On Learning Golf
A Valuable Guide to Better Golf
Published on 10. May 2014
138 pages
978-0-307-80637-6 (ISBN)
Description
The War & Peace of golf. A quaint old classic from 1946, with an intro by the Duke of Windsor. It's good advice, and seriously, this game has hardly changed a whit in 50 years!
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
3,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-307-80637-6 (9780307806376)
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Percy Boomer
On Learning Golf
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06/1946
Alfred A. Knopf
€38.40
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Person
PERCY BOOMER (1885-1949) was born in London and raised on the Isle of Jersey under the watchful eye of his father, a village school teacher. He was a professional golfer and a notable instructor on the sport. During Boomer's professional golfing career, he secured a win in three tournaments, which were the 1923 Belgian Open, the 1924 Swiss Open, and the 1927 Dutch Open. Boomer was an advocate of muscle memory and incorporated positive thinking in his teaching methods rather than negatively critiquing his pupils. He built a favorable reputation at the St. Cloud Golf Club in the suburbs of Paris.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Plan of the Course
- Part One
- Chapter I: What Teaching Taught Me
- Chapter II: Fundamentals
- Chapter III Fundamentals
- Chapter IV: Golf Bogey No. 1
- Chapter V: The Road to Golfing Health
- Chapter VI: The Concentration Fallacy
- Part Two
- Chapter VII: The Controlled Golf Swing
- Chapter VIII: Preparatory to the Swing
- Chapter IX: Interlude for Instruction
- Chapter X: Centered on Wrist Action
- Chapter XI: To Keep (or not to keep) Your Eye on the Ball
- Chapter XII: Interlude for Instruction
- Chapter XIII: The Feeling of In-to-Out
- Chapter XIV: The Force-Center
- Chapter XV: Interlude for Instruction- Monologue
- Chapter XVI: Rhythm
- Chapter XVII: Interlude for Instruction
- Chapter XVIII: Power
- Chapter XIX: Interlude for Instruction
- Chapter XX: Temperament
- Chapter XXI: Interlude for Instruction
- Chapter XXII: Putting
- Chapter XXIII: Interlude for Reminiscence
- Chapter XXIV: Golf Analysis
- Chapter XXV: Inverse Functioning
