Legendary Lessons: More Than One Hundred Golf Teachings from by Claudia Mazzucco

By Claudia Mazzucco

Modern golfing because it is practiced worldwide built within the final thirty years. And but, the mythical Walter Hagen, and a few of his associates, might carry an unforeseen message to the busy, under pressure, and sometimes tech-oriented golf viewers: the way to play your most sensible golfing with good judgment and imagination.

Though Hagen by no means released a e-book with reference to golfing guideline, he did educate and write approximately golfing at quite a few occasions all through his lifestyles. the decisions in Legendary Lessons assemble Hagen’s musings at the psychological method of golfing with these of a number of hugely talented golf champions and exotic chroniclers of the 1920s—including Bernard Darwin, Harold Hilton, Bobby Jones, Joyce and Roger Wethered, Ernest Jones, Alex Morrison, Henry Longhurst, Francis Ouimet, Grantland Rice, Gene Sarazen, Harry Vardon, O. B. Keeler, and a number of other others—to establish the styles fascinated with the strategy of a sportsman.

This e-book explores golfing as a appearing paintings within the gentle of the champions’ adventure because it started to boost and evolve during the twentieth century.

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