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Harvey Penick's Little Red Book

Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf

by Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake

Hardcover

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The little book every golf teacher swears by.

Harvey Penick taught golf in Austin, Texas, for most of the 20th century, coaching Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite along the way, and he kept his best lessons in a little red notebook. This is that notebook: short, plain-spoken chapters you can read in a few minutes and take straight to the range. This 20th anniversary edition adds an introduction by Davis Love III and new illustrations.

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Golf

How it reads

Easy read

Best for

  • Golfers at any level
  • Golf coaches
  • A gift for a golfer

About this book

Author
Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published
May 8, 2012
Format
Hardcover
Pages
208
ISBN-10
1451683219
ISBN-13
978-1451683219

Book description

The twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work--the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as "the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style" (The New York Times)--includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and never-before-published materials from the Penick family archives.

The most beloved golf book of all time, Harvey Penick's Little Red Book has become required reading for all players and fans of the game, from beginners to seasoned pros.

The legendary Harvey Penick, whom Sports Illustrated called the "Socrates of the golf world," began his golfing career as a caddie in Austin, Texas, at the age of eight, and over the course of nearly a century worked with an amazing array of champions. In this classic book, which is named for the red notebook he always kept, Penick's simple, direct, practical wisdom pares away the hypertechnical jargon that's grown up around the golf swing, and lets all golfers, whatever their level, play their best.

This twentieth-anniversary edition features a treasure trove of rare images from the Penick family archives, commemorates Penick's lasting achievement with a moving new foreword by 2012 Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III--whose father learned the game under Penick's tutelage--and reminds golfers everywhere to "take dead aim."

About the author

Harvey Penick was a renowned golf pro who began his career at the Austin (Texas) Country Club as a caddie. Though he coached golf at the University of Texas for thirty years, and worked with the likes of Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, and Betsy Rawls, he never left the country club, where he continued to teach until his death in 1995. Bud Shrake, an avid golfer and the coauthor of all of Penick's books, died in 2009.

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