Hacker's Golf Guide

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"The Hacker's Golf Guide" is an answer book for enthusiastic golfers. Research shows that 45 million people play golf today, including 24 million in the United States. And while 90% of those golfers know very little about the game that so fascinates them, they possess a passionate thirst for information about it. This book meets that need to know. It is well researched & chock-full of authoritative information on all of golf's major subjects, including history, ball-flight laws, mental control, etiquette, Rules, prompt play, handicaps, green construction, equipment design, club-fitting & playing strategy. The reader is told how to act on the course; how to buy clubs that fit; how to properly strike the ball; how to choose a professional instructor; how to make a ball go up or curve in flight; & much, much more of interest to the curious golfer. Written in an easy-to-read style, it is typeset on recycled, natural-tone bulk paper with wide leading between a Bookman font. It is amply illustrated & indexed, & sports a four-color paper cover by Robert Howard. The author's thirty years of experience & incisive humor relates well to those kindred souls struggling to learn "the secret" of the ancient game of golf.