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Description: Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible by Dave Pelz Describes how to identify weaknesses in golfing technique, offers strategies for strengthening them, and presents a plan to lower scores by improving the short game. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Internationally revered golf instructor Dave Pelzs bestselling classic can show you the way to lower scores by improving your short game. With a Foreword by Lee Janzen, two-time U.S. Open winner and eight-time winner on the PGA Tour."He who rules the short game collects the gold."—Dave Pelzs Golden Rule of GolfFed up with trying to imitate the pros, buying the latest expensive equipment, and seeing your handicap stay the same? 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.The result of decades of scientific research studying thousands of golfers, Daves philosophy is as simple as it is revolutionary and groundbreaking: Instead of practicing the wrong things the right way, or the right things the wrong way, Pelz shows you how to find your own personal weaknesses and how to improve them to efficiently lower your scores. Packed with all the knowledge, charts, and photos needed to learn from the master, Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible is the essential book for every golfer whos looking to improve his or her game.A former physicist for NASA, Dave brings a scientific rigor to his research and instruction that has made him the top short-game expert in the world. His renowned golf schools and clinics focus exclusively on putting and the short game, attracting top players like Tom Kite, Colin Montgomerie, two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen, reigning PGA champion Vijay Singh, Steve Elkington, Payne Stewart, Peter Jacobsen, and many LPGA players including Annika Sorenstam and Liselotte Neumann. Flap Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible is the first book in a four-book series, The Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series. The next volume in the series will be Dave Pelzs Putting Bible. Fed up with trying to imitate the pros, buying the latest expensive equipment, and seeing your handicap stay the same? The first book by bestselling author and internationally revered golf instructor Dave Pelz since Putt Like the Pros, his bestselling classic, Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible can show you the way to lower scores by improving your short game. The result of decades of scientific research studying thousands of golfers, Daves philosophy is as simple as it is revolutionary and groundbreaking: Instead of practicing the wrong things the right way, or the right things the wrong way, Pelz shows you how to find your own personal weaknesses and how to improve them to efficiently lower your scores. Packed with all the knowledge, charts, and photos needed to learn from the master, Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible is the essential book for every golfer whos looking to improve his or her game. Daves approach to golf is easy to understand: 80 percent 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 indeed make or break your entire game. And 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 like Tom Kite, Colin Montgomerie, two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen, reigning PGA champion Vijay Singh, Steve Elkington, Payne Stewart, Peter Jacobsen, 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. A former physicist for NASA, Dave brings a scientific rigor to his research and instruction that has made him the top short-game expert in the world. Dave has observed and then taught thousands of golfers to improve their ability to score better. The years he has spent studying the short game, including chipping, lobs, pitches, distance wedges, and bunker play, have resulted in an unequaled expertise and a fascinating body of knowledge on golf, with the statistics and data to back it up. In this new book, Dave for the first time shares the understanding and techniques he has taught the pros, including a wide array of innovative tests and exercises for mastering those deceptive and high-pressure shots of the short game. Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible is an essential book for golfers of all levels. Covering everything golfers need to know to improve their short game, Daves system can-and will-help you to consistently shoot lower scores. Author Biography Renowned golf instructor Dave Pelz is the technical and short-game consultant to GOLF Magazine. A former NASA research scientist, he founded the Pelz Golf Institute to perform research for the good of the game, and he operates four highly acclaimed and popular Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools across the country. He has improved the games of over 15,000 amateur golfers, 48 PGA players, and 38 LPGA players, and he is also the host of The Golf Channels #1 instruction program, The Dave Pelz Short Game Show. He lives in Austin, Texas.James A. Frank is the editor of Golf Magazine. He lives in New Jersey. Review Praise for Dave Pelz and the Scoring Game System:"Do I believe in Dave Pelz? I paid full price to go to his school, and it was the best money Ive ever spent. I learned more about my short game and putting in three days than in all my previous years and lessons combined. I know for sure I could not have won my second U.S. Open without the help of Dave Pelz. He has sure improved my scoring game! Im looking forward to working with him often in the years to come. I AM a believer." --Lee Janzen"Dave Pelz has added more irrefutable knowledge to golf instruction than any man alive. This new book is indeed the bible of the short game."--George Peper, editor-in-chief, Golf Magazine"In one days work with Pelz, I learned more about putting than I had known my entire life. . . . None of us out here practiced our short games enough, but those of us who have paid attention to Pelz know its the way to lower scores."