Getting Up and Down: How to Save Strokes from Forty Yards and in [Perfect Paperback]

Tom Watson (Author), Nick Seitz (Author), Anthony Ravielli (Illustrator), Jack Nicklaus (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 1987

A guide to the most difficult and important shots in golf and how to score well from forty yards and in. 118,000 sold to date.

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There's an old golf saying that you drive for show and putt for dough. Despite recent woes with the mallet, Tom Watson has been a master on and around the carpet throughout his esteemed career. In easy, conversational style, he fills this essential instructional volume with the basic techniques for pitching, putting, chipping, and sand play, all marvelously illustrated by Anthony Ravielli, then tackles the more challenging variations like high lobs, handling hardpan, and difficult lies. Watson also offers plenty of good advice for thinking about the short game and includes a series of practical drills to help golfers work at improving it.

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A guide to the most difficult and important shots in golf and how to score well from forty yards and in. 118,000 sold to date.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (March 12, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394753003
• ISBN-13: 978-0394753003
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.4 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A pretty good book., July 31, 2000

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This review is from: Getting Up and Down: How to Save Strokes from Forty Yards and in (Perfect Paperback)

Most of the information in this book is useful. It gives simple and common sense ways to go about improving your short game. Tom Watson is one of the greatest short game players of all time, and his advice is obviously coming from much experience. My only real problem with this book is the abundance of photographs that didn't really need to be there. There are many photographs that show positioning during set-up, placement for your hands for the grip, etc. which are very useful and well drawn. But there are also many drawings (practically every other page) that have no educational value. I don't mean to sound insulting, because the book does teach many useful techniques, but lets just say this book could have been written in 1/3 of the pages. This book is saved by Mr. Watson's discussion of practice drills which are fantastic and definately worth while! So if you are looking for a few tips to help you on the course, pick this book up. But if you are a true student of the short game, I recommend Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible. If you are like me, you'll buy both and compare for yourself. But if you can only grab one, I'd have to go with the Short Game Bible. It's just too useful to pass up.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fastest Way to Dramatically Cut Your Score, December 2, 1998

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Peter L. Schaeffer (Eastern Long Island, New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Up and Down: How to Save Strokes from Forty Yards and in (Perfect Paperback)

This book is a must read by golfers at any level. Tom Watson teaches you how to visualize success in all aspects of the short game, how to know how to play each shot with the proper club to maximize your outcome, how to reduce risk, how to SCORE! The book is full of drills that really will help you. Over the past decade I've given this book to literally dozens of friends, any one of whom would agree with my high opinion of it. Buy it, read it, practice it, and watch your scores get much, much lower!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Short Game Book, September 4, 2001

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Milton C. Von Minden "tvm3" (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Up and Down: How to Save Strokes from Forty Yards and in (Perfect Paperback)

The best two things about this book are the illustrations and Watson's discussion on practice. The putting section is the weakest piece. Don't buy this book to help your putting. Buy Stockton's book or Todd Sones new book.

I get the feeling that a lot of this book was recycled from Golf Digest one and two page instructional articles. Nevertheless, the chipping, pitching, and sand play sections are quite good. I found the sand section very helpful.

A solid overview of the short game.