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If the book is listed as Out-of-print and is not apparently available, send me email and I'll be glad to try and find a copy for you. (Hey, I used to own a bookstore!)
[See also my Top Ten Current Putting Books Listmania at Amazon.com.]
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Phil Galvano, Secrets
of accurate putting and chipping Hardcover, OOP 100 pp. Book auction info from PBA Galleries: Galvano, Phil , The Gentle Arts of Putting & Chipping ( London : Stanley Paul [1959])
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John Garrity & Bill Jaspersohn, Putting:
The Stroke-Savers Guide (Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books) Paperback, 126 pp. $9.95. Garrity is a sports writer. This book is fairly competent albeit conventional and basic. Not especially insightful or analytical, and not filled with techniques of the pros. Has chapters on short-game strokes around the green. Okay but could be better.
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Golf Digest, All
About Putting, Hardback. Out-of-Print. A good survey of great putters from history and their styles, plus some unusual techniques. Certainly a substantial book. Now out of print, but still available. Nice for history buffs, too! Mildly recommended. Book auction info from PBA Galleries: [Golf Digest] , All About Putting ( New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan [1973])
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Golf Digest (Nick Seitz) Golf
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Golf Magazine (Greg Midland / Dave Allen), (NY: Warner Books, 2004). Hardcover, 95 pages, $15.00. One-page tips from a variety of teachers in seven chapters: 1. The Setup (6 tips); 2. The Stroke (9 tips); 3. Speed Putts (5 tips); 4. Short Putts (6 tips); 5. Long Putts (4 tips); 6. Green Reading (3 tips); 7. Practice (7 tips). Most of these tips are simply re-served from the past with a new instructor's name on it -- and like all tips culled from the general store of golf instruction for putting, they are vague, inconsistent, and conflicting. If you like a slice-and-dice approach to putting, which amounts to lots of bandaids and bailing wire everywhere, then this sort of book is for you. If you simply want to get an overview of the basic collection of putting lore that evryone repeats all the time, then this book is cheap and convenient. Tepidly recommended.
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Golf Magazine, Golf
Magazine's Handbook of Putting Hardback, 191 pp. Out of print. A good general survey of putting technique and styles, with pointers on choosing putters, practicing, and psychology. Nice photo sequence of Casper putting. About on a par with the Golf Digest book, All About Putting. Mildly recommended. |
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Paul Harney, How
to Putt Paperback, OOP, $25.00.
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The "In Line" Method of Putting and Approach Play (Evanston, IL: Hattstrom Specialties, 1959). 28pp, paperback, OOP.
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The Long View of Improved Putting -- Using the Long Putter (Sterling VA: Leaning Pine Pub., 1999). Softcover, 148 pages, $25.95 from Leaning Pine Publishing, 706 W Jasper Ct, Sterling VA 20164-5015, 1-800-606-8399. This is the ONLY book devoted to using the broomstick putter, and it's a very detailed, comprehensive, and informative guide. The original edition was written in 1999 before the trend to belly putters, but is still very helpful in that technique as well. Nicely organized coverage of all aspects of putting with the long putter, including mechanics, practice, pros, and putter selection. This book contains more solid information about the long putter and effective techniques with long putters than any other source in golf. Extensive bibliography. Foreword by David Feherty. LOOK FOR THE NEW electronic EDITION EARLY IN 2006! Also Systems
Approach to Golfing Highly recommended.
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Steve Hosid, Putting--speed
& accuracy (Game improvement library) (PGA Tour Partners Club 2001), 176 pp. |
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Bobby Jones, Classic Instruction (Broadway 1998). Hardback, 144 pp. $17.50. Somewhat odd mechanics and setup but great for touch and the nature of the stroke. Recommended. |
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Tom Kite, ESPN
Golf - Lower Your Score with Tom Kite-The Full Swing and Putt OOP. Kite's main book, How to Play Consistent Golf, is pretty well written. However, he has changed his putting technique several times, and is currently not that hot. He used left-hand-low for a long time.
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Alexander Kšlbing Golf:
Putt.
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Alexander Kšlbing and Achim Steinfurth Richtig
Golf rund ums Grźn. Chip, Pitch, Putt und Sand.
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Excellent teaching on the putting stroke, from a top PGA veteran teacher in Wisconsin. Korte has worked with Steve Stricker (a perennial top putter on Tour). Highly rercommended. |
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Berhard Langer & Vivien Saunders, Langer
on Putting Hardback, Out of Print. I haven't read this yet, but I suspect it's pretty tame. Vivien Saunders is pretty good, but I doubt Langer has deep insights into putting. But who knows? He putts well in the Masters, and he's extremely analytical and critical. He spends two or more weeks considering which golf shoes to use.
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Derek Lawrenson, Golf
Basics: The Short Game (Golf Basics) Paperback.
