Product Description

Dave Pelz's approach to golf is easy to understand: 30 per cent of the strokes golfers lose to par are determined by their play within 100 yards of the green ( the crucial scoring game. The most important and yet the least-focused-on aspect of golf, your short game, can make or break you as a golfer. Nobody teaches the short game like Dave Pelz. His renowned golf schools and clinics focus exclusively on putting and the short game, attracting top players such as Tom Kite, Colin Montogomerie, twice US Open champion Lee Janzen, reigning PGA champion Vijay Singh, and many LPGA players including Annika Sorenstam and Liselotte Neumann. The pros know, as you are about to learn, that while others teach golfers how to swing, Dave Pelz teaches golfers how to score ... and win. Over many years studying the short game, including chipping, lobs, pitches, distance wedges and bunker play, Pelz has acquired expertise unequaled in his field, amassing a fascinating body of knowledge on golf, with the statistics and data to support it. In this new book, the author shares for the first time the techniques and understanding he has taught the pros. 'I couldn't have won my sixth European Order of Merit without his help' (Colin Montgomerie)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5085 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 428 pages

Synopsis
Fed up with trying to imitate the pros, buying the latest expensive equipment, and seeing your handicap stay the same? "Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible" gives advice on how to lower your scores by improving your short game. Pelz shows how to find your own personal weaknesses and how to improve them. Providing all the knowledge, charts and photos needed to learn from a master, the book is aimed at every golfer who's looking to improve his or her game. Dave's approach to golf is easy to understand: 80 per cent of the stroke golfers lose to par are determined by their play within 100 yards of the green - the crucial scoring game. The most important and the least focused-on aspect of golf, your short game, can make or break your entire game.

Customer Reviews

You Don't Want Too Many Like This
This is one of those books that makes alot of books you may already have redundant. This, in my opinion, is the best book on the short game there is. If you've just started to get a few books together, get this one and don't get any more on the short game. This will take you years to get through and work into your game, so why would you want another book on the subject. Dave Pelz's book on putting will sort out your putting and Jim McLean's "The 8 Step Swing" will sort your swing. Go to a pro and get a couple of lessons on sand play and your set. Don't do what I did and buy 10 videos and 25 books and spend all your time analysing the hell out of it. I had a bigger library than any of the golf pros I met! Get these three books and practice for hours.

You won't see many of these selling cheap in the secondhand section - that tells you a story about how good it is.

Not as good as Tiger's Book
I liked the explanation of why the short game is so important and like the idea of different sized swings on the wedges to get different yardages. I put this into practice to a limited degree by playing with 3 wedges (not4) and having a 10 oclock and 8.30 oclock swing (rather than a 7.30, 9 and 10.30) for each wedge and my wedge approaches are often pretty close to the pin as a result of my improved distance control. Did not like some of the other technical advice though. For example, I tried his approach to sand shots for a year and was dreadful with it - maybe it just was not clearly explained but hitting 4 inches behind the ball works a lot less well for me than say the 2 inches or so suggested in Tiger's book which works great for me. I have now gone to getting my sand shots close after abandoning ship on Pelz's approach but regret sticking with it for a year. Overall, if I was to recommend some good short game instruction for those with limited practice time, I would suggest the section from Tiger's book on how he plays.

everything u need
I'm not gonna waffle on or go into too much detail but i'm a 9 handicap golfer who is currently working hard to lower the handicap and bought this book based on reviews i read here. The "4x3" wedge syatem is a guaranteed stroke saver from 120yards in and although it does require a minimum of 3 wedges and some practise time on the range to fine tune your yardages it will definitely lower your scoring. Some will find the book a little technical but pelz leaves no doubt or question in any of his methods, everything is well explained and researched and when u watch the pros u can see that they all use this system on the short game. after reading this u will never again take a power swing with any wedge and u will save minimum 6 shots per round. Buy it!