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| The Mad Science of Golf: On moving past golf industry hype and learning to play better golf | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Moore
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 243177
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 172
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1425956319
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781425956318
ASIN: 1425956319
Publication Date: November 29, 2007
Release Date: November 29, 2007
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Product Description
The Mad Science of Golf is a one-of-a-kind book that explains how golfers have been permanently sidetracked by the high-tech hype of the golf industry. Through a series of questions and answers the book will literally reprogram your thinking and give you an entirely new perspective on golf, the golf industry, and the process of improvement. The book clearly answers the questions that golfers should have been asking a long time ago. On Golf Clubs: Can anything else (that really matters) be done to a golf club? Are golf clubs REALLY getting better every year?What kind of golf clubs do you REALLY need? On The Golf Swing:If swing mechanics are so important, why do the best players in the world all swing differently?Why does your golf swing keep changing?How come no matter how many lessons you take, you always need more? On Playing Better Golf: What's the secret to scoring lower? How come some aspects of your game seem to never improve? What's the ONLY why to achieve day-to-day consistency? The Mad Science of Golf is certainly not your typical how-to golf book. It will forever change your perception of golf equipment, the golf swing, and how to play better golf. It should be in every golfer's library.
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This is a great book for any golfer October 5, 2008
There are so many clubs on the market and it gets hard to distinguish fact from fallacy. The book is divided equally between equipment and technique. The author's background is as a custom clubmaker.
With regard to equipment, he covers what is truly important in your equipment and interesting facts about 'improvements in technology'. The format is in a question and answer format in short, easy to follow chapters. The mad science is the belief that newer and newer technology helps the golfer; however, the average scores in the past few decades have not gone down.
With regard to the actual game, this is not an instructional book but covers anecdotal experience with regard to how to play. He covers more of strategy and smarter golf.
With this book, it closes the loop for me for instruction since it has covered a lot of very important points regarding the technique. It boils down to just using the club the way it was intended.
I recommend this book to those golfers who frequently change their clubs year to year (one thing I read in Power Golf was that Ben Hogan didn't change his driver for 10 years, until it broke). That should clue you in on what is truly important.
Similar books are included below, which dispel the marketing of the golf industry:
Just Hit It
The Right Sticks: Equipment Myths That Could Wreck Your Golf Game
The Search for the Perfect Golf Club
The Search for the Perfect Driver
Order this book today and you won't be disappointed.
Be a Better Player August 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My name is John Hadley. Golf is a fearfully complex game. Physically and mentally. It can become even more perplexing if one is led down the rabbit hole of high-tech equipment hype and convoluted swing theory. Phil Moore does a magnificent job of melding his experiences as a master club maker with his discoveries as a low handicap golfer. His perspective is concise and thoughtful. The book is easy to read and follows a question and answer format that makes it interesting and shows good common sense. All golfers want to know how they can lower their average score. Phil Moore and this book will make you a better player.
An Incredible Little Book May 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Mad Science of Golf is an incredible little book. The authors understanding and purpose is to help one aquire a vastly improved understanding of the golf swing, Golf Equipment, how to improve YOUR golf game and understand how to play better golf.
The book is loaded with pertinent information. BUY IT, you'll love it, I love it.
I have offered The Mad Science of Golf to the Members and Guests at my facility knowing that this information will improve their golf game and ultimatley make the game of golf more fun.
Troy Persson, PGA
The Truth April 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a GREAT book!!! This book has something for all golfers. It is enlightening for both beginning and advanced golfers. Light is shed on equipment and swing myths. Myths that have led golfers down a path of spending too much money and too much time in search of the perfect clubs and swing and have led only to lighter pockets and higher scores. Reading this book will lead you to an understanding of the game that will let you enjoy your swing your game more than ever. Lower scores are on the way!
Jason Taylor, PGA
Honest April 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is a series of questions and the longer explanations by the author. He dispels the myth that you can buy yourself a scratch handicap. If you do not make solid contact with the ball, then none of these products will give you that extra 10 yards that you see in the advertising.
Golf is business. The large golf companies make their money because we like to buy new clubs. The author points out calmly that hitting your irons is not the point, that you need to know how far your hit your irons. They are for control, not distance.
I read the book in one evening. It is worth an evening before you start looking for the next set of clubs.
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