Golf: Steps To Success 2nd Edition By Paul Schempp And Peter Mattsson

Develop a consistent swing and master every shot on your way to a lower handicap. Golf: Steps to Success provides detailed, progressive instruction with accompanying full-color photos for every shot: putts, chip shots, and pitch shots as well as shots from the fairway, tee box, bunker, rough, and bad lies.

Practice and improve your shot making with over 100 drills that feature a scoring system for gauging and accelerating your progress. After building a solid skill base, improve the mental side of your game: Learn to select the right club, analyze ball flight, overcome tough lies and shots in the rough, and manage stress and emotions to raise your level of play and enjoyment of the game.

This self-paced learning tool allows you to develop a solid overall game and build on any initial golf lessons you may have had. As part of the popular Steps to Success Sport Series - with more than 1.8 million copies sold - Golf: Steps to Success is the guide you’ll find most valuable not only on the practice range and green but also on every hole you play.


Contents

Foreword
Climbing the Steps to Golf Success
Acknowledgments

The Game of Golf
Step 1 Putting the Ball Into the Hole
Step 2 Setting Up for the Shot
Step 3 Chipping to the Green
Step 4 Pitching From Farther Away
Step 5 Taking a Full Swing
Step 6 Ball Flight, Shot Patterns, and Club Selection
Step 7 Overcoming Difficult Lies and Shots From the Rough
Step 8 Escaping From Bunkers
Step 9 Practice to Improve Performance
Step 10 Managing the Course
Step 11 The Mental Game of Golf
Step 12 Continuing to Improve

About the Authors

Released 2014
248 Pages


About The Author

Paul G. Schempp is the director of the Sport Instruction Research Laboratory at the University of Georgia, where he also serves as a professor. He has spent the last quarter century studying the development of expertise in sport and coaching. Schempp has designed performance programs for the Swedish Golf Federation and Mexican national golf teams. He has coached several champions on the PGA and European PGA professional golf tours, including Jesper Parnevik, Richard S. Johnson, Niclas Fasth, and Fredrik Jacobson. As a scientific consultant to Golf Digest, he was instrumental in selecting America’s 50 Greatest Teachers. A longtime consultant for the PGA of America, Schempp helped redesign the PGA’s professional certification programs for golf instructors.

Peter Mattsson serves as the director of elite performance at the Swedish Sports Confederation. He served six years as the director of coaching for the English Golf Union, where he was instrumental in the development of the current National Coaching Programme structure. Before coming to England, Mattsson was the head coach for the Swedish national teams, a role he held from 1998 to 2005. He has coached Swedish teams and individual players at numerous European and World Amateur Championships at the World Cup and at professional events on the men’s and women’s tours.