Golf Instruction Summary

By David Cade

Amateur golfers are usually advised to have some lessons from a golf professional before any bad habits have become ingrained. This is good advice but it can be expensive. Amateurs would also like to improve their golf faster by learning from golf books and magazines. However, they soon find that they have to wade through so much palaver and padding to find a few take home points, that it is not an efficient use of their time. In this eBook, the author has done the wading for you and, concisely, presents the residual take home gems for you to use. He also gives clear advice on golf practice, much of which can be done at home.
It is all clearly laid out with an hyperlinked Table of Contents for immediate navigation to items of interest.
If you are pleased when you break 100 in a round of 18 holes and if you can occasionally break 90, then follow the advice in this little eBook and, if you are of average fitness, you will break 80 in less than six months.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Cade
• Release date: Dec 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310406782

David Cade

Dr David Cade is an Australian retired consultant physician (called an internist in USA) in Critical Care medicine. He has written these camera notes with attention to clarity and precision. Together with his wife Robyn (a retired physiotherapist) they spend their leisure time gardening, bird watching, hacking at golf, long distance swimming, paddling a marathon canoe and walking their two poodles.Recently David has written a Golf Instruction Summary available at Smashwords for pre-order and due for release in early December, 2015.

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Golf Instruction Summary

By David Cade

Smashwords Edition (revised December, 2016)

Copyright 2015 David Cade

Smashwords Edition License Notes

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this ebook and did not purchase it or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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Cover photo is of Robyn Cade playing at the Mallacoota Golf Course in far eastern country Victoria, Australia.

Introduction and Basic Essentials

Abbreviations and some Terminology

Warm Up

Which Club to use Off the Tee?

Hitting Off the Tee

Practicing ‘Off the Tee’, Movie/Video and Continuous Shooting

Fade, Draw, Remedy

Reverse Pivot Problem

Golf Club Number and Loft

Hybrid Golf Clubs

Hitting from the Fairway

Playing from the Rough

Behind the Trees

Chipping

Pitching

Greenside Bunker

Fairway Bunker

Putting

Follow-through

Yips

Course Management

Miscellaneous Matters

Iron Play

Advice to the 2 Oldies

M-i-L Anecdote

Afterword

About the Author

Mallacoota Kangaroos, Pelicans and Lyrebirds

Conclusion

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Introduction and Basic Essentials

If you are already an aspiring golfer, you will have found that the many enticing golf magazines and books promise much and deliver little, apart from considerable entertainment which, by itself, is an effective way of maintaining your enthusiasm for the game. Going through golf magazines and books is rather like opening oysters – you will need to open and look through many if you are hoping to find a take-home pearl that you can use. The same simile appeared in my recently revised eBook (called ‘Compact Camera User Guide’ and presented first as a blog series called ‘Camera Basics’, available on my website drdavidcade.com and at Smashwords.com) about using a digital camera and it will probably become my signature tune because all my searches through ‘how to’ magazines and books about cameras and about golf seem to have the same unrewarding cost/benefit ratio i.e. they provide poor value for your expenditure of money and time.

Most of the advice in these publications is about how a professional ‘does it’ or about practice drills you can set up so that your practice sessions are structured and don’t bore you rigid. A pro-golfer certainly does demonstrate the correct manoeuvres but so does a ballerina and a pole-vaulter. They are all lovely to watch but what they do bears little resemblance to what most of us do when we try to emulate them. As for the golf practice drills, you can easily invent your own and adapt a few of them into your own personal ritual.

So, after opening all those ‘golf oysters’ in the golf magazines and books, and eating them, here are my residual pearls offered for your delectation.

Out of the many golf magazines and books, two of the books are compulsory reading. The first compulsory book is ‘The Rules of Golf’. Other players, and maybe you too, have a low tolerance for another player who breaks the rules. At best, that ill-informed player is regarded as a dill and at worst is regarded as a cheat. Nor do other players want to answer golf rule questions during a round. Indeed, certain types of golf advice given during a round of golf are against the rules when on the golf course.

The second compulsory book is an illustrated ‘Golf Instruction Manual’ where you learn and then practice the basic essentials. The details of these basic essentials include the alternative grip styles, the recommended address to the ball, stance and posture, swing dynamics, methods of aiming, club selection and the thousand and one other aspects of playing golf that are to be found in such a book. It is time well spent going through each of these essential items and trying them out in your back garden or in front of a full-length mirror in your home. Indoors, use a rubber-backed bath mat or a