Harvey Penick, the legendary swing coach of golf greats like Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite, and Davis Love III decided to jot down his most useful tips and tools to the game of golf after 8 decades of teaching. The motion you make lopping off dandelions with your weed cutter is the perfect action of swinging a golf club through the hitting area. If you have any doubt where to position the ball for any iron, take a couple practice swings and note where the clubface brushes the ground,” he said.

Extend your Archives visit at home and at school with products developed especially by the National Archives Foundation. My wife, Helen, could have read it, of course, but a lifetime spent living with a grown-up caddie like me provided Helen with all the information about golf that she cares to know.In the lead up to the PGA Tour’s stop at Penick’s home club for the Dell Match Play, we have been looking back at some of his best tips from the book.

It is always difficult to criticise a “Classic”, especially from a respectable person in the history of golf. It’s a bit dated by the standards of todays game but I think it’s important to note that the lessons and quotes from Harvey are something to be valued. He has those big muscles that, as Bobby Jones said, can bend a bar but are no use in swinging a golf club.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. For two weeks devote 90 percent of your practice time to chipping and putting, and only 10 percent to the full swing. I extremely enjoyed the layout of this book due to the fact that you could flip to any page and it would be filled with endless golf knowledge.

I shared this with the dad who went on to add, "Get them when they are young; find something that will ineterest them; the rest will take care of itself. It’s a history book, an instruction manual, and a collection of life lessons all wrapped up in one text. But I think most text books in golf might have covered the same thing and may be this little Red Book is more simplistic and therefore easier to understand! They remind me that before Ben dropped by, a girl who is hoping to make the University of Texas team had come to talk to me about her progress, and I had asked questions for an hour. However, for the purposes of planning out your shot and assessing your swing, you are going to see the target line as a straight line which runs from your ball to the target you have picked out.Now take one, or two or three practice strokes, concentrating on each one as if you are trying to make the putt, judging the distance. His tone was very serious and straightforward, but sometimes you could pickup some little slips of some humor.