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Our 343 best instruction tips

By Cliff Schrock/Book Review Editor
Illustration By Serge Bloch

WHAT'S A GOLFER TO DO?
Ron Kaspriske ($16.95)

In an unscientific study, we estimate that expert teachers and tour players have provided 36,000 tips, tricks and techniques in nearly 60 years of publishing Golf Digest. But let's not quibble about the number. We have selected 343 of the very best tips for What's a Golfer to Do?, a collection of useful advice in a tidy 244 pages, edited by the magazine's Digest Editor, Ron Kaspriske. Two examples: For good tempo, Annika Sorenstam says to think one-two-three swinging to the top and one-two-three to the finish. Can't hit a long iron? Jack Nicklaus says to imagine a "7" stamped on the club and swing it like a 7-iron.

A Course Called Ireland

Tom Coyne ($26)

If you can stand reading about someone else taking your dream trip, then Coyne's odyssey will do. He played 56 Irish courses in four months. Even more impressive: He went to 196 pubs.

Golf: The art of the mental game

Dr. Joseph Parent ($24.95)

For a fourth time, the legendary drawings of Tony Ravielli have been paired with expert commentary, this time from mental maestro Parent, who has worked with several tour players.

Freddie & Me

Tripp Bowden ($19.95)

Freddie is Bennett (not Couples), the longtime black Augusta National caddiemaster. He befriended Bowden, white son of a local doctor, and taught him plenty about the club, the Masters, golf and life.

Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine

Scott Gummer ($26)

Forty years after Kelley's geometric swing equations and terms like "lever assemblies" created a bunch of analytical swingers, Gummer details how the cultists fell under Kelley's spell.