The Winning Golf Swing: Simple Technical Solutions for Lower Scores

by Kristian Baker, Bernard Gallacher (Foreword by)

Overview

No one ever said that the game of golf is easy. How often have you seen or bought a golf instruction book that claims to offer an improved technique or a swing fix - but which doesn't tell you which part of your technique needs fixing?

In The Winning Golf Swing, renowned golf professional Kristian Baker gives you a practical, yet easy-to-follow, path to better golf. Through a rigorous but simple process, Kristian will help you to address the problems in your game so that you can shoot better scores. With contributions from some of the top minds in golf, this book delivers a complete process for improvement. The Winning Golf Swing is a must-read golf improvement book.

- Use statistics (in a very straightforward way) to determine, factually, where your flaws are

- Understand how the club and ball interact at impact to create the 13 different types of ball flight

- Correct your swing through detailed instructions and colour illustrations

By reading this book, you will gain great, factual knowledge. By applying the information in this book to your own game, you will be able to identify your mistakes quickly, properly understand them, and - most importantly - correct your destructive shots. The book also draws on the expertise of some of the brightest people in the game, including renowned mind coach Karl Morris, and Chris Sells, an expert in statistical analysis.

Foreword by former Ryder Cup Captain - Bernard Gallacher, O.B.E.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910515112
Publisher:	Bennion Kearny Limited
Publication date:	05/05/2017
Series:	Golf
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Kristian Baker is a Director and the Club Professional at Sunningdale Heath in Surrey. He was, for over 20 years, the Head of Instruction at The Wentworth Club. Kristian has compiled an impressive CV of coaching results and has worked with club members, leading amateurs, and some of the best professionals in the world. The professionals have competed on the US and European Tours, winning numerous European Tour events including the European Open, Dutch Open, and the St Omer Open. Kristian's most notable professional results, to date, came during his years coaching Ross Fisher. He began coaching Ross whilst he was still an amateur at Wentworth before establishing himself as one of the world's best professional players. Kristian has taught several other European Tour players who have also won on the European Tour. Amateurs he has coached have won many of the top events including the English Amateur, Faldo World Series, and Finnish Amateur, amongst others.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Coaching winning

This book

The system

Chapter 1 Stats – What YOU need to know: Stats hold your scoring secrets | Avoid the trap, too many golfers get it wrong | How to collect statistics in golf | What you need to know | Why you’re not average | Transforming your game | The measures | Effective Greens in Regulation | Scrambling | Sub-Regulation Attempts per Round | Sub-Regulation Accuracy per Round | Stats form the foundation of our four building blocks that lead to better golf shots | Appendix

Chapter 2 Shot: Getting started | Shot shapes

Chapter 3 Primary Factors: Face angle | Club path | Attack angle | Dynamic Loft | Smash factor | Impact location | How bulge works (for a right-handed golfer) | Swing direction | Face to path

Chapter 4 Swing References: References 1-9 – Address | Club and shaft | Hands and arms | Grip - left and right hand | Left hand | Right hand | Lower body

Chapter 5 Bringing it all Together: How to use what you've now learnt most effectively | How much time do I need to put into my practice in order to get better? | 1. Block practice | 2. Serial practice | 3. Random practice | Working on your swing changes on the practice ground | Separating playing and practicing | Routines | Focus during practice

Chapter 6 Simple Secrets: Using video correctly | Optimizing your equipment | Launch angle | Loft | Shaft type | Centre of gravity (COG) within the head | Spin rate | Ball speed | Start direction | Spin loft | Hitting a straight shot | Playing the Straight, Fade and Draw shot | Wind | Mud on a side of the ball | Tee height | Ball types

Chapter 7 Fixing Your Game: 1. Heel strike | 2. Toe strike | 3. Bottom of face strike | 4. Top of face strike | 5. Face angle open | 6. Face closed | 7. Path out-to-in | 8. Path in-to-out

Conclusion