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    Golf's Simple Secrets: The Complete Series
    Golf's Simple Secrets: The Complete Series
    Golf's Simple Secrets: The Complete Series
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    Golf's Simple Secrets: The Complete Series

    By Peter Lightbown and Cecilia Croaker

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    In this compendium of the Golf's Simple Secrets series you will learn how to manage your short game and the reasons why you slice, top and shank the ball and how to cure these common problems. You will learn how to manage bunker and chip shots and also how to obtain a rhythmic putting stroke and have better judgement of direction when putting therefore improving your confidence. We also cover the mental game secrets and how to use your mind constructively and exercises that you can do to improve your swing at home, the driving range, practice ground and on the golf course.
    Also covered is how to connect to your power source, how to use your head, neck and eyes through the backswing and the throughswing. Rhythm, footwork and power are also explained. This compendium is a great tool for the beginner and the low handicapper for learning or revision.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChisel Design
    Release dateAug 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301659616
    Golf's Simple Secrets: The Complete Series
    Author

    Peter Lightbown

    Peter Lightbown (P.G.A.) turned professional in 1972. He has taught golf extensively in Australia and in London, Denmark, and Malta, and now teaches in Sydney, Australia. Cecilia Croaker is a former librarian who edits and shapes Peter's books and other golf reference books. Peter and Cecilia are also the authors of the best seller The Fairway Within. She and Peter live in Sydney with John and Stripey. When not teaching golf Peter is flying his plane up and down the eastern coast of Australia.

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      Golf's Simple Secrets - Peter Lightbown

      GOLF'S SIMPLE SECRETS

      THE COMPLETE SERIES

      Copyright 2013

      Peter Lightbown P.G.A.

      & Cecilia Croaker

      Published by Chisel Design

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      Smashwords License Statement

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      PREFACE

      Simplifying our thinking around the golf swing is an absolute necessity because complex thinking creates confusion and destroys effectiveness and pleasure. From my experience as a golf coach over many years, I can assure you that most golfers’ difficulties largely stem from the amount of complicated, technical thinking they have swilling around in their heads. When we replace complex thoughts with simple thoughts, it makes a huge contribution to both the effectiveness of our swing and the pleasure we derive from the game.

      This book is a compilation of five stand-alone e-books which were first published separately in 2011 and 2012. The reader will therefore encounter some repetition of central ideas, in particular two core exercises which go right to the heart of the swing. Mastering these exercises is, however, the key to real and sustained improvement in every aspect of your game.

      My hope here is to give you some new perspectives on the game and to bring clarity, freedom and enjoyment to the experience of playing golf. In fact I’d like to end with the revolutionary thought that, contrary to popular belief, golf may not be so difficult after all.

      Peter Lightbown PGA

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      GOLF'S SIMPLE SECRETS THE COMPLETE SERIES

      Preface

      Table of Contents

      Books in the Series

      Acknowledgments

      GOLF'S SIMPLE SECRETS - ILLUSTRATED

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 The Stance

      Chapter 2 The Trussed Chicken exercise

      Chapter 3 The Swaperoo exercise

      Chapter 4 Seeing the target in the sky

      Chapter 5 Introducing a club

      Chapter 6 Introducing the ball

      Chapter 7 The Slice

      Chapter 8 Curing the Slice

      Chapter 9 Topping

      Chapter 10 Curing Topping

      Chapter 11 The Hook

      Chapter 12 The Shank

      Chapter 13 Lack of Power or Distance

      Chapter 14 Conclusion

      GOLF'S SIMPLE SECRETS THE SHORT GAME

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 The action

      Chapter 3 The stance

      Chapter 4 ‘Trussed Chicken’ exercise

      Chapter 5 ‘Swaperoo’ exercise

      Chapter 6 Introducing the club

      Chapter 7 Pitching

      Chapter 8 The Bunker Shot

      Chapter 9 The Chip Shot

      Chapter 10 Conclusion

      GOLF'S SIMPLE PUTTING SECRETS

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 What we need in a putting stroke

      Chapter 3 The best stance for putting

      Chapter 4 A rhythmic putting stroke

      Chapter 5 Judgement of direction

      Chapter 6 How to trigger your putting stroke

      Chapter 7 The constructive use of the mind

      Chapter 8 Common putting problems

      Chapter 9 Conclusion

      GOLF'S SIMPLE MENTAL GAME SECRETS

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 The deadly sergeant major mindset

