Author: Dave Pelz
Brand: Golf Smart
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

123 reviews

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 448
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.3

ISBN: 0767903447
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3523
EAN: 9780767903448

Publication Date: May 11, 1999
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Features:

•	Short Game
•	Hard Cover

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
By DAVE PELZ. Daves approach to golf is easy to understand: 80 percent of the strokes golfers lose to par are determined by their play within 100 yards of the green - the crucial scoring game. A former physicist for NASA, Dave brings a scientific rigor to his research and instruction that has made him the top short-game expert in the world. Now Dave shares, for the first time, the understanding and techniques he has taught the pros, including a wide array of innovative tests and exercises for mastering those deceptive and high-pressure shots of the short game. The first book by best-selling author and internationally revered instructor Dave Pelz since Putt Like the Pros, this new offering can show you the way to lower scores by improving your short game. Packed with all the knowledge, charts, and photos needed to learn from the master, Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible is the essential book for every golfer. Covering everything golfers need to know about how to improve their short game, Dave Pelzs Short Game Bible can - and will - help you to consistently shoot lower scores.

Amazon.com Review
As the reigning rabbi on the mysteries of golf from 100 yards in, Pelz has earned the right to anoint his expansive instruction on the short game a "Bible." A scientist by training, he's analyzed the macros and dissected the micros to come up with a gospel for pros (Lee Janzen, Vijay Singh, and Anika Sorenstam, to name a few disciples) and weekend hackers alike. Pelz fills his scripture with photos, illustrations, charts, and plenty of sage advice on pitching, chipping, sandplay, putting, equipment, execution, mechanics, technique, practice, attitude, lots of questions, and plenty of answers. Much of the Short Game Bible is pretty sophisticated stuff aimed toward better players--or, at least, players who take their golf seriously. But its basics are appropriate to any skill level of the game: Accurately assess your own weaknesses, and then go about improving them systematically with the author's carefully researched and tested plan. It seems so obvious, but the truth is, most golfers either beat balls on the range in search of distance or slave over eight-foot putts on the practice green; they fail to pay enough attention to the shots in between. Pelz does the math for you here; his figures add up, so that yours can go down--the golfing equivalent of forgiving sins and absolving trespasses. --Jeff Silverman

Customer Reviews: Read 95 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

Bad science October 14, 2008
Emerger
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The good:
A lot of information and opinion about the short game in one place.

The bad:
Bad science. Example: a table (Figure 2.8.1, p. 20) showing data results expressed to tenths of a percent, based on a sample of five players!

Inflated. The useful information could have been presented in about 10% of the book's 429 pages.

Flagrant salesmanship. Items offered for sale include The Pelz Report, Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools, Dave Pelz Scoring Game Tour, and thirteen different "learning aids."

Shameless self-aggrandizement.

Not user-friendly. Example: no index.

4 out of 5 stars

gil's review August 11, 2008
Gil Ward (bend or)
Dave Pelz's Shortgame Bible came promptly and I've enjoyed and applied some of his suggestions to my golf game. Good book!

5 out of 5 stars

Great Info for all levels July 21, 2008
Czech Razor (Jamestown, NY)
A well written approach to the game that has the greatest effect in lowering your score.

5 out of 5 stars

One of the Best Golf Books I've read April 28, 2008
Qofspades
"Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible" is most likely the best book I've read on golf. In the beginning of the book, Pelz demonstrates, through the use of his extensive data on both tour players and amateurs, just how important it is to be proficient from 100 yards and in. Many golfers think they can just read a book, then go on the course and be successful. This is never true.
If you want to become a better short game player, you are going to need to hit thousands of practice shots, and you are going to have to learn how to hone your distance control with your wedges and the various length of your swing.. (7:30 swing, 9:00 swing, and 10:30 swing)

All in all, I highly recommend this book.

5 out of 5 stars

Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible February 19, 2008
Hebert (Florida)
If you're the type that can learn from a book and want to know all the technical aspects of the short game - this is the book for you. Very detailed and very technical but you will learn a lot from it. This is a "must have" book, along with 'Dave Pelz's Putting Bible' and Leadbetter's 'The Swing'.