While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Golf Instruction books.
- Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf (1985)
- The Practice Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Golfers (2015)
- The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons (1985)
- The Scoring Zone: How to Hit the Shots That Matter When You Need Them the Most (2018)
- Science of the Golf Swing (2019)
- Bulletproof Putting in Five Easy Lessons: The Streamlined System for Weekend Golfers (Golf Instruction for Beginner and Intermediate Golfers) (Volume 2) (2014)
- Excellence in Golf Tee to Green (2019)
- The Golf Handbook, Third Edition: The Complete Guide to the Greatest Game (2006)
- Hit Down Dammit!: (The Key to Golf) (2014)
- Why You Suck at Golf: 50 Most Common Mistakes by Recreational Golfers (2011)
- FINALLY: The Golf Swing´s Simple Secret: A revolutionary method proved for the weekend golfer to significantly improve distance and accuracy from day one (2010)
- Public Relations: The Profession and the Practice (2011)
Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf (1985)
A timeless classic with nearly one million copies in print, Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons outlines the building blocks of winning golf from one of the all-time masters of the sport—fully illustrated with drawings and diagrams to improve your game instantly.Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers in the history of the sport, believed…
The Practice Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Golfers (2015)
*Featured on THE GOLF CHANNEL* A golf best-seller in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany and France – This book is the most comprehensive guide to improving your Golf EVER! With golfers around the World hitting the driving ranges and not improving, it is time to do something different — It’s time to do something better.
The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons (1985)
The biggest paradox in golf is that the harder you try to hit the ball, the worse you do so. In The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing, Michael McTeigue offers you a simple system of sequential body movements that produces a true swinging motion with every club in the bag. The result is increased distance and greater accuracy for all sizes, shapes, and ages of golfers for a minimum investment in learning time.
The Scoring Zone: How to Hit the Shots That Matter When You Need Them the Most (2018)
No matter what level of golf you play, the space from 100 yards to the green is the scoring zone. You need the right skills and strategies to maximize your chance to convert more birdies, save more pars and avoid more big numbers. One of America’s preeminent short game teachers has created your complete guide to executing those shots. Todd Sones has taught winners on every major tour, and has been recognized as both a Golf Magazine Top 100 and Golf Digest 50 Best Teacher.
Science of the Golf Swing (2019)
Michael Jacobs has spent the last nine years working with the world’s foremost golf scientist to develop the first analytics system to measure the actual forces and torques at work in a swing. Jacobs is uncovering the real physics of the swing—what causes the movements you ultimately see out on the course, on film or in a photograph. In this ground-breaking book, Jacobs takes you through both the science and the practical application of that science in unprecedented detail.
Bulletproof Putting in Five Easy Lessons: The Streamlined System for Weekend Golfers (Golf Instruction for Beginner and Intermediate Golfers) (Volume 2) (2014)
Wouldn’t you love to lower your average score by five shots this season, with minimal effort? Sharpening your putting skill is the quickest and easiest way to lower your scores and enhance your enjoyment of the great game of golf. The secret to lower scoring is to sink more putts of eight feet or less while consistently lagging long putts close to the hole to avoid three putting. The Bulletproof Putting System teaches you to do exactly that, in five easy lessons.
Excellence in Golf Tee to Green (2019)
The first thing about discovering your golf game is finding conviction, and then comes rhythm, balance, and patience. This book gives you a clear picture of the most efficient, powerful, and consistent swing ever explained in any golf book. There are a number of key variances in the Swing Formula from other methods, but the primary difference is in the technique used in the pivot.
The Golf Handbook, Third Edition: The Complete Guide to the Greatest Game (2006)
Play Like a Pro with The Golf HandbookLooking to increase your enjoyment of the sport, improve your technique, and, ultimately, take strokes off your scorecard? Comprehensive and easy-to-use, this fully redesigned and updated third edition of the classic manual The Golf Handbook offers essential tips and strategies, plus hundreds of new diagrams, full-color photographs, and features on modern golfing greats like Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, and Sergio Garcia.
Hit Down Dammit!: (The Key to Golf) (2014)
Most golfers have difficulty with the concept of hitting down at the ball to make it fly. Surprisingly, a great many players surveyed did not even know you need to hit down to get the ball up in the air. Hit Down Dammit! concisely explains the concept – and the technique – of hitting down at the golf ball for proper trajectory, increased backspin, much improved distance, proper divot taking, and best of all: consistent shotmaking.
Why You Suck at Golf: 50 Most Common Mistakes by Recreational Golfers (2011)
Do you suck at golf? Do you know someone who does? While written in a tongue-in-cheek style, Why You Suck at Golf is an informative and education manual chronicling the most common mistakes golfers make when playing this wondrous game. From arriving too late for your tee time, to trying to keep your head too still, if there is a common, easily correctible mistake a golfer makes it is in this book. 52 chapters in all, each discussing a mistake and how to correct it.
FINALLY: The Golf Swing´s Simple Secret: A revolutionary method proved for the weekend golfer to significantly improve distance and accuracy from day one (2010)
Have you ever wondered why the average handicap on the USGA has barely improved in the last 20 years? The answer is very simple: a) The Golf Swing is very difficult to understand and to perform.
Public Relations: The Profession and the Practice (2011)
Coverage of global markets, new technologies, multiculturalism, and the latest news about public relations in action make this dynamic text the cutting-edge choice for public relations courses.
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Bulletproof Putting in Five Easy Lessons: The Streamlined System for Weekend Golfers
Author(s): Michael McTeigue
ID: 3582558, Publisher: Michael McTeigue, Year: 2014, Size: 997 Kb, Format: epub
The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons
Author(s): Michael McTeigue
ID: 3395689, Publisher: Michael McTeigue, Year: 2011, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
The Everything Golf Instruction Book: Essential Rules, Useful Tips, Amusing Anecdotes, and Fun Trivia for Every Golf Addict
Author(s): Rich Mintzer; Peter Grossman
ID: 3591486, Publisher: F+W Media, Year: 2011, Size: 3 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are really record-breakers according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.