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How Great Players Survived Their Darkest Moments In Golf--And What You Can Learn From Them
Collins
April 2009
On Sale: April 1, 2009
224 pages ISBN: 0061685992 EAN: 9780061685996 Hardcover
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For many of us, golf could be defined as long periods of
aggravation, punctuated by brief but dazzling moments of
clarity and reward. But when those brief, satisfying moments
disappear, when the ball seems to have a mind of its own,
when our well-grooved swings suffer a complete and total
collapse, we find ourselves in that panicked state known as
a 'slump'. The wonderful and terrifying thing about golf is
that, regardless of skill level, a slump can, and does
happen to anyone. Show me a golfer who hasn't endured a
slump and I'll show you a tennis player. Here, for the first
time ever, is a book about some of the worst times in the
careers of some of the most successful people to ever play
the game--and how they dug themselves out. There are hundreds of golf instructional books, but this is
likely the first solely devoted to dealing with the most
common malady that affects golfers of all levels: the slump.
Breaking the Slump tells the story of golf greats Jack
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Johnny Miller, Tom
Watson, Paul Azinger, Hal Sutton, Peter Jacobson, Mark
Calcavecchia and Dottie Pepper among others, and celebrities
such as Dan Jansen. Any golfer who has ever suffered the desperation of a game
gone bad will find hope in stories like that of David
Duval-British Open Champion and ranked Number 1 in the world
who so lost his way that he plummeted to Number 660 before
he started his climb back. What golfer can forget the lost
season of Steve Stricker before he came back to almost beat
Tiger Woods for the very first Fed Ex Cup title or Davis
Love III's slide into golf mediocrity before he tried to
claw his way back? Every golfer should keep this book in his or her locker.
It's an emotional and spiritual first aid kit for anyone who
plays the game because, like it or not, there are two kinds
of golfers in this world: those who've suffered a
debilitating slump and those who will suffer one sometime in
their future.
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