Moody Library and Student Athletes: Golf

"From the tee to the green, improve all aspects of your game with Complete Conditioning for Golf, a book/DVD package that presents the programs the pros use." "Golfers at all levels benefit from golf-specific training. This expert program begins with evaluation and moves through targeted strength, power, core, and flexibility exercises." "Pete Draovitch, personal trainer and physical therapist to PGA star Greg Norman, and Ralph Simpson, former physical therapist and trainer on the PGA Tour fitness van, have teamed up to create a comprehensive program to help you in these areas: Generate explosive power for increased driving distances; improve flexibility for a more fluid and precise swing; build muscular endurance for greater shot control through the final hole; maintain strength and flexibility 'from round to round and throughout the year; prevent common injuries; and return to the course quickly with modified rehab exercises."--BOOK JACKET.

A golf fitness consultant presents the same strength and flexibility program used on the PGA and Senior PGA Tour, complete with 340 detailed "how-to" photos.

Each chapter in this guide for improving golfers' mental skills focuses on a key psychological technique and tells how it can be applied to a player's advantage on the course. 50 photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

An all-in-one manual that provides detailed descriptions of more than 25 putting situations. 100+ photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

This book is designed for the golfer who would like to improve the accuracy of his or her shot from the tee and the fairway. Sidebars outline the techniques of specific golf pros such as Loren Roberts, Ben Crenshaw, Corey Paving, Phil Mikelson, and Paul Azinger. 106 photos. Size D. 152 pp. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A customized conditioning program for every golfer, from one of the most soughtafter personal trainers on the PGA Tour ""Boris has been instrumental in helping me achieve my personal fitness goals."" "--David Duval, 2001 British Open champion" " "In "Fit for Golf," Boris Kuzmic brings to the average player the expertise he has shared with world-class golfers, including PGA Tour professionals. With his unique, easy-to-follow approach, he offers a program filled with insider secrets to show golfers at every level how to: Assess their individual strengths and weaknesses Tailor a fitness program to meet their specific body-type needs Customize each workout using weights, stretching, and cardiovascular training Train their way to better scores and more enjoyment on the course

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Gary Player is recognized and respected as a champion golfer all over the world. One of only a few to have won all four majors, he is legendary for being one of the toughest of competitors with an enormous will to win and the coolest of heads under pressure. Bunker shots are Gary Player's favorite shots in golf, and in this book he clearly outlines the secrets of his success from the sand. He is rated by most of his fellow professionals as the best bunker player in the history of the game. Time after time, in the final rounds of a championship, he has splashed out of sand from a difficult lie to end up with a tap-in putt. He believes firmly that his ability to play the bunkers has been the most significant aspect of his game in every one of his sixteen major championship victories on the regular and senior tours. Player details the basic fundamentals of good bunker play, from "reading the sand" to the set-up and the slow, wristy swing. He discusses which type of sand wedge to use under different conditions and what the various types of bunkers are that can either help or hinder the average golfer. Player also shows you how to practice your shots when you're away from the course to help you improve your game. Accompanied by 150 color photographs that beautifully illustrate Player's techniques, Bunker Play is the complete guide to mastering the high, short, or low shots that skip and bite; shots from uphill, downhill, or buried lies; or long, accurate fades from fairway bunkers. After some practice, you should not only plan on getting out of the sand every time and putting the ball safely on the green, but you will aim, as he does, to hole out every greenside bunker shot you play.

Two hours.

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Byron Nelson is golf's greatest living legend. He is one of the finest golfers ever to pick up a putter, and the man who had the most magnificent year any golfer ever had - 1945, when he won an incredible eighteen PGA tournaments, including eleven in a row, and finished second in seven others. How I Played the Game is the beautifully told tale, in his own words, of a man determined to be the best ever: his hardscrabble rural Texas upbringing and his near-death experience with typhoid fever; his early years as a caddie at Fort Worth's Glen Garden Country Club (where as a 15-year-old he beat another young caddie named Ben Hogan in the Caddie Championship by one shot); the lean years as an amateur and as a young pro during the Depression; and the golden years of the 1940s, when he invented the modern golf swing and forged the legend of "Lord Byron". Even after his sudden retirement (the real reason for which is finally revealed here), his impact on the game never lessened. Besides his many years as an insightful TV golf commentator, he was mentor to several future golf champions, Ken Venturi and Tom Watson among them. And he continued to play top-caliber golf with the greats of the game, like Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer, and some who were less than great - President Eisenhower, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and a host of others. Laced throughout with scores of priceless stories, anecdotes, opinions, and even golf tips, and with an in-depth, event-by-event recreation of his golden year, 1945, How I Played the Game is golf writing and remembrance of the highest order - and irresistible reading for every golfer and fan.

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This book unlocks the secrets of the golf swing. Taken from Jones' writings in the 1920s and 30s, this book gives every golfer timeless tips on how to improve their game -- driving, chipping, putting, mental aspects, match play, and much more.

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Heroic performances by top players, advances in equipment, major changes in course architecture, and revisions of the rules have combined to produce the game of golf as we know it today.