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Become
a Putting Machine Yvon Legault teaches in Canada, and this book is written as if a novice golfer were absorbing the lessons of a veteran teacher. The insights are keen and the whole approach substantial and valuable. A very good book! Highly recommended.
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Bret Leifer, Puttingmagic.com
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Beverly Lewis, Perfecting
Your Short Game: Cure Your Putting Problems (Play Better Golf Series) OOP. A generally sound instuctor.
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Noah Liberman, The
Flat Stick: The History, Romance, and Heartbreak of the Putter Interesting history and inside-the-ropes Tour anecdotes, but a little off on his stats.
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Bobby Locke, Bobby
Locke on golf
Hardback. Out of print. Locke's book covers the whole game, with only a scant chapter on putting, obviously his greatest strength as a golfer. Still, it has to be read. Recommended. Book auction info from PBA Galleries:
Ronald Norval ,King
of the links: The story of Bobby Locke
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George Low and Al Barkow, The
MASTER OF PUTTING (Master of Putting CL)
Paperback, 84 pp. $10.36. George Low played on Tour in the 1940s and then turned to teaching putting and betting against others in putting. He became a legendary teacher of pros (including Arnold Palmer), and his book is definitely one of the best available for its insights into technique. Again, Al Barkow comes through. Highly recommended.
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Robert H. Lowig, Always
putt in two!: (with little or no practice) : a putting method for
the part-time golfer 57 pages.
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Minds
Eye Golf Is Golf: Targetting and Aiming (Mind's Eye "Sport" , No 1999) The NEW Images of Golf: The Fundamentals of Visualization and Scoring 2nd Edition (A2Z Publishing).
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Geoffrey Lucas, One Putting: The Theory and Practice (A2Z Publishing).
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Geoffrey Lucas, Frank Sanchez Jr., and Jerry Borro, Six One Putts ... Minimum, to Cure a Sick Golf Score (A2Z Publishing). |
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Iaen McLachlan Putting
Tips From The Top - Rules On Golf Putting
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Allan Markle, The
psychology of putting
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Jim McLean, Complete
Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Short Game Paperback, 352 pp. $15.16. Jim McLean is usually pretty safe. His Putter's Pocket Companion with Fran Pirozzolo is pretty good. This book has a few interesting tips from the pros that you don't find elsewhere. Lots and lots of good non-putting golf instruction, too. So, it's probably a keeper, if a little conservative.
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Jim McLean and Fran Pirrozollo, The
Putter's Pocket Companion A very modest little effort with one or two good tips.
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Jim McLean, The
3 Scoring Clubs : How to Raise the Level of Your Driving, Pitching,
and Putting Games Devotes a chapter to how he "fixed" Sergio garcia's putting by advising him to continue with his idiosyncratic technique, by which Sergio remained dead last in putting skills on the PGA Tour.
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Sol Metzger, Putting
analyzed, Hardcover, OOP, 102pp. Book auction info from PBA Galleries:
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Tom Michael and Cary Middlecoff, Golf's
Winning Stroke Putting Hardback, 189 pp. Out of print. Tom Michael was associated with Cary Middlecoff, and this book dates from just after Middlecoff's dominating years on Tour. The text is surprisingly astute and filled with details of Tour technique. Perhaps a cut above the Golf Digest and Golf Magazine books of a few years later. Recommended.
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Tony Moore and David Hutchinson Putt
for Lower Scores
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Aidan Moran, The Pressure Putt (Tutorial Services UK 1998) (audio cassette).
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Peter Morrice, The
Golf Magazine Putting Handbook (Golf Magazine) 144 pages. Part of a series. Not very well done; conventional, tired old stuff.
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(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1957).
(Sports Illustrated 1991). 
(Coward McCann & Geoghegan 1973) 
(Golf Digest 1970), paperback.
(Harper & Row 1973). 
(Sterling, 1965).
(Audio CD)
(BLV Verlagsgesellschaft 2001) (in German), 36 pp.
(BLV Verlagsgesellschaft 1997) (in German), 127 pp. 
(David & Charles 1988), 160 pp.
(Triumph, 1996).
(1st Book 2004), 152 pp.
(Magic Press 1999), 131 pp. paperback.
(Smithmark Publishers 1994)
(Collins 2006), 240 pp.
(Country Life 1953).
( Cape Town : Maskew Miller Ltd. (1951) 
(Lyons & Burford 1983).
(Lodat Indus. 1997).
(Rigby Ltd. 1980).
(Monte Sano Press 1977), 37 pp.
(Alpha Books 2000). 
(Collins 1994), 128 pp.
(Amazon remainder 2005), 304 pp.
(NY: Double, Doran & Co., 1929).
(Coward-McCann 1967). 
(Canary Publications 1997), 48 pp.
(Lyons Press, 2000).
