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Summary: LOVED THIS BOOK!!!
Comment: I Have enjoyed this so much that I am reading it for a second time.. It has really been helpful to me in my game of golf. Made me more of aware of the things that go on with your body and mind while playing golf.. A Must read for all golfers....
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Summary: Start it early
Comment: This book shopuld be a starter in golf. All the complications reduced to simple actions based on allowing ourselves to play naturally, relaxed and easy.
If it's late in your golfing career, you'll wonder why it's all been so dotted with tips, tried and forgotten, when the simple big picture is enough.
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Summary: The most important part of my golf game
Comment: The Inner Game of Golf is a great, honest read that that any golfer will be able to understand and apply practically with ease. Tim uses straight forward language, and unlike many other authors, doesn't fill the pages with unnecessary anecdotes about famous players.
It has changed my game, and made me a much more relaxed and composed golfer. Although I'm not a fantastic golfer yet, it has given me direction for improvement and practice, and new enjoyment for the game.
Very highly recommended.
The Inner Game of Golf
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Summary: Lesson Learned
Comment: May be a bit too "inner" for some, but I enjoyed the book. Good golf tips for all.
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Summary: Inner games, inner worries
Comment: Instruction will only get you so far. Any hack knows that. What most don't know, however, is that you can be your own worst enemy on the course, and for more reasons than one.
At the same time, however, you can be the best thing that has ever happened to your game.
Gallwey's Inner Game series has been around much longer than many realize. Not only that, but his ideas were at least a decade ahead of anything anyone was doing.
Gallwey's approach is simple. He divides a person's mind into two big regions. Self 1 is controling, egocentric, and demanding. Self 2, on the other hand, is non-judgemental, intuitive, and generally focused on whatever it is doing at the time. The problems begin when Self 1 starts getting in Self 2's way, giving it instructions it doesn't need, and locking it into a pattern of failure many are all too familiar with.
The goal, as Gallwey sets it out, is to get Self 1 to step aside during the swing and let Self 2 take total control. This is not easy to do, however, especially since many people have yet to realize the existance of these two selfs to begin with.
Gallwey bases his ideas on his experience in tennis, but appears successful in translating them into golf. He set a goal at the outset of writing the book to break 80 by basically putting only the time the average golfer has into improving his game (practice at home, plus a day or two at the range, and one round a week if possible), that and adhearing to his own methods. Obviously, he succeed, which helps give hope to those looking to try the same path.
Overall Gallwey's ideas are clear, and the writing narrative, which may put some readers off. Still, his exercises should help guide golfers into understanding how their mentalities can affect their play, as well as create barriers to further improvement.
The biggest drawback to Gallwey's theory of a Self 1 and Self 2 are that he seems to assign a bad-guy role to Self 1, while Self 2 is the trodden-upon hero. Whether this sort of duality is the final answer to things is a bit up in the air, and does not appeal to a more holistic approach to the game.
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