Book Description
This book is written from the perspective that correct hand action is crucial to developing a well coordinated, fault-free golf swing. Moe Norman and me share theopinion that proper hand action is missing from many golf swings. In short, this book teaches the hand action of the golf swing and how to coordinate your shoulder turn with this hand action.
The lessons on the hand action of the golf swing consist of four chapters: The Golf Grip, Addressing the Ball, the Hand Action, and Adding the Shoulder Turn. These chapters are written with detailed step-by-step instructions accompanied by color photographs illustrating many of the steps.
The book was published in November 2011. It is one hundred and sixty pages long and includes two hundred and forty-five pictures. The book is spiral bound so that you can take your hands off the book and not have it close on you while you follow along holding your golf club. The dimensions of the book are: 6 inches (width) by 9 inches (height) by 0.5 inch (depth). It can easily be tucked away in your golf bag ready for you to use on your next visit to the practice range. The ISBN is 978-0-9813392-0-7. It retails for $ 19.95 plus shipping and can be shipped any where in the world.
The book is sold to libraries so you may find a copy of it at your local library, if not you may want to suggest it to your library.
Other places to find the book are: iBookstore (ebook), Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Google Books, Bookhitch.com, Bookbuzzr.com, and Thefeatheredquill.com. Additional ebook versions will be created in the coming months.
For Beginner-level and Intermediate-level Golfers
Designed for beginner- and intermediate-level golfers, The Golf Swing: It’s all in the Hands takes your through four golf lessons: -The Golf Grip-, -Addressing the Ball-, -The Hand Action,- and -Adding the Shoulder Turn.-
This lesson on hand action is difficult to find in print. To my knowledge, the last book written on the subject was in 1946 by E.M. Prain. The book’s title is, Live Hands: A Key to Better Golf.
Missing from Most Golf Swings
Take it from Moe Norman, the legendary ball striker, many golfers make the mistake of waving at the ball. What Moe is saying is that many golfers swing the golf club using uncontrolled hand action. In doing so, at the moment of impact they have no control over the position of the clubface relative to the target line or golf ball. The result is a poorly struck and misdirected golf shot. To hit pure and accurate golf shots consistently you need to develop a technique that will return the clubface perpendicular to the target line each time at the moment of impact. Correct hand action and a coordinated shoulder turn will go a long ways to making this happen.
Moe Norman and Ben Hogan are the only two golfers to own their golf swings. That is, their golf swings were so good that either of them could hit whatever golf shot they wanted whenever they wanted. Moe’s goal in life was to hit the golf ball pure and accurate three hundred and sixty-five days a year! As far as humanly possible, I think he achieved his life’s work.
The Benefits of Learning These Four Lessons
In mastering these lessons, you will learn how to align the sweet spots of the clubface to the sweet of the golf ball. As you take your backswing and pivot the golf club parallel to the target line, you will learn to maintain the alignment of the sweet spots right up to the top of the backswing and to the moment of impact. For the moment of impact, you will learn to have the clubhead moving along the target line in the direction of your target while simultaneously positioning the clubface perpendicular to the target line. At the moment of impact, the sweet spot of the clubface will be aligned with the sweet spot of the golf ball resulting in pure and accurate ball striking. This is the essence of this book written in four concise and detailed chapters.
A Final Thought
Sooner or later, any serious student of the golf swing will realize the need to learn proper hand action and the need to know how the shoulders turn with the hands to make one coordinated motion through the ball.
– The Author, James Lythgoe