Every Shot I Take
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Through this moving tribute to his father's love, Davis III passes along the benefits of those lessons in a gem of a book that will improve your golf game—and enhance your life.
With every shot he takes, Davis Love III provides a tribute to the strength and the value of his father's teachings. And in Every Shot I Take, he shares with us the psychological and technical lessons he learned about how to play golf with power, with skill, and with joy. His lessons include drills, the Ten Commandments of Putting, six steps to successful long bunker shots, and tips for playing in the wind and rain, on fast greens, or out of long rough. Yet each lesson is ultimately about something more than golf.
Golf was, for Davis, Jr., a way of being a father, of teaching his sons how to learn, how to approach whatever they might choose to do with knowledge and with care, how to overcome obstacles through dedication and understanding. It was the vehicle through which he taught the most important lesson of all: "Follow your dream, and enjoy the trip."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The author's father, Davis Love Jr., carved out a successful career as golf pro and then teacher, ending up at Sea Island, Ga. Among his best pupils was his son, Love III, now entering his 12th year on the pro tour. Love Jr. was mentor, teacher and, above all, close friend to his son, but tragedy struck in 1988, when a small plane carrying Love Jr. and a friend of Love III, Jimmy Hodges, crashed, killing all aboard. The crash's impact on the family is the theme of this book, which also contains affecting chapters contributed by the author's mother, brother, wife and new coach about their loss. Happily, however, Love Jr. was a compulsive note-taker on golfing techniques. His observations included here, tempered by his son's, make this work a kind of semi-instructional manual as well as memoir. Golfers will savor it. 45,000 first printing; first serial rights to Golf Digest.
