying to capitalize on the artist's renown. They certainly didn't work together in this drivel. If the drawings match the tip, it appears to be a complete and rare fluke.

Here are my tips for this book.

1. If you love golf art, or can figure everything out by a single drawing alone, then go ahead and get this book. Consider the changing the title to read, "250 Drawings to Help You Figure Out How to Play Golf... Maybe."

2. This book is so bad, it will stop me from buying anything else written by Christopher Obetz in the future. It is at the least, an incompetant effort. At the most, an unethical attempt at grabbing a fast buck. Either way, it is bad enough for me to advise never even consider this author's offerings again.

3. If you still feel the need to get this book, although I can't imagine why, Border's was blowing them out new for $3.99 in their discounted book section. At $4 it was still a huge rip off, but you'll save money at least from the list price. I love Amazon and shop here all the time, but a buck is a buck.