      Chapter 3 A constructive use of the mind

      Chapter 4 The target in the sky

      Chapter 5 Overcoming the curse of the static ball

      Chapter 6 The pre-shot routine

      Chapter 7 Trust the swing you have and Just Do It

      Chapter 8 After shot thinking

      Chapter 9 Working on your swing at home

      Chapter 10 At the driving range or practice ground

      Chapter 11 On the course

      Chapter 12 Conclusion

      GOLF’S SIMPLE SECRETS - INCREASE YOUR POWER

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 Why trying to speed up the clubhead doesn’t work

      Chapter 2 Connecting to your power source

      Chapter 3 Standing for power

      Chapter 4 The role of the hands and arms in power

      Chapter 5 The 'Trussed Chicken' exercise – how to use your core

      Chapter 6 The head, neck and eyes – the backswing

      Chapter 7 The target in the sky – the throughswing

      Chapter 8 The ‘Snappy Swap of the Arms’ exercise

      Chapter 9 The optimum length of the backswing

      Chapter 10 Starting down slowly for power

      Chapter 11 Rhythm, footwork and power

      Chapter 12 Cast in order of appearance

      Chapter 13 Conclusion

      Books in the Series

      Golf's Simple Secrets – Illustrated *

      Golf's Simple Secrets – The Short Game

      Golf's Simple Putting Secrets

      Golf's Simple Mental Game Secrets

      Golf's Simple Secrets – Increase Your Power

      Note from Publisher:

      *Originally we published our first ebook Golf's Simple Secrets. It became very successful though it lacked pictures which some of our readers suggested we may like to add. Taking into account our readers' enthusiasm for the book and that it was a best seller, we added some new pictures and made a new cover to differentiate between the non illustrated version and the illustrated version. We decided not to remove the first book from the bookstores and to keep the price as it was as most readers seemed happy with this. In this version The Complete Series we have therefore not included the first book as most of the information is covered in the Illustrated version.

      Author's Website –www.golfsimplesecrets.com

      Acknowledgments

      This book is the work of both authors - Peter Lightbown and Cecilia Croaker. Peter turned professional in 1972 and has taught golf extensively in Australia and in London, Denmark, and Malta, and now teaches in Sydney, Australia. Cecilia is a former librarian who has edited and shaped this, and other, golf reference books. Peter and Cecilia are also the authors of the best seller The Fairway Within. She and Peter live in Sydney and when not teaching golf Peter can be found flying his plane and indeed he sometimes flies to lessons in the Australian outback

      GOLF'S SIMPLE SECRETS

      ILLUSTRATED

      Copyright 2011 Peter Lightbown & Cecilia Croaker

      Published by Chisel Design

      Author's Website – Golf's Simple Secrets

      Acknowledgments

      This book is the work of both authors - Peter Lightbown and Cecilia Croaker. Peter turned professional in 1972 and has taught golf extensively in Australia and in London, Denmark, and Malta, and now teaches in Sydney, Australia. Cecilia is a former librarian who has edited and shaped this, and other, golf reference books. Peter and Cecilia are also the authors of the best seller The Fairway Within

      Introduction

      We have been told a very complicated story about the golf swing and so our thoughts have been technical and complex. This has led to us thinking the whole subject is incredibly difficult. However I have found from years of teaching that there are 2 simple exercises that go right to the heart of the movement. Every golfer who gives some time to working on these exercises will see a far-reaching improvement in their swing. In addition, when we really understand how fundamentally simple the swing is, playing golf can at last become a pleasurable experience.

      The first of these key exercises I have called ‘Trussed Chicken’. It involves removing your arms from the equation so that you are able to focus your attention on the rotation of your central core. The ‘Trussed Chicken’ exercise teaches you how to bring the strength of your body into the movement, rather than relying on your hands and arms, which are relatively weak. ‘Trussed Chicken’, particularly if practised in bare feet, will also help you develop good balance, which is the critical ingredient for accuracy. This one exercise will give you more power and allow you to hit the ball straighter.

      The second key exercise I have called the ‘Swaperoo’. It involves learning to swap the dominant arm in the swing from left on the backswing to right on the way through. This will help with your timing, ensuring that the clubhead collects the ball solidly and powerfully at the bottom of the swing.

      When we bring Trussed Chicken and Swaperoo together we have a simple and effective golf swing that applies to any shot we are about to play. Done in miniature, we have a chip shot or a pitch, and by extending it to its fullest we have a powerful drive.

      In order to do these 2 exercises we need to prepare the way by firstly working on a very simple, basic stance.

      Chapter 1

      The Stance

      The stance I am going to show you we share with many other sports – tennis, skiing, and fielding and wicket-keeping in cricket, for example. It is in essence a ready position that allows you to move easily in any direction and I have called it the ‘Jumping Out of a Tree’ stance. To see what I mean I’ll get you to jump up in the air, even just a little way, and see how you land. You will instinctively land with your knees bent.

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