The Proper Golfing Handbook: The Complete Guide to Transforming Your Game

Offers comprehensive guidance for golfers of all levels, from beginners to experts, with tips on technique, mindset, and injury prevention.

The Proper Golfing Handbook uses words, photos and videos to explain all the key skills. The idea is to understand the theory first, then see it in action. This is a book that can be taken with you onto the golf course in your golf bag for when your game needs that instant fix.
If you are a complete beginner the early chapters give a firm base on which to build your game: grip, stance, set-up, and a relaxed swing. These are the foundations to which you must return before each shot, and are the basis for the effortless power we all want.
If you are an improver the book acts as your reset. It explains how to make all the different types of shot, and how to get out of trouble. And since golf is the ultimate psychological game it helps you find a more positive and realistic mindset. In short, The Proper Golfing Handbook shows how to fix your game for good.
If you are an experienced golfer wanting to take your game to a new level, help is at hand. Use The Proper Golfing Handbook to check the basics, then learn how to fade and draw the ball, make high and low shots, and play from poor or sloping lies. It will also help you score better by managing the course.
If you are a senior golfer Julian Mellor shows how to prepare your body for golf using exercises and good warm-up routines. He teaches a realistic swing for life, one that will avoid injury but still deliver power and accuracy.
All golfers will appreciate the final chapter on common faults and how to fix them, and particularly how to reset mid-round if you ‘lose it’.
Read on, relax, get out of your own way and let the magic happen. Proper golfing is within your grasp!

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. The foundations: How to address the golf ball

2. The golf swing: Breaking it down then building it up

3. Warming up & practising

4. The chip, pitch & lob

5. Bunker shots

6. Putting

7. Shot shaping

8. Getting out of trouble

9. Course management

10. The golfer’s mindset

11. Senior golfers

12. Faults & fixes

Appendix: Parts of a golf club, Types of golf club, Glossary

Julian Mellor is a world-renowned golf coach and the founder of the Proper Golfing Academy, an online platform that helps golfers of all skill levels improve their game. Prior to becoming a coach, he turned professional aged 19 and spent the next two decades playing in various PGA competitive events.

Tim Davison competed regularly on the International Laser racing circuit in the 1970s and 1980s, and was on the podium for both the Open Worlds and European Championships and won the Masters European and UK National Championships during this time. He has won the British Moth national Championships four times as well as competing successfully in many other classes.