The Only Golf Lesson You'll Ever Need: Easy Solutions to Problem Golf Swings (Hardcover)

~ Hank Haney (Author), (Author) "Hi, I'm Hank Haney. Thanks for coming to me for a golf lesson..." (more)
Key Phrases: swing plane, cock your wrists, clubhead speed, Straightening Your Slice, The Finishing Touches, Ben Hogan (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The daring claim of the title is a lot to live up to, and Haney works hard to meet the challenge by focusing on the most essential part of the game--the swing. The book's 10 chapters are divided into three sections: "Understanding Your Swing," "Fixing Your Swing," and "Using Your Swing." Throughout, the secret at the core of his teaching should inspire in most golfers a sigh of relief: it's not how good the swing looks that matters, it's how well that swing strikes the ball. Through clear text and photo aids, Haney helps you understand the basic requirements of each shot well enough to fix mechanical problems without winding up in traction. He certainly helped Mark O'Meara, raising him from near oblivion to 1998 champion in both The Masters and the British Open. --Jeff Silverman

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Mark O'Meara's coach gives you the hard truth about cause-and-effect in the golf swing. (It's) like reading a golf lesson. -- Golf Digest

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow; 1 edition (April 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062702378
• ISBN-13: 978-0062702371
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #98,781 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book I wish I'd had 30 years ago, August 15, 1999

By A Customer

This could be the definitive modern instruction manual. Having read all the famous books from Ernest Jones to Hogan to Leadbetter and a lot of others in between, there is a lot of room for confusion. This book cleared the fog for me.

Two things in the book are revelations: the body versus hands section and the discussion of the importance of the plane. I now feel for the first time in 30 years of golf that I have the comprehension framework to fix my own swing, slowly but surely, rather than trying this and trying that. Because it takes so long to get the feel for a swing change, unless you're on the right track, you can spend a whole golfing lifetime in the wilderness, going from one teacher to another, knowing you should be playing better but never really getting there.

Thanks to this book, I can confidently analyse my own swing and, more importantly, know how to fix it.

I sincerely hope this book gets the recognition it deserves.

Nick Mount Watsons Bay, Sydney, Australia

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Swing Concept, April 9, 2001

By	Jerry (Garden Grove, CA) - See all my reviews

Hank Haney's concept of a swing traveling through a series of parallel planes is the most valuable golf idea I ever encountered. It changed everything for me. Now I have a really good swing that I understand. The strange thing is that nobody else writes about this concept. Other authors differ, writing about the club always pointing at the target line, or about a single pane of glass, or about a curved swing plane. However, Haney's concept makes tremendous sense and really works!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good Idea - Bad Execution, May 29, 1999

By A Customer

I really wanted to like this book.

Hank Haney seems very approachable and down to earth in interviews and guest spots on The Golf Channel. Unfortunately, his new book, The Only Golf Lesson You'll Ever Need, is a bizzare mixture of information with some less than humble self promotion by the author.

Then again what do you expect for : The ONLY Golf Lesson you'll EVER need.

I only hope that the contributing authors did most of the writing. Perhaps Mr. Haney was too busy giving lessons to proofread the manuscript. I'm sure there was pressure to publish this book during the reign of Mark O'Meara as PGA Tour Player of the Year. Unfortuneatly, his ideas are poorly communicated in this work.

Perhaps Mr. Haney is a genius. He has the credentials. He could be the greatest living teacher of all time. He sure implies that in the book.

He comes across in the book as a self made pompous swing guru with poorly organized swing theory based on swing plane.

He has the answers. Too vertical a plane equals slice, too flat equals hook. Fix your plane and fix your swing. Thank you very much.

I hope this book is not an accurate representation of Mr. Haney's teaching style.

Thank God I didn't pay full price.