Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Short Game (Complete Idiot's Guides)

You’re no idiot, of course. You know golf can be infuriating one minute and exhilarating the next. But when it comes to keeping your cool on the course during your short game, you feel like you’re pitching with a pick-ax and putting with pick-up sticks.

Don’t clobber your clubs just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Improving Your Short Game shows you how to lower your score—and your blood pressure—by getting into the swing of getting on the green. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get:

• The preliminaries for improvement in pitching, chipping, and putting.
• The lowdown on building up a solid, shot-making game.
• Tips, techniques, and drills for taking your short game to the next level.
• Troubleshooting to triumph over hazards, traps, and awkward lies.

Jim McLean is director of golf at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa, home of the legendary Blue Monster course; a regular contributor to Golf Digest; and a featured instructor on The Golf Channel’s popular show Trouble Shooters. He is the author of The Eight-Step Swing and Gotham’s Golf Digest’s Ultimate Drill Book. He operates seven world-class golf schools around the country.

On the web: http://www.jimmclean.com

John Andrisani is a former senior editor of Golf magazine and the author of numerous books, including Think Like Tiger: An Analysis of Tiger Woods' Mental Game, The Tiger Woods Way, and The Short Game Magic of Tiger Woods.