But terrible golf? That’s within your reach. Lucky for Mark Frost - and for us - the author didn’t have to.Ĥ. Open at that very course, and against all odds, wins the title, beating two of the world’s best players in an 18-hole playoff. A blue-collar kid named Francis Ouimet, who grew up across the street from The Country Club in Brookline and who learned to play the game there as a caddy, enters the U.S. But as Haney demonstrates, the phrase also works as metaphor. Tiger’s biggest fear on the course was of hitting “the big miss” - a shot so wild it would wreck the round. The portrait that emerges is complex, human. But for all his criticisms, he is also on a quest to understand. The coach is frank about all that he found troubling. During his six years working as Tiger’s swing coach - a period during which Woods claimed six major titles - Haney was at his famous student’s side both on and off the course, assessing his mechanics but also trying to figure what made Tiger tick.

You could call it a kiss-and-tell, but it’s more thoughtful than that. The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods

Then do it again, several million times.Ģ. Then he wrote them down in this sharply focused volume, laying out the fundamentals of golf’s most famously repeatable swing. Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf If you really love the game, you appreciate a good read, and not just the kind your caddie gives you. Here they are: 14 golf books that belong in every golfer’s library.ġ.

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