Review
Harvey PenickTommy Armour had a big bearing on my life and teaching — I have used much of his wisdom, teaching and playing.Jack Nicklaus Tommy Armour earned even more fame as a teacher than his fine playing record won for him. I’m not surprised that this book is one of the game’s all-time best-sellers. — ReviewJack NicklausTommy Armour earned even more fame as a teacher than his fine playing record won for him. I’m not surprised that this book is one of the game’s all-time best-sellers.
Tommy Armour’s classic How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time provides timeless golf instruction on the following subjects: * How to learn your best golf * What can your best golf be? * Taking you to the l [Read More...]
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May 2nd, 2010 at 4:40 pm
This is a helpful instructional book that could easily be bundled with Hogan’s Five Lessons. Where Hogan’s text is meticulously precise in its depiction of the mechanics of the golf swing, Armour’s offering delves into the mental arena and probes the mindset behind the various aspects of the game. Copywrite 1953, its year of publication even mirrors that of Hogan’s, but beyond that the contrasts are striking [granted Hogan's text started out as a series of SI articles]. Having worked through some personal golf issues with Hogan’s book and after writing a review for that, I noticed Armour’s under the `if you liked this book’ link. I purchased it on a lark being obliquely familiar with Armour’s professional and teaching career, and seeing the quote by Harvey Pennick on the cover. Armour’s tone versus his contemporary is quite authoritative and at times almost condescending in his depiction of the `average’ golfer and his urging to play within their limitations. He models the early chapters after a visit to his golf clinic in Florida, speaking always as the teacher and never a peer. It was his stated intention to produce a thin volume of the absolute minimized, efficient teachings about golf. This I believe he accomplished. The instruction would be good for a beginning golfer, there were a few tips scattered throughout for the long time player. Unfortunately, I didn’t see too much new and fresh that I could take with me onto the course, perhaps because his themes have long been drilled into our heads by modern pros. The illustrations are nowhere near the quality and detail of the Hogan book. Ultimately I did get more out of the Hogan text, but Armour’s was very interesting to `hear’ his teaching methodology and his numerous references to players and tournaments of the 30’s and 40’s. Punctuating this timelessness, when I was talking to my father the other night I mentioned to him this was the latest golf book I was reading, to which he replied, “Yep, that’s what I learned with 40 years ago.” Recommended to be read along with Ben Hogan’s `Five Lessons’.
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I must echo the sentiments of the other reviewers…this is the only golf instructional book recreational players will ever need. Armour gives you a few simple things to remember while you address the ball and take your swing that can eliminate many of the typical problems experienced by the occasional player.
For example, his suggestion that a right-hander imagine dragging his left knee behind the ball on the upswing and then swinging it back through the ball on the downswing was very effective in curing my problem of getting a proper hip turn.
The genius of the book is that the techniques Armour suggests are easy to remember while you are actually out there in the process of swinging the club. This book suggests many of the same principles described in Ben Hogan’s books but I think they are laid out with greater simplicity and simple techniques that can correct common problems with grip, stance and swing are what I think average and beginning golfers like myself are looking for.