--Curtis Strange"Dave Pelz is the most confident person, let alone coach, Ive ever been around. His science-based knowledge is the best Ive ever seen. I couldnt have won my sixth European Order of Merit without his help. His short-game system is improving my game, and has me the most excited Ive ever been about my own ability to score." --Colin Montgomerie"Dave Pelz is the best. Its pure and simple. If you want to play your best, you work with the best . . . thats Pelz."--Steve Elkington Review Quote Praise for Dave Pelz and the Scoring Game System: "Do I believe in Dave Pelz? I paid full price to go to his school, and it was the best money Ive ever spent. I learned more about my short game and putting in three days than in all my previous years and lessons combined. I know for sure I could not have won my second U.S. Open without the help of Dave Pelz. He has sure improved my scoring game! Im looking forward to working with him often in the years to come. I AM a believer." --Lee Janzen "Dave Pelz has added more irrefutable knowledge to golf instruction than any man alive. This new book is indeed the bible of the short game." --George Peper, editor-in-chief, Golf Magazine "In one days work with Pelz, I learned more about putting than I had known my entire life. . . . None of us out here practiced our short games enough, but those of us who have paid attention to Pelz know its the way to lower scores." --Curtis Strange "Dave Pelz is the most confident person, let alone coach, Ive ever been around. His science-based knowledge is the best Ive ever seen. I couldnt have won my sixth European Order of Merit without his help. His short-game system is improving my game, and has me the most excited Ive ever been about my own ability to score." --Colin Montgomerie "Dave Pelz is the best. Its pure and simple. If you want to play your best, you work with the best . . . thats Pelz." --Steve Elkington Excerpt from Book Chapter 1: Score Counts in Golf Who Cares About Score? 1.1 Defining the Scoring Game In golf, how you play inside of 100 yards is the prime determinant of how you score. I dont say this play completely determines your golf scores, just that it is the most significant factor when it comes to writing numbers on your scorecard. I base this statement on more than 23 years of studying golfers and compiling data, which shows that 60% to 65% of all golf shots occur inside 100 yards of the hole. More important, about 80% of the shots golfers lose to par occur inside 100 yards. These results led me to focus on what happens inside 100 yards, what I call the "scoring game," to concentrate my teaching there, and to found the Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools. Every golfers scoring game is a combination of many shots and many decisions. In teaching players how to score, I simplify things this way: I define the game played from 100 yards in to the edge of the greens as the "short game"; the game played on the greens is obviously the "putting game"; and the judgments and decisions made on game management and shot selection constitute the "management game." As you can see in Figure 1.1.1, Ive broken the game of golf into five categories, what T call "the five games of golf," which also include the "Mental Game" (fear, anxiety, confidence) and the "Power Game" from outside 100 yards. Learn to play all five of these games well and you will become a good golfer. And the more you improve your performance in these games, the more you will enjoy your golf. 1.2 Why Is This Book Necessary? My Short Game Bible focuses completely on play from 100 yards in to the edge of the green. To a true golfer, scoring is what the game is all about, and your short game plays a vital role in determining scoring ability. We dont all have the same natural talent, we cant all hit 350-yard drives like Tiger Woods, and we will never all look the same when we swing a golf club. But if you are in reasonably good health, if you can walk the meadows and see the clouds, smell the grass and hear the birds, if you can feel the breezes and make contact with the little white ball, you can learn to score better. And this book will help you do it. This is not a book about generating more clubhead speed with your driver or hitting the golf ball farther. Rather, my Short-Game Bible details what I have learned and how I teach the short game, including the distance wedges, pitches, chips, sand shots, lobs, and bump-and-run shots. I hope it will help you learn something about them. Now, the first point I want to make is about putting. Sound a little strange? Stick with me. 1.3 The "Golden Eight" What do you think is the most important distance in golf? The 250 yards of the tee shot? The 150 yards of the perfect approach? The 20 yards of most chips? Or the putt from three feet and in? Actually, its none of these. The most important distance in golf is the "Golden Eight," the eight feet that separate a two-foot putt from a 10-foot putt. More simply put, the Golden Eight is the distance difference between making and missing most of your putts. Ive studied thousands of golfers, at all skill levels, and found that nearly everybody makes almost every putt from inside two feet. Go a little farther away, to three feet, and golfers begin to miss (even Tour pros make only 85% to 95% of their three-footers). Step back to five feet and pros hole only about 65%, while amateurs, if theyre lucky, are making about 50%. And at six feet, the best in the world, the PGA Tour professionals, sink about 50%, plus or minus 5%. From 10 feet, no one consistently holes better than 25%. And from over 15 feet? One in 10, best case, even for the pros. So your best chance of making a putt is if its inside 10 feet. And how do you get it there? Answer: The wedges, pitches, chips, and bunker shots of your short game. Why the Short Game? 1.4 Giving Your Short Game Its Due There are more than 15,000 golf professionals in this country, most of whom teach