A fantastic little book that covers all the bases – course strategy, preparation, pre-shot routines, mindset, short game, drills – down to hitting from different lies, managing wind, altitude, and temperature, and tackling dog-legs and sloping fairways, and many, many more.
While the advice is a little geared toward tour pros – O’Hern assumes the reader can shape shots at will – high handicappers will still benefit. The book exposes them to how great golfers think about scoring, and O’Hern does acknowledge amateurs directly, offering advice suited to their game, like how to warm up in the 5 to 15 minutes between stepping out of the car and onto the first tee.
It’s also an easy read. O’Hern doesn’t fluff his sentences; every paragraph earns its place. Photographs and occasional diagrams break up the text, and so while the book runs 239 pages, it reads much shorter.
Very much a worthwhile read.
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