David Leadbetter 100% Golf: Unlocking Your True Golf Potential (Paperback)

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Drawing on a lifetime of playing and teaching the game of golf, David Leadbetter has developed the unique ability to translate very difficult swing concepts and golf fundamentals into easy-to-understand language that will help you to become a more consistent player.

David Leadbetter 100% Golf is the defining point of a lifetime's theories, teachings, tips, and drills from the game's greatest and most successful golf coach. This book will help you develop the skills you need to get started or take your game to the next level. From alignment, ball position, and driving to fitness, mental toughness, and problem lies, the lessons in David Leadbetter 100% Golf will improve every aspect of your swing and game.

About the Author

David Leadbetter is widely regarded as the world's top golf coach, with players of the caliber of Nick Faldo, Nick Price, Greg Norman, Tom Watson and Ernie Els having come under his tutelage. With a number of teaching academics bearing his name around the world, David's unique ability to transcend the complexities of the golf swing and to communicate the fundamentals in an easy-to-follow, purposeful style means that his advice is sought after by players of all ages and standards. Away from the practice ground, David is a regular contributor to Golf International and Golf Digest magazines and has written the bestselling books The Golf Swing, Faults and Fixes and Lessons from the Golf Greats.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062720694
• ISBN-13: 978-0062720696
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #318,919 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Throw out all your old golf books and buy this winner, April 6, 2002

By	Richard Gomez (San Diego CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: David Leadbetter 100% Golf: Unlocking Your True Golf Potential (Hardcover)

This book is worth every penney in just the first couple of pages. Leadbetter has written a real gem. This book has the nitty gritty details of how to go out and play better golf quickly and easily. I have bought and read about 4 golf books this year and this book is by far the best. Leadbetter has a way of explaining golf in the form of sensations. This book has a great drill that instantly allows you to feel how the swing is "supposed" to be felt. Once I had that sensation in my mind I instantly started hitting a repeatable swing for the first time. I took my wife out golfing today and explained to her that sensation of the swing and she was hitting the ball correctly for the first time. Excellent book, its a winner.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A solid offering from one of golf's best, August 28, 2002

By	LANCE R LINDLEY "hagakure" (Yokosuka, Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: David Leadbetter 100% Golf: Unlocking Your True Golf Potential (Hardcover)

If you've never heard of David Leadbetter, he's one of golf's premier teachers, with a string of famous students on the tour who sing his praises (starting with Nick Faldo) and he was recently named Golf Digest's "best golf coach of all time". He also runs a string of 16 golf academies, with a home base in Florida.

If you don't have any of David's other products and are interested in an instructional book, this one is a "must-buy." Its text is simple to follow and the ideas are easy to picture in your head. David purposely avoids overly technical dissertations on the swing in favor of simple explanations and drills to find the "feel" of each teaching point. The drills are simple and helpful and laid out in a very easy-to-find fashion with pictures that leave no question in your mind what you should be doing. That's helpful, as the large, hardcover book is a little bulky to take out on the range with you. I find the most value in this book reading it casually when I have spare time -- eating lunch alone, on breaks, on the bus to/from work -- and then I try the drills I can remember when I get home or out on a range.

The lessons themselves run from the very fundamental -- the grip, says David, is the single most common culprit in all of golf -- to the slightly more advanced. While a lot of this material is not exactly "new," some of the drills are new and the text really sort of "sums up" David's thinking to this point. As such, if you already own other Leadbetter books and videos, you might not find too much else of value here, but if you've got the money to spend and have dogeared all your other Leadbetter books to the point of no return, there's certainly no harm in picking up this one as well.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book can work wonders...but you have to let it flow., June 5, 2002

By	Orlyn Carney "Reader" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: David Leadbetter 100% Golf: Unlocking Your True Golf Potential (Hardcover)

I walked into the bookstore and this book stared me in the face. Instantly I was drawn to it. An amateur golfer who has only read Harvey Pennick's LITTLE RED BOOK, I knew there was a lot of information on swing mechanics that I was missing. I picked it up. Jam-packed with large detailed color pictures and instruction that is meant to be felt and not analyzed, I knew this books was for me. I took this book home and started studying it, trying to memorize all the information I could--careful not to let any drop seep out of my brain. One thing I realized right away: this book CAN help you IMPROVE YOUR SWING SPEED while at the same time improving the accuracy with which you strike the ball. For all those men out there who think they need to hit the ball hard to hit if far, think again. Case in point: I bought my wife her first set of golf clubs three months ago. She is 5'4. When everything is grooving for her, she can hit the ball over 200 yards. I even witnessed her hit it 220 with her 3 wood. The last time we went golfing she hit the flag from 150 yards away. She says it feels like she is not even holding the club. How am I doing? I used to burn through gloves--now I'm not even wearing one. My drives are straight and beautiful. My short game has also improved: lob shots, chip shots, sand shots, putting. The biggest difference in my game is that now when I play my worst I am still playing better than I ever did before.

The only thing I wished to see more of in this book was a section on how to 'work' shots. The draw and fade and all that jazz...it's not in there. However, if you want to learn to play better, consistent golf, then 100% Golf can help you do it.