05 Jan, 2009
Your 15th Club: The Inner Secret to Great Golf
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Your 15th Club: The Inner Secret to Great Golf
Binding : Audio CD
ProductGroup : Book
Manufacturer : Simon & Schuster Audio
Label : Simon & Schuster Audio
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio
Studio : Simon & Schuster Audio
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Any golfer will understand this:
You go out to the driving range, you warm up with your irons, everything is going right. You pull out your utility clubs, you are hitting great. Your driver -- boom. The ball flies far and lands just where you want it. You head for the practice green...you drain every putt from 30 feet in.
Time to play with your friends. Eighteen delicious holes and you are going to show them how good you are. Your mind starts racing a bit. Am I too confident? Am I too relaxed? Thoughts starts creeping in, but you still believe. You line up over the first tee ready to drill it. Everything is going to be great....
Whack! You can't believe it -- you spray the ball 30 yards to the right, short and in deep rough. You try to punch out to the fairway...only it goes to the other rough. And so on . . you end up quadruple bogey. Your day is shot...
It happens to every golfer. The mind becomes their worst enemy. It's not physical. It's all in the head. How do listeners get their brains back to practice range? Why did it change?
The preeminent golf psychologist Bob Rotella, whose counsel and knowledge is sought by hundreds of thousands, including the world's top players, has spent years trying to discover a way to get golfers to stay in the mindset that they can thrive in. In Your 15th Club, Rotella has done just that: come up with a plan to help golfers play at their optimal best. It is something that every golfer will want to learn.
Another great book from Bob Rotella (2009-05-26)
Before reading `Your 15th Club' I thought `Golf is not a game of perfect' was the best golf book I have read. Now Bob Rotella has matched that and taken it to the next level. I've read the previous reviews and some don't seem to agree with my opinion. I don't think they grasp what Rotella is saying about the importance of self confidence. But more than explaining the importance of self confidence Rotella explains how to build and maintain self confidence. Some of the things in this book I had stumbled upon and was all ready doing and some I have learned from this book's marvelous way of conveying Bob Rotella's thoughts. The thoughts and ideas in this book can help anyone improve their golf game.
Excellent instruction, hard work (2009-03-22)
This book is an excellent review of how to build confidence, change mental attitudes, and play a better, more enjoyable mental game, but it takes a lot of hard work. Buy this one is you have negative opinions and attitudes about your game, or want to shave ten strokes off your handicap, but be prepared to have to work at it, not just read the book.
NOT ROTELLA'S BEST (2009-03-03)
I first became acquainted with Bob Rotella, as many others did, through his book, GOLF IS NOT A GAME OF PERFECT. So well written, so straightforward and so applicable, PERFECT spoke to all of the mental concerns that I have with my golf game.
So, naturally, it made perfect sense to get Rotella's newest book, YOUR 15TH CLUB: THE INNER SECRET TO GREAT GOLF, especially since Rotella had positioned this book as a companion volume to, PERFECT, the landmark work that so many had read and loved.
At first, 15TH CLUB seemed to be everything that I hoped it would be. Aside from a few sections where Rotella seems to get too enamored with his own psychology, the book seemed to flow and read just as well as PERFECT.
But, just when things seemed to reach the denouement promised in the title, namely revealing the SECRET TO GREAT GOLF, Rotella completely falls off the planet. Enter Padraig Harrington and Rotella's previously unknown position as President of the Padraig Harrington Fan Club! Two tedious, inexplicable chapters emerge wherein Rotella simply sings the praises of Paddy without really relating anything to the abandoned reader. Yes, the first of the chapters, titled "What I Learned from Padraig Harrington," seems to promise the reader a chance to learn some important mental tips from the Irish champion but then becomes Rotella's regurgitation of how Paddy played this tournament or that one.
But as I finished wading through the mess, the next chapter title seemed to offer some hope. Titled "Putting it All Together," this final chapter would surely get things back on track and, at long last, reveal the secret to great golf promised by the author. I couldn't have been more wrong. The final chapter was nothing more than Padraig Harrington - Part Deux!
Oh! One last thing. If you want to get the Yips, the neurological putting problem that plagues many of the game's best, simply read 15TH CLUB's Chapter 13: Nip the Yips. Nothing that I have ever read will put the wrong putting thoughts into your head more than this well-meant but surpassingly misguided chapter!
Stick with Rotella's excellent book, GOLF IS NOT A GAME OF PERFECT, and forget this one.
THE (GOLFING) HORSEMAN
Don't Waste Your Money (2009-02-21)
This is his same stuff, slightly re-worded. Simple concepts in a juvenile writing style
Maybe the best mental golf book ever (2009-02-04)
Without a doubt this book is head and shoulders above the rest. This information goes deeper than his first three books. I loved it and can't wait to use its lessons on the course. Every golfer should read it. And don't worry about jargon and such. It is very readable and makes common sense out of our inner demons. Thank you Dr. Rotella, I think I am starting to get it.