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Title: Dave Pelz's Putting Bible by Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz ISBN: 0-385-50024-6 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pure Putting Pleasure!
Comment: This book deserves many more than five stars!
This is simply the best book to improve your putting that has ever been written.
Let me give you an example. I recently played in Southern California after a rain-soaked night. The greens were dripping. My opponent said "I wonder how hard to hit it through this water." And I quoted from this book. He made his putt, and so did I. In fact, the highlight of the round was a tricky 23 foot birdie putt. Thank you, Dave Pelz!
I have taken Dave Pelz's short game course, so I didn't know how much this book would help me. So I came to this book thinking, this will be a good refresher. That was right, but the insights I got from this book exceeded all that I learned in that course about putting.
The book explains the engineering approach that Pelz has brought to putting. He measures everything he can think of. The beginning explains key concepts of green problems -- like the raised donut around the hole where no one steps (the rest of the green is downtrodden by thousands of footsteps daily).
The next section explains the 15 building blocks of putting -- like aim, path, touch, rhythm, ritual, feel, face angle, stability, attitude, and routine.
Then Pelz puts special attention on speed and reading the green. Chapter 7 on green reading was worth the price of the book alone. He answered questions I have asked dozens of pros, and received no good answers to.
Then, he describes how to use these basics to improve your putting. I have been using a number of these for the last several years, and can certainly attest that they work.
Each point is beautifully explained. He has photographs of great players, graphs of experiments he has conducted, graphs of research he has done with average and great players, and diagrams of what to do and not to do. The language is simple and unambiguous.
For the average golfer, this book can take 4-6 strokes off your game. It will mean winning a lot of weekend bets.
One of the book's great strengths is that it starts with the thinking that most people have about putting that gets them in trouble. He helps you identify your stalled thinking that holds back your putting, and then shows you how to break out of the stall and develop an improved habit.
If you have a father, grandfather, uncle, brother, or son who is a father and plays golf, this is the perfect gift for Father's Day. I took the liberty of giving a copy to myself as my Father's Day gift this year. Maybe it will help me win the Father's Day golf tournament!
Keep in mind that in the average round you'll make more putts than you will tee shots, fairway shots, or finesse shots around the green. Get better at putting, and your score can really improve! A two foot putt and a 300 yard drive count for the same on the score -- one stroke.
Enjoy your putting game the most!
Rating: 5
Summary: Tick Tock the Pendulum-man
Comment: At the beginning of this book Dave Pelz reveals that this is the second book in his series on the different "games" in the sport of golf. The first book was on the short game. There will also be other books on the full swing, the mental game, and the strategic game. But this is about putting, about rolling the ball on the green in a line that drops the ball into the cup.
Pelz defines break, grain, slope, and all the other factors that affect putting, and he reviews all the known, USGA allowed putting styles. His conclusion is that George Archer's putting style, the pure pendulum motion with dead aim at the cup, is the best, most repeatable way to put the ball in the hole.
And the rest of the book is a description of a thousand and one (I exaggerate) different practice exercises to learn the pendulum swing, including different and expensive thingamajigs you can buy to help you perform the exercises. A little ingenuity will reveal ways to perform every exercise except the one that requires a laser with much simpler items.
Despite these cavils, I recommend this book to everyone who wonders about the mechanics of putting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent for the long haul
Comment: Reading this book AND PRACTICING will undoubtably make you a much better putter. However you must be in it for the long haul, because this is simply not a putt great by tomorrow type of system.
Pelz leads you somewhat laboriously through all the whys and hows of putting. I like this kind of information because I want to understand and be able to do. This satisfies my intellectual curiousity and gives me greater confidence that I can pull off the shots automatically without having to think too much about them.
He then details equally detailed guides to exercises designed to improve your putting. He is also honest in the sense that he readily acknowledges to truly learn his system will probably take years of diligent work on your part.
The book is great however it could have been signicantly better with little additional work. Namely Pelz please please include an index in your future books. A simple index would make finding little tidbits easy instead of the current search to find the information you need. It would only take a few extra pages and a computer could do the indexing work for you quickly............PLEASE!
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