How to fit the right clubs to your game, from high-handicapper to scratch player. Line drawings.
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Perhaps the greatest challenge in all of sports is accurately hitting a golf ball in the direction of a hole that may be several hundred yards distant. Even though the target is stationary, the selection of the proper golf club requires certain "clubsmarts." Abrahams, associate editor of Golf magazine, here attempts to find the proper fit between golf clubs and each individual's game. Advice is offered on selecting clubs ranging from driver to putter, with wood, metal, and graphite heads considered. A chapter is devoted to the special golfing needs of women, seniors, juniors, and lefty swingers. There are also sections on balls, bags, grips, repairs that can be performed at home, and golf gifts. With the increasing popularity of golf, this book will make a nice addition to popular sports collections.
- Albert Spencer, Coll. of Education, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Albert Spencer, Coll. of Education, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The modern world forces us to make far too many choices. Take golf clubs. Metal woods or wood woods? Perimeter-weighted irons or traditional blades? What about swing weights? kick points? oversize heads? And don't think you'll be getting the answers to any of these questions from that pimply kid posing as a salesperson down at Billy Bob's Discount Golf House. No, anyone who wants to buy golf clubs should start by reading this book. Abrahams, associate editor of Golf magazine, introduces clubfaces, clubheads, and the all-important grooves and then moves on to the heart of the matter: What's out there in the golf-club universe, and what's right for you? Abrahams offers several golden rules--including don't buy from Billy Bob and never buy a club you haven't hit first--along with plenty of solid advice aimed at tailoring your club selection to the kind of player you are. This may be the most useful golf book of the season. Bill Ott
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Only for true beginners,
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This review is from: Clubsmarts: Buying Golf Clubs That Work (Paperback)
This little 90-page softback book disappointed me. I was hoping for something just a bit better than a host of generalizations. There was little quantification of the various angles, weights, and lengths to satisfy the curious golfer seeking to better understand modern golf clubs. For example, it would be helpful to include a table showing the ranges of loft angles for the irons and woods (metals). Ranges of shaft lengths for the clubs, especially the modern drivers, would also have been of use to the beginning golfer to provide some ideas of the changes that are occurring in club manufacture. It would have been nice to point out that the wedges are the shortest, but heaviest clubs; while the driver is the longest, but lightest club. The dissertation on golf balls did not not mention that the distance golf balls travel is limited by USGA rules, so that no manufacturer can realistically claim his ball outdistances all others, for, if true, it would be illegal. T! here is a semiannually-updated list of conforming balls published by the USGA. It was not mentioned that there is a minimum diameter for the golf ball, but no maximum; and there is a maximum weight, but no minimum. There was no mention of the fact that there are a variety of "oversize" balls, sometimes called magna or magnum, which certain golfers may find advantageous in use, if only from a psychological point of view. There was no warning that there are certain limitations in the USGA rules on club design that are worthy of note, especially in putters. The unsuspecting consumer might easily purchase a putter with either an illegal grip or an illegal lie angle. The book needed a bit sharper editing, also. There is a section on lie angle and the impact board in which the author states,"When the club hits the board, presumably at the same time or just after impact, a mark is left on the sole of the club, the heel of the club is off the ground, and the lie is too flat." I ! thought, "Huh?" After rereading the sentence several times,! I decided he meant to say a mark is left on the sole near the TOE of the club... The author emphasizes the absolute must need for getting properly fitted clubs throughout this little book. He even states that "Ill-fitted clubs will do more to retard your progress than anything else." Although I'm all for well-suited clubs for an individual, it makes me wonder how on earth Sam Snead ever developed one of the greatest swings and golf games of all time while cutting clubs out of old hickory branches! Oh, well, it won't be the last time I buy a golf book I didn't need.
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