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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons the Modern Fundamentals of Golf Paperback

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So here is the backdrop. I've been golfing off and on for 20 years (I am 45 now). I LOVE the game. Up until this year, though, I was horribly inconsistent at it. So much so that I was often embarrassed to go out and play in club outings, tournaments, etc. I would come home so down on myself. I said I was going to quit so many times.

This year things changed. I was sitting at a party and this guy started boring me about this book he read and how it changed his game. Yeah, yeah, I thought. But then I went on to Amazon and looked it up. $10 bucks. I figured its got to be worth a try.

Unbelievable!

This book is so simple. I have spent $100's or even $1,000's of dollars on golf lessons over the years and NONE of them came even 1/2 way to what this book has done for me (golf pros should be ashamed at themselves! They make you do these goofy things and they don't focus on the fundamentals). I read it three times in about a day and a half. The third time I read it with my club by my side (to try grips, etc.). The biggest breakthroughs for me were the grip (I had been doing it totally wrong for years) and the pattern of the on-plane arms, shoulders hips backswing to the hips, shoulders arms forward swing. Again, unbelievable! I hit it straighter, farther, etc. etc. It is so much fun! I feel like I actually know how to play the game! And when I start to go off kilter a little bit, I go back to Hogan's fundamentals and it all comes back. It's weird, I have been swinging wrong for so long...that doing it his way feels weird...but I'm coming to just trust it and not think about it...and I have more confidence to swing hard and just let it deliver.

Finally a golf book that is simple and works. Not only is Ben Hogan consider the greatest ball striker ever he also had a great knowledge of the swing and could communicate his knowledge in an understandable manor. This book is an instructional classic that is as relative today as when it was written.

It's simple.
If you read the entire book and honestly apply all of what Mr. Hogan describes you will gain a repeatable and reliable golf swing.
If you only take part of what he teaches and try to apply it to your current swing then you probably won't improve a great deal.

If you are new to the game please do yourself a favor and study this book. The advice is solid and each piece builds on the previous to produce a repeatable and very solid swing.
If you have been playing for years yet still struggle, study this book.

If Hogan's "Power Golf" is the Bible of the game, then this is the best New Testament version around. This is kind of a condensation of the larger book, and it covers as much as the duffer will need for a really good start at improving his game. This book alone should be good for taking several strokes off your game in a couple of weeks--with work! I recommend it for anyone who really wants to play better golf, and who doesn't want to do that?