David Leadbetter 100% Golf: Unlocking Your True Golf Potential [Hardcover]

David Leadbetter (Author), Richard Simmons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2, 2002

In his latest book, David Leadbetter, the game's greatest and most successful golf coach, presents his seminal work, a compendium of golf instruction covering every aspect of the swing and game.

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 all levels of golfers can learn and benefit from. David Leadbetter's 100% Golf is the defining point of a lifetime's theories, teachings, tips, and drills. It covers every aspect of the swing and game in general, in the smallest detail, and is free of the excessive technical jargon associated with most instructional books. From alignment, ball position, and driving to fitness, mental toughness, and problem lies, this book contains everything the practicing golfer will ever need to know.

David Leadbetter has been involved in the golf community for more than thirty years. He continues to teach the art of golf through his bestselling books and videos. Now, for the first time, he compresses all the knowledge he has gathered over the years and presents it in this one volume. Leadbetter, who came to world prominence in the late 1980s after he helped Nick Faldo dismantle and then rebuild his swing, has taught many of today's PGA Tour leaders and earned himself an unrivaled reputation as "the man" to remedy a troubled golf swing. In 1999 Golf Digest voted him the best coach of all time; few would argue.

Editorial Reviews

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

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow; First Edition edition (April 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062708236
• ISBN-13: 978-0062708236
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,275,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 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)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

10 of 10 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)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best of Leadbetter and more, July 8, 2002

By 

Mr Sie Hui Lau (Puchong, Selangor Malaysia) - See all my reviews

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

If your golf's library does not have DL's instructional videos and/or books already, this book is definitely for you. If you have, buy this book anyway, it adds to your collection, and also, gives you new thoughts on how you can best "feel" your golf swing, and thus, unlocking your true potential as a golfer, at whatever level that may be. Rather than giving us a mechnaical breakdown of how a perfect swing should be like, which mere mortal like myself would never be able to groove a swing to remotely resemble the perfect swing, DL has given us thoughts on how golf swing should "feel" like, as well as how to groove the feel so as to be repeatable. For example, the thought on how to enable a "connected takeaway" to initiate the backswing has really helped me. There are hosts of others explanations and thoughts you will find useful.