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| |  | Golf Books | Home » » The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons | | | | | | | Description: | | The biggest paradox in golf is that the harder you try to "hit" the ball, the worse you do so. In The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing, Michael McTeigue offers you a simple system of sequential body movements that produces a true swinging motion with every club in the bag. The result is increased distance and greater accuracy for all sizes, shapes, and ages of golfers for a minimum investment in learning time. The clarity and simplicity of McTeigue's frell-free approach to the golf swing leads the reader to a new experience of power and effortlessness. He truly shows how to "build a swing you can trust and keep for life." If you love golf but have never played to your potential, here is a book that you will quickly come to treasure. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Michael McTeigue | | Paperback:
| 93 pages | | Publisher:
| Atheneum Books | | Publication Date:
| 1985-11 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0689116306 | | Package Length:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 48 reviews |
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 terric instructional bookOct 12, 2008
This is a wonderful little book - chock full of the type of simple and well explained lessons that can benefit all golfers. I thoght I pretty much knew it all after playing golf for 40 years, but Michael McTeigue's classic book has taken 8 strokes off my game. Its awesome!
Great book!Sep 15, 2008
I gave this book to my husband for his birthday and he has been raving about it constantly.
Why didn't I read this earlier?Jul 04, 2008
The text is written extremely simply, the diagrams do a nice job of showing the reader the positions in question, the analogies (particularly the one about clanging the cymbals with the knees) are great.
I had this one on my wish list for a year or two. Should have bought it a lot sooner.
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SimplicityJun 11, 2007
I have probably read 50 different books on golf instruction. This one is not only the best, but a remarkably easy one to follow and implement. It has done wonders for my golf swing in a very short period of time. If you are religious in following its simple steps to learning (in most cases without a golf club in your hands), you will be amazed at your improvement.
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The Ultimate Golf Swing Tip Eluded Me - Until NowJun 09, 2007
The very first time I played golf I got a hole-in-one.
It's been downhill ever since.
I was 15 years old and 35 years later I was still struggling to break 80. I'd hit the ball OK some days, but usually I always put too much pressure on my short game to score. I read all the books, took all the lessons and beat balls on the range until my hands bled. Mechanically everything always looked copasetic, but yet I was never consistent in ball striking. Thin, fat, toe, hook, push, etc.
I knew it was important to be in a relaxed and "athletic position" at address. My inherent problem was with excess tension THROUGHOUT the swing. I mistook power for the "coiling of the spring", (bad metaphor!). At the top of my backswing my arms, shoulders and torso were tied in one big connected KNOT. Like most men I thought muscle strength was the key to distance and I would try to over power everything without knowing it. Think Vijay Singh, Fred Couples, Ernie Els. Swing easy, hit hard.
So I took to the range after reading this book with yet another tip to experiment on like I've been doing on and off almost all my life; low and behold, once I relaxed my arms and shoulders throughout the swing and hit the ball in a much more free flowing fashion, I swear to God I felt like the incarnation of Ben Hogan. Solid, straight shots like never before. Feeling the ball compress against the face of the club each time was sublime. Working it right and left at will.
I'm now regularly shooting in the seventies from the pro tees and focusing more on the short game to start beating old man par. I may even start competing in some amateur events next year. The key is ZERO TENSION in all muscles throught the swing. Tension destroys the golf swing. Let the club swing itself. As Sam Snead said, "Feel oily".
The reason a good teaching pro could never help me is because they could not "feel" what I was feeling at the top of my swing. Thanks Michael McT. You saved a once putrid golfers soul. This book is a "diamond in the rough", no pun intended!
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