How to Feel a Real Golf Swing: Mind-Body Techniques from Two of Golf's Greatest Teachers

by Bob Toski

Book Overview

After teaching hundreds of thousands of golfers in the Golf Digest Instructional Schools they helped to organize, Bob Toski and Davis Love, Jr. perfected a revolutionary way of bringing instinct back to the golf swing. In easy-to follow drills and exercises, How To Feel a Real Golf Swing shows golfers of all abilities how to isolate the different parts of the swing. Each step is designed so that the golfer internalizes the feeling of each part of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039456121X
• ISBN13: 9780394561219
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Cure for the Paralysis of Analysis

Some of us golfers cannot work with the over-analysis of some very good mechanical teachers, i.e. Leadbetter, etc.Here Toski and DL3's dad (since deceased) provide drills to develop us feel players. For example, there are drills to feel what it's like to leave the clubface open on the backswing, closed, etc.This combined with feedback system of "ball flight" from an expert like John Jacobs is all I use for my swing corrections.This is truly a classic instruction book for those of us who play by feel, not by mechanics.

The Title Says It All!

As a new student of golf, I've read over a dozen books to improve my swing and this book is by far the best! It helps the reader develop a real feel for the golf swing in the most natural, developmental way I can imagine. Starting with hands and arms and then moving through each part of the body, it describes how the swing should feel. Best of all, the authors have designed numerous drills and exercises for the reader to actually FEEL the swing in each part of the body. While this description sounds mechanical, it produces a swing that is anything but. Not only has my swing become more fluid, controlled and consistent, my golf scores have improved significantly as well. I highly recommend this book for both beginning golfers and teachers of the game.

The best I've found.

Being new to golf, I read many books and purchased many videos. This book has been the most helpful by far. Over Jim McClain, Bobby Jones, Ledbetter etc. It truly communicates what you need to feel. Learning mechanics is one thing, but until you FEEL it, you won't progress. Personally, my iron shots now are great! From just one pointer in the book and it is now hard not to hit my irons straight. Great book. Great teachers.

A truly exceptional book for golfers of all levels.

The most difficult part of golf is the mental game. Though cliched, that statement is incontrovertible. For most golfers, the tendency to view the swing as a mechanized process dominates their swing thoughts. "Keep my left arm straight," "Swing through to the target," "Don't reverse pivot," "Cock/load my wrists," "Put the ball back/up in your stance," "Shorten your backswing. . ." All of these ideas, though fundamentally sound in their physical advice, tend to prevent the golfer from optimizing his/her performance because they force the golfer to consciously force a complex physical activity that should really be driven by the subconscious and feeling.Bob Toski and Davis Love III have written a book that truly fosters golf as an athletic expression. Rather than burdening ourselves with overly precise mechanical thoughts, we must allow our natural athleticism to shine through and carry our game. The golf swing is a beautiful, fluid motion. To mechanize it detracts from its efficiency and power and renders it less graceful and effective. "How to Feel a Real Golf Swing" provides invaluable drills and advice that will allow you to understand and develop the feeling a good swing creates. It fosters the notion of allowing the arms and club to do the work of turning the body and shifting your weight.As a serious golf addict and student of the game, this book, more than any other I've read, allowed me to understand my swing and improve my game. We all know the sweet feeling of hitting the ball on the sweet spot, this book devotes itself to the sweet feeling of the entire swing. I give it the highest rating I can.