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Anselmo competed briefly with Snead and Hogan in the '40. Since then, however, he has specialized on developing youths with tournament-playing potential and was once Tiger Woods' pedagogue. Here, explicitly pitching his counsel to parents of aspiring Tigers, he distills his career. Much in the book is in the what-I-told-Tiger vein, such as how Anselmo changed the future multimillionaire's swing plane from flat to upright as the youngster went through his growth spurt. Besides the Tiger tales and a few odd drills, though, little distinguishes this golf guide from the pack. Anselmo picks at the margins of pointers found in any instructional, such as hitting from uphill and downhill lies, weight distribution at address, and the dozen other aspects of the swing. Given the idiosyncrasies of the swing, many readers will discover an Anselmo adage worth experimenting with, and they might test the wisdom of his disagreements with Hogan's classic
Five Lessons (1957). But they shouldn't think association with Woods augers extraordinary advice.
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"Mr. Anselmo's help, especially in the areas of driving accuracy, pitching, chipping, and putting, helped me shoot lower scores and win tournaments."
--Billy Olsen, winner of fourteen Junior Championships since 1998, when he started being coached by John Anselmo.
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