the game. There are another 7,000-plus assistant pros who teach (and another 5,000-plus who want to teach), and 25 or so successful golf schools. What most of these teachers and schools have in common is that they emphasize the full swing, what I call the power swing. That is what golfers expect to be taught, and thats what they get. As a result--and Im not being critical, but its a fact--the short game takes a backseat in the teaching of golf. I am publishing this book because your short game deserves more attention than that. Your short game is not like any of golfs other games; it should not be played as if its a throttled-down version of the power game, as some pros teach. Golfers who use muscle control and deceleration to turn their power swings into short shots are doomed to frustration. The short game needs to be taught separately because--and here comes the good part--it is the most important skill you can improve to lower your scores. As mentioned above, the short game controls the Golden Eight feet. If statistics prove that youll probably miss a 10-footer but youre almost 100% from two feet away, then youd rather be putting from two feet than 10, right? How do you get there? For most of us, most of the time, the length of our first putt is a function of our short game. My research also shows that the short game is the single greatest influence on the success or failure of players on the PGA Tour. Ill explain the data in detail later, but right now, suffice it to say, I believe--and can prove--that it is the short game that wins the big money, wins the big tournaments, and keeps the pros on tour year after year. (Dont get too hung up on the pros. My data, which Ill refer to over and over in this book, has been collected from players of all skill levels, not just Tour players but also middle- and high-handicappers, even beginners.) And heres another piece of information that may surprise you, especially if youre an average or new golfer: The higher your scores, the more you need a good short game. Beginners and high-handicappers hit fewer greens than better players, which means they face more short-game shots per round. The more you need your short game, the better it has to be if youre going to become a good player (i.e., a low scorer). So while the short game is the bread-and-butter skill to the Tour players, its of even greater consequence to "normal" golfers. 1.5 Learn How to Learn The purpose of the Short Game Bible is not simply to tell you how great shortgame players look or swing. Its to help you learn how to be a better wedge player, a better sand player, and a better chipper and pitcher of the golf ball when you get close to the greens. But before you can achieve a better short game for yourself, you must first learn both what you need to know and how to learn it. In one after another of my schools around the country, I see golfers struggling to master their short games when they have no real understanding of what it is theyre trying to accomplish. In these cases, it doesnt matter how hard they try, how much they practice, how diligent they are, or how much they care. When they dont know the skills and techniques required to execute good shots, or how to practice to learn them, they will not be successful in learning them. The truth is, very few golfers, even at the Tour-player level, understand the details and realities of their short games. Therefore, what I want you to learn from this book is: 1. What you need to learn 2. How to learn it 3. Programs for ingraining your learning so your results will serve you on the golf course By reading this book it is my hope that you not only learn how to become a better short-game player, but that you actually become one. If that happens, Ive done my job and you will enjoy the game all the more. Well both be satisfied, because not only will you shoot lower scores but youll know how you developed that ability. Youll be able to fine-tune and touch up your short game later, perhaps many years later, after some bad habits may have snuck into your game. My ultimate goal is to help you to become your own best teacher, and to help you use that skill to improve your short game for as long as you continue to play. 1.6 The Pelz Overview of Scoring My Short Game Bible can best help your short game if you both understand whats being said and follow the recommended drills. It also will help if you understand where this information fits into the overall development of your ability to score. Figure 1.6.1 shows how I view your learning process, and how this book can fit in to help you improve your scoring game. Dont be intimidated or discouraged by the number of different shots and areas of practice that are comprised by the scoring game. At every skill level, the putting and short-game skills are easier to learn and groove than the skills of the power game. (The management game is the easiest to learn, but only once you have repeatable skills in the power, short, and putting games.) None of the concepts or motions in the short game are difficult if you take the time to understand them and then properly practice them. Its all a matter of knowing what to do, how to do it, then doing it often enough. All of the learning aids, books, and video- and audiotapes referenced in Figure 1.6.1 may not be available Details ISBN0767903447 Author Dave Pelz Pages 448 Series Dave Pelz Scoring Game Language English ISBN-10 0767903447 ISBN-13 9780767903448 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 1999 Imprint Broadway Books Subtitle Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Residence Austin, TX, US Short Title DAVE PELZS SHORT GAME BIBLE DOI 10.1604/9780767903448 UK Release Date 1999-05-11 AU Release Date 1999-05-11 NZ Release Date 1999-05-11 US Release Date 1999-05-11 Publisher Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) Publication Date 1999-05-11 DEWEY 796.3523 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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