On Par: The Everyday Golfer's Survival Guide
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pennington, Bill, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), Bill Pennington, author of ong>theong> beloved and widely read "On Par" golf column for ong>theong> "New York Times," knows how to interpret ong>theong> experts and pros for ong>theong> rest of us. For years, he has traveled ong>theong> globe in search of golf's essentials--those basic principles, those elusive truths (and who are we kidding, any trick or quick fix he can pick up along ong>theong> way) that will improve anyone's ong>gameong>. He has consulted ong>theong> world's leading golf instructors as well as countless caddies, groundskeepers, parking lot attendants, and bartenders. He has played rounds with Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, and Justin Timberlake. He has sought ong>theong> advice of psychiatrists, physicists, economists, zen masters. And on a particularly bad golf outing, he has even discussed ong>theong> fickleness of golf with a quite helpful raccoon. "On Par "captures it all: From equipment and instruction, to ong>theong> rules and language of golf, to camaraderie and psychology, to ong>theong> short ong>gameong>/long ong>gameong> debate, Pennington informs and entertains as he gets to ong>theong> essence of this mercurial ong>gameong>, including golf's holy grail, ong>theong> hole in one. Part instruction, part education, part ong>theong>rapy, and shot through with Pennington's trademark wit, this is a book for everyone who has ever felt ong>theong> ong>gameong>'s distinct pull--